th an umbrella
as a frontispiece to the book of Travels published by him about 1753,
in four vols. 4to.; and I have no doubt that he had used one in his
travels through Greece, Turkey, &c.

T.G.L.

In the hall of my father's house, at Stamford in Lincolnshire,
there was, when I was a child, the wreck of a very large green silk
umbrella, apparently of Chinese manufacture, brought by my father from
Holland, somewhere between 1770 and 1780, and as I have often heard,
the first umbrella seen at Stamford. I well remember also an amusing
description given by the late Mr. Warry, so many years consul at
Smyrna, of the astonishment and envy of his mother's neighbours at
Sawbridgeworth, in Herts, where his father had a country-house, when
he ran home and came back with an umbrella, which he had just brought
from Leghorn, to shelter them from a pelting shower which detained
them in the church-porch, after the service, on one summer Sunday.
From Mr. Warry's age at the time he mentioned this, and other
circumstances in his history, I conjecture that it occurred not later
than 1775 or 1776. As Sawbridgeworth is so near London, it is evident
that even there umbrellas were at that time almost unknown.

If I have "spun too long a yarn," the dates, at least, will not be
unacceptable to others like myself.

G.C. RENOUARD.

Swanscombe Rectory, May 1.

Dr. Jamieson was the first who introduced umbrellas to Glasgow in the
year 1782; he bought his in Paris. I remember very well when this took
place. At this time the umbrella was made of heavy wax cloth, with
cane ribs, and was a ponderous article.

R.R.

* * * * *

EMANCIPATION OF THE JEWS.

(VOL. I, PP. 474, 475.)

From a scarce collection of pamphlets concerning the naturalisation
of the Jews in England, published in 1753, by Dean Tucker and others,
I beg to send the following extracts, which may be of some use in
replying to the inquiry (Vol. i., p. 401.) respecting the Jews during
the Commonwealth.

Dean Tucker, in his _Second Letter to a Friend concerning
Naturalisation_, says (p. 29.):--

"The Jews having departed out of the realm in the year 1290,
or being expelled by the authority of parliament (it matters
not which), made no efforts to return till the Protectorship
of Oliver Cromwell; but this negotiation is known to have
proved unsuccessful. However, the affair was not dropped, for
the next application wa