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" THERE WAS A MAN " (10 th S. i. 227). In West Yorkshire, some years ago, the complete rime was as follows, though the first line was sometimes ended " he lived in Leeds," and second line :
 * ' seeds " took the place of " seed " in the

There was a man, a man indeed, He sowed his garden full of seed ; When the seed began to grow 'Twas like a garden full of snow ; When the snow began to fall 'Twas like a bird upon the wall ; When the bird began to fly 'Twas like an eagle in the sky ; When the sky began to roar 'Twas like a lion at the door ; W T hen the door began to crack 'Twas like a stick about my back ; When my back began to smart 'Twas like a penknife in my heart ; When my heart began to bleed 'Twas time for me to die indeed.

The harrowing narrative was supposed to have some useful moral for children, but I do not know the moral intended.

H. SNOWDEN WARD.

Hadlow, Kent.

NORTHALL, SHROPSHIRE (10 th S. i. 226, 297). There is a place named Northall, near Southall, Middlesex, lat. 51 33' N., long. 22' W., as well as that in Buckinghamshire. See 'Index Geographicus,' by Keith Johnston, Edinburgh, 1864. EVERARD HOME GOLEM AN.

71, Brecknock Road.

ST. MEWBRED (10 th S. i. 288). The legends concerning St. Mewbred appear to be very confused. The Rev. S. Baring-Gould has stated in a letter to me :

" There is a Mobart in Brittany ; and St. Mobred, or Mobart, occurs in the Cartularies of Landevennec. The name also occurs in Nennius, in his genealogy of Vortigern ; so that Mobratt, or Mobart, would seem to have been a Celtic name not uncommon."

The following statement is taken from some notes by the same writer :

"According to William of Worcester, Mybard was a son of a King of Ireland and was also named Colrog. He settled at Cardinham (in Cornwall) as a hermit, where he was murdered. His companions were Mannach, or Mancus, and Wyllow. In the 'Cartulary of Landeveunec, in Brittany, he occurs as Sanctus Morbretus, who made over his settlement at Lanrivoare to St. Winwaloe, and the date of the forged deed is 31 March, 955. Either he was con- temporary with Winwaloe and the date is wrong, or else he was a different person, who gave his land to the abbey at this later period. In the diocese of Quimper, at Ploumodiern, is a hamlet, with chapel, called Loc-Mybrit ; and the saint is said by tradi- tion to have for a while led a hermit's life there ; but this is the Mybard who was a disciple of St. Winwaloe. Meubred is represented in one of the old windows of St. Neot's Church, Cornwall, wear- ing a brass cap, or yellow cap, on his head : in his

left hand a short staff, in his right he carries his head. The inscription is ' Sancte Maberde ora pro nobis.' His feast at Cardinham is on the Thursday before Pentecost."

An inscribed stone occurs in Cornwall with the legend "Clotuali Mogratti (or Mobratti) " : perhaps the concluding word may be equivalent to Mewbred. Accounts of such saints seem to be very untrustworthy.

W. IAGO, B.A.

Bodmin.

CARSON (9 th S. xi. 488 ; xii. 19, 110, 331, 377 : 10 th S. i. 52). John Carson, late of Taff's Well, Cardiff, was L.R.C.P.I., L.R.C.S.L, and L.M. 1868. Alexander Tertius Carson, late of Toronto, Canada, was M.D. Edin. 1862. M.RC.S.Eng. 1861, L.M. 1863, L.A.H.Dub. 1862, M.C.P.S.Ontario, 1862. William Carson began his medical career in Birmingham in the latter part of the " seventies." He after- wards went out to Newfoundland, where, apart from being a distinguished doctor, he became " the parent of agriculture " in the colony, and the founder of the constitutional government of the island. His son Samuel Carson was also a well-known figure in St John's as a medical practitioner, and at the time of the cholera outbreak there saved many lives by his devotion and unwearied efforts to stamp out the scourge, which so undermined his constitution that he died in the prime of life. Another notable Carson was James, brother to the first-mentioned William. He was also a doctor of medicine (of what university ?), and was spoken of as one of the most eminent physicians of the day. He practised in Liverpool. An account of William and Samuel Carson will be found in Judge Prowse's 'History of Newfoundland.. In Lucerne is the tomb of the Rev. H. W Carson, B.D., died 1 September, 1895.

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.

PRINTS AND ENGRAVINGS (10 th S. i. 268). The desired information would, no doubt, be found in some of the following works : ' Eighteenth-Century Colour Prints,' by Mrs. Frankau; 'Fine Prints,' by Frederick Wed- more (a book for collectors and dealers in the engravings of Ostade, Claude, Vandyke, and Hollar: the etchings of Rembrandt, Whistler, and Haden ; mezzotints, lithographs, and woodcuts ; Turner prints and French eighteenth - century prints ; Italian line engravings ; Diirer and the Little Masters ; and the later French and English etchers) ; ' Engravers' Marks : a History of the Art of Engraving, with a Collection of Marks and Cyphers by which the Prints of the best Engravers are Distinguished,' 1747 ; ' Reminis-