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has been the subject of much inquiry. K was the signature under the earliest appearance of the hymn, and in some modern hymnals, which give only five stanzas, the words are assigned either to Kirkham or George Keith. Julian ascribes the hymn to "an unknown person of the name of Keen." In ' Our Own Hymn-Book,' com- piled by C. H. Spurgeon, and in use at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, the original text is given, and it may be sufficient here to quote the first and last of its seven stanzas :

How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in his excellent word ! What more can he say than to you he hath said, You who unto Jesus for refuge have fled ?

-" The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose,

I will not, I will not desert to his foes ;

That soul, though all hell should endeavour to

shake, I '11 never, no never, no never forsake ! ' '

J. GRIGOR.

The hymn sought for is probably that by Kirkham. It wul be found in the hymn- book published for the Congregational Union of England and Wales by Hodder & Stough- ton in 1859. E. J. WISDOM.

[A copy of the seven stanzas sent by the REV. H. DOWSETT has been forwarded to MR. WILLIAMS. ]

God is our guide, &c.

The song of the Reformers of 1832, quoted in Miss Martineau's history. G. W. E. R.

" THOUGH LOST TO SIGHT," &c. (10 S. xi. 249). This line is to be found, as a quota- tion, in ' The Nun,' 1834.

Sir David Dundas (1799-1877), Solicitor- General, went through life offering five pounds to any one who could give him the origin of this quotation :

Though lost to sight, to memory dear ; The absent claim a sigh, the dead a tear.

G. W. E. R.

DICKENS QUOTATION (10 S. xi. 249). The words " Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things," &c., are to be found in a speech delivered by Charles Dickens on 27 Sept., 1869, the occasion being the opening of the winter session of the Birmingham and Midland Institute ( ' The Speeches of Charles Dickens,' edited by R. H. Shepherd, 1884, p. 308). The words, however, are not his own, but occur in a passage quoted by him from Sydney Smith's ' Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy,' Lecture IX.

M. A. M. MACALISTER.

Torrisdale, Cambridge.

WILLIAM CLAYTON, BAKON SUNDON (10 S. xi. 188). I can now answer my own query by saying that the connexion of Lord Sundon with the Claytons of Fulwood (Lanes.), comes through Ralph Clayton, fourth son of William Clayton of Crooke and Elizabeth Rigby. Ralph married (secondly) Mary Francis of Chippenham, and their second son, William Clayton of Newmarket, married Anne Huske, and was the father of William Lord Sundon. The descent is shown in the Visitation of 1684 of Cambridgeshire, printed in Vol. I. (O.S.) of The Genealogist, p. 240. The Thomas who begins the pedi- gree there given should, as noted, be William. R. S. B.

[See ' John Clayton : William Clayton,' aide, p. 306.]

TYRRELL'S MARCH : TYRRELL' s PASS (10 S. xi. 246). No action known to any contemporary writer occurred at Tyrrell's Pass in 1597. The place was so named years, probably centuries, before that date, being one of the entrances, or exits, of the territory of Fertullagh or Tyrrell's Country, which the Anglo-Norman family of Tyrrell, from which Capt. Richard Tyrrell was sprung, acquired at the end of the twelfth or early in the thirteenth century.

The supposed battle is first mentioned in 1762, by the Abbe MacGeoghegan, who appears to have confounded, and com- pounded, three distinct events : 1. The capture and burning of Mullingar (ten miles north of Tyrrell's Pass) in May, 1597, by the O'Ferralls, Nugents, and Capt. Tyrrell, then in rebellion with the Earl of Tyrone. 2. The action on 30 July, 1597, between Kells in Meath and the borders of co. Cavan, when Capt. Parsons was defeated and slain and Lord Trimlestown's son taken prisoner, by the O'Reillys and MacMahons. 3. The fight resulting in the burning of Maryborough on 7 Dec., 1597, by Tyrrell and Owny 3Iac- Rory O'Moore. There is no reason to sup- pose that Tyrrell was present on 30 July, as he had been severely wounded on 20 June. Possibly " la marche du Capitaine Tirrell," mentioned by MacGeoghegan, is as imaginary as the battle of TyrreU's Pass. G. D. B.

" BEFORE ONE CAN SAY JACK ROBINSON " (10 S. xi. 109, 232). In the days of my youth this was " Jack Robison," and Halliwell's quotation from an old play repeated by C. C. B. justifies that version of the name :

A warke it ys as easie to be doone, As tys to saye, Jacke ! robyson.