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 io-s. iv. OCT. 2i, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 329 him the devil, on whom he promptly lai hands. In the struggle between them th devil had much the worst of it. and pante and gasped with such distress that he raise a whirlwind. This wind has never yet quit died away. Hence the current of air sti" felt at that particular spot. A legend aki to this also accounts for the wind constant! felt near Lincoln Cathedral. Do similar traditions attach to othe English churches ] Variants of the story ar known on the Continent. B. L. R. C. FUNDS FOR PREACHING IN NEW ENGLAND —In Bodleian MS. Rawlinson, C. 934. 66, have met with name-lists of contribution " towards the propagating of ye Gospell in New England," bearing date January, &c 1652, from a small group of Wiltshire parishes. The Laverstock list is endorsee " Wiltsheer : duplicate." I should be glad tc know if any other such name-lists have been preserved, especially of Berkshire. A. E. ALDWORTH. Laverstock, Wilts. J. HASKOLL.—The Lincoln Public Library possesses a marble bust of Sir Isaac Newton by J. Haskoll, dated 1834. I should be glac or any biographical particulars of the sculptor. A. R. C. B.' NELSON POEMS. (10th S. iv. 186.) MAY I add the following to W. C. suggested Nelson bibliography ? — Halloran. Laurence, I). It,, late Chaplain of the Britannia, and Secretary to Rear- Admiral the Earl of Northesk, K.B.— The Battle of Trafalgar, A Poem. To which is added, A Selection of Fugitive Pieces, chiefly written at sea. Condon. Printed for the author, by Joyce Gold, Shoe Lane ...... 1806. Svo, pp. 130. The author was a clever and somewhat notorious impostor who (though, as it proved, not in Holy Orders at all) acted for some years as a naval and military chaplain at the Cape and elsewhere (see ' D.N.B., xxiv. 120). He was present at Trafalgar, and it is said that the commander of the Britannia, during the engagement, requested him to repeat the words of command through a speaking trumpet— an office for which he was well qualified from the extraordinary strength and clearness of his voice. A prefatory advertisement states that the poem was written on the scene of action shortly after the victory. It is dedicated to Eliah Harvey, M.P., Rear-Admiral of the Blue, and late captain of the Temeraire, and contains 870 lines in rimed heroic metre, and is followed by a letter to a friend in London descriptive of the battle, and dated "Britan- nia, at sea, Oct. 25, 1805." The poem has some merit, but is chiefly remarkable—if genuinely contemporaneous—for confirming, what has been sometimes doubted, Nelson's signal to the fleet—" England expects that every man will do his duby," as it is given in the letter, or as in the poem :— England this day claims from each filial heart, That every Briton acts a Briton's part! The metre also shows that the name was then pronounced as Lord Nelson's family still pronounce it—Trafalgar, e.ij. :— And to confirm her reign, sees Glory's star With tenfold lustre beam from Trafalgar. Halloran also published a " Sermon on the occasion of the Victory of Trafalgar, delivered on board H.M.S. Britannia, 3rd Nov., 1805." Curiously enough, during Halloran's career at the Cape this sermon was trans- lated into Dutch, and published at the Government Press, Cape Town, 1808, post Svo, pp. 20. J. A. HEWITT, Canon. Cradock, South Africa. [For the pronunciation of Trafalgar see 6th S. iii. 56 ; iv. 116. ] BROUGHAM CASTLE (10") S. iv. 229, 293).— Your correspondents mix up Brougham 'astle and Brougham Hall, which have nothing to do with each other except that sreviously called the Nest, belonged to the Burgham family, and, having been in the lands of Mr. Bird, was, of course, called Bird's Nest. It was only a large farm. The irst Lord Brougham's grandfather bought it •f the Birds in November, 1726. It was ebuilt by Lord Brougham in 1829 ; the only ild part remaining is the hall, which is ncluded in the new edifice. The Broughams emained at Brougham, and claimed a distant inship with the De Burghams. Brougham Castle is the old seat of the Cliffords, Earls of Cumberland, and defended he Clifford manor in the North from the aids of the Scots. There is no manor of irougham now, the Castle being in the nanor of Oglebird, of which Lord Hothfield the lord. In its palmy days it was a nagnificent place, and had the Whinfell 'eer Forest attached to it. This is now a rosperous agricultural district of about 4,000 acres, with some first-rate shooting. T. 'GENIUS BY COUNTIES' (10th S. iv. 287). —No doubt the list of celebrated names
 * hoy are not a mile apart. Brougham Hall,