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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. vm. SEPT. 21, 1901.


says that the site of the roval palace of Old burg Octavius died from the effects of

Windsor probably was at a farm surrounded inoculation at Kew Palace, 3 May 1783

bv a moat on the Powney property. Richard did not know George ill. had a sister Eliza-

Powney, of All Souls', Oxford, uncle to beth Caroline ME. BALLARD probably means

Penyston Portlock Powney, was the editor of Caroline Elizabeth, the daughter of George IL,

the Earl of Clarendon's 'State Papers and who died 28 December, 1757, .and was buried

Diary ' they having been transferred to him in Henry VIL's Chapel, Westminster, on

by Mr. Richards, of Wokingham, a descendant 5 January, 1758. Her sister Anne was buried


ol: Mr. Bryan Richards, Lady Clarendon's nephew. In a pedigree that I have of the Powneys the name of Kingsman does not appear. CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

Swallowfield.

In Charles Kerry's ' History of the Hundred of Bray,' co. Berks, is a well-worked-up psdi- gree of this Penyston Powney, but having mislaid my copy, I cannot answer MR. SCATTERGOOD'S question. G. E. C.

PORTRAIT BY DIGHTON (9 th S. viii. 163). Richard Dighton (1752-1814) was a celebrated artist and caricaturist. Lists of his works will be found in 'N. & Q.,' 3 rd S. ix., x. ; 5 th S. iii., iv. The British Museum also possesses ' A Collection of Caricatures ' by Richard Dighton and others, 12 vols. folio, 1734-1844, which contains many army uniforms. From these works your correspondent may be able to identify the portrait in his possession.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

MISTAKES OF AUTHORS (9 th S. viii. 181). I think the exclamation "What the Dickens!" can hardly be taken as a sign of modernity. It is used, I know, by Shakespeare, and pro- bably by previous writers. Dickens, prefixed with a small c=d evil kins, or small devils. Does the capital D synchronize with the period when Charles Dickens first became known to fame as a novelist ?

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Hadclon, Northamptonshire.

ROYAL PERSONAGES (9 th S. viii. 184). I can answer some only of the queries. The Duke of Kent was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, on 11 February, 1820. Ernest, Duke of Cumberland, died at Herrenhausen, and was buried at Hanover, 26 November, 1851. His son, the Duke of Cumberland, was buried


in the same place on 11 November, 1786.

W. R. BARKER. 38, Devonshire Place, W.

Dean Stanley, in his * Memorials of West- minster Abbey,' says that George III.'s

two youngest children, Alfred and Octavius, had been laid on each side of George II. and Queen Caroline (viz., in centre of Henry VII. 's Chapel at Westminster) ; but their remains were removed to the vault constructed by their father under the Wolsey Chapel at Windsor."

And in a note he adds :

"The King of Hanover, the Queen of Wiirtem- berg, the Princess Elizabeth of Hesse-Homburg, were buried in their own vaults in Germany ; the Duke of Sussex in Kensal Green, and the Duchess of Gloucester in the south aisle in Windsor."

Edward, Duke of Kent, who died at Sidmouth a few days before his father in January, 1820, has a memorial at west end of south aisle of nave in St. George's Chapel. The ' D.N.B.' gives the names of the children of the Duke of Sussex as Sir Augustus Frederick d'Este (1794-1848) and Augusta Emma d'Este (married 14 August, 1845), and of George III.'s sisters as Augusta (1737 - 1813), wife of Charles William Ferdinand, hereditary Prince of Brunswick - Wolfenbiittel, and Caroline Matilda (1751-75), wife of Christian VII. of Denmark. A. R. BAYLEY.

At the end of the second volume of

  • Memoirs of George IV.,' by Robert Huish,

there is an engraving of the royal mausoleum, Windsor, showing the resting-places of the Duke of Kent and of the Princes Octavius and Alfred. I think I have read I believe the * Greville Memoirs 'that the Duke of Sussex was buried in Kensal Green Ceme- tery ; but this I have no means of verifying. F. E. R. POLLARD-URQUHART.

Castle Pollard, Westmeath.

SIR JAMES JAY (9 th S. viii. 145). He was


25 June, 1878, in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. . SIR JAMES JAY (9 th S. viii. 141,

I think he died at Hanover, certainly outside doubtless the " Dr. James Jay, of New York,


the United Kingdom. The Duke "of Sussex I wno was knighted 25 March, 1763. See was buried at Kensal Green, in accordance Townsend's 'Calendar of Knights, 1760-1828.'

his will, on | & E. C.

According to a question in 'N. & Q.' h was a knight and M.D. He was the author of


with an express direction in his will, on 4 May, 1843. His daughter Augusta was born in Grosvenor Street, 11 August, 1801, and died 21 May, 1866. Elizabeth, third


three works, one on the gout and two on the


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daughter ot George III., was buried in the collections made in England in 1762 and 1773 mausoleum of the Margraves of Hesse-Horn- 1 for the colleges of New York and Philadelphia.