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 10'" S. I. MARCH 12, 1904.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Herodes Atticus, names Herondas (' Deipno- soph.,' iii. 86) together with Sopater, Epi- charruus, Sophron, Archilochus, Ibycus, who are all pre-Christian poets. I say nothing of the reasons which the Mimiambi themselves afforded for the third century before Christ, and which can be found in the editions of Ken yon and Crusius, and presumably in that of tlie Rev. J. A. Nairn (Clarendon Press). (Dr.) MAX MAAS. Munich, Bavaria.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS (10 th S. i. 168). 1. "A face to lose youth for," &c. Robert Browning, 'A Likeness,' 'Poet. Works' (Smith <fe Elder, 1899), i. 601.

10. " Live and take comfort," &c. Words- worth, Sonnet 'To Toussaint L'Ouverture,' 4 Poet. Works ' (Macmillan, 1893), p. 180.

C. LAWRENCE FORD.

Bath.

He sets

As sets the morning star, which goes not down

Behind the darkened west, nor hides obscured

Among the tempests of the sky, but melts away

Into the light of Heaven.

I think this is the passage No. 14 MR. W. L. POOLE asks for, and if my memory serves me truly, it is in the fifth book of Pollok's 'Course of Time.' I have not the work at hand, or would reply definitely. Lucis.

[C. M. HUDSON and H. K. ST. J. S. thanked for replies.]

WESTERN REBELLION OF 1549 (10 th S. i. 46). My recent query on this subject brought me a few replies which were full of interest. Perhaps some one else may be able to give me references in local histories or out-of-the- way publications. Even casual references may afford a clue of value.

(Mrs.) ROSE-TROUP.

Ottery St. Mary.

TURNER : CANALETTO (10 th _ S. i. 168). See the articles on 'Canaletto in England' in th S. viii. 407 ; ix. 15, 133, 256 ; xii. 324, 411 ; S th S. i. 373 ; ii. 11, 471. W. C. B.

" MEYNES" AND "RHINES " (10 th S. i. 49, 92). I read PROF. SKEAT'S reply with great interest, and quite agree with him as to the danger of mixing up river - names with ordinary words. Is he quite sure that 41 Rhine " is always pronounced Rean or Keen on Sedgemoor ? I have heard it pronounced Rhine, like the river, and it is so spelt in contemporary accounts of Monmouth's battle in 1685. Has the word any connexion with the High German Rhine ? I am, of course, aware that " Rhine," the river-name, is pre- German. After writing my first note, I saw a, ' History of Orange ' in which " Meyne " is

used as a river-name, but it certainly is the usual expression for an irrigation channel ia that part of Vaucluse. H.

'NICHOLAS NICKLEBY': CAPT. CUTTLE (10 th S. i. 166). The surname Cuttle occurs in the North of England. Some forty years ago I knew a Mr. Cuttle, who resided at Hems- worth, near Pontefract. He was, I think, an auctioneer and valuer. I have seen Cuttle more than once over the doors of village shops in the West Riding, but I do not remem- ber where. Lower, in his ' Patronymica Britannica,' gives the name, and adds :

" Cuthill, or Cuttle, is a suburb of Prestonpans, co. Haddington. In several surnames the final If, represents hill in a shortened pronunciation."

Cottle is perhaps the same name under a different spelling ; there were two poets who bore it, Amos and Joseph, both of whom figure in Byron's 'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.' Lower suggested that Cottle might have been acquired from a district called Cottles in Wiltshire. COM. EBOR.

EPITAPHS : THEIR BIBLIOGRAPHY (10 th S. i. 44, 173). A bibliography of epitaphs, com- piled by Mr. W. G. B. Page, is appended to 'Curious Epitaphs,' by W. Andrews, 1883, and additions to it appeared in 6 th S. ix. 493.

W. C. B.

IMMUREMENT ALIVE OF RELIGIOUS (9 th S. xii. 25, 131, 297, 376, _517 ; 10 th S. i. 50, 152). I quote the following from Lord Cockburn's 'Memorials' (Edinburgh, 1856), p. 173:

" Gillespie's Hospital, for the shrouding of aged indigence, was commenced about this time, and completed in 1805 The founder was a snuff- seller who brought up an excellent young man as his heir, and then left death to disclose that, for the vanity of being remembered by a thing called after himself, he had all the while had a deed executed by. which this, his nearest, relation was disinherited. Another fact distinguished the rise of this institution. A very curious edifice stood on the very spot where the modern building is erected. It was called Wryttes - Houses, and belonged anciently to a branch of the family of Napier. It was a keep, presiding over a group of inferior buildings, most of it as old as the middle of the fourteenth century, all covered with heraldic and other devices, and all delightfully picturesque. Nothing could be more striking when seen against the evening sky. Many a feudal gathering did that tower see on the Borough Moor ; and many a time did the inventor of logarithms, whose castle of Merchiston was near, enter it. Yet it was brutishly obliterated, without one public murmur. A single individual, whose name, were it known, ought to be honored, but who chose to conceal himself under the signature of Cadmon, proclaimed and denounced the outrage, in a communication in July, 1800, to the Edinburgh Magazine; but the idiot public

looked on in silence There is a good view of its

position in one of Clerk of Eldiu's sketches printed