copy. I have for years been endeavouring to find out the birth, parentage, and other genealogical particulars of the family of this Bristol worthy, but my enquiries have hitherto met with little success, and the book recently published supples no information on these points.-E. FRY WADE, Axbridge, Somerset.

iii.

In reply to the letter of Mr. E. Fry Wade, I am much obliged to him for his kind offer of the loan of his book, but I have two copies of the second edition of Rogers' Voyage, published in 1726. One of them, I may mention, has two folding plates, representing respectively, "A Young Alligator, drawn from life in London, October, 1739," and "A Young Crocodile, ditto, ditto." These plates do not usually occur, the only other copy that I have seen with them being that which belonged to the late Henry Charles Harford, Esq., of Stapleton, who was also in possession of two monster China vases-very fine specimens-which were brought home by the Duke and Duchess. These may be now in the possession of his son, the Rev. Canon Harford, of Westminster.

I have also an edition of the Voyage in French, published at Amsterdam in 1716. This copy came from the Beckford sale, which took place at Sotheby's a few years ago; also a child's edition of the book-small 12mo, or 18mo,-printed for and published by J. Arliss, Juvenile Library, No. 38, Newgate-street, 1820. This of course is a very brief edition, adapted for the Juvenile Library. The frontispiece represents Captain Rogers in a cocked hat, tail coat, and trousers, defending himself with a pike from an enraged seal.

I have also a long official letter, signed by Captain Rogers, which is addressed to the Duke of Newcastle, and is dated New Providence, 14th February, 1730-31. It relates to matters connected with the colony, and may be worth publishing. In the course of the letter, Captain Rogers speaks of his health as being "lately much impaired." The Duke of Newcastle was one of the Government Secretaries at the time. The letter I obtained from an autograph dealer.-INQUIRER, March 26th, 1889.

BRISTOLIENSIS.

1783.-ESTIENNE JEAN D' ALBRET DE PONTEL.-Who was he The following paragraph forms the greater portion of a letter addressed by Dr. Lancelott Blackburne, afterwards Archbishop of York, to Mr. John Ellis; the original is preserved amongst the Ellis Papers in the British Museum (Add. MSS. 28,886, fol. 279), and is dated from Exeter, Feb. 3, 1700 :—

We have here, Sr, in this City One who calls himself Estienne Jean d'Albret de Pontel, whom my Lord is uneasy to be rid of as suspecting him to be a Missionary. He is certainly an ill Man,

If the date be correct, these plates do not belong to the volume.-ED.

we find he has been at Bristol & preach'd there in a French Church (3 Times) using Our Lyturgy & Discipline; Here he has join'd himself to a French Congregation following their own ways. At Bristol He pretended sometimes to have been receiv'd to the Ministry at Bale in Switzerland, sometimes to have been ordain'd at London by My Lord of Canterbury, & by this Means got into their Pulpits & Purses: These Things we have upon Oath sufficiently attested from Thence. Here He Preaches Occasionally in the Congregation I have mention'd, pretending for his doing so that He is a Protestant only; & I cannot learn that he has otherwise misbehav'd himself here. We have had him before the Mayor & tender'd him the Oaths which he has taken, with an eagerness yt makes me suspect him the more. What Occasions my giving You the trouble of this Account of him is his alledging that he was taken up in London, had before Mr Secretary Vernon, & Examin'd by You; to whom He gave so good an Account of his Person, the Family he pretends to, his Conversion, Condition and Bus'ness here in England as procur'd his acquittal and Liberty. You will do us a Favour, Sr, if you please to order one of yr Clerks to give us so much of Your Opinion of the Man, & such an Account of Him as may either set us a little more at Ease concerning his abiding here, or put us on a farther prosecution as there shall appear to You good reason for Our doing so.

