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 io» B. iv. SEPT. M, MOM NOTES AND QUERIES. 237 badge of the rose and crown in solid silver. I am informed that Canon Hensley Heuson has stated that these badges are not im- probably the original ones ; if this should not be the case, they are undoubtedly of very ancient make, massive, and of much interest. The pensioners are required (if in good health) to attend divine service at the Abbey on Sunday morning and afternoon, excepting on two Sundays in the year. They are further •expected and enjoined, as part of their duties, to be present at any State cere- monials there. They have also to assist in conducting the Dean into the Abbey upon various occasions when it may be ordered for (hem to do so. It may be stated that the almshouses in the Little Almonry were taken down between fifty and sixty years ago, under an Act of Parliament for improving the City of West- mjnster, one of the first actions of the West- minster Improvement Commissioners being the formation of Victoria Street, the line of which was through the Almonry and a large number of equally insanitary and ill-favoured courts and alleys, which were thereby blotted out of existence. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY. Henry VII., early in his reign, erected an almshouse north of the Almonry, close to the west end of the Abbey, near the Gate House, and endowed it for thirteen almsmen, whose blue-gowned successors may still be seen at the Abbey services, though the almsliouse •was destroyed long ago, and the pensioners no longer live in the precincts. *' Near unto this house westward," says Stowe, " wag an old chappel! of St. Anne, over against the which the Lady Margaret, mother to King Henry VII.,erected an almeshouse for poore women. The place wherein this chap-pell and almeshouse standetli was called the Elemosinary or Almonry, now coruptly the Ambry, for the almes of the Abbey were there distributed to the poore." A. K. BAYLEY. The following extract from Seymour's 'Survey of London and Westminster,' 1735, viL 499, may be what Miss LAVENDER requires:— " Queen Mary brought in the Monks again, with an Abbot named Feckenham, to the Monastery of i5t. Peter, Westminster, who not long after being expulsed by Act of Parliament, Queen Elizabeth converted it into a Collegiate Church in 1560. For there she ordained a Dean, twelve Prebendaries, Ac., and twelve Poor soldiers." Walford's 'Old and New London,' viii. 404, gives it as twelve almsmen. JOHN KADCLIFFE. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10th S. iv. 168,197).—The duet MR. PICKFOKD quotes was composed (music and, I think, words also) by James Corfe. I do not recognize the fourth and fifth lines. I always heard them sung— What arts might he know, What acts might he do, And all without hurry or care. And so it reads in the only book which con- tains it, printed in 1795. Here is the rest of it, if I rightly remember :— But we that have but span-long life The thicker must lay on the pleasure; And since Time will not stay, We'll add the night unto the day ; Thus, thus we '11 fill the measure. ALDENHAM. IZARD (10th S. iv. 47).—The name of Ralph Izard is familiar to students of American revolutionary history. He was born near Charleston, South Carolina, in 1742. His grandfather was one of the founders of that colony. Ralph inherited a large estate, and was educated in England, as .stated in the query. After graduating at Cambridge he went to London, where he associated with Burke and other distinguished men. In 1774 he went to France, and in December, 1776, the American Congress appointed him a Commissioner to the Court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. He spent his time, how- ever, at Paris, and severely censured the negotiations of Franklin and other American agents. Izard returned to America in 1780, was a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1782, and a senator from South Carolina from 1789 to 1795. He was a man of con- siderable ability and eloquence, but his native pride and hasty temper marred his success. He died near Charleston in 1804. His'Cor- respondence from 1774 to 1784' was published, with a brief memoir by his daughter, at Boston in 1844. His son George entered the army, and became a major-general in the war of 1812. George's sou James was also a soldier, and was killed in a war with the Seminole Indians in Florida in 1836. Other members of the family held public positions. I do not know the career of Walter Izard. J. P. LAMBERTON. Philadelphia. DARWINIAN CHAIN OF ARGUMENT (10th S. iv. 169).—Darwin, aided by Col. Newman, connects clover with cats in the third chapter of ' The Origin of Species' (pp. 57, 58, sixth edition):— "We may infer aR highly probable that if the whole genus of humble-bee became extinct or very rare in England, the heartsease and red clover would become very rare or wholly disappear. The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great measure on the number of field once, which