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"Longfellow to the end had held to the Unitarian faith in which he had been bred." If my question can be answered, we may perhaps learn how the two statements are to be reconciled. F. JARRATT.

tury MS. was in 1890 in the possession of Mr. Davies-Cooke. If I mistake not he is dead. Where is the MS. now?
 * LIBER LANDAVENSIS.' This twelfth-cen-

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

Lancaster.

DUCHESS SARAH. Can any of your readers give me the names of the brothers and sisters of Sarah, first Duchess of Marlborough ; and also say to whom each was married 1

WALTER J. KAYE, M. A.

Pembroke College, Harrogate.

[Mrs. Arthur Colville's 'Duchess Sarah, 'reviewed 10 th S. i. 258, says that she was the youngest of seven children, but gives no names.]

AXSTEDE WARE. In an inventory of 1413 (Esch. Inq., file 659) appears the item " decem paria de cutellor' de Axstede ware." An Inq. p.m. of 54 Hen. III. (No. 22) mentions Axstede manor in Kent. Any particulars concerning the early manufacture of cutlery at Axstede would be welcome.

ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

MADAME MONDANITE. I find the following on p. 130 of ' Le Lys Rouge,' by Anatole France : " Elle fait ce que fait Madame Mondanite sur le portail de la cathedrale de Bale." To what does this refer ?

W. L. POOLE.

Montevideo.

[The reference seems to be to a figure in the famous Danse Macabre, the ddbri* of which are preserved in the Cathedral or Miinster of Bale.]

EEL FOLK- LORE.

The morn when first it thunders in March

The eel in the pond gives a leap, they say. Browning, 'Old Pictures in Florence,' stanza 1. I warrant you, mistress, thunder shall not so awake the beds of eels, as, &c.

Shakespeare, ' Pericles,' IV. ii., near the end.

What is the allusion ? Is it a well-known piece of folk-lore ? Why does Browning add specifically "in March"?

H. K. ST. J. S.

HOLME PIERREPONT PARISH LIBRARY. I have heard it stated that Henry Pierrepont, first Marquis of Dorchester (for whom see the 'D.N.B.'), founded a parish library, which is still in existence, in his native village of Holme Pierrepont, about four miles north of Newark -upon -Trent, Nottinghamshire. I should be glad of confirmation of this fact from any of your readers residing in the

district, together with such particulars as may be obtainable. I should also be obliged for a copy of the inscription on his monu- ment in the parish church.

W. R. B. PRIDEAUX.

QUOTATION : AUTHOR AND CORRECT TEXT WANTED. Can any of your readers kindly give me the correct rendering and name of author of the following couplet 1 ? It is some- thing as follows:

Nor billows roll nor wild winds blow Where rest not England's dead. The first three words are wrong, I think.

R. N. LYNE.

COWPER. Which is the best life of William Cowper, and which the best edition of his works? G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

[We have ourselves been contented with the edition, in fifteen volumes, with life, by Southey, 1833-7, reprinted in eight volumes in *' Bohn Standard Library." Leslie Stephen calls it " nearly- exhaustive." Lives by Hayley, Cowper himself, and many others are in existence. See list of authorities at the end of life in * D.N.B. J

PITT CLUB. Medals belonging to members of a club formed upon the death of William Pitt are still to be met with in collections of curios. Is anything known about this insti- tution, which appears to have been quite distinct from any at present bearing the same name ? PITTITE.

"FIRST KITTOO." I quote this phrase exactly as I heard it pronounced by one Lancashire workman to another in the sen- tence, "We'll do that first kittoo" (with the stress on the second syllable). By ''first kittoo" he meant, of course, "first of all, "before anything else," intensively. Am I right in supposing "kittoo" to be a survival and a corruption of the old English interjec- tional phrase " Go to " 1

CHARLES SWYNNERTON.

GRAHAM. 19 August, 1848, there died "afc the residence of his sisters, Belgrave House, Turnham Green, John William Graham, Esq., late of the Hon. East India Company's ser- vice." Information is desired concerning ,his famUy. WALTER M. GRAHAM EASTON.

" CUTTWOORKES." The Stationers' Regis- ters for 1598 record a work bearing the title, 'The True Perfection of Cuttwoorkes.' Can any reader direct me to a copy of the book or explain to me the meaning of the last word ? Possibly it relates to the Dutch system of canal drainage, whence the provincial term " cut " for canal. WM. JAGGARD.