J. G.

1784.-" BENTHAM VICARAGE, IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE.” Can anyone explain the following announcement, which is printed in the True Briton for Wednesday, January 16, 1751, No. 3, p. 71, under the head of "Preferments"?"Jan. 5. The Reverend Mr. Creed, of Brazen-Nose-College, Oxford, was presented by that College to the Vicarage of Bentham, in Gloucestershire." No such place is to be found in the list of Brazenose livings, or in the Clergy List, the only Bentham being a rectory in Yorkshire. Although Foster, in his Alumni Oxonienses, mentions three persons in the earlier part of the eighteenth century of the name of Creed of other colleges, some one of whom might have been elected to a fellowship at Brazenose, yet no evidence of such election occurs in the college records. Some other announcements, which seem correct, are on the same page. Verification or explanation sent at once, and direct, will much oblige. W. E. BUCKLEY.

Middleton Cheney Rectory, Banbury.

The manor of Bentham forms a part of the vicarage of Badgworth, near Cheltenham. This fact may perhaps help to explain the matter. Mr. Creed's appointment was duly notified in the Gentleman's Magazine (1751), vol. xxi., p. 43, but without any mention of Brazenose College.

EDITOR.

1785.-CONCANEN, OR CONCANNON, OF BRISTOL.-In 1788 a George Concanen, of Bristol, was admitted an attorney-at-law; and in the Gentleman's Magazine (1813), vol. lxxxiii., pt. 1., p. 183, there is recorded the death of "Mr. Matthew Concannen, senior, late attorney-at-law, Bristol." Can anyone give me any information concerning these two persons, their relationship, family, etc.? Putney, Surrey.

F. B. LEWIS. 1786.-BENEFACTIONS OF BAPTIST, FIRST VISCOUNT CAMPDEN. (See No. 1773.) In Stow's Survey of London (ed. 1633), pp. 760, 761, is the following list, headed "A briefe Remembrance of such Noble and Charitable deeds, as have beene done by the late Right Honourable Baptist, Lord Hicks, Viscount Campden, as well in his life as at his death: Recorded to the glory of God, his owne honour, and good example of others" :

Good deeds done to the Towne of Campden, in the County of Gloucester.

He built an Almes-house or Hospitall for sixe poore men, and sixe poore women, which cost 1000. li.

Since the yeere of the foundation of the said Almes-house, to wit, 1612. he hath allowed the said twelve poore people weekely maintenance, to the value of 1300. li.

And at his death, he hath settled 140. li. per annum (for ever) upon the said Almes-house, allowing to each of the said poore Pentioners three shillings foure pence weekely; and yeerely, a Gowne, a Hat, and a Tunne of Coales.

Hee built a commodious Market-house in the said Towne, which cost 90. li.

By his last Will he gave to the said Towne, for the setting of the poore to worke, a Stocke of 500. li.

To the Church of Campden.

He gave a Bell which cost threescore and sixe pounds.

He caused a Pulpit to be made, and gave a Cloth and Cushion thereto, which cost two and twenty pounds.

He built a Gallery there, which cost eight pounds.

Hee made a Window, which cost thirteene pounds.

He gave a brasse Faulcon, which cost sixe and twenty pounds. Hee gave two Communion Cups, which cost one and twenty pounds.

He built the Roofe of the Chancell, and new leaded it, which cost 200. li.

He repaired the Chappell by the said Chauncell, supplied and new cast the Leads, which cost 20. li.

He round walled the Churchyard, which cost 150. li.

Within the County of Middlesex.

He built a Sessions house for the Iustices of Middlesex, to keepe their Sessions in, which cost 600. li.

He repaired and adorned the Chappell of Hampsted, which cost threescore and sixteene pounds.

He caused a Window to be set up in the Chancell of Kensington, and beautified it, which cost 30. li.

He hath given by his last Will to the said Towne of Kensington, to be imployed for the benefit of the poore, the sum of 200. li.

In the City of London.

Hee hath given by his last Will to Saint Bartholmewes Hospitall, 100. li.

To Christs Church Hospitall, 50. li.

To Newgate, Ludgate, and the two other prisons of the Counters, 40. li.

He erected a Window in Saint Laurence Church in the Old Jewry, and gaue a Pulpit Cloth, and a Cushion also, which cost 30. li.

