firstly, who was Charles Chadwick, Esq.? and secondly, supposing that
he is no longer living, which I think from the lapse of time will be most
probable, does any one know what became of the tiles which he had received
from France in 1786?

GEORGE BOASE.

P.S.--The _Gentleman's Magazine_ gives a plate of these tiles, as well as a
plate of some others with which another ancient building, called "Grand
Palais de Guillaume le Conquerant," was paved.

Alverton Vean, Penzance.

_Artificial Drainage._--Can any of your correspondents refer me to a work,
or works, giving a history of draining marshes by machines for raising the
water to a higher level? Windmills, I suppose, were the first machines so
used, but neither Beckmann nor Dugdale informs us when first used. I have
found one mentioned in a conveyance dated 1642, but they were much earlier.
Any information on the history of the drainage of the marshes near Great
Yarmouth, of which Dugdale gives passing notice only, would also be very
acceptable to me.

E. G. R.

_Storms at the Death of great Men._--Your correspondent at Vol. vi., p.
531., mentions "the storms which have been noticed to take place at the
time of the death of many great men known to our history."

A list of these would be curious. With a passing reference to the familiar
instance of the Crucifixion, as connected with all history, we may note, as
more strictly belonging to the class, those storms that occurred at the
deaths of "The Great Marquis" of Montrose, 21st May, 1650; Cromwell, 3rd
September, 1658; Elizabeth Gaunt, who was burnt 23rd October, 1685, and
holds her reputation as the last female who suffered death for a political
offence in England; and Napoleon, 5th May, 1821; as well as that which
solemnised {494} the burial of Sir Walter Scott, 26th September, 1832.

W. T. M.

Hong Kong.

_Motto or Wylcotes' Brass._--In the brass of Sir John Wylcotes, Great Tew
Church, Oxfordshire, the following motto occurs:

"IN . ON . IS . AL."

I shall feel obliged if any one of your numerous correspondents will
enlighten my ignorance by explaining it to me.

W. B. D.

Lynn.

_"Trail through the leaden sky," &c._--

"Trail through the leaden sky their bannerets of fire."

Where is this line to be found, as applied to the spirits of the storm?

R. C. WARDE.

Kidderminster.

_Lord Audley's Attendants at Poictiers._--According to the French historian
Froissart, four knights or esquires,