_Booth Family._--Can any of your Lancashire correspondents afford information bearing on the families of Booth of Salford, and Lightbown of Manchester? Is any pedigree extant of either of these families, and what arms did they bear? Humphrey Booth founded, I believe, a church in Salford about the year 1634, the patronage of which still remains, as it might seem, in the family, the _Clergy List_ describing it as in the gift of Sir R. G. Booth. There is a Booth Hall in Blackley, a small village lying by the road side, between Manchester and Middleton; and from the _inquisitio post mortem_ of Humphrey Booth, 12 Car. I., it appears that he died seised of lands in Blackley as well as Salford. Is there any evidence to connect him with this hall, as the place of his residence? A JESUIT. Jesus College, Cambridge. _Ennui._--What is our nearest approach to a correct rendering of this expression? Some English writer (Lady Morgan, I believe) has defined it "mental lukewarmness:" but, if it be true, as La-Motte Houdart says, that-- "L'ennui naquit un jour de l'uniformite." the above definition would seem to indicate rather the cause of _ennui_ than _ennui_ itself. HENRY H. BREEN. St. Lucia. _Bankruptcy Records._--Where can I search for evidence of a bankruptcy, probably about 1654? The Chief Registrar's indices do not go back nearly so far. J. K. _Golden Bees._--Napoleon I. and II. are said to have had their imperial robes embroidered with golden bees, as claiming official descent from Carolus Magnus. Query, what is the authority for this heraldic distinction, said to have been assumed by Charlemagne? JAMES GRAVES. Kilkenny. _The Grindstone Oak._--Can any of your topographical correspondents state what is the earliest mention made of an oak tree well known in this part of the country, and the destruction of which by fire, on the 5th of November, 1849, was the subject of regret to all who had seen or heard of it? It was called the _Grindstone Oak_, and had been a denizen of the forest of Alice Holt, as many suppose, since the days of the Confessor. It measured thirty-four feet in circumference, at the height of seven feet from the ground; and is mentioned by Gilbert White, in his _History of Selborne_, as "the great oak in the Holt, which is deemed by Mr. Marsham to be the biggest in this island." L. L. L. Near Selborne, Hants. _Hogarth._--About the year 1746, Mr. Hogarth painted a portrait of himself and wife: he afterwards cut the canvass through, and presented the half containing his own portrait to a gentleman in Yorkshire. If any of your numerous readers are in possession of any portrait of Mr. Hogarth, about three feet in length, and one foot eight inches wide, or are aware of the existence of such a portrait, they will confer a favour by addressing a line to J. PHILLIPS, 5. Torrington Place, London.