Impropriations purchased, and bestowed upon the Church.

One in Pembrokeshire, to be given to the Towne of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire; whereof one moity goeth to the Preacher, and the other moity to the poore, which cost 460. li.

Another in Northumberland; whereof one moity is to be given towards the maintenance of an able Preacher in Hampsted, the other moity to Saint Pauls Schoole in London, towards the maintenance of certaine Schollers in Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge, which cost 760. li.

One in the Bishopricke of Durham, to bee bestowed on such Churches as shall have most need thereof; according to the disposition of the Supervisers, which cost 366. li.

Another in Dorsetshire, to bee bestowed in the like manner, which cost 760. li.

Certaine Chauntry Lands also in Lincolneshiere, which cost 240. li.

He hath also given to two Ministers, to bee chosen out of Iesus Colledge in Oxenford, to serve in their severall places, 40. li. each man per annum, which cost 80. li.

He hath bequeathed Legacies to severall Ministers, the summe of 140. li.

Hee hath given to Master A. E. during his life, yeerely the summe of 100. li.

He hath given among his houshold servants the summe of 300. li. J. G.

1787.-A CHIPPING SODBURY ROMANCE.-Soon after the death, in 1862, of John, second and last Marquis of Breadalbane, the Scotch honours and estates of that branch of the Campbells were claimed, and the titles assumed, by Charles William Campbell, a lieutenant in the 19th Bengal Cavalry, on the ground

that he was the nearest heir male (great-grandson) of William Campbell, granduncle of John, fourth Earl of Breadalbane. Six months later, however, a competing claimant made his appearance in the Scotch courts in the person of John Alexander Gavin Campbell, who alleged that he was descended from the second son, whilst his rival was descended from the sixth son, of the William Campbell already mentioned. His pretensions were resisted by the other claimant, who denied the legitimacy of John's father, and a litigation which extended over four years, and which involved estates worth £50,000 a year, rested entirely on this point. It appeared from the evidence that in June, 1776, one Christopher Ludlow, an apothecary at Chipping Sodbury, married Elizabeth Maria Blanchard, a resident in the same parish; and that about a year later a son was born of this union, who was baptised at Chipping Sodbury on the 21st May, 1777. At this time, James Campbell (grandfather of the claimant John) was an officer of the 40th Regiment, and was stationed at Bristol on the recruiting service. By some means the gay soldier became acquainted with Mrs. Ludlow, and in the result she eloped with him, soon after the birth of her child. The event naturally caused Ludlow much distress. He gave up his business at Chipping Sodbury, went to New York, where he was sometime garrison-surgeon, then returned to this country, and the Bristol Journal of January 31, 1784, records the death on "Tuesday sennight" of "Mr. C. Ludlow, son of Dr. D. Ludlow, sen., of Chipping Sodbury." Campbell and his companion are found in Scotland soon after the elopement. They lived there and elsewhere as man and wife, and were recognised as such by the Campbell family. After experiencing for some years the usual adventurous life of a soldier, Campbell was forced to retire from the army, owing to ill-health, and died in 1806. In the following year his alleged widow made application to the War Office for pecuniary assistance, stating that her husband had died insolvent. He "left me," she wrote, "with three children without the smallest means of support. I apply'd respecting the Widow's Pension, and have made oath before a magistrate, but as I unfortunately lost my marriage lines in America, I am enformed it cannot be procured. My husband was Insign and Lieut. in the 40th Regiment of Foot during the war with that country. . . . In September, 1782, I was married to Mr Campbell in Edinburgh, by Mr Mac Gregor, the Galic minister (who is also dead), as is Insign William Willox, of the 40th, who was the witness to our marriage. .. The present Galic minister has been wrote to, and he says that he got no register from any of his predecessors." The claimant Charles William argued upon these facts that as Christopher Ludlow was alive in 1782, Campbell's asserted marriage was null and void. On the other side it was shown that the eldest child of the eloped couple, and father of the rival claimant, was not born until 1788; that Campbell had executed a formal