ii s. xii. OCT. 2, mo.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
STEPHEN RONJAT. I should be much
obliged for information about Stephen
Ronjat, Sergeant-Surgeon to William III.
He was a French Huguenot, came to Eng-
land with that king, and returned to Southern
France soms time after the King's death.
EDWARD NICHOLSON.
Les Cycas, Cannes.
SOUTHAMPTON. Why is this pronounced by some with a marked aspirate to the second syllable ? I have never heard Northampton" so treated, and should like to know whether the correct way is not to treat the first letter of the old " hampton " as just as much eliminated in its pronunciation as it is in the spelling of the modern place- name. W. B. H.
THE COMICAL GILLS. I have a coloured etching with this title. The interior of a taproom is depicted. A number of people are seated round a table, at the head of which the chairman is seated, with a mallet in his right hand, and a long clay pipe in the other. A fight between a Jew and an Irishman is going on. A watchman is just entering the door with a lamp, and the landlady is appa- rently belabouring the chairman with a poker.
What kind of society or club was " The Comical Gills " ? ISRAEL SOLOMONS.
MAJOR LE HARDY. I am anxious to identify a portrait in oils, by Sir Thomas Lawrence (sold at Messrs. Christie's on 25 June, 1898), of Major Le Hardy, who after leaving the Army became a pupil of Sir Thomas. The size of the painting is 30 in. by 25 in. I should be glad to know who was his father and to what branch of the Le Hardy family he belonged. J. Bertrand Payne in his ' Armorial of Jersey ' gives a pedigree of the family, but I am unable to place him from that. The English branch of the family dropped the " Le " after 1725, and many of their descendants were painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence.
LEONARD C. PRICE.
LIEUT.-COL. T. HARDY, 65TH REGIMENT. I should be glad to know if there are any means of finding out the military services of Lieut. -Col. Thomas Hardy, 65th Regiment of Foot. He was baptized at St. Laurence, Jersey, 19 Aug., 1725, and died 19 June, 1794, and was buried at Stockbridge, Hants. He purchased the Hale estates, near Honiton, Devon. He was son of John Le Hardy, Attorney-General of Jersey in 1729.
LEONARD C. PRICE.
Essex Lodge, Ewell.
PASSIONATE PILGRIM.' The late
Prof. Dowden wrote a most valuable intro-
duction to a facsimile quarto edition of
' The Passionate Pilgrim,' wherein he states
that a^jopy of the original 1599 edition is
in the library of the Duke of Devonshire.
On the other hand, Sir Sidney Lee notes
that only two copies of this book are known :
one in the Capel Collection at Trinity College,
Cambridge, and the other in the private
ownership of Mrs. Christie Miller. I should
like to know which statement is the correct
one. MAURICE JONAS!
LIDDINGTON, LEDDINGTON, OR LEDENTON HEIRESS. I am anxious to secure data of a marriage which took place with an heiress of this name who eloped about 1810, leav- ing the family estate to go into Chancery.
Douglas, Wyoming. K DBAY '
FUNERAL RITES : BEARDS. In his auto- biography Sir Walter Scott writes : " My great - grandfather, nicknamed ' Beardie,' derived it from a venerable beard unblemished by razor or scissors," which he wore in token of regret for the banished Stuart dynasty. Was that a personal peculiarity in that age, or was the custom generally followed by Scotsmen on the demise of a relative or friend ? It is interesting to note that according to the Shulchan Aruch, or Codified Ritualism of the Rabbins, no orthodox member of the Jewish community may interfere in any way with the hirsute appendages of the face, in similar circum- stances, for a period of thirty days after a death. M. L. R. BRESLAR.
South Hackney.
' THE MORNING CHRONICLE.' This paper, one of the oldest of the London morning papers, ceased publication in 1862, but announced in its last issue that it would reappear when certain impending arrange- ments were completed. Can any of your correspondents tell me whether this once famous journal was ever republished, per- haps under another name ? Do any files exist of its earlier issues ?
L. M. REDFERN.
4, Glazbury Road, West Kensington.
WILLIAM RAYNFORD OF BRADFIELD HALL, ESSEX. I should be grateful to any reader who could tell me where to find the will of the above. I have a copy of the Inq. p. m. taken 12 Hen. VI. (1433/4), but can find no trace of the will.
F. VINE RAINSFORD. 66, Oseney Crescent, N.W.
