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they had a huge jug filled with beer, and into this they put the hams of the fox, afterwards drinking the vulpine mixture, stirring their glasses with the pads of a fox, and proposing reynard's health in a peculiar doggerel which was at one time regularly employed. One old Nimrod even ate a part of the fox, and the whole scene was one remarkable in the extreme."

Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' supply the words of the doggerel in which wishes for the welfare of the fox were embodied, and give a clue to the hunt in which the rite above mentioned was observed ?

ST. SWITHIN.

HERALDRY. I know a shield of arms, in glass, apparently old, in a church window, and shall be glad to know whose it is. It consists of France ancient and England, quarterly, impaling Quarterly, 1 and 4, Or, an eagle displayed sable (or vert ?) ; 2 and 3, Gules, a lion rampant arg. The impaled coats may conceivably be Monthermer and Mowbray, but, if so, I cannot trace the alliance represented by the shield.

U. V. W.

LORD MELBOURNE AND BALDOCK. I should be glad to have some information as to the member of the Baldock family referred to in ' Lord Melbourne's Papers,' edited by Lloyd C. Sanders. On p. 524 the Hon. Mrs. Norton, writing to Lord Melbourne on a variety of subjects, mentions some projected improvements, about which she accuses his lordship of disturbing himself unnecessarily, and then goes on to say : " I merely repeat the observations of others when I talk of Baldock and his triumphal entries." G. YARROW BALDOCK.

SIR H. WALKER : BOYNE MAN-OF-WAR. I possess a memoir written by Lieut. -Col. Samuel Gledhill of Macartney's Regiment, which he raised at Newcastle, and com- manded at the siege of Douay in 1710, when it was cut to pieces by a sortie. In this memoir mention is made of the man-of-war Boyne commanded by Sir H. Walker. Can any of your correspondents kindly inform me where I can find an account of the Boyne and of Sir H. Walker ? The date is before 1700. W. H. CHIPPINDALL, Col.

5, Linden Road, Bedford.

SULHAMSTEAD RECTORY. In 1749 the site of Sulhamstead Rectory, Berkshire, was moved from one end of the village to the other. Where can I find any docu- ments on the subject ?

(Mrs.) HAUTENVTLLE COPE. 18, Harrington Court, 8.W.

DUNSTABLE. The writer would be obliged if any correspondent could give the name of the author of the following :

" Dunne's Originals ; containing a sort of real, traditional, and conjectural History of the Anti- quities of Dunstable, and its vicinity."

Five parts of from 16 to 24 pages each were published in 1821-2 : " Sold by W. Nicholls, Ikenild-row, West-street, Dunstable." The printer was R. Dowson, Nottingham.

C. W. S.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Lady Rosalind Northcote, in her charming book on Devon, p. 141, quotes two rough but spirited stanzas from a ballad entitled ' Farewell to Kingsbridge.' She does not name the author, or say where the whole ballad may be found. I give the first stanza : On the ninth day of November, at the dawning in

the sky, Ere we sailed away to New York we at anchor here

did lie ; O'er the meadows fair of Kingsbridge then the mist

was lying grey ; We were bound against the rebels in the horth

America.

Who wrote the lines ? M. N. G.

Yet this is sure : the Iqveliests tar That clustered with its peers we see,

Only because from us so far Doth near its fellows seem to be.

The allusion is doubtless to the Plough, part of Ursa Major, because five of the seven stars composing it have about the same amount and direction of proper motion.

W. T. L.

I have a vague recollection of some lines of Heine's as follows :

But now, alas, too late !

Thy warm and tender glances fall on my heart Like sunlight on a grave. Can any of your readers tell me where I may find the poem containing these lines ? WM. C. VAN ANTWERP. Broadway, New York.

THE NEVER NEVER LAND. At 10 S. x. 468 a Canadian correspondent incidentally observes : " My duties frequently call me into the Never Never Country " ; and later he says he is " leaving for the long trail to the North."

I think many will be surprised to learn that some far northern section of Canada has received this designation. Hitherto the only " Never Never Land " known to most of us is the vast expanse of seemingly illimitable plains in Northern Queensland.