tre Royal, Dublin. It consisted
of the text (sometimes altered, I think) and notes connected exclusively
with astrology. There was, if I remember rightly, a frontispiece
representing some of the characters, their heads, arms, bodies, and legs
being dotted over with stars, as seen in a celestial globe. It was
published about the year 1826, and was evidently not the first play of
Shakspeare published under similar circumstances; for I recollect that when
Brabantio first appears at the window, a note informs the reader that "if
he will refer to the diagram of Brabantio in the frontispiece, he will
discover, by comparison of the stars in the two diagrams, that Brabantio
corresponds with" a character in another play of Shakspeare, the name of
which I forget. Mr. Cole is now in London, and connected with one of the
leading theatres. I do not know his address.

M. A.

_Prospect House, Clerkenwell._--Will any of your correspondents learned in
old London topography inform me when the "Prospect House, or Dobney's
Bowling Green," Clerkenwell, ceased to be a place of amusement; and where
any account is to be found of one Wildman, who is said to have exhibited
his bees there in 1772. (Vide _Mirror_, vol. xxxiv. p. 107.) And in what
consisted this exhibition? Also, if any other plate of the Three Hats
public-house, Islington, exists than that in the _Gentleman's Magazine_?
Also, if there exists any portrait of Mrs. Sampson, said to have been the
first female equestrian performer, and Life of Sampson, who used also to
perform at the gardens behind the Three Hats?

J. W. G. G.

_Ancient Family of Widderington._--In an old Prayer Book, now before me, I
find this entry:--"Ralph Witherington was married to Mary Smith the 13th
day of Nov. in the year of our Lord 1703, at seaven o'clock in the morning,
Sunday." Then follow the dates of the births of a numerous progeny. Can any
of your readers tell me who these parties were, or any particulars about
them? The early hour of a winter morning seems strange. Some of the
children settled in Dublin, and intermarried with good Irish families; but
from the entry in another part of the volume, in an older hand, of "Ralph
Witharington of Hauxley, in the parish of Warqurth, in the county of
Northumberland," the family appear previously to have lived in England.

I have never been able to find the motto of the Widderingtons. Their arms
are, of course, well known, viz., Quarterly, argent and gules, a