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He sought his native village, heartbroken from the

fray, While shining still behind him the streets of

London lay.

Will any contributor kindly let me know whether I have quoted the couplet correctly?

LINHOPE.

[Is the reference to Mr. G. R. Sims's ' The Lights of London ' ?]

" GOYLE." What is the derivation of this word, used in Devon and Somerset for water- course? E. SATTERTHWAITE.

ENGLISH CROWN JEWEL. One of the Crown jewels sold or pawned in Holland at the opening of the Civil War is thus described in a letter from Rotterdam, dated 1650 :

"A Jewell named the three brothers, by others the three sisters, being a Jewell thatt King James did use to weare upon his hatt, consisting of three Rubyes ballais transparent, one Dyamant in the raiddel, and three pearles which parteth the rubyes ballais, and one pendant pearle."

What has become of it? Is there any inventory of the Crown jewels which were disposed of at this time 1

CHARLES L. LINDSAY.

MADDEN'S 'HAVELOCK THE DANE.' Will some kind reader lend me Sir F. Madden's edition of ' Havelock the Dane ' 1 I require to see it for a literary purpose, and no other edition will serve. I will return it in a very few days. EDWARD PEACOCK.

Wickentree House, Kirton-in-Liudsey.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS AND DISTRICT. I should be glad to be referred to any reliable guide- books or histories dealing with the anti- quarian sights of this district. I assume they would include Hever, Tonbridge, and Penshurst. Are there any note worthy churches or monastic ruins accessible from this centre 1 T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

Lancaster.

"MAY- DEWING." The following paragraph appeared in the Standard of 8 May :

"The quaint old custom of 'May-dewing,' or washing the face in dew, on the first Sunday in May, in order to ensure lasting beauty, was observed yesterday by a large number of Black- burn girls and women, some of the latter being very elderly. The weather was fine and bright for those who went into the fields soon after dawn, but it broke down afterwards, and late comers were drenched with rain before they got back."

Pepys in his ' Diary,' under date of 28 May. 1667, says :

" My wife away down with Jane and W. Hewer to Woolwich, in order to a little ayre, and to lie there to-night, and so to gather May-dew to-morrow morning, which Mrs. Turner hath

taught her is the only thing in the world to \vash her face with and I am contented with it."

On 10 May, 1669, Mr?. Pepys performs the same ceremony, for he records :

"Troubled about three in the morning, with my wife's calling her maid up, and rising herself logo with her coach abroad, to gather May-dew, which she did, and I troubled for it, for fear of any hurt, going abroad so betimes, happening to her ; but 1 to sleep again, and she came home about six."

Brand, in his ' Popular Antiquities,' says that The Morning Post of 2 May, 1791, mentions

" that yesterday, being the 1st of May, according to annual and superstitious custom, a number of persons went into the fields and bathed their faces with the dew on the grass, under the idea that it would render them beautiful."

Now which day was supposed to be the most efficacious, since this important cere- mony was performed on 1 May, the first Sunday in May, 10 May, and 29 May 1

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

POLISH ROYAL GENEALOGY. Can any reader of 'N. &Q.' who is versed in Polish family history give me the names of the descendants of John III. (Sobieski), King of Poland, and also those of Stanislaus Lescz- cynski, King of Poland, whose daughter the Princess Marie married King Louis XV. of France? DE MORO.

Hill Hall, near Epping, Essex.

" GUARDINGS." In the poor-rate valuation of the parish of Snettisham for 1782 there is a heading, "Mr. Styleman's estate under description of Giiardings, Yards, Pleasure grounds, Plantations, and Woods." The meanings assigned to guarding in the ' H.E.D.' do not apply to the above use. Am I right, therefore, in thinking that the word is an illiterate mode of spelling gardens ? >.^- HOLCOMBE INGLEBY.

'THEATRICAL REMEMBRANCER.' Who was the compiler and publisher of the above work, issued in 1788? Presumably it is a list of all the dramatic performances in the English language. -' '%%

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, IX. D.

Bradford.

[It is generally spoken of as Egerton's. Egerton was the publisher.]

"TERTIAS OF FOOT." In his 'Arch aic Dic- tionary' Halliwell enters the Spanish tfrtia, and defines it as " that port ion of en aimy which is levied out of one par ticular district." The word does not seem t o le mcgnmd ly the general lexicographer. Is tl eie fctfficicnt warrant in provincial Eigkrd for the