C.B.W.

Edgbaston.

    [Our correspondent will find, on referring to Mr. Cunningham’s
    Handbook of London, that “Byron was born at No. 24.  Holles Street,
    and christened in the small parish church of St. Marylebone.”]

Ancient Tiles (Vol. i., p. 173.).—­The device of two birds perched back to back on the twigs of a branch that rises between them, is found, not on tiles only, but in wood carving; as at Exeter Cathedral, on two of the Misereres in the choir, and on the gates which separate the choir from the aisles, and these again from the nave.

J.W.H.

Modena Family (Vol. ii., p. 266.).—­Victor Amadeus III., King of Sardinia, died in October, 1796.  Mary Beatrice, Duchess of Modena, mother of the present Duke of Modena, was the daughter of Victor Emmanuel V., King of Sardinia, who abdicated his throne in 1821, and died 10th January, 1824.  The present Duke of Modena is the direct heir of the house of Stuart in the following line:—­

All the legitimate issue of Charles II. and James II. being extinct, we fall back upon Henrietta Maria, youngest child of Charles I. She married her cousin Philip, Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis XIV., and by him had three children.  Two died without issue:  the youngest, Anna Maria, b.  Aug. 1669, mar.  Victor Amadeus II., Duke of Savoy, and had by him three children, one son and two daughters.

The son, Charles Emmanuel III., Duke of {411} Savoy, married and had Victor Amadeus III., who married Maria Antoinette of Spain, and had:—­1.  Charles Emmanuel IV., who died without issue, and 2.  Victor Emmanuel V., who married an Austrian Archduchess; his eldest daughter married Francis IV.  Duke of Modena.  She died between A.D. 1841-1846, I believe, and left four children:—­1.  Francis V., Duke of Modena. 2.  The wife of Henri, Comte de Chambord. 3.  Ferdinand. 4.  Marie, wife of Don Juan, brother of the present de jure King of Spain, Carlos VI.

J.K.

Nicholas Breton’s Fantasticks (Vol. ii., p. 375.).—­In reply to the second Bibliographical Query of J. MT., Edinburgh, respecting Nicholas Breton’s Fantasticks, I beg to inform him that my copy is perfect, and contains twenty-two leaves.  The title is Fantasticks:  seruing for a perpetuall Prognostication, with the subjects of the twenty-four Descants, as they are called, in prose, contained in the volume. 4to. bl. lett.  London:  Printed for Francis Williams, 1626.  After this is a dedication “To the worshipfull and worthy knight Sir Marke Ive, of Rivers Hall, in Essex;” and a short address “To the Reader,” one leaf.  It is an entertaining work, and contains some curious and useful remarks on our ancient manners, customs, and habits.  My copy had successively belonged to Garrick, Fillingham, and Heber; the latter of whom has written in it, “Who has ever seen another copy?”

T.C.

Strand.