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(Vol. viii., pp. 173. 281.).--The editors of the _Navorscher_ express their thanks to BROCTUNA for his reply to their Query, but hope he will kindly increase their debt of gratitude by elucidating three points which seem to them obscure: 1. Which Lord Stanhope died childless? Not Henry, Lord Stanhope, for he (see p. 281.) left a son and two daughters; nor yet Philip, for his widow had borne him daughters. Or have we wrongly understood the letters _s. p._ to signify _sine prole_? 2. Was it the Earl of Chesterfield, half-brother of Charles Henry van den Kerckhove, or Charles {564} Stanhope his nephew, who took the name of Wotton? 3. Knight's _National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge_ (vol. xi. p. 374.) names James Stanhope, Earl Stanhope, the eldest son of the Hon. Alexander Stanhope, second son of Philip Stanhope, first Earl of Chesterfield. Had the latter then, besides the above-named (see p. 281.) Henry, Lord Stanhope, also other sons? _Kicker-eating._--Can any of your West Yorkshire readers supply me with information relative to a practice which is said formerly to have prevailed at Cleckheaton, of eating "kicker," or horseflesh? It is a fact that natives of that locality who come to reside at Leeds are still subjected to the opprobrium of being _kicker-eaters_. H. W. _Chadderton of Nuthurst, co. Lancashire._--When did the family of Chadderton become extinct? Had Edmund Chadderton, son and heir of George Chadderton by Jane Warren of Poynton, any descendants? and if so, what were their names and the dates of their respective births, marriages, and deaths? In short, any particulars relating to them down to the period of the extinction of this family would be most acceptable. J. B. _George, first Viscount Lanesborough, and Sir Charles Cotterell._--G. S. S. begs to submit the following questions to the readers of "N. & Q.:" When did George Lane, first Viscount Lanesborough, in Ireland, die? And when Sir Charles Cotterell, the translator of _Cassandra?_ Where were they both buried? _"Firm was their faith," &c._--Who was the writer of those beautiful lines, of which the following, the only verse I remember, is a portion? "Firm was their faith, the ancient bands, The wise in heart, in wood and stone, Who rear'd with stern and trusting hands, The dark grey towers of days unknown. They fill'd those aisles with many a thought, They bade each nook some truth recall, The pillar'd arch its leg
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