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 10'~S.1v-Nov.4.1905.J NOTES AND QUERIES. 369 MSS. preserved in the Manchester Free Reference Librarv, which serves as a model of what such catalogues should be. The price is twopence. It is just the kind of thing that students want. The catalogues of MSS. in the British Museum, the Bodleian, and other big libraries, fail in that they are practically inaccessible because the price is too high. Could. not occasional lists be issued, at a low price, of different classes of MSS., of interest to different classes of students? Do readers know of other low- iiriced lists, indexes, and catalogues of MSS.? am sure the Editor will gladly find room for contributions towards a bibliography of such. GEORGE F. T. SIIERWOOD. 50, Beecroft Road, Brockley, S.E. MR. GILBERT, MATHELIATICIAN.-WhISt0D, in his ‘ Memoirs] says that he was introduced at Stamford, in 1687, to “that great mathe- matician, Mr. Gilbert, clerk.” Is anything more known of this Mr. Gilbert? FRANCIS P. MAROHANT. Streatham Common. BEQUESTS PAYABLE IN THE CHURCH POROH. -Henry Chauncy, father of Sir Henry Chauncy, whose will was proved in 1681, left five pounds each to be paid to every one of his grandchildren, in Yardley (Arrleley) Church porch, at their several ages of eighteen years, if they live to that age. Is not this a late date for such a custom to be observed? Was it usual for bequests to be paid in so public a place? W. B. GERISH. Bishop's Stortford. W. T. STREADER.-About 1898 a friend gave me the followin title of a book he had just taken from a gbookseller’s catalogue, namely, “S. Horton. To the rescue [an account of W. T. Streader]. Just published.” I have been searching year after year in the British Museum Library Catalogue for this publication, but it has not got there, nor is it in Sampson LOw’s ‘English Cata- lOgue.’ I shall be glad to know when and by whom it was published. RALPH THOMAS. 30, Narbonne Avenue, S.W. WILLIAM MILLER’s ENoRAvINos.-Can any of your readers give me the titles of the volumes in which the following line en- gravings by William Miller appear? ‘Nuremberg,’ after Dewint, for Rodwell J.: Martin, London, 1823. Vignette of ‘Hume’s Monument] Edin- burg ,after A. Nasmyth,for David Constable, Edinburgh, 1824. ‘ The Lead Hills,’ after T. Clark, about 1869 (?), size of engraving 6§ by 41; in. In 1832 Miller engraved a small plate for title-page for ‘ Christian Vespers,’ C. Hutche- son, Glasgow. Was such a book ever published ? I could not find it in the British Museum Catalogue. W. F. LIILLER. DOUGLAS OF DORNOCK.-'].‘h6 first Earl of Queensberry gave the estate of Dornock, Dumfriesshire, to his third son, Archibald. I should be very glad if any one could tell me whom this Archibald married, and also whom his son William and his grandson William (both of Dornock) married. J. F. MIORRIS FAWCETT. 73, North Side, Clapham Common, S.VV. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.- Whence comes the following 'l- A rose-red city half as old as Time. T. CANN HUGHES. M.A., F.S.A. [Our memory suggests Burgen’s Newdigate ‘ Petra.’] What is the source of the following lines ?- Because my wine was of too poor a savour For one whose palate gladdens in the flavour Of sparkling Helicon. V. T. “NORILE VIRTUTIS oENUs EST PATIENTIA.” -The followin distich, or something very like it, I saw, tlmirteen years ago, in one of the rooms of the Hotel Riederalp, in Canton Valais :- Nobile virtutis genus est patientia; si vis Omnia perfecte vincere, disce pati. Is it original, or from some printed book? If from the latter, who was the author? JOHN B. VVAINEWRIGHT. RRBIGPRDCBS to “Disce pati” will be found at IO* S. i. 316; ii. 4l‘2.] ANTHONY BEC.-Whence is the statement derived that the body of Anthony Bec, the famous Bishop of Durham, and King of Man, was carried into Lincoln Cathedral for burial through a hole in the wall, since, out of reverence for St. Hugh, it could not be borne in at the door? W. R. WAKERLEY.-I wish to trace the origin, pedigree. and history of my family name as above. Beyond personal interest I have a literary curiosity, arising from its extreme rarity. The Post Office London Directory has only one name in it spelt the same, and on? one name-Wakeley-similar; this rarity note in the directories of many other districts. I have from Burke’s ‘General Armory’ found that the name has three coats of arms. I see that inthe ‘ Visitation of Yorks’ there