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12 s. vin. JAN. i,io2i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 15 Xucien Bonaparte (Prince de Canino), another brother of Napoleon I., was the author of a poem entitled ' Charlemagne, ou 1'Eglise delivree ' (two vols.. 1814, English translation by S. Butler^ and F. Hodgson London, 1815), and 'La Cyrneide, ou la Oorse sauvee ' (twelve cantos). The poeti- cal works of Napoleon I., most youthful -efforts, will be found in the ' CEuvres litteraires de Napoleon Bonaparte ' (vol. i.), edited by Tancrede Martel (Paris, Albert ,Savine, 1888). ANDREW DE TERNANT. 36 Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S. W. ARMS OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE (12 S. vii. 447). A paper was read by the late Admiral Albert H. Markham, K.C.B., in May, 1904, in Budrum Castle, Malta, and is printed, with reproductions of photo- graphs showing the heraldic carvings on the walls and towers, in Ars Quatuor Corona- torum., vol. xviL 74-80. W. B. H. EMERSON'S 'ENGLISH TRAITS ' (12 S vii. 428, 473). 9. " A blind savant, like Sanderson." This was Nicholas Sanderson, the blind mathematician. If your corre- spondent is requiring any further informa- tion not in print and will write to me T shall ~be happy to help him, having compiled a pedigree of the family from wills proved at York and London and from the inscriptions which I have copied from Penistone, Yorks .and Boxworth, Cambs, &c. CHAS. HALL CROUCH. 1>04 Hernaon Hill, South Woodford, E.18. DIXON or FURNESS FELLS (12 S. vii. 410). The last plate in Bout ell's 'Monumental Brasses of England ' reproduces the canopy (only) of the brass on the tomb of Nicholas Dixori (1448). Haines also describes him .as "Pipe Subthesaurarius. " WALTER E. GAWTHORP. 16 Long Aero, W.C.2. ADMIRAL BENBOW (12 S. vii. 431, 478). am much obliged to Mr. W. P. H. POLLOCK for his reply re, Admiral Benbow, but I did )t want any account about the Sallee Rovers, but one concerning some pirates the Admiral took shortly before he met T)u Casse. Respecting the latter part of MR. POL- >CK'S note, I can only say that it is litional in my family that the money awarded to the Admiral was 4,OOOZ. I will >t say how manv millions it now amounts -though I pretty well know. I have the coat-of-arms (it is painted on wood, and the one on the Admiral's tomb- stone at Kingstown, Jamaica, is a copy). Paul Calton's account, which he gave to Campbell, is not to be relied on ; he said the Admiral left only two sons, he left three. I have a copy of his will in which he specially mentions his three sons. If MR. POLLOCK, or any one interested, will write to me, I shall be pleased to answer. I have spent many years collecting facts about my ancestor (I am a lineal descendant). H. STEWART BENBOW. Stetchford, Birmingham. NOTES ON THE EARLY DE REDVERS (12 S. vii. 445). It seems impossible to kill the myth that Richard de Reviers, or Redvers, was the son of Baldwin de Meules (alias Baldwin of Exeter), Sheriff of Devonshire, whose father was Count Gilbert of Brionne. Stapleton tried to do so ( ' Mag. Rot. Scacc. Norm.,' II. cclxix), but it cropped up again in Burke's 'Extinct Peerage,' p. 140, and Cobbe's 'Norman Kings of England,' Table II. Planche did his Jbest t3 slay the mistake ('Conqueror and his Companions,' ii. 45), but it re-appeared in the ' D.N.B.' sub "Baldwin," as was long ago pointed out by Dr. Round ('Feudal England,' p. 486). The parentage of Richard de Reviers has never been proved. The best that can be said on the question is to be found in the article on the Earls of Devon in vol. iv. of the new edition of the 'Complete Peerage.' This is contributed by Mr. G. W. Watson, who, I suppose, is the .leading authority after Dr. Round on Norman and Anglo- Norman genealogy. The theory that Richard de Reviers survived until 1137, instead of dying in 1107, is founded on the confusion between him and Richard Fitz Baldwin, son of Baldwin of Exeter. It is certain that, as DR. WHITEHEAD states, Richard de Reviers was never Earl of Devonshire ; and for that very reason he could not have been "Earl of Exeter." As Dr. Round explained, in the twelfth century an earl was always the earl of a county, but his title might be taken from either (1) his county ; (2) the capital of his county ; (3) his chief residence ; or (4) his family name ( ' Geoffrey de Mandeville,' pp. 145, 273, 320-1). Thus no one but the Earl of Devonshire could or would be styled Earl of Exeter. G. H. WHITE. 23 Weighton Road, Anerley.