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brother to Sir John Mundy, was likewise a goldsmith, and married a wife Elizabeth. By will dated 1562 (proved P.C.C. 1562) he left to his son Nicholas " my gowne faced with budge [badger 1] and furred with lambe." He refers to his other son John, and daugh- ters Margery and Elizabeth.

No connexion is claimed in any family pedigrees between Anthony Munday, drama- tist, and the Mundys of Derbyshire.

PERCY DRYDEN MUNDY.

Hove, Sussex.

[MR. E. H. COLEMAN, DR. FORSIIAW, and MR. W. D. PINK are thanked for short replies.]

" A GALLANT CAPTAIN," &C. (9 th S. xii. 506).

The reference is to the third verse of the ' Elegy on the Death of Jean Bon St. Andre ' in the' well-known Anti-Jacobin. The correct quotation is as under :

Poor John was a gallant captain, In battles much delighting ; He fled full soon On the first of June But he bade the rest keep fighting.

A note to the edition, by Charles Edmonds (1851), of the poetry in that work, states that, " having been appointed [by the French Government] to remodel the Republican navy, he was present at the action of 1 June, 1794, in which he showed excessive cowardice."

G. E. C.

[MR. A. R. MALDEN and MR. A. F. BOBBINS also supply the reference to the Anti-Jacobin.]

LONG LEASE (9 th S. xii. 25, 134, 193, 234, 449, 513). An old house at the corner of North Street and Taprell's Lane (Lostwithiel, Cornwall) bears a granite tablet with this inscription : " Walter Kendall, of Lostwithiel, was founder of this house in 1638, hath a lease for three thousand years, which hath beginning the 29th of September, Anno 1632." R. BARCLAY-ALLARDICE.

Lostwithiel.

ROBIN A BOBBIN (9 th S. xii. 503). I sent a note on this rime several years since, but it never appeared. My maternal grandmother a very old woman used to sing it to us children sixty years ago. Her version differed from MR. RATCLIFFE'S, but I remember dis- tinctly the first verse only. It ran :

Let 's go a-hunting, says Robin to Bobbin ;

Let 's go a-hunting, says Richard to Robin ;

Let 's go a-hunting, says Little John ;

Let 's go a-hunting, says every one.

The mention of Little John is particularly interesting. C. C. B.

MEDICAL BARRISTERS (9 th S. xii. 485). Dr. George Eugene Yarrow (an uncle of mine),

who died on 25 November last, in his sixty- ninth year, was not only a well - known medical man, holding several public appoint- ments, but was also a barrister-at-law, being a member of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn. For several years he held the judicial office of Deputy -Coroner for the North- Eastern Division of the County of London. G. YARROW BALDOCK. South Hackney.

In Ireland, at the close of the eighteenth century, one of the United Irish leaders, T. A. Emmet, was first a physician and after- wards a barrister. See Madden's ' Lives and Times of the United Irishmen,' vol. iii. pp. 28, 32, 33, 34. FRANCESCA.

[MR. ATKINSON in his query implies that Mr. Edward Pollock is no longer living. Such is not the case, and we regret that we were unable to correct our correspondent.]

RICHARD NASH (9 th S. xi. 445 ; xii. 15, 116, 135, 272, 335, 392, 493). I regret my failure to understand the drift of MR. ANTHONY TUCKER'S letter. The point at issue was whether a statue or a picture was erected in Nash's honour in the Pump Room at Bath. Goldsmith, in the first edition of his ' Life,' stated that a statue was placed in the Pump Room between the busts of Newton and Pope. In the second edition, in which the errors of the first were corrected, he stated that a picture of Nash was placed in Wiltshire's Ballroom, between the busts of Newton and Pope, while the statue was erected in the Pump Room. This point, there- fore, may be considered settled. MR. TUCKER says that six verses of a poem by Jane Brereton were published in 1744, the last verse being "similar to both versions of the last verse of the epigram in Goldsmith's first and second editions." Now as Goldsmith's first edition named a statue, and the second edition a picture, it is difficult to see how a third version could be " similar " to both these versions, which vary in an essential point. But I shall be grateful if MR. TUCKER can throw more "light either on the picture or the epigram. As I am shortly leaving England for some months, I am unable to look into this question myself. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

" THE CONSUL OF GOD " (9 th S. xii. 506). This occurs in the last two lines of the epitaph on Gregory the Great and refers to him : Bisque Dei Consul factus Isetare triumphis : Nam mercedem operum jam sine fine tenes.

The epitaph is given by Bede, whose ' His- tory' ends with 731. In 729 Gregory, who had been buried in the atrium of St. Peter's, was translated within the church, and pos-