_Hoby, Family of; their Portraits, &c_. (Vol. viii., p. 244.).--I would refer J. B. WHITBORNE to _The Antiquities of Berkshire_ (so miscalled), by Elias Ashmole; where, in treating of Bisham, that learned antiquary has given the inscriptions to the Hoby family as existing _and legible in his time_. It does not appear that Sir Philip Hoby, or Hobbie, Knight, was ever of the Privy Council; but, in 1539, one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to King Henry VIII. (which monarch granted to him in 1546-7 the manor of Willoughby in Edmonton, co. Middlesex), Sir Thomas Hoby, the brother, and successor in the estates of Sir Philip, was, in 1566, ambassador to France; and died at Paris July 13 in the same year (not 1596), aged thirty-six. The coat of the Hobys of Bisham, as correctly given, is "Argent, within a border engrailed sable, three spindles, threaded in fesse, gules." A grant or confirmation of this coat was made by Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux, to Peregrine Hoby of Bisham, Berks, natural son of Sir Edward Hoby, Nov. 17, 1664. The Bisham family bore no crest nor motto. H. C. C. _The Keate Family_ (Vol. viii., pp. 293. 525.)--Should the Query of G. B. B. not be sufficiently answered by the extract from Mr. Burke's _Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England_ relating to the Keate family, as I have a full pedigree of that surname, I may perhaps be able, on application, to satisfy him with some genealogical particulars which are not noticed in Mr. Burke's works. H. C. C. _Sir Charles Cotterell_ (Vol viii., p. 564.).--Sir Charles Cotterell, the translator of _Cassandra_, died in 1687. (See Fuller's _Worthies_, by Nuttall, vol. ii. p. 309.) [Greek: Halieus]. Dublin. _Huc's Travels_ (Vol. viii., p. 516.).--Not having seen the _Gardener's Chronicle_, in which C. W. B. says the travels of Messrs. Huc and Gabet in Thibet, Tartary, &c. are said to be a pure fabrication, concocted by some Parisian _litterateur_, I cannot know what degree of credit, if any, is to be given to such a statement. All I wish to communicate at present for the information of your Querist C. W. B. is this, that I have read an account and abstract of Messrs. Huc and Gabet's _Travels_ in one of the ablest and best conducted French reviews, _La Revue des Deux Mondes_; in which not the least suspicion of fabrication is hinted, or the slightest doubt expressed as to the genuineness of these _Travels_. Mr. Princep, also, in his work on Thibet, Tartary, &c. quotes largely from Huc's Travel's, and avails himself extensively of the information contained in them with reference to Buddhism, &c. Should the writer in the _Gardener's Chronicle_ have it in his power to _prove_ the _Travels_ to be a fabrication, he will confer a benefit on the world of letters by unmasking the fabricator. J. M. Oxford.