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 308 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io«-s. iv. OCT. 11, iws. Him as making this remark about the dead dog which every one else spurned ? The moral, of course, is that we should strive to see the best, and not the worst of everything. WM. C. RICHARDSON. "ROLLUPS."—"The breadth of his milk- and-watered rollups," in a letter from Mason to Gray, 27 June, 1755, Tovey's edition. What are they 1 J. J. FREEMAN. MACDONALD OF MOIDAET. — In Wood's ' Douglas's Peerage' (vol. ii. p. 8) Reginald is mentioned as second son of John de Yle, Lord of the Isles, but in such a way as to suggest that he was not the son of John's wife Margaret Stuart, and rather leading to the inference that he was illegitimate. Can any one give me further information ? A. CALDER. SANDERSON DANCE.—I shall be pleased to know when this dance was first introduced, and why it was so called. It was common in the North a hundred years ago. Any particulars will oblige. CHAS. HALL CROUCH. 5, Grove Villas, Wanstead. LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY : INSTITUTE OF ARCH.EOLOGY.—Has any official report been issued of the opening of this on 3 December, 1904, or of the papers on Egyptology read by Mr. Percy Newberry 1 T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A. Lancaster. CHARLES CHURCHILL : T. UNDERWOOD.— According to the ' D.N.B.,' when Charles Churchill died at Boulogne, his body was brought over to Dover, and buried in the old churchyard of St. Martin, and a monument was also erected to him in the church. Mr. S. P. H. Statham also states ('History of Dover,' 1899) that the poet was buried in St. Martin's-le-Grand, but the local guide- books tell us that this church was wholly dismantled in 1542. Has anybody seen re- cently the monument or the grave, which— so the ' D.N.B.' informs us—is marked by a slab and a line taken from the poet's 'Candi- date ' ] Byron visited it when leaving Eng- land for the last time, and has recorded his impressions in lines dated Diodati, 1816. On a recent occasion I had a few minutes to spare at Dover, and went into St. Mary's Church in Cannon Street, where I saw a mural tablet erected "at the sole expense of T. Underwood, ye Impartialist," to the memory of the " late celebrated poet Charles Churchill who died at Boulogne in France cetatis 32 and was buried in ye town Novem- ber, 1764." There is a long quaint epitaph, which I did not copy, as it nas, no donot, already been published. Who was T. Under- wood ? L. L. K. WEDDING INVITATION-CARDS.—I have come across a printed invitation to the wedding of Johann Heinrich Hansing, of Hanover, and Sophie Magdalene, daughter of lisa Magda- lene Starren, widow of Prehling, of Hayen. It is a single folio page, dated 1684. Are any earlier printed invitations known I LUDWIG ROSENTHAL. Hildegardstrasae 16, Munich. JOANE GROSVENOR OR GRAVENOR. — I should be grateful to any of your corre- spondents, experts in the history of our ancient English families, for any information respecting a lady of this name, who appears to have been a member of that branch of the Grosvenors known as the Bushbury Grosvenors. Not a few of this house bore this same name. This Joane Grosvenor or Gravenor appears to have been of a literary turn of mind — at any rate, a student of homiletic literature. In an old book of sermons preached by that celebrated " silver- tongued " Henry Smith, D.D., lecturer at St. Clement Danes, under her signature, by way of comment on a sermon by the learned divine on the humiliation of Nebuchadnezzar, are written the following lines :— Laugh at no man's fall. Thy state is yet unsure. Thou knoweat nothing at all How long thou may'at endure. Commenting on another sermon on Con- tentment are these lines :— Hell gapes, and that most readily. To swallow them up full greedily, Who liveth upon their usury, Which bringeth men to poverty. This lady was evidently living in the early part of the seventeenth century. The spell- ing is of the Jacobean period. "Silver- tongued " Smith died circa. 1601. J. W. B. HONESTY ON A COMPETENCE.—I should be obliged if you could give me the reference for the subjoined quotation :— " Strive to have a competence, however modest, for without it a man cannot [?] Nay, he can hardly even be honest." I believe it is in a letter of Edmund Burke's, but I have not any copy of his letters, and in an edition of his speeches and writings to which I referred, I could not find it. D. E. CARAVANSERAI TO PUBLIC-HOUSE.—Where may I find references and original matter