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FALSE QUANTITIES. Quite recently I was reading an article on famous false quantities made in speeches. I remember two instances : " Moritur et moriens, &c.' and " Sunt plura bona " at end of a hexa- meter. Can any one refer me to the article ?

G. W. E. R.

[Is it Mr. H. Paul's ' Decay of Classical Quotation (Nineteenth Century, April, 1896), or Bishop Welldon'* on * The Art of Classical Quotation ' in the same magazine for April, 1905 ? ' A Last Ramble in the Classics,' by H. from Martial ending in

BURNEY'S * HISTORY OF Music. 1 Does any reader know the exact collation of Bur- ney's 'History of Music,' 1776-89, 4 vols, 4to ? Apparently one volume was issued in 1776, and a second edition, with new plates, in 1788, when the other three volumes appeared. There is no list of plates in the 1776 volume. FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. Streatham Common.

SCOTCH TOUR : TITLE WANTED. Can

by Lord Clarendon. Quantities on p. 153.

U 9 J.7Vt/. .ti. J-JitOU J.Vttll.1 ILJ1C 1J1 L'llO I _ f

E. P. Platt (1906), gives the line any reader give me the title of a work pub- ing in "sunt plura bona "as quoted lished in 2 vols., 8vo, somewhere about

See his short article on False See also 10 S. ix. 354, 512.

1830 ? It was written by a lady, and described a tour made in Scotland. It was illustrated by herself.

W. E. WILSON

CONSCIENTIOUS SCRUPLES AGAINST WAR. The following is the substance of the

Constable's statement, respecting a distraint I T. L. PEACOCK : " SKYLIGHT " AND taken from John Paul, a member of the " TWILIGHT." In chap. v. of T. L. Pea- Society of Friends at Tavistock for refusing cock's ' Headlong Hall ' there occurs a to lend his waggon to convey military bag- glee beginning

gage in consequence of his conscientious scruples against war :

GOODS TAKEN.

Six mahogany chairs ... \

One tea-urn V and sold for 5 7s. Od.

One copper coal scuttle J

Being about two-thirds of their value.

Charges :

Levy 03

Man in possession 5 days .. 12

Appraiser ... ... .. 02

Advertising and publishing ale 10 Duty to the Excise ... .. 05

Magistrate's Clerk's fees Auctioneer's Commission Penalty

3

5

4 2 2 10

3s. left with this account Tavistock, Devon, 23 May, 1837. - Can any reader give similar instances also the latest date on which a distraint has been enforced ? Has this law been repealed ? F. K. P.

ROUND OAK SPRING. There is a sonnet to a place so called in Clare's ' Rural Muse/ p. 143. Can any one tell me the parish in which it is situated ? The preface is

A heeltap ! a heeltap ! I never could bear it ! The first line of the second stanza is

No Skylight ! No Twilight ! While Bacchus rules o'er us.

What is the meaning, in this connexion, of the words " Skylight " and " Twilight " ? H. A. DAVIDSON.

HARVEY'S BIRTHPLACE. Dr. William Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was born 1 April, 1578, at Folke- stone, and a question has recently arisen as to the site of the house. The ' D.N.B.' states that he was born

in a house which was in later times the posthouse of the town, and which still belongs to Caius Col- lege, Cambridge, to which Harvey bequeathed it."

On the other hand, a local guide states that Harvey settled his paternal estate in Kent upon the College " meaning the Royal College of Physicians. Which is correct ? R. J. FYNMORE. Sandgate.

" FEMMER." I shall be glad if some reader will give me the meaning and origin and spelling of a word pronounced " femmer," meaning rickety or frail. My mother,

dated from Market Deeping, Northampton- who used many Scotch words, employed

shire.

AYEAHR.

JOHN OF GAUNT' s ARMS. What were the arms (particularly the cadency mark), crest, and motto of the fourth son of Edward III. ?

GHENT.

"THE LOST TRIBE "= THE SCOTCH. Who

was the originator of this expression as applied to the Scotch ? L. S.

am unable to find in a JAMES W. WALKER.

this one, which dictionary. Chicago.

BLETCHINGLY PLACE. This house before it was pulled down, with the exception of the Gate House (Place Farm), in 1.680 was occupied on at least one occasion by Anne of Cleves when she owned the manor. Does any description or engraving of the