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28. Titulo digriatus eqnestri Virtutem titulis titulos virtutibus ornans.

29. Lernseam vere subolem Pragmaticorum, qui lites ex litibus serunt Mortalibus immortaliter.

Lites fuge Macrum arbitrium Judicio potius est.

31. Per Mare et per Terras, per quod tegit omnu

Ccelum.

32. Pectoris et cordis pariter proprieque mouile Ornatus. Colli sunt torques, auris in aures, Annulus est marmum, sicut armillse brachio

rum, Atque periscelides exornant crura puellge.

33. Quotidie viro nubit, Nupsitque hodie, Nubit mox noctu.

34. Turpis libido (scilicet) potens venere Luxuria viotrix, orbis irnmensas opes, Jampridem avaris manibus ut perdat, rapit

Seneca. Where ?

35. Prima Salutantes atque altera continet hora.

36. Hoc iter manifesto rotse vestigia cernes.

37. Where does Claudian write thus ?

In caelo nunquam spectatam impune Cometam

EMERITUS.

WARREN HASTINGS' s SON. Can any reader inform me when George Hastings died, and where he was buried ? Sydney C. Grier states that he was sent home in 1761 under the care of Sir Francis (then Mr.) Sykes, and Mr. Austen Leigh in his life of Jane Austen says (speaking from family tradition) that the boy was entrusted to the care of the Rev. George Austen for his education, and that he died young of a putrid sore throat. I should be glad of some confirmation of these facts.

R. A. A. L.

STANLEY'S MISSION TO PARIS, 1761. Will

any reader of < N. & Q.' confer a favour on the undersigned by pointing out where information can be obtained as to the members of the staff of Mr. Hans Stanley's mission to Paris in 1761 especially as to those who were with Mr. Stanley in Paris in August, 1761 ? Mr. Stanley left England on 24 May. Thomas Pownall, previously Governor of Massachusetts, afterwards M.P., did not go with him, but it is thought that he may have been sent by Mr. Pitt at the end of June or beginning of July to join Mr. Stanley in Paris. There is a strong presumption to this effect, but proof is sought for, such as would be given by the pay-sheets of the mission or mention of Pownall's having been with it.

15, St. John's Park, Blacklieath, S.E.

THROAT-CUTTING AT PUBLIC EXECUTIONS. Was this common ? I do not recollect seeing it elsewhere than in the ' Brut ' or ' Chronicles of England,' the completion of whose text is now in the press for the- Early English Text Society. Chap. 240, p. 342, says that Sir Robert Tresilian, the- Justice ; Sir Nicholas Brembre, knight and: citizen of London ; Sir John Salisbury,, knight, of the King's household ; Usk r Serjeant-of-Arms (author of ' The Testa- ment of Love ' ) ; and many more people, were judged, for treason, "to be drawn from the Tower of London through the City, and so forth to Tyburn ; and there to be hanged, and there their throats to be cut ,- and thus they were served, and died."

F. J. FURNIVALL.

DR. ISAAC BASIRE'S PORTRAIT. I should be glad if ' N. & Q.' could aid me in a search which is being made for some portrait of the Rev. Dr. Isaac Basire, Prebendary of Durham, Archdeacon of Northumberland, and chaplain to both Charles I. and II. In his will, dated 1676, he left his pictures (including his own, his wife's, and Bishop Morton's portraits) to Mary Nelson, wife of Prebendary Nelson of Carlisle. Neither this portrait nor any print of it can be found as yet, and it may be presumed that the Rev. W. Darnell, Rector of Stanhope in 1831, who published the correspondence of Basire, had no knowledge of any likeness, as the book lacks a portrait.

A. T. DINGLE. Egglescliffe Rectory, co. Durham.

FRENCH ANONYMOUS BIOGRAPHIES. In the autumn of 1866 Lady Herbert published an English translation of the lives of Mile, de Gallard Terraube and of the Mere Devos

as well as of the Abbe Bougaud's life of St. Monica), under the title of ' Three Phases of Christian Love.' The translator was unacquainted with the names of the respective writers of the first two memoirs. "}an some of the readers of ' N. & Q.' supply

his information ? R. B.

Upton.

WIDKIRK: 'THE WAKEFIELD MYSTERIES.* PROF. SKEAT repeats, ante, p. 37, a state- ment which he made in The Athenceum of 2 Dec., 1893, that Widkirk is the old name >f Woodkirk in Yorkshire. In writing on he subject of ' The Wakefield Mysteries ' or ' Towneley Plays ' ) in Anglia, xii. 509-24, stated that I could find no trace of the ormer pronunciation, though the following pellings had been discovered in various