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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. x. NOV. 7, im

COUNTY DIVISIONS. I have been making out an alphabetical list of the Hundreds, Lathes, Wapentakes, Wards, &c., into which the counties of England and Wales are divided, but I can find in no work of reference to which I have had access those in Cumber- land, Hampshire, or Carnarvonshire. Could any of your readers furnish me with them, or tell me where to find them ? Please reply direct. JOHN W. STANDERWICK.

Broadway, Ilrainster.

REV. JOHN COXON. Any information as to the marriage, children, life, and death of the above, who matriculated at Oxford University, and was curate at Morpeth Parish Church in 1754, will be much appre- ciated. LIONEL COXON, Capt. R.N. 34, Sloane Court, S.W.

STORKS AND COMMONWEALTHS. I shall be obliged by a reference to the belief that storks " abide only where Commonwealths are," which was " a received opinion " in the end of the seventeenth century.

EMERITUS.

MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS : PORTRAIT. In Sir T. H.'s translation of Caussin's ' The Holy Court' (1678) there is (p. 811) an engraving which claims to be " The True Portraiture of Princesse Mary, Queene of Scotland and Dowager of France." I am curious to know whence this striking pre- sentment was derived. I imagine it was copied from some painting. ST. SWITHIN.

AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED. 'Tis love that makes the world go round. I shall be glad if any of your readers can tell me where to find the origin of the above line.

(Miss) E. D. LONGMAN. 18, Thurloe Square, S.W.

Where is

Sleep the sleep of the just

to be found ? I am unable to trace it anywhere. R. \y. p\

[.See the communications at 9 S. xi. 429, 475, 511 ; xii. 131.]

ARABIC NUMERALS. The numerals we use are known as '-' Arabic " ; but as a matter of fact they are nearly all quite different in the scripts of the East and West. Can any of your correspondents say when the ciphers in use began to be used in their present form, and the origin of the marked difference in many of theni ?

JOHN WARD, F.S.A. Savile Club.

[See 9 S. xii. 387, 498.]

SPECIAL JURISDICTION. A recent para- graph in The Times stated that the power of passing a sentence of death is vested in two- benches of magistrates, one sitting at Lancaster, and one at Peterborough. Are these the only anomalous instances in the kingdom, the Channel Islands, and Man ?

R. B. Upton.

' CHESTERFIELD BURLESQUED ' : * THE HORSE GUARDS.' Who were the authors of the following books ?

Chesterfield Burlesqued ; or, School for Modern Manners. Embellished with ten caricatures, engraved by Woodward from original drawings by Rowlandson. The Third Edition. London, 1811. 12mo, pp. 104.

The Horse Guards. By the Two Mounted Sentries. Thus saith the Duke thus hath the Duke inferred. London, 1850. 8vo, pp. 104. Twelve coloured lithographed plates caricaturing " The Iron Duke."

The present Army Council is anticipated at p. 102. W. B. H.

[Halkett and Laing state that the author of ' The Horse Guards' was Lieut. -Col. John Josiah Hort.]

GUERNSEY LILY. In Southey's ' Common- place Book,' ed. Warter (London, Reeves & Turner, 1876, Third Series, p. 628), Quayle's ' Survey of Jersey, Guernsey,' &c., is cited to this effect :

" Guernsey lilies believed to have been cast up on the beach from the wreck of a Dutch Indiaman bringing them from Japan. They are not cultivated elsewhere, it is said, but boxes of the roots are annually sent to England."

The same work, Fourth Series, p. 432, has this passage :

' The Guernsey lily (Amaryllis sarniensis), a native of Japan, became naturalized in Guernsey by the shipwreck of a vessel returning from Japan. Some bulbs, being cast on shore, took root in the sand, and Mr. Hatton, the governor, observing the beauty of the flower, propagated it."

In what year did the shipwreck take place ? Does the plant still flourish in the island ? Does it grow wild, or is it only domesticated ?

Herbert termed this herb Lycoris radiata (Matsumura, ' Index Plantarum Japonicum,* vol. ii. part i. p. 221, Tokio, 1905), under which name I gave an account of its Japanese and Chinese folk-lore at 9 S. xi. 514.

KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA. Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

KAIRWAN : ITS MEANING. In note 181 on p. 467, vol. v. of Bury's ' Gibbon,' an addition, presumably by Prof. Lane-Poole, says : " Kairawan means main body of an army, and hence the camp where it halted.'*