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 10 s. XL FEB. 20, 1909.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

JAN STARTER, the Dutch poet, was born in London. According to tradition, the year of his birth was 1504. With his father John and his brother Francis he came to Holland with other Dissenters in or about 1607. I shall be very much obliged to any -one who can furnish me with particulars concerning the poet's parents, the exact date of his birth and emigration, and any other details that may throw light on his descent and early youth.

A. E. H. SWAEN.

Groningen.

CASANOVIANA : COL. W. CUNINGHAME. I find in a MS. journal of Col. William Cuniughame (of the Enterkine family), who crossed France in 1751 on his way^to join the garrison at Minorca as an engineer, a curious story which is strangely like one of the incidents in Casanova's ' Memoires,' although the date seems to differ. During his passage down the Rhone with a crowd of passengers, Cuninghame writes that " great variety of storys past throw their hands, emong [them] a pretty remarkable story of a gentleman at Lyons who had fallen so much in love with his own daughter as to occasion jealousy in his wife, who had applied to have the young lady secretted to some convent, which turned the husband's brain."

Is not this very like the story Casanova

tells of " le Marquis Desarmoises " (iv. 477-

478), who also lived at Lyons ? The date

Casanova gives, however, is apparently 1760.

A. FRANCIS STEUART.

79, Great King Street, Edinburgh.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S CLUB. Can any one give me information about this club where it met, its founders and chief members, its objects, and the origin of the name ? Walpole in one of his letters describes a ball which was given at Mrs. Cornelys's in Soho Square in 1770 by the Tuesday Night's Club. All fashionable London was there. I can find no mention of it in Timbs's book on clubs, or in ' Old and New London.' E. STUART SHERSON.

QUEEN ELIZABETH'S THANKSGIVING. Amongst the muniments belonging to my uncle, Sir Walter Spencer Stanhope of Cannon Hall, Yorkshire, is a MS. containing " A Joyfull ballad of the Roy all entrance

of Quene E into the Cetye of London

the 24 of November in the 31 yeire of hyr Ma tie " Reigne to gyve God praye for the oVthrowe of the Spanyards." The first stanza is as follows :

Amonge the woonderous works of God For savegard of owre Quene Agenst the heape of traiterous foes Whiche have confounded berie The great and myghty overthrowe Of Spanyerd prowde in mynde Have gyven us all just cause to saye The Lord ys good and kynde.

Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' say if it has already been printed ?

(Mrs.) A. M. W. STIRLING. 30, Launceston Place, Palace Gate. W.

GRAY : Two REFERENCES. 1. In his ' Observations on the Pseudo-Rhythmus ' ('Works,' ed. Gosse, i. 361), Gray refers to the ancient British bards Benbeirdh and Lowarkk (Gosse misprints " Lomarkk "). I surmise Benbeirdh to be Avan Verddig, the author of an elegy on Caedwalla, King of Gwynedd (who d. 634) ; cf. T. Stephens, ' Literature of the Cymry,' 1849, p. 13. I desire evidence confirming or disproving this view. Lowarkk seems to be Llywarch Hen.

2. In the same essay (ed. Gosse, p. 363) Gray speaks of a " Harmony of the Evan- gelists paraphrased in verse, in the Cotton Library," as a specimen of O.E. poetry dating from pre-Danish times. To what poem does Gray here refer ? Surely not to Cynewulf s ' Christ,' which is only in the ' Exeter Book.' CHARLES SOUTHDOWN

Ithaca, N.Y.

BISHOPS OF ST. ASAPH. There are two questions I should like to ask that arise out of the recent correspondence in 'N. & Q.' respecting the first English bishop to marry.

There were, of course, as shown in that correspondence, two bishops named William Barlow : (1) He who was successively Bishop of St. David's (1536), Bath and Wells (1549-54), and Chichester (1559), and died 10 Dec., 1569 ; (2) he who was consecrated Bishop of Rochester in June, 1605, was translated to Lincoln in 1608, and died 7 Sept., 1613.

My first question has reference to William Barlow (1). Is it correct to include him in the list of Bishops of St. Asaph ? ^ Dr. James Gairdner (in the index to his ' The English Church in the Sixteenth Century ' ) does so ; MR. A. C. JONAS at 10 S. x. 474 quotes Godwin's ' Catalogue ' to the effect that he was consecrated Bishop of St. Asaph