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230 NOTES AND QUERIES, do* s. iv. SEPT. ie. iswe. ings of tlie combatants had become par- ticularly embittered— so much so that in some cases the ordinary usages of " civilized " warfare were departed from, sentries being shot by one side or the other. The poem referred to was found on the body or a sentry or picket who had been shot in the circumstances described. It com- menced thus : — All quiet along the Potomac to-night, Kxcept now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks to and fro on his beat, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. J. E. H. SIR FRANCIS DRAKE AND CHIGW_ELL — There is a local tradition that Sir Francis Drake resided in Chigwell Row, Essex. The residence, or a part of it, remains, and is called Grove House, formerly the Great White House. Not tar from this is a house called Bowls, erected upon a piece of ground used for a bowling-green. With this Sir Francis Drake's name is associated. Can any of your correspondents establish this tradi- tion? G. H. H. DUDLEY ARMS. — What were the arms borne by Sir Robert Dudley (lu'3-1649), who assumed the titles of Duke of Northumber- land and Earl of Warwick 1 A. T. M. I NAPPER TANDY. — I want information about the career of James Napper Tandy, who took part in the French expedition to Ireland in 1798. was delivered up to the English by the Hamburgers in 1799, and was liberated in 1802. What was his history previous to 1798 1 W. D. SPRINOETT. St. Matthew's Vicarage, 67, Brixton Hill, S.W. [Have you consulted the life in 'D.N.B.'?] SHAKESPEARE 'PROFESSION OF FAITH." — Where is the manuscript of the ' Profession of Faith' of John Shakspere, first printed by Edmond Malone in his 1790 edition ? I have been told that it is now in the Shakspere Library at Weimar, but have been unable to confirm the statement. JOHN MALONE Players' Club, New York. THE GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN.— Sims, in his •Manual for the Genealogist,' refers to the above, founded, as he says, in 1853, "for the elucidation and compilation of Family History, Lineage, and Biography, and for a^henticating and illustrating the same." In the course of a fairly long and wide acquaintance with genealogical literature and the coNectionsof genealogical antiquaries, I cannot say hat I have ever met with any other reference to this Society, or with anything produced by its secretary, "Rycroft Reeve, Esq " "No profit," says Sims, "is made by the Society in any of its transactions, except by the sale of its publications to non-suo- scribers." This must have been the secret of its early demise. We learn further that the Committee of Research met every Monday at 18, Charles Street, St. James's Square, its duties being " to make researches relating to Genealogy and Family History from Public and Private Records and MSS.: to collect evidences of family descent and antiquity ; and to form MS. compilations for the Society." Is anything known about it— whether any "compilations" were ever made ; and, if so, where they are now ? GEORGE F. T. SHERWOOD. 50, Beecroft Road, Brockley. S.E. • TOM MOORE OF FLEET STREET.' — This melodrama was produced at " Davidge's Royal Surrey Theatre" on Easter Monday, 12 April, 1841. It is described as " an entirely new, original, historical, legendary drama founded on the well-known facetious Local Story and called ' Tom Moore of Fleet Street, and the Starling of the Saloup Housa'" In the first act, scene i. represented " Fleet Street in 1760 by moonlight"; scene iv., "Lockyer's Old Saloup House, Fleet Street, an attempt will bo made in this scene (so cele- brated for its various changes of High and Low Life) to depict the current events of one epoch of its dissoluteness, namely, Life in a ' Finish' of 1670—Time, Four in the morning." The confusion of dates is amusing. Pitts, of Seven Dials, in one of the numbers of his ' Droll Story-Teller,' gave the story at some length ; but are there no other particulars of this local story ? and was the melodrama ever published ? Any information will be ap- preciated. ALECK ABRAHAMS. 39, Hillmarton Road, N. DUMMER FAMILY.—Is anything known of sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth cen- tury members of this family 1 Have any persons bearing the name of Dummer ever claimed a peerage (now extinct) or the estates pertaining to the title? I shall be glad of information through the medium of the valuable columns of ' N. <t Q.' HARDINGCOURT. FEMALE CRUCIFIXES.—The patron saint of Bayona (a lovely place on the coast of Galicia, between Vigo and the mouth of the river Minho) is Santa Librada, whose festival occurs on 20 July, and whose images inside and outside her church represent her as crucified. Below the image on the facade of