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ment of Foot Guards,' 1745 (ante, p. 31) ? No mention is made of it in any of the half-dozen military library catalogues to which I have referred. Was this edition of 1745 the only one issued ? M. J. D. C.

Solan, Punjab.

"FEED THE BRUTE." I shall be glad to know the origin of this phrase. I have some misty recollection that it appeared in Punch some years since, but am not certain on the point. A. G.

BYARD FAMILY. In Ecclesfield Church Yorkshire, there is a tablet to the memory of George Byard, Gent, late of Farfield near Sheffield, and formerly of St. James's Clerkenwell, London, who died 30 October, 1813 ; also to his father Kobert Byard, late oi Covent Garden, London, Gent., who diec 11 May, 1771. Any further particulars as to this family would be acceptable.

T. WORSLEY STANIFORTH.

.Buxton, Derbyshire.

HUGO'S 'LES ABEILLES IMPERIALES.' Can any reader kindly tell me in what part of Victor Hugo's works I can find a poem entitled 'Les Abeilles Iinperiales,' which Gambetta is said to have been fond of reciting? I have searched the indexes to the successive volumes of the collected edition, but in vain.

CYRIL.

MASSINGER'S ' FATAL DOWRY.' At the end of this fine play, so far as my recollection goes after many years, Romont (I think after the death of Charalois) says as follows : The tears which I was never wont to shed -Now flow from me like a woman's. Having quite recently bought a copy of Massmger and Ford's plays, I do not find this passage. Can any of your readers inform me it these lines are really to be found in the original text, or if they belong to another

Ki M The Py I h ave bought is published by Messrs. Routledge.

GEORGE W. H. GIRTIN.

P f S ff ge T U - rS V" the P lace indicated in of the play m Gifford's Massinger ' of L813 which is authoritative. Passages of somewhat


 * niay be found - but

K X Whlch ' as they were too long to

f" WaS ? ing to de P 8ifc in the Museum. I cannot find any trace of

them in the MS. Department, and they do not seem to have reached the Museum. Can any reader say where they are 1

N. W. THOMAS. 7, Coptic Street, W.C.

[Macgillivray wrote in 1852.]

CATHEDRAL HIGH STEWARDS. What are supposed to be the duties of these func- tionaries ? The late Earl Kimberley was High Steward of Norwich Cathedral, and, I believe, drew a nominal stipend of three or four pounds annually. It seems that Norwich is unique in possessing such an official, but I have been unable to discover the origin and cause of the office here.

JAMES HOOPER. Norwich.

CANTABRIGIENSES.' The first volume was published in 1858, the second in 1861, and at the end of this it is announced that "a third volume is in preparation and will shortly be sent to press." Was the latter ever published ?

' Graduati Cantabrigienses ' (Hustler), 1823,. and ' A Catalogue of Oxford Graduates,' 1851,. are lists of the graduates of each university. Each begins at the year 1659. Is this merely a coincidence, or is there some reason there- for? GEORGE C. PEACHEY.

WILLIAM PECK. In Head's ' History of the Isle of Axholme' there is a biographical notice of William Peck, author of ' The Topography of Bawtry,' and also of 'A Topographical Account of the Isle of Axholme.' This biographical notice was written by his daughter, Elizabeth Peck, who says : " He left behind him many MSS., which afterwards passed into- other hands." These MSS. probably included the materials for the second volume of the ' Isle of Axholme/ which was never published. The first volume was published in 1815 at Doncaster, and Mr. Peck died in 1824 at Epworth.

Could any one give me information about these MSS. 1 Where are they now 1 Do they ontain materials for the history of the Isle of Axholme? I should esteem it a favour f any one possessing any information or who- s interested in the subject would correspond with me. A. T. C. CREE.

Brodsworth, Beckenham.

RIGHT HON. JOHN SMITH, SPEAKER 1705-8. Who was his wife ? What family had he ? Considering his position as Speaker in the irst Parliament of the Union, very little appears to be known of him. According to Manning's ' Speakers ' he left "an only son,'* . William Smith, who died without