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PHARMACOPOEIA. I wish for particulars of an incomplete pharmacopoeia. Date, probably middle of last century. Size, 12mo. Has more than 214 pp. English translation follows Latin, word for word, e.g., " Recipe take quatuor four uncias ounces Strobilorum of the Strobiles Humuli of the Hop," &c.

CUTHBEBT E. A. CLAYTON,

Librarian. Medical Society, University of Manchester.

BUXTON. A quotation from an old writer about the antiquities of Buxton (spelt Buckstone) appeared in one of the newspapers on or about the 8th of August. I should be much obliged if any one could give me the reference. PEAKMAN.

CALLIGRAPHY : F. BILLIEUL AND CHAM- BON. These artists are severally given as the engravers of two of the pages in an old copy-book, the matter of the copies being in Italian. I shall be glad to learn its date and any particulars of these engravers.

X YLO GRAPHER.

CORBET =VALLETORT. In Boase's ' Col- lectanea Cornubiensia,' p. 1130, is given a pedigree of the Valletorts. This says that Peter Corbet married Isabel or Beatrice de Valletort. I should like to know what are the authorities for this statement. Who was Isabella, the wife of Thomas Corbet ? Both of them were living in 1262. GREGORY GRUSELIER.

NORMAN - FRENCH DEED TEMP. ED- WARD III. Amongst many old family deeds in my possession of the time of Henry II., Henry III., Edward III., Richard II., &c., is one of 5 Edw. III. (1331). It is written in old Norman French, and there occur words for which I seek transla- tion :

1. " Le Wast du Roi."

2. " Feste de la Goule."

3. " Ensuivant apres la fesannees de cestes."

Can any one help me to a reading of the words in italics ? CHARLES SPURWAY.

Spur way, Devon.

[The ' N.E.D.' gives gula Augusti, Lammas Day, 1 August, as the eqiiivalent of the Old French goule. Many communications on gula Augusti will be found at 10 S. v. 408, 499 ; vi. 15, 72, 135 ; vii. 257, 313, 394 ; viii. 35.]

JOHN CHAMBERLIN or RATCLIFFE-ON- SOAR. Can any one tell me to what branch of the Chamberlin family John Chamberlin (1741-1815) belonged ? He lived at Red

Hill, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Notts, and owned land at Sutton Bonington and also in Leicestershire. He married Ann Hopkins, daughter of Thomas Hopkins, gent., of Long Eaton, co. Derby, 18 April, 1766, and was High Sheriff for Notts in 1789. The late- Ellice Hopkins was his great-granddaughter. She died in 1904, aged 69. For arms John Chamberlin used for his seal the ancient coat of the Chamberlins : Gules, within an orle of eight mullets an inescutcheon argent. His great-grandfather Hugh Cham- berlin died at Red Hill, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, in 1709, aged 70.

T. CHAMBERLIN TIMS. Little Bourton, near Banbury.

RUTHWELL CROSS, DUMFRIESSHIRE. The-

late Mr. J. Romilly Allen exhibited on 7 Dec. 1887, to the British Archaeological Associa- tion four photographs of this cross, and promised a paper on the relic thereafter. Was this ever published ? if so, where ? I cannot trace it in the Journal.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A. Lancaster.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Where can I find the ballad beginning Upon the hills of Breedon My love and I were sat.

FRED. G. ACKERLEY.

I shall be grateful to any reader who will tell me the writer of the following lines : Whom have I known that I remember best? Whom do I feel that I most truly loved? Who fixed his image never to be moved From the clasp'd cabinet of my brain and breast r

F. C. J.

HOPPNER AND SIR THOMAS FRANKLAND' s- DAUGHTERS. There is a well-known paint- ing by Hoppner called ' The Daughters of Sir Thomas Frankland,' although it is spoken of frequently as ' The Sisters.' Sir Thomas Frankland was an admiral who married in 1743, and became the father of nineteen children, twelve sons and seven daughters. There seems to be considerable doubt as to which two of the seven girls, were painted and engraved, for there is a famous mezzotint by William Ward of this, picture. Has any light been let in lately on this dark subject, and can any one now say which of these young ladies figure in this picture ? One of the daughters of the gallant old admiral, Mary, became the- wife of the celebrated Sir Boyle Roche.

W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY.

Westminster.