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deeply in those times, and was still living with no other reward than the conscience of having suffered. The author's name he has not men- tioned ; but if tradition may be credited, this song was written by Sir R. L'Estrange."

If the author was " now living " after " those times," he was not Lord Capel.

The stanzas are in different order in the two books to which I refer. ' The New Found- ling Hospital for Wit ' gives as a supplement the stanza

When once my prince affliction hath, &c., it being one which " is not in all copies," and "destroys the 'uniformity of the poem." There are several verbal differences in the two versions.

Some of the lines have a strong likeness to passages in Lovelace's ' To Althea from Prison,' which comes next in ' Elegant Extracts,' e.g., That which the world miscalls a jail,

A private closet is to me

Locks, bars, and solitude together met, Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.

I am that bird, whom they combine

Thus to deprive of liberty ; But though they do my corps confine,

Yet, maugre hate, my soul is free : And, though immur'd, yet can I chirp, and sing Disgrace to rebels, glory to my king.

' The New Foundling ' has " maugre that,'' and " Tho' I'm mew'd up."

ROBEBT PIERPOLNT.

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED. I should be obliged if any reader could assist me in identifying the following quotation :

Believe it, 'tis the mass of man He loves, And where there is most trouble and most pain, Where the high heart of man is trodden most, There most is He, for there He is most needed.

E. F. B. M.

ROBERT KITCHEN, son of Robert Kitchen of Norton, co. Durham, was elected from Westminster to Trin. Coll., Camb., in 1747. Particulars of his career and the date of his death are desired. G. F. R. B.

RICHARD STEWARD (1593 ?-1651), DEAN DESIGNATE OF WESTMINSTER. I should be glad to know what authority there is for the statement in ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' liv. 258, that Steward was educated at West- minster School. G. F. R. B.

CAMBRIDGE HEATH : BERNALES BUILD- INGS. In the stretch of road running from Mile End Gate to Mare Street, Hackney, there are to be seen several old pentroof

houses which belong by appearance to the seventeenth century. It wo\ild be interest- ing to learn if this surmise of mine is correct. At the same time I should like to hear why the road was named Cambridge Heath.

The other query refers to an old block of buildings in the Kingsland Road a few yards Irom Shoreditch. Has Bernales any- thing in common with the Bernals, a family with Hebrew connexions, in a former genera- tion of which Bernal Osborne, M.P., was the most distinguished member ?

M. L. R. BRESLAR.

DENNER FAMILY. I find Hugh Denner, Rector of Roos, Holderness, East Yorks, 1615 to 1626, when he was buried there ; he had at least one son, Hugh, baptized at Roos. Can any of your readers give me information as to where he came from, and what became of his descendants ? I find Hugh Denner at Aldwark, Rawmarsh, West Riding, Yorks, in 1689.

T. WALTER HALL.

11, George Street, Sheffield.

BRIEFS FOR GREEK CHRISTIANS. In a list of briefs preserved in an old parish book occur :

"1630. One granted under the privy seale to Pancrati Gramatic., a Grecian whose goods were taken away by the Tartars, and his sonne taken captive."

" 1632. One granted to Chariton Salibar, Archbp. and metropolit. of Dirrachium in Epirus, spoyled by the Turks of his goods, for the ransom whereof he was to pay 10,000 ducats."

Can any of your readers throw light on the history of these personages, and why they were allowed to appeal to the generosity of -English Churchpeople ? J. H. C.

DICKENS'S " AUTOMATON DANCERS." " An imbecile party of automaton dancers, waltzing in and out at folding doors " ('Dombey & Son,' chap, xxiii.). What does Dickens mean by these ? Puppets of some kind, no doubt. Yet how could puppets waltz in and out of folding doors ? There were little and big shows sixty years ago where puppets, dangling from and handled by strings, went through all sorts of performances, but these could not of themselves have gone in and out at folding doors. So what were Dickens's " automaton dancers " ? THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

TURTON. Information wanted as to the parentage of Lora or Laura Turton, who married about 1760 Nathaniel Gordon of Kennyhill, of the Whitehill branch of the