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 10 s. x. JULY is,

MOTES AND QUERIES.

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Hardy, Esq. (Pp. 470, 486). This is the only H. C. Wise whose name appears in the indexes, which are Parliamentary Paper 180-iii of 1879. This includes the Parlia- ments of Great Britain, 1705-96, and those of the United Kingdom, 1801-85, and Scot- land and Ireland.

There are Ayshford Wise, Totnes Borough, 9 Oct., 1812, (p. 259) ; John Ayshford Wise, of Clayton Hall, co. Stafford, elected for Stafford Borough 8 July, 1852, and 28 March, 1857, and (presumably the same) 30 April, 1859 (pp. 421, 437, 453). These pages refer to Parliamentary Paper 69-i.

Thomas Wyse, jun., of the Manor of St. John's, county of the City of Waterford, was elected for Tipperary County 21 Aug., 1830, and again 12 May, 1831 (then described as "of the Manor of St. John, in the city of Waterford"); also Thomas Wyse, jun. <no address given), was elected for Waterford ity 17 Jan., 1835 ; also Thomas Wyse (not called junior), of the Manor of St. John's, was elected for Waterford City 7 Aug., 1837 ; re-elected 6 Sept., 1839, after appointment as one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury ; Thomas Wyse (no address given) was elected for Waterford City 12 July, 1841 (pp. 327, 339, 363, 378, 396).

Maurice Wise (not Wyse) of Waterford was elected to the Parliament of Ireland for Waterford City January, 1559 (p. 634).

No Wise or Wyse other than those which I have given appears in these Indexes.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

Henry Christopher Wise was M.P. for "South Warwickshire 1865-74, and certainly not " about 1826." He was of Woodcote, co. Warwick, and died 15 Jan., 1883. His mother was a daughter of Sir Stanier Porten, and his second wife was a daughter of Sir Edward Cromwell Disbrowe.

Ayshford Wise was M.P. for Totnes 1812- 1818, and died 12 June, 1847, and his son John Ayshford Wise, of Clayton Hall, co. 'Stafford, was M.P. for Stafford 1852-60, and died 9 Sept., 1870.

ALFRED B. BEAVEN, M.A. Leamington.

[F. DE H. L. also thanked for reply.]

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. ix. 328, 393, 455 ; x. 16). If ST. SWITHIN'S memory is not playing him false at the penultimate reference, the question as to the authorship of "I'm ninety-five " be- comes more complicated. I remember it very well in the sixties, sung by Harry Clifton, whose name appears in the British Museum Catalogue to several popular

" motto " songs of that period, such as ' Paddle your own Canoe,' but not the one in question. The tune was a favourite march past till 1878* when the territorial system was regulated, each regiment being supplied by the War Office with one ; then the Rifle Brigade, being the old 95th, had this for its own. AYEAHR.

With reference to MR. BLISS'S quotations (10 S. ix. 370, 455), it is curious that the sources of two other Latin mottoes under engravings (quoted by MR. R. HORTON SMITH at 9 S. xii. 148) have not yet been identified in ' N. & Q.' The former of these, Quadrijugis per inane Venus subvecta columbis bears some resemblance to the opening line of MR. BLISS'S second quotation,

Quadrijugis evectus equis sol aureus exit. Considering the enormous bulk of neo-Latin verse, many times exceeding that of all extant classical poetry, it would be hard to prove that these lines are not extracted from some larger pieces ; but one is tempted to surmise that they were written ad hoc.

If they were composed for the engravings, a consideration of the date and place of the latter might lead to a clue.

EDWARD BENSLY.

University College, Aberystwyth.

The first quotation by MR. MORETON at 10 S. ix. 488, With equal good nature, good grace, and good

looks,

As the devil gave apples, Sam Rogers gives books, is referred to in ' The Maclise Portrait Gallery,' edited by William Bates, 1874, as " the bitter couplet attributed to Tom Moore." If this be correct, it implies no excess of gratitude on the part of Moore, for the same volume says of Rogers, " It was he who helped Moore in his Bermudan difficulties." The alternative possibility is that the authorship preceded the obligation, in which case Rogers was very forgiving.

W. B. H.

"ANGEL" OF AN INN (10 S. ix. 488; x. 14). This refers undoubtedly to a room in an inn. In the old dramatists there are frequent references to rooms in an inn having names such as the above.

In ' Lady Alimony,' Act IV. sc. ii. (Haz- litt's 'Dodsley,' vol. xiv. p. 342), we have four mentioned :

" Quick, quick, more attendants in the Unicorn. There goes none to the Antwerp. The Lion and the Roebuck have not one."

A. COLLINGWOOD LEE.

Waltham Abbey, Essex.