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NOTES AND QUERIES. uo th s. i. JUNE 11, 1904. worked as a saddler, or strap-maker. He had left Scotland in company with other Scots, amongst whom occur the names of Cant, Douglas, Hamilton, Simpson, <fec.

Of those named Cant, some remained in Sweden, and at various periods became agriculturists in North Fjust; some served as soldiers or under - officers, one being called Lars ; another was an organist, favourably known to the Bishop of Linkoping, from whom this account of several Cants was derived in 1797. In that same year (1797) one Carl Friedrich Kanth wrote from Lerum, near Goteborg, to Immanuel Kant, of Konigsberg, grandson of Hans, claiming relationship with him, which Immanuel neither acknowledged nor denied.

Information is now earnestly desired by the writer of this memorandum (who is descended from Cants in Scotland and Kants in Pommern) whether it is practicable to obtain the assistance of any Swedish Cant (Kant, Kanth) of Scotch extraction, or of any other fit person, to make inquiries in Lerum, Goteborg, Linkoping, and Fjust.

If such a person can be found, he may, perhaps, discover some traces of Cants who settled in Sweden in 1678, and whose descendants may have declared themselves of kin to the great philosopher, and possessed of traditions of the Scottish parish or place from which Hans Cant came. The directories of Goteborg and Linkoping may perhaps show Cant in a Swedish form.

One hundred marks are offered for any authentic document, in writing or print, that distinctly connects any living Swedish descendants of Scottish Cants with any parish or place in Scotland about A.D. 1678, in which parish or place satisfactory confirmation of such connexion still remains.

KANTIUS.

Quinta dos Tanquinhos, Madeira.

MARGARET BISET. Matthew Paris ('Chronica Majora,' [Rolls] iv. 200) speaks of the death of this maid of Queen Eleanor as one of "genere prseclara cujusdam bonse dooms sanctimonialium fundatrix." I shall be glad to know the family to which this saviour of Henry's life belonged, and the name of the nunnery founded by her. I have looked in vain in the index to Dugdale. ROBERT J. WHITWELL.

RAY'S ITINERARIES. I should be very much obliged to any one who would tell me the present whereabouts of the originals of the Itineraries of John Ray the naturalist, which commence in 1658. George Scott, of Woolston Hall, near Chigwell, in Essex printed them in 1760, and they were re-printed in 1846 by Dr. E. Lankaster.

According to Appendix A to the Ray Society's edition of the ' Correspondence of John Ray,' Scott died in 1780 some years after William Derham (his uncle by marriage) and his library, &c., were sold in July, 1782, and possibly these MSS. of Ray's afc bhe same time. I have ascertained from. Mr. Warner that they are not in the Department of MSS. at the British Museum. J. H. GURNEY. Keswick Hall, Norwich.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. I shall be glad to learn the source of the following quotations, the latest date possible being 1790 :

1. Death could not a more sad retinue find, Sickness and pain before, and darkness all behind.

2. He deigns His influence to infuse. Secret, refreshing as the silent dews.

3. Union of mind, as in us all one soul.

4. A mountain huge upreared Its broad, bare back.

5. His [Homer's] scolding heroes, and his wounded

6. An hoary, reverend, and religious man.

7. No dying brute I view in anguish here, But from my melting eye descends a tear.

8. what a tuneful wonder seized the throng,

When Marlbro's conquering name alarmed

the foe !

Had Whiznowhisky led the armies on, The general's scarecrow name had foiled each blow.

9. But [or and] wondered at the strange man's face,

As one they ne'er had known.

10. How long ? How soon will they upbraid Their transitory master dead !

11. A not-expected, much unwelcome guest.

12. The rage of Arctos and eternal frost.

C. LAWRENCE FORD.

ALAKE. Is the origin known of the regal style of the Abbeokutan ruler now here on a visit ? On the one hand, it might be, like our own Alick, a survival of Alexander, _ a Aew, or, again, from Melech (minus its initial), the Semitic form, and general with Arabs. We are all familiar with the archaic Melchi- zedek. A. H.

PROCESSION DOOR. John Pynok, draper, of Sandwich, by his will, dated 1499, desired to " be buried in the churchyard of St. Peter in Sandwich, before the procession door of the same church." Which door of a parish church would be the "procession door"? The church of St. Peter in Sandwich has a north door with a large porch, and also