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io< s. i. APRIL 16, ION.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

300 shire, that Ray, being have an Englishman, may have confused the Bass with the rock of Dumbarton, and been thinking about the old air: —

Dumbarton's drums beat bonnie, O, And mind me o' my Johnnie, O.

The gallant officer believes this to have been the march of the Royal Scots, that oldest of regiments, but he fancies that the drums were those of a Mr. Dumbarton, who was colonel of the regiment when the air was composed. It would certainly be odd if the Royal Scots named their march after a rock in the Lennox instead of one in the Lothians, with which they were and are territorially associated. It would be very interesting if a 'Bass Rock March' could be disinterred that would lilt to the ballad commemorating the famous fight which took place upon the sea beside the Bass Rock in 1489, between Sir Andrew Wood, of Largo, and the sturdy English captain Sir Steven Bull, of which the final verse is: —

The battle fiercely it was focht
 * Near to the craig o' Bass:

When next we meet the English loons,
 * May nae waur come to pass!

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. — I have recently bought four steel engravings very fine work, in old oak frames, as follows: —

Can your readers tell me where I could obtain others of the series? Were Samuel and Nathaniel Black famous for their work? What does "publisht according to Act of Parliament" mean? I shall be glad of any information relating to this series of fine steel engravings. .

. — This British officer was in the Portuguese service 1797-1805, and in the latter year gave important information to Lord Nelson as to the direction the French fleet had taken, viz., the West Indies. In consequence of Campbell's action he lost his position, and died shortly after. Can any of your readers refer me to any work giving a detailed account of his services, or say whether the British Government ever compensated his widow and family, who suffered distress? I should also be glad to know particulars of his parentage. .

At 6th S. vi. 81 was given by, a very interesting list of the coats of arms of the Popes from Innocent III. to Leo XIII., covering, therefore, the period from 1198 to 1903. Could this now be completed by a description of the coat of Pius X.?

. — This family, residing in the county of Cumberland, bore Sable, three bars between as many mullets or. I shall be much obliged by information whether any descendants are living in Cumberland or in the North of England.

"s" is quoted in the Month for March last, p. 150. Is the author known or where it first occurs?

. — I shall be much obliged to any one who will give me the names and college of the persons to whom reference is made in a letter from Bp. Quadra to the Duchess of Parma, dated 15 November, 1561 ('Cal. S. P. Span., Eliz.,' vol. i. No. 143), as follows:

The Register of the Acts of the Privy Council from 12 May, 1559, to 28 May, 1562, is unhappily lost. Is not such interference of the Mayor in a university matter most unusual? .

"" — Perhaps some of your readers could supply an interpretation (which has been sought vainly in Dufresne's, Fennell-Stanford's, and other dictionaries) of the word foleit', occurring in a Barnstaple merchant's inventory of 1413 (Escheator's Inquisitions, file 659), thus: "unū kercher & unū foleitu' de Cotyn, ijs.; duo foleit' de Northefolke, xvii'd; unū foleit' de Straubury clothe, l'd ob." If from Lat. foliatus, one could fancy its describing some scalloped or quasi-leaf-shaped fichu or shawl; but it might, perhaps, be traced instead to a Latin word that I find in Webster's Dictionary