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NOTES AND QUERIES. no s. XL JAN. w, wa.

earliest issue of this is for 1749. I have a good many volumes of both the ' Register ' and the official Army Lists, but nothing like complete sets. So far as the Army and Navy Lists are concerned, they are, for obvious reasons, nearly always found in the sales of libraries belonging to collectors of medals ; but they always sell at good prices, particularly the earlier issues. They some- times occur in second-hand booksellers' catalogues. W. ROBERTS.

47, Lansdowne Gardens, Clapham, S.W.

AUTHOBS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. x. 510 ; xi. 32).

From what small causes, &c. In the first edition of ' The Rape of the Lock,' the second line reads

What mighty quarrels rise from trivial things. The word " quarrels " makes it likely that Pope was thinking of the best-known in- stance of his generalization, viz., Aris., ' Politics,' Bk. VII. c. iv. : " Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles."

H. C N.

On the ninth day of November.

The whole ballad ' Farewell to Kings- bridge ' (ante, p. 9), with its tune, is printed in ' Songs of the West ' by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould. It is apparently traditional ; see the note concerning it in the introduction to the work cited. W. PEBCY MEBBICK.

Elvetham, Shepperton.

SAMUEL FOOTE, COMEDIAN (10 S. x. 109, 455 ; xi. 17). In ' Recollections of Ban- nister ' we read :

"Foote died at an inn in Dover, October 21,

1777. In the church of St. Mary in that town there is a monument to his memory ; and it has been generally imagined that Foote was buried there >Such, however, is not the fact. Mr. Jewell, at the representation of half the actors and dramatists of the day, brought the body to London, in order that it might be puolicly interred in Westminster Abbey ; but after he had taken this step, no funds were forthcoming, and he buried his friend at his own expense in the cloisters.'

SIB AFFABLE.

The inscription quoted by MB. BAVINGTON JONES from the stone in St. Mary's Church, Dover, makes no reference to the interment of Foote. But in the late Col. Joseph Lemuel Chester's magnum opus, ' The Mar- riage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers in the Collegiate Church or Abbey of St. Peter Westminster' (1876), p. 424, we find under date 1777 the following entry : " Nov. 3 Samuel Foot, Esq ; aged 55, in the West Cloister." The name is there spelt withoui

died 21st Oct. at the ' Ship ' Inn, Dover, on his way to France."
 * he final e. In a foot-note it says : " He

Additional evidence is to be found in 3ean Stanley's ' Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey' (1868), p. 305, which states : "In the same year [that is, 1777], n the West Cloister, was interred the )omedian Samuel Foote, who pleased Dr. Johnson against his will." There does not appear to be the possibility of an error in
 * hese records.

Another authority, and one of almost qual weight, may be quoted. Mrs. A. Murray Smith, a daughter of the late Dean Bradley, in ' The Roll Call of Westminster Abbey' (1902), p. 270, states that Foote " died October 21st, 1777, on his way to seek health abroad, and was buried by torch- light at Westminster." This, like the others, appears to be an absolute statement of fact, and one can but feel that all these authorities must be right.

W. E. HABLAND-OXLEY.

Westminster.

[DiKGO also thanked for reply.]

" OLD KING COLE " (10 S. x. 510 ; xi. 13). I would refer Miss MOOYAABT to ' Nursery Rhymes and Country Songs,' by M. H. Mason (Metzler), where she will find a traditional version of the tune _of this song, with the first two verses, wherein the jovial monarch calls for his fiddlers and drummers. Miss Mason suggests that the song may be continued, with the introduction of a new instrument at every verse, ad libitum. I think it is a pity that the author did not give us the last verse of the fullest copy she could get, as the traditional render- ing of the monotone to which the cumulative part of the chorus is sung in this and similar ditties often possesses a rhythmic fascination that might escape singers whose methods are conventionalized by musical instruction. W. PEBCY MEBBICK.

Elvetham, Shepperton.

FIBE ENGINES (10 S. xi. 8). The volume- the Rev. W. D. SWEETING evidently refers to is ' A Record of the International Fire Exhibition, Earl's Court, London, 1903,' by Edwin O. Sachs, Architect. It is an ex- haustive tome, illustrated by 270 photo- lithographs, and was published by the British Fire Prevention Committee, 1, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, in the same year, price 15s.

The oldest (dated) manual engine ex- hibited in that wonderful collection appears to have been formerly infuse at Dunstable