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 158 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io"> s. iv. AUG. 19, iocs. may be a little more, The Morning Chronicle contained an interesting; correspondence on this subject. EDWARD PEACOCK. Wickentree House, Kirton-in-Lindsey. A long article, entitled 'Who are "Noblesse " in England,' appeared in 3rd S. x. 303, to which your correspondent is referred. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. SOUTHWOLD CHURCH : FIGURES AND EM- BLEMS (10th S. iii. 329, 369, 453, 498).—Readers who are interested in the iconography of Paradise may like to know that the " apron " idea, which has been referred to in these pages, is exemplified at St. Gregory's, Norwich, where, says a paragraph in The Standard of 3 August, " There is preserved in the church a curious old pall, or ' horse-cloth,' of woollen material, em- broidered with angels and dolphins. The angela are each holding a sheet, in which demi-figures, representing souls, have been caught up, and each of the dolphins has a fish in his mouth." ST. SWITHIN. CALDWELL FAMILY (10th S. iii. 468 ; iv. 73). —The square tower referred to by MR. JONAS, generally known as " the old place of Cald- well," is still standing on the hillside, to the south-west of Lochlibo (not Lochlibb). T. F. D. LORD CHESTERFIELD (10th S. iv. 108).—The ' Lines on a Lady drinking the Bath Waters ' are to be found in Dodsley's 'Collection of Poems, in six volumes, by several hands,' London. 1775, at p. 329 of vol. i. The author's name is not given. They are not nice, and their exclusion from modern editions of Chesterfield's works (if they are by him) is not surprising. J. F. R. "THE PILGRIM OF ETERNITY" (10th S. iv. 68).—This term was probably applied to Byron from a passage in 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (iii. 70), in which, referring obviously to himself, he uses the words :— But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be. A. WATTS. 20, Albert Road, Brighton. HORACE WALPOLE'S LETTERS (10th S. iii. 386).—Your correspondent will find Wai- pole's letter to the Countess of Ailesbury, which he reprints from 'The Private Cor- respondence of Horace Walpole' (published 1820), in Cunningham's edition (vol. viii. pp. 480-1), under the date of 8 June, 1784. It seems clear that 8 June. 1779, is erroneous, as is indicated by Walpole's references to the recent publication of Melcombe's ' Diary'and Voltaire's 'Memoirs,' as well as by the mention of the "newparliament." which met 18 May, 1784. There was no General Election m 1779. Y. ' DON QUIXOTE,' 1595-6 (10th S. iv. 107).— The first part of ' Don Quixote' in its original Spanish text has not appeared before 1605. Hence the date of the French version, stated to have been published in 1595 and 1596 must be an error, probably instead of 1695 and 1696. Brunet, in his 'Manuel du Libraire,' torn. 1, 1751, refers to a French edition of 1696 in 5 vols., And another edition of 1695 in 5 vols. lies before me. H. KREBS. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10th S. iv. 10).—" That life is long which answers life's great end" is from Young's ' Night Thoughts,' Night V. 1. 773. D. M. R. NOTKS ON BOOKS, to. Cardiff Record*. Edited by John Hobson Matthews. Vol. V. (Sotheran & Co.) Is noting the appearance of the fourth volume of this spirited municipal publication (see 9tb S. xii. 158) we mentioned the proximate appearance of a further volume. This now appears in the same attractive guise as its predecessors, aud proves to be, in a sense, final aud to a certain extent supple- mentary. Should further volumes at some future date be judged necessary, they will be under editor- ship other than that of Mr. Hobson Matthews, who, after eleven years' service as archivist to the Corporation of Cardiff, retires from the service of the Records Committee. Mr. Matthews is the first official and salaried archivist ever appointed in the British Isles, aud it is a feather in the cap of Cardiff that it has been the earliest borough to recognize as expedient or obligatory the adequate treatment of municipal records. A considerable portion of the volume—about a third (200 pages out of about 600)—is occupied with the Cardiff Council minutes between 1880 and 1897. Another long chapter (chap, xii.) contains lists of officers between 1126—when Ralph was the first Prepositus, other- wise Provost-Major, of Cardiff— to the close of last century. A glossary of obscure, obsolete, technical, and non - English words and phrases follows, and is compiled expressly for the work by the editor. A special feature in the volume con- sists of recollections of old inhabitants. These contain matter of interest to the antiquary or the folk-lorist, and include a selection of tribauna, or rimes sung to the oxen when ploughing, which ar« unintelligible to us, but contain topical or personal allusions, and are, we are told, at times very coarse. From the Llandaff Act Books, extending from 1373 to 1810, which relate virtually to every parish in> the counties of Glamorgan and Monmouth, Mr. Matthews has extracted all that concerns the Cardiff district. Among many curious entries is an