no notice, either in Sykes's
_Local Records_, or in Richardson's _Local Historian's Table-book_, of the
descent made on Newcastle in 1694 by the celebrated Jean Bart, whom the
Dutch nicknamed "De Fransch Duyvel." Somewhere or other I have seen it
stated that he returned to France with an immense booty. Perhaps some of
your north country correspondents can tell us whether any record of his
visit exists in the archives of the corporation of Newcastle or elsewhere?

WILLIAM BROCKIE.

Russell Street, South Shields.

_Madame de Stael._--In _Three Months in Northern Germany_, p. 151., 1817,
the following, passage occurs among some corrections of the mistakes of
Madame de Stael:

"She knew the language imperfectly, read little, and misrepresented the
gossip which she heard, either from carelessness or misunderstanding.
When she censures Fichte, who she says had received no provocation from
Nicolai, for helping Schlegel to write a dull book against him when he
was too old to reply, she must have been ignorant of the fact, that
Nicolai lived and wrote many years after the publication; and that,
whether provoked or not, it is far from dull."

I cannot find any mention of this dispute in Madame de Stael's _De
l'Allemagne_, and shall be glad if any of your readers can direct me to the
passage in her works, and also to the joint work of Schlegel and Fichte.

R. A.

Ox. and C. Club.

_Honoria, Daughter of Lord Denny._--I should be extremely obliged to any of
your correspondents if they could give me the date of the death of Honoria,
daughter and heiress of Edward, Lord Denny, who was married to James Hay,
afterwards Earl Carlisle, on the 6th of January, 1607. She had issue James,
second Earl of Carlisle, who died in 1660. As James Hay, then Baron Hay of
Sawley, married his second wife (Lucy, daughter of Henry, Earl of
Northumberland) in November 1617, the time of the first Lady Hay's death is
fixed between 1607 and 1617.

AUGUSTUS JESSOPP.

N.B.--"Bis dat qui cito dat."

Rectory, Papworth St. Agnes.

_Hospital of John of Jerusalem._--Is there any book or manuscript relating
to the proceedings of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England,
{452} which enters so fully into particulars as to give the names of the
members of the society and its officers about the year 1300?

C. F. K.

_Heiress of Haddon Hall._--Any one who visits Haddon Hall in Derbyshire,
the property of the Duke of R