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M.P.s UNIDENTIFIED. Can any on< kindly identify and give some particulars o the following members of Parliament ?

Thomas Salusbury, M.P. Liverpool 1754 till he died in 1756.

Samuel Savill, M.P. Colchester 1741-7. John Sawyer, M.P. Downton 1713-15.

John Sawyer, M.P. Leominster 1790 until un seated in 1791.

Nathaniel Saxon, M.P. Ilchester 1806-7.

John Raymond, M.P. Wey mouth 1741-7.

Richard Ramsbottom, M.P. Windsor 1806-10, when succeeded by his nephew John R.. jun.

Thomas Renda, M.P. Wallingford 1701-5.

George Richards, M.P. Bridport 1741 until he died 25 Nov., 1746.

Thomas Richmond, M.P. Maldon 1708-11.

William Rickford, M.P. Aylesbury 1818-41.

Thomas Ridge, M.P. Poole 1708-11.

Gabriel Roberts, M.P. Marlborough 1713-15.

John Roberts, M.P. Harwich 1761-72.

John Roberts, M.P. Taunton 1780-82.

John Robins, M.P. Stafford 1747-54.

George Robinson, M.P. Tregony 1713-15.

George Robinson, M.P. Great Marlow 1731-2.

Nicholas Robinson, M.P. Wootton Bassett 1734- 1741.

Samuel Robinson, M.P. Cricklade 1710-13.

Richard Bateman Robson, M.P. Oakhampton 1796-1802.

Augustus Rogers, M.P. Queenborough 1783-4.

Nathaniel Rogers, M.P. Hull 1717-27.

Thomas Rogers, M.P. Coventry 1780-81.

Henry Rosewarne, M.P. Truro 1780-83.

Patrick Ross, M.P. Horsham 1802-4.

Thomas Ryder, M.P. Tiverton 1755-6.

Charles Fotherby, M.P. Queenborough 1713-15.

Evan Foulkes, M.P. Stamford 1808-18.

James Fraser, M.P. Gatton 1787-90.

Samuel Pargiter Fuller, M.P. Petersfield 1715-22.

Francis Eyre, M.P. Morpeth 1774-5.

Christopher Idle, M.P. Wey mouth 1813-18.

Please reply direct. W. R. WILLIAMS. Talybont, Brecon.

W. C. PLOWDEN IN ABYSSINIA. Walter Chichele Plowden travelled in Abyssinia from 1843 to 1846, and was again in that country as British Consul from 1848 till his death in 1860. The account of his travels was arranged and edited from his papers by his brother Trevor Chichele Plowden ( ' Travels in Abyssinia and the Galla Country, with an Account of a Mission to Ras AH in 1848,' Longmans & Co., 1868). But his journal printed in this volume covers only a short portion of the time Plowden spent in Abyssinia. It commences with a visit to the hot springs of Goramba in June, 1844 (p. ,160), and breaks off as suddenly with his return to Begemder from Ras Ali's camp with the treaty signed (p. 438). He does not give the date of this (he is generally sparing in this respect) ; but as the treaty was signed on 2 Nov., 1849 (Dr. Chas. T. Beke, ' The British Captives in Abyssinia,'

1867, p. 21), Plowden's departure must have been immediately after that date. Is there any available information as to Plowden's first wanderings in 1843-4, and as to the last ten years of his life ? His brother alludes (pp. 453 and 469) to private diaries kept by Plowden during his consulate (1848-60), which, for some unexplained reason, were not published. If these are still in existence, they would doubtless throw much light on a very interesting period in the history of Abyssinia, or Ethiopia as the country should rather be called. They would no doubt contain much not to be found in the Parliamentary Blue-book. This also seems to leave some important lacunae, for Mr. Trevor C. Plowden writes (p. 477) that "Her Majesty's Government have not thought it right to include the really important portion of the correspond- ence on these subjects [the slave trade and the expulsion of the Roman Catholics] in the papers presented to Parliament."

I shall be glad to have references to any other information about Plowden and his researches in Abyssinia.

FBEDK. A. EDWABDS.

39, Agate Road, Hammersmith, W.

SCOTT : EPITAPH IN ' THE ANTIQUABY.' Many of the readers of ' JST. & Q.' will call to mind in the eleventh chapter of ' The Antiquary ' the epitaph on the last bailiff of the abbey before the Scottish monasteries fell into lay hands. The first two lines are as follows :

Here lyeth John o' ye Girnell :

Erth has ye nit, and heuen ye kirnell.

I have been surprised in reading Hearne's

Remarks and Collections,' vol. viii. p. 77,

published by the Oxford Historical Society

n 1907, to encounter a letter to Hearne

written by Philip Harcourt, who sends

" An inscription on a stone in Haddlow Church Yard w th in 4 miles of Tonbridge, compos'd by ye Vicar, w ch is as dull as an old Frier w d have wrote 300 years agoe :

" ' Death hath added to this place the Body of Vlrs. Silance Carnel, ye beloved wife of Mr. Tho 8 Darnel of this Parish. She dyed Nov. 16, Anno Domini 1714, ^Etat. suae 77. Death, why doest tho[u] grin so this sad Day, therein thou hast crop t a Flower of May ? Thy Harvest is no Wheat, but Darnel, Thou hast gott the Shell, out Heaven the Carnel.' "

To me this is quite new. Is it possible

hat it may have been printed in some

x>ok seen by Sir Walter Scott before ' The

Antiquary ' was written ? or may we con-

lude that the two rimes have no connexion

with each other ? K. P. D. E.