Queries.
We must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
Du Thisac of Lorraine.—I am anxious to find out something about the family of Du Thisac of Lorraine, whose arms, I have been told, are still to be seen in a stained-glass window in the old chateau of the Dukes of Lorraine.
If any reader who knows this part of Germany can give me a sketch or description of such arms, I shall be very much indebted to him; as also to any student of French genealogy or heraldry having access to the British Museum Library who would be kind enough to advise me as to any printed genealogy of the family prior to about 1600.
I may say that some members of the family came over to England at the time of the persecution of the Protestants, when the name became anglicized into Tyzack.
I know Mr. Grazebrook's book on ' The Henzey, Tyttery, and Tyzack Families.'
Any information will be most gratefully received. CHARLES DRURY.
12, Ranmoor Cliffe Road, Sheffield.
ANCESTRY WANTED. Elisha, Cox, ensign, an officer of the Revolution, of Weston, Mass., U.S.A. Born about 1721 ; married, 1741, Anna Warren, dau. of Jonathan Warren of Waterton, Mass., U.S.A. ; died 25 June, 1776, of smallpox at Isle aux Noix, on the expedition against Canada, 1776. He was in Col. Gardner's regiment (37th, afterwards the 25th, Regt. of Regular Conti- nental Army). His son, Jonathan, removed to Hatley, Province of Quebec, Canada. I should be glad of information as to his ancestry. W.
REAR-ADMIRALS DURELL AND CHARLES HOLMES, 1759. I should be much obliged if I could be put into communication, for historical purposes, with the representatives of Rear- Admirals Durell and Charles Holmes, who commanded under Admiral Saunders at Quebec in 1759.
A clue might be found in the case of the latter from the fact that his monument was erected by his nieces, Mary Stanwix and Lucretia Sowle.
DAVID Ross McCoRD, M.A., K.C,
Temple Grove, Montreal.
" SARCISTECTIS." In a confirmation of
certain pensions to Ramsey Abbey, which
is given in the Chartulary (Rolls Series,.
No. 79, vol. ii. p. 180), occurs the follow-
ing :
" Statuentes, ut ex his pensionibus, praedicta monasterio Sancti Benedict! in sarcistectis, et luminaribus, et aliis necessariis, sufficienter provideatur."
What is the meaning of " sarcistectis " ? F. PURYER WHITE.
JEREMY BENTHAM. Many years ago I bought from a Russian or German book- seller Lencquist's treatise * De Supersti- tione Veterum Fennorum Theoretica et Practica,' published at Abo, in Finland^ in the year 1782.
Within its pages was a screwed-up piece of paper which had been used as a book- mark, and when I happened one day to unroll this book-mark, I discovered that it was written upon on one side as follows :
a. d.
"Jeremy Bentham, Esq. ... 211 6 10 per cent ... 21 2 7
190 3 5 2s. Qd. rect. stamp.
5, Jeffries Square."
On the other side of the paper was written :
"Enghelmi"(?)"Palladini Avocat
Procurat. Genrl.
a Naples 52a. N . 12, Maiden Lane,
Covent Garden."
Three years after the publication of Lencquist's treatise Jeremy Bentham paid a long visit to Russia, and stayed some time with his brother, Samuel Bentham, who lived, I think, at St. Petersburg. There he probably bought and read my book. Can you or your readers by any chance throw light upon the memoranda ?
CHARLES J. BILLSON. The Priory, Martyr Worthy, Winchester.
CURIOUS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ITEM. The following curious work, every word of the text commencing with the letter s, is said to be unknown to all bibliographers and most probably unique. Is this correct ?
" Oratio ad Crucifixum voviter | composita, cuius omnium dictio | num capita ab eadem littera scili | cet. S. incipiunt," thin Svo, c. 1510.
J. ARDAGH.
BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA. Is there any list printed of those who are known to have perished in the Black Hole of Calcutta ?
W. G. D. F.
