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about the pool and in camping cm the island, &c. They asked me once who Morgan was, whom the little boys were always saying they were to be care- ful against. An old man living at Tal Llyn, " Lakes End," a farm close by, says that as a boy he was always told that " naughty boys would be carried off by Morgan into the lake." Others tell me that Morgan is always held to be ready to take off troublesome children, and somehow Morgan is thought of as a bad one.'"

There is more, but any one interested had better see the book. S. L. PETTY.

Ulverston.

The name of Grimshaw was a bugbear to children in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He was Incumbent of Haworth, near Bradford, the home of the Brontes.

Macaulay in his essay on Warren Hastings tells us :

" Even now, after the Lapse of more than 50 years, the natives still talk of him as the greatest of the English ; and nurses sing children to sleep with a jingling ballad about the fleet horses and richly caparisoned elephants of Sahib Warren Hastein."

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbonrne Rectory, VVoodbridge.

ARCHBISHOP BLACKBURNE (10 S. xi. 508). I am sorry to have to inform our friend the REV. JOHN PICKFORD that there is no monument or stone to mark the place of the burial of the above-named prelate in the church of St. Margaret, Westminster, nor, so far as T can trace, has there ever been one. Walcott, in his 'History of the Parish Church of St. Margaret,' 1847, gives a list of 61 " monuments lost or destroyed," collected from various sources, covering a long series of years, but does not record one to this archbishop.

It may be worth notice that there are in this church monuments to two well-known prelates, viz., Laurence Womack, D.D., Lord Bishop of St. David's, died 12 March, 1685, aged 73, and John Leng, Lord Bishop of Norwich, died 26 Oct., 1727, aged 62.

Walcott gives the following extract from the registers : " 1743. April 1. Dr. Lancelot Blackburn, L d Archbishop of York."

W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY.

Westminster.

" BROKENSELDE " (10 S. xi. 10, 58, 110 172, 233, 517). No doubt the berne in berne-selde is the usual M.E. berne, " barn." And there is no difficulty about Aernselde. I suppose the Ae to be merely a playful printer's variant of JE. The reference is to the A.-S. cern, " a cot," duly explained in the ' N.E.D.' s.v. Earn, " a place, dwelling, hut " ; common in compounds. It is still common in the form ran- in the word ran-

sack ; and explained in my * Concise Eng. Etym. Diet,' ed. 1901 (previous editions are obsolete), under both Ransack and Rest (1) the Gothic spelling being razn. WALTER W. SKEAT

SWEDISH PAINTERS IN ENGLAND (10 S. xi. 467, 514). In December, 1700, JohnHervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, paid Cotton for his master Daula (sic) Wl. 15s. for a three- quarters portrait of his wife. In May, 1711, he paid Michael Dahl 21Z. 10s. for another portrait of his wife. I think this must be the one which was engraved by J. Simon. It belonged to Lord Howard de Walden, who died in 1868, and was sold at Christie's in 1869. I do not know where it went.

In April, 1714, Lord Bristol paid Hans Hysing 167. 2,9. Qd. " for several copies of pictures and altering others, and an original portrait of Babel ye musician." In August, 1715, he paid him 6Z. 9s. "for my dear wife's picture which I gave ye Countess of Pickbourg." I do not know where this is now.

May I tack on a query which seems to concern another Swedish artist ? There are at Shatley Rectory, Suffolk, drawings in chalk of two children, Frederick William Hervey, afterwards 1st Marquis of Bristol, and his sister Elizabeth, afterwards Lady Elizabeth Foster. They are signed Christina

ey, 1772. The first four letters of the

surname are illegible. Who is the artist ?

S. H. A. H.

We have at Ecton a very good portrait of an ancestress by Michael Dahl. I am writing this away from home, or would give dates, &c., of the portrait, which is always much admired, a picturesque dress having been chosen for, or by, the sitter. EDITH M. SOTHEBY.

Ecton, Northampton.

SHIPS' PERIODICALS (10 S. xi. 328, 376, 418, 454). A periodical was circulated on board the ship Light Brigade. It was composed and written on board, and after the voyage the MS. was sent to London and printed. Its title-page has :

board the Light Brigade, on her Voyage from London to Brisbane, in the Year 1863. Henry Evans, Commander. Edited by a Passenger. Nulli Secundus. London : John Wilson, 93, Great Russell Street. 1863. Price one florin." 8vo, 300 copies, pp. 50.
 * ' Salmagundi : a Weekly Hash, prepared on

On the same vessel and the same voyage a similar weekly periodical was circulated, called The Mainstay, 8vo, afterwards printed in London. D. J.