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 W-S. I. MARCH 12, 1904.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Bishop Baraga, "on account of the strange things seen and heard in the strait which joins this lake with another one, in the old times." JAMES PLATT, Jun.

RIDDLE. Some years ago appeared the following lines :

Men cannot live without my first,

By day and night : tis used ; My second is by all accursed,

By day and night abused ; My whole is never seen by day,

And never used at night ; ' Tis dear to friends when far away,

And hated when in sight.

I have written them as repeated to me by a blind lady, and shall be glad to know the answer. A. A. L.

[This riddle has been variously attributed to Archbishop Whately, Praed, and Samuel Wilber- force, and ignis fatuus, heartache, and income-tax suggested as the answer. See 3 rd S. viii. 316 ; 9 th S. L 11, 157.]

THACKERAY QUERIES. (See 9 th S. xii. 446.) I should like to know also who wrote 'Lines on the Death of Catherine (Hayes) Bushnell.' They were signed T. H., and appeared in the St. James's Magazine, September, 1861.

Who wrote the poem (twenty-three verses) 1 William Makepeace Thackeray,' thatappeared in Good Words, February, 1864 ? CLIO.

Bolton.

TEMPLE COLLEGE, PHILADELPHIA. Several Baptist ministers in England have received the honorary degree of D.D. from this college. Can any reader supply me with information as to its status and degree-conferring powers ? BAPTIST MINISTER.

LECHE FAMILY. I should be glad of any references to the Leche family, who at one time owned the estate of Squerries, in the parish of Westerham, Kent. Is there any record of a marriage between a Leche and Nicholas Miller, of Wrotham, brother to Sir Humphrey Miller, Bart. ? P. M.

ELIZA Sc UDDER'S POEMS. Has Eliza Scudder ever published her poems in book form ? and, if so, where can I procure a copy ? I have met several exquisite poems of hers in various books. L. R. F.

HEIRLOOM COTS. It was general in the sixteenth century and later for testators specially to bequeath their " joined " bed- stead, and even their bedding, the legatee being generally their eldest son. We know of at least one early seventeenth-century will in which the family bedstead is shown to have passed through five generations. Can

readers tell me of existing wooden cots or cradles which have been any considerable time in a family ? So far as I can recollect, the cots exhibited at the South Kensington Museum are not historical ones ; but many examples of sixteenth and seventeenth cen- tury cots exist bearing the date, initials, and arms of their first possessors. I shall be very grateful for particulars, illustrations, or notes of such cots. FRED. HITCHIN-KEMP. 6, Beechfield Road, Catford, S.E.

A FRENCH CLOISTER IN ENGLAND. The cloister of the Abbey of Jumieges (Seine- Inferieure), which is shown in the view of the abbey in the 'Monasticon Gallicanum,' was constructed in 1530. After the French Revolution the abbey was sold to M. Lefort, a timber merchant of Canteleu, and he is said to have sold the cloister in 1802 to an English lord, who had it conveyed to Eng- land, and put together again with great care in his park. The tradition of this sale seems to have been preserved locally, and it is related by Savalle in 'Les Derniers Moines de Jumieges ' (1867), p. 37, and repeated by Perkins in the American Journal of Archceo- logy (1885), i. 137. Is anything now known of the existence of the remains of this cloister in any English park ] JOHN BILSON.

A.E.I. For what phrase do these letters stand ] They are familiar to most people. I have asked, but no one can translate them, so to speak. I have exhausted the ordinary " lists " of abbreviations without success.

W. R.

[Is this not the Greek word atl, " for ever" ?] PLATO AND SIDNEY.

heaven

Hath all thy whirling course so small effect ? Serve all thy starry eyes this shame to see.

Sidney, 'Arcadia,' xviii.

In Grosart's three- volume edition, 1877, is appended to the above this note :

" ' All thy starry eyes ' : a reminiscence perhaps of Plato's epigrammatic saying in a storm, that the ship could not perish with so many eyes upon it (pointing to the stars)."

Will any reader kindly direct me to the reference for this saying of Plato? (Of course I know the " Aster " epigram ; but that is obviously not what is meant.)

H. K. ST. J. S.

SIR HUGH PLATT'S ARMS. What were the arms borne by Sir Hugh Platt, of Lincoln's Inn, " the most scientific horticulturist of his age" (he died circa 1611)? He had a garden in St. Martin's Lane.

JAMES PLATT, Jun.