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 392 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. NOV. n. 1905. King showed John Vaughan was not at the battle of Waterloo. DAVID SALMON. Swansea. The undoubted last survivor of the British army of the Netherlands who served at Waterloo was Corporal Maurice Shea, 2nd Battalion, 73rd Foot, afterwards a lieutenant in the British Legion. He died at Sher- brooke, province of Quebec, in February, 1692, aged ninety-eight years. ROBERT RAYNEE. Herne Hill, S.E. [Several other correspondents point out that Vaughan's statement that he was at Waterloo is untrue. MB. T. WHITE sends long extracts from The Liverpool Daily Pout and Mercury of 18 and 19 August bearing on the subject.] WELSH POEM (10th S. iv. 208).—MR. PLATT has not got this Welsh englyn correct, nor do 1 believe he is correct in attributing it to Goronwy Owen; at least I have been unable to trace it in that poet's published works. Apropos of the Welsh composition called an englyn, Principal Khys has written a learned monograph dealing with its development, which has been recently published by the Honourable Society of Cymrnrodorion ; but that is by the way. There are slight variants of the eni/lyn quoted by MR. PLATT, but the following, I believe, is the correct version :— O'i wiw wy i wau e a:—o'i wyau Ei weau e wea ; E weuae ei we aua' A'i weau yw ieuau ia. It will be noticed that the four lines rime, ending each in the vowel " a." The last two words in the first line, which are known in Welsh prosody as "y geirian cyrcli " (the recurrent words), although printed at the end of the first line, are considered as belong- ing to the second, and, in accordance with the rule, alliterate with the first two words in the second line. It is by no means easy to give a literal translation of the enyh/n, but the following is an attempt at one! The subject is the spider :— From his apt egg lie goeth to weave:—from his eggs His webs he weaveth ; He weaveth his winter web, And his webs are yokes of ice. D. M. K. In T/te Gentleman's Magazine for May, 1796, p. 424, the following lines on the silkworm are given as a specimen of the peculiar struc- ture of the Welsh language :— O'i wiw wy 1 wau e" a Ai weuau o'i wyau 6 a weua E a weua ei we aia Ai weuau yw ei ieuau o ia. Two translations are added. The first is :— (Sprung) from his native egg, he begins to weave, And weaves his web from his intestines; He weaves his web of winter. And his webs are as bands of hoar-frost. The second, which is called a "literal trans- lation," runs as follows :— From his peculiar egg he goes to weave. And from his eggs he weaves Ilia webs ; He weaves his winter webs, And his webs are yokes of ice. BEKJ. WALKER. Gravelly Hill, Erdington. A literal translation of the four lines, supplied by a Welsh friend, is as follows: " From his own egg he goes to spin, and his weavings of his eggs he weaves; he weaves his web in winter, and his weavings are yokes of ice." More freely rendered perhaps thus: " From his own eggs the busy worm hastens his brittle web to form ; like rings in ice they seem to view, beauteous like those and brittle, too." H. K. APPLEBY MAGNA GRAMMAR SCHOOL (10th S. iv. 288).—In Camden's ' Britannia' (Gibson, 1722) it is said that " Sir John Moore, Citizen, and once Lord Mayor of London, built a very noble School • house, and endow'd it with extraordinary Salaries, for a Master (6W.), an Usher (4W.), and a'Writing Master (200; with a convenient house and outhouses for each." Sir John Moore, who was a Leicestershire man, was Alderman of Wai brook ; M.P. for the City ; and president of Christ's Hospital, to which also he was a great benefactor. The latter school has a portrait of him, and there is another at Grocers' Hall ('The Citizens of London and their Rulers from 1060 to 1867,' by R. B. Orridge, F.G.S., 1867. pp. 238-9). By statutes in 1706 the school was made free for all England. The founda- tion is under the direction of thirteen governors ; and "since 1708 [i.e., to 1821] above 2,000 persons hare been educated here. The celebrated Dr. Johnson would have been elected Master of the School in 1738 could he have obtained the degree of M.A. Mr. Glover, celebrated for the perfection to which he carried the art of drawing in water-colours, com- menced his career in life as a writing-master in this school."—Gentleman'* Magazine, 1821, part i. p. 1". J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. JOLIFFE FAMILY OF DORSET (10th S. iv. 307.U —It may help MR. W. D. PINK to know that a namesake of Capt. Peter Jolliffe (ob. 1730) was living in 1654 at Tredidan, in the parish of Egloskerry, Cornwall. By his wife Anne, Peter Jolliffe, of Tredidan, had a daughter Mary, who married Anthony Munday (ofi. 8 Oct., 1677). She died soon after 1654. leaving a son Anthony, who died «.;>., and