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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. n. DEC. 31, 190*.

say so. Pope might have remembered tha in this very book he had mentioned at leas half a dozen of them as being then alive.

The popularity of Pope's translation i shown by its influence on original poetry Oollins has :

Their eyes' blue languish ; &nd he evidently copied the line

And the blue languish of soft Alia's eye. Gray has said :

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. He may have had in mind the verse

And chose the certain, glorious path to death. There is not, however, the unquestionable imitation here as in the expression of Collins In the fifth book of the 'Odyssey' Pope has the line

And better skilled in dark events to come. This may have suggested Campbell's famou line

And coming events cast their shadows before. The ideas are different, but the words of Pope are much the same as those of Campbell.

Pope, in the fifteenth book of the ' Odyssey, has this line

Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. Here the translation is perhaps better known than the original, and certainly does not fall below it. E. YARDLEY.

SIR H. M. STANLEY'S GRAVE. The remark- able memorial recently placed over the grave of the great African explorer in Pirbright Churchyard is worthy, I think, of a note in the pages of * N. & Q.' It takes the form of a large granite monolith, 12 ft. long, 4 ft., wide, and 2 ft. 6 in. thick, which was dis- covered on Frenchbeer Farm, Dartmoor, where it had been lying in a recumbent position for a great number of years. The difficulties of its removal from Devonshire were considerable, owing to the fact that it weighs over six tons, and is probably the largest stone ever taken from Dartmoor. It bears the inscription :

Henry Morton Stanley.

Bula Matari.

Africa.

"Bula Matari" (the rock-breaker) was the name by which he was known in Africa. A cross is carved above the inscription, which is so deeply cut into the stone that it is believed to be practically imperishable.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

'?? FLEMINGS IN OXFORD/ (See ante,

p. 478 ) Until I read the critique upon this

book 1 had imagined that it had reference to

a colony of Flemings planted in Oxford by

Edward III. As is well known, that king imported many such to England, whether in compliment to his renowned wife, Philippa of Hainault, I cannot say. She was a great benefactress of Queen's College,

which was founded in 1340 by her father- confessor, Robert de Eglesfield. Queen Philippa died in 1369, and from that time her valiant husband began to degenerate, and I fancied that Dr. Magrath had found in the muniment room of his college some documents throwing light upon the period of the colonization of Flemings. It seems, however, that his book refers to a member of the Fleming family, long connected with the North of England and belonging to Queen's College. There are two pedigrees of the family in Burke's ' Landed Gentry'; and in his ' Peerage and Baronetage ' one of Le Fleming, baronets, presumably the same house. I never heard before of Lord Grey of Groby (pronounced Grooby) being one of the supposed masked executioners of Charles I. Some have given the office to Hugh Peters and Cornet Joyce. Lord Grey was certainly a regicide, and his name, w Tho: Grey," stands second on the "Warrant to execute Charles L, King of England." Of him there is a fine full-length portrait in armour, attended by a page carrying his helmet, at Fawsley Park (the seat of the late Sir Rainald Knightley), co. Northampton.

It may be worth noting that one of the shoes of John Bigg, the Dinton hermit, sup- posed by some to have been one of the executioners, may be seen at the present time in the Taylor Institute at Oxford a

regular clouted shoe," covered and patched with innumerable pieces of cloth ; the other was kept by my old friend the Rev. J. J. joodall, to whom Dinton Hall, Bucks, aelonged. Once, when I was on a visit to lim, he pointed out to me the place where /he cave used to be in which the Dinton lermit resided. Bigg had been servant to Simon Mayne, then owner of Dinton, and served in the sign of a village hostelry. The hoe was originally given to the Ashmolean Museum, the relics of which are now in the possession of the Taylor Institute.
 * he name of the Dinton hermit is yet pre-

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

LORD MELBOURNE. The following appeared n the Times of 13 December :

" A memorial brass marking the spot where the econd Viscount lies buried has been erected within he last few days in the parish church of Hatfield. n he famous statesman died at Brocket Hall, Lord lount-Stephen's place, about three miles from