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 iv. SEPT. 16.1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 235 of Dougal Graham. Glasgow : Robert Lind say, Queen Street. 1877." I do not find the story alluded to by W. B. in this edition of the chap-book, unles it be that about the French king's puzzling letter saying, "Will I come? Will I come Will I come?" The last but one of the chap-books in the first volume of 'Join Cheap'_ is 'Grinning Made Easy,'on p. 8 o which is an anecdote about Buchanan, when he was tutor to James I., giving " his mos sacred majesty a flogging." This story is told_more fully in ' Chalmers's Biographica Dictionary.' The following story appears in ' The Scotch Haggis' (Edinburgh, 1822), p. 66 "Buchanan, when travelling in Italy, owing to the freeness of his writings, was suspected of heresy and taken hold of by the inquisition. By writ inj this distich to his Holiness the Pope, he was released. Laus tua, non tua fratus, virtus non copia reruni, Scandere te fecit hoc decus eximium. Thus Englished: Thy praise, not fraud ; thy virtue, not thy store, Made thee to climb that height which we adore. Being out of the Pope's jurisdiction, he sent to his Holiness, and desired, according to his true mean- ing, to read the same verses backwards—thus: Eximium decus hoc fecit te scandere reruni, Copia, non virtus, fratus tua, non tua laus. Englished: The height which we adore, what made thee climb? Not virtue, not thy worth, rather thy crime." "Fratus" is evidently a misprint for/raw*. Is it not probable that there were two George Buchanans, one the historian, the other the jester, and that some of the jokes of the latter were foisted on the former? Many of the stories in the chap-book could not, one would think, have ever been sup- posed to have anything to do with the George Buchanan. EGBERT PIERPOINT. REV. WILLIAM HILL (10th S. ii. 427, 490).— At the first of these references I craved in- formation concerning this once well-known leader in the Chartist movement, and at the second I received a useful item. But in the meantime there had come direct to my address from another of your readers a mass of biographical information enabling me to compile the article 'The Rev. William Hill: New-Churchman and Chartist,' which occu- pies the first place in the number of The Mew-Church Magazine for July. To you and to your two contributors I render hearty thanks. CHARLES HIGHAM. ROBERTSON OF SlRUAX (10th S. iv. 150).— Some time ago in a weekly newspaper I noticed a reply to a query about James, fourth son of Robert Robertson, tenth Baron of Strowan, in which the information as recorded in Douglas's ' Baronage ' was given, and the following question asked: " Was William Robertson, who married Helen Millar at Ferryport-on-Craig ill 1650, not a son of this James 1" This has, so far as I am aware, neither been confirmed nor contradicted. James is said to have settled in Forfarshire. but where I have been unable to trace, and am doubtful if he ever had any connexion with this county. I trust PERTHSHIRE'S query will elicit some definite information about this member of one of the^most im- portant Scottish families. YARROW. THE WAR OFFICE IN FICTION (10th S. iv. 127).—One such allusion as is sought may be found in Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' (chap, xlii.), where it is recorded that " Elizabeth [Bennet] hoped that by the following Christmas [Kitty] might be so tolerably reasonable as not to mention an officer above once a day, unless, l>v some cruel and malicious arrangement at the War Office, another regiment should be quartered in Meryton." ALFRED F. ROBBINS. BENBOW (10th S. ii. 29, 111).—Some par- ticulars of the descendants of Admiral John Benbow might be obtained from his will. It is in the P.C.C. and registered 47 Degg. The following three Chancery suits should throw some light on this family—Series 1714-58, Benbow v. Benbow, bundle 1360: Benbow v. Benbow, bundle 1201; Shepherd v. Benbow, bundle 1208. GERALD FOTHERGILL. 11, Brussels Road, New Wandsworth, S.W. ORIGINAL REGISTERS SOUGHT (10th S. iv. 167).—All the documents stored in St. Mary's Tower at York were destroyed at the siege of York in the seventeenth century. Copies of many of these documents will be found in vol. vii. of the Dodsworth MSS. in the Bod- eian Library at Oxford. The register of Archbishop William Green- field is in the office of Mr. H. A. Hudson, the Archbishop's registrar, at York. W. BROWN, Hon. Sec. Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Whitehouse, Northallerton. GARIBALDI: ORIGIN OF THE NAME (10th S. v. 67, 132).—The Garibaldi are a very ancient .iigurian family. The first who used the ame would seem to have been Garibald, Duke of Bavaria. A.D. 584. From him escended Grimaldus, King of Lombardy, .D. 673. His son was Garibaldus. Then the ame disappears. But it is early found lining the nobles of Genoa, and at the insti- ution of the 'Liber Aureus,' in 1528, its