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 10"- s. iv. NOV. 11, iocs.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 393 two daughters, Mary and Anne. Mary married, firstly, Henry Erisey, of Tredidan (marriage settlement 22 July, 1676); secondly, Abel French, of co. Cornwall, Esq. Anne married Henry Neilder, of Anthony, co. Corn- wall, gent. (Chancery Bills and Answers before 1714, Ham. 598, French v. Bligh.) GEORGE F. T. SHERWOOD. 50, Beecroft Road, Brockley, S.E. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10th S. iv. 168, 197, 237,' 294).—The lines of Moore and the words quoted by PROF. SKEAT, "We'll add the night unto the day," seem to have been anticipated in French :— Ce que j'ute & mes units, je 1'ajoute a. mes jours. Sainte - Beuve says that Venceslas speaks the verse. I think that Rotrou wrote a play called 'Venceslas,' and I assume that the verse is in his play. E. YARDLEY. [Rotrou's 'Venceslas' was produced in 1647. It is taken from a drama by Francesco de Rojas, the title of which in English is ' He who is a King must not be a Father.' An alteration by Marmontel was subsequently given at the Comraie Franchise. We do not know where the line appears.] " CONCERTS OF ANTIENT Music " (10th S. iii. 488 ; iv. 49, 335).—The remarkably fine series of annual programmes H. A. W. possesses does not solely refer to the Tottenham Street rooms. The "Concerts of Antient Music" were held here from 1776 to 1795, then removed to the concert-room at the Opera- House; they were finally transferred to the Hanover Square Rooms in 1804 (see ante, G. F. R. B.'s reply). The title-page quoted is really only the half-title or dedication ; the real title clearly states the place where the concerts were held each season. Of the " Hanover Square Series" there is evidently little difference between the 1804 and 1848 volumes; we note a change of editor, but otherwise they are identical in size, binding, arrangement of matter, &c. ALECK ABRAHAMS. 39, Hillmarton Road. MELISANDE: ETTARRE (10th S. iv. 107,156).— No, certainly Maeterlinck did not invent the former name. The name "Melisanda" (and by Heine, in ' Geoffrey Rudel und Melisande von Tripoli' and in ' Jehuda ben Halevy.' In both of these poems " Melisanda " occurs as the name of the famous Countess of Tripoli (in Syria), the lady who was the object of the love and homage of Geoffrey Rudel, the Pro- venc.ale troubadour, though he had never seen her, and nearly the whole length of " the midland sea" separated the two lovers. The atory of Rudel'a passionate devotion and of iis pathetic death in the arms of the countess* on his arrival in the Syrian land has always oeen a favourite theme for poets. Petrarca in his 'Trionfo d'Amore' sings of Gianfre Rudel, ch' uso la vela e' 1 remo A cercar la sua morte. Browning has a lovely poem on the subject,, entitled 'Rudel to the Lady of Tripoli'; and Swinburne, in 'The Triumph of Time,' refer* to this hapless martyr of love in the passage- beginning There lived a singer in France of old By the tideleas dolorous midland sea. In France the story has formed the subject of a famous drama, 'La Princesse Lointaine,' by Edmond Rostand, in which the countess- of Tripoli is named " Melissinde." The part was taken by Madame Sarah Bernhardt. The life of Rudel is beautifully told by Giovanni di Nostra Dama, in a work trans- lated into Italian by G. Giudici, and entitled 'Le Vite delli piu celebri et antichi primi poeti provenzali'(1575). In this account there- is no name given to the Countess of Tripoli. I cannot find the name " Melisanda " as the name of the countess earlier than Heine. A. L. MAYHEW. "THE MOST ELOQUENT OF ANCIENT WRITERS" (10th S. iv. 287).—Quintilian, 'lust. Orator./ lib. i. § ii., discusses at great length, and in a most masterly way, the pros and cons of keeping a boy at home and sending him away to school. He sees clangers in both systems : "Corrumpi mores in scholis putant: nam et corrumpuntur interim : sed domi quoque. Adsunt multa eius rei exempla, tarn Isesce hercle quam conservatse sanctissime utrobique opinionis." H. A. STRONG. FERMOR (10th S. iv. 289).—Sir John Fermor,. eldest son and heir of Richard Fermour, married Maud, daughter of Sir Nicholas Vaux, Knt., Lord Vaux, of Harrowden (who- died before him, on 14 April, 1569, and was buried at Easton-Neston), and by her he had living, at the time of his decease :— 1. George Fermor, Esq., his son and heir. 2. Nicholas, who died unmarried. 3. Richard, who married Dionysia, daugh- ter of Robert Tanfield, of Burford, in Oxfordshire, Esq., by whom he had an only daughter Catherine, first married to Philip Goddard, Esq.; secondly, to Sir Richard Wenman, of Tame, in Oxfordshire, Knt. Also three daughters : Catherine, married to Michael Poulteney, of Misterton, in Leicestershire, Esq., and secondly to Sir Henry Darcey, Knt.; Anne, wedded to Sir Edward Leigh, of Shawel, in Leicestershire^ Knt.; and Mary, espoused to Sir Thomas
 * ' Melisande'') may be found in two poems