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DOLLY MONROE. I should be much obliged for some brief particulars of the parentage of this celebrated Irish beauty. RICHARD LINN.

Worcester Street, Christchurch, New Zealand.

FRENCH GAZETTE. To what publication is the reference in the note in Scott's ' Mar- mion,' in which, in speaking of the death of King James, Scott says : " ' He was killed,' says the curious French Gazette, ' within a lance's length of the Earl of Surrey ' " ? HENRY LEFFMANN.

Philadelphia.

' GINEVRA.' Mr. W. M. Rossetti in a note to Shelley's fragmentary poem called ' Ginevra ' (vol. iii. p. 419 of his ed. of Shelley's works) says : " In 1546 a comedy on the subject was acted, named ' Ginevra, morta dal Campagnile, la quale, sendo morta e sotterata, resuscita.' '

For literary purposes I shall be glad if any reader can give me information as to this play and its author, and tell me in what collection of plays (if any) it occurs. I may mention that Mr. Rossetti is unable to give me any further information than is furnished by his note.

If desired, replies may be sent direct.

A. COLLINGWOOD LEE.

Waltham Abbey, Essex.

SIR CHRISTOPHER HAWKINS, BT. Can any reader tell me where I can find an engraved or other portrait of this gentleman ? He died at Trewithen, Cornwall, 6 April, 1829. JOHN LANE.

The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.

WOTTON AND THE EVELYNS. Who Was

the " Owen," a " great rich man," of whom John Evelyn's grandfather, the powder- maker, bought Wotton ? W. W. W.

CROMWELL AND THE 117TH PSALM.

Carlyle, writing about the battle of Dunbar, says :

" The Lord General made a halt, says Hodgson, and sang the 117th Psalm, till our horse could gather for the chase. Hundred and Seventeenth Psalm, at the foot of the Doon Hill ; there we uplift it to the tune of Bangor, or some still higher score, and roll it strong and great against the sky:

give ye praise unto the Lord,

All nat-ions that be ; Likewise, ye people, all accord His praise to magnify !

Is Carlyle right in giving the Metrical Version of the Psalm as the one used by Cromwell ? and has the tune to which he sang it never been verified ? CROMRAN.

ANNA, A PLACE-NAME. At Jedburgh, Kelso, and Melrose, in Roxburghshire, there is a piece of flat meadow land on the bank of the river. This land is termed the " Anna " or " Ana." I think in each case it is the property of the town. What is the derivation of the word ? Is this place-name extant elsewhere ? G. W-N.

Oxford.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED Who is the author of verses named ' Achieve- ment ' ? The first is as follows :

I cannot see the veiled face of Success ; My weary efforts in the shadow lurk ; I cannot guess reward beyond the stress But I can work.

A. C.

Can any of your readers give me the origin of the following quotations ?

1. Habacuc est capable de tout.

2. The greatest King of England was born not at Windsor, but at Huntingdon.

C. T.-S.

" VILLE OF SARRE." This inscription appears upon the side of " The King's Head Half -Way House" at the village of Sarre, in Thanet. Is not the employment of the word " ville " rather \musual ? Per- haps readers of ' N. & Q.' can mention other instances. CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenseum Club.

OULDS IN IRELAND. Were there Quids in Ireland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ? CELT.

ST. GODWALD. Is anything known about this saint ? A church in the parish of Stoke Prior, Worcestershire, is dedicated to him.

W. F. C.

OLDEST INHABITED HOUSE IN SCOTLAND. The honour of being the most ancient inhabited house in Scotland has been claimed for Dunvegan Castle in Skye, for Castlecary Castle near Cumbernauld, and, I think, for Dunnottar Castle. Has it ever been definitely decided to which of the three the true honour belongs ?

ALEX. RUSSELL.

Stromness, Orkney.

SIR HENRY HYDE. There is a monument to Sir Henry Hyde in Salisbury Cathedral, which states that he was Consul for about sixteen years in Morea, where he founded a church, and Ambassador of Charles LL to the Turkish Emperor, and that he was- treacherously delivered into the hands of his- inveterate enemies, then sitting in Council at Westminster, and beheaded 4 March,