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TYRONE : ITS HISTORY. Can any of you readers kindly say where I could obtaii works or articles dealing with the history o co. Tyrone or any part of it ?

DRUMNAFERN.

HEREDITARY USHER OF THE COURT o EXCHEQUER. In The Gentleman's Magazine find this notice : "April 27, 1758. Died John Walker Heneage, Hereditary Usher of the Court of Exchequer." Can any one tell me when this office was abolished ? F. II.

CANOVA'S WORKS IN ENGLAND. Can an of your readers give me particulars as to th whereabouts of the three under-mentionec works by this sculptor, all of which are presumably in England?

1. Dirce, nurse of Bacchus, as a sleeping nymph on a fawnskin, .holding a mystica cist. Executed for the King of England.

2. Magdalen reclining. Executed for Lore Liverpool.

3 A female figure in the act of dancing and striking a cymbal. Executed for Count Manzoni of Forli, and sold by his heirs ir England. G. A S N.

NELSON RELIC IN CORSICA. It appears from a lecture given recently at East Dere ham, in Norfolk, by the Rev. T. T. Norgate on his tour in Corsica, that he discovered "a pair of silver candlesticks on the high altar of a village church presented to the inhabitants by Lord Nelson in recognition of, and as a thank- offering for, the kindness shown to him whilst stationed off the coast of Corsica, watching the Dutch fleet. The inhabitants were still very proud of this gift, of which no mention appears to have been made during the Nelson Centenary."

Is anything known of this gift and the date ? I do not think that it is mentioned in the 4 Dispatches.' F. H. S.

WILLIAM BLAKE AND S. T. COLERIDGE. I have in my possession an article on ' The Inventions of William Blake, Painter and Poet.' A note in pencil on this shows that it has been taken from The London Univer- sity Magazine of 1829. It is a very remark- able article, since it shows a complete appre- ciation of the genius of Blake, both as painter and poet a very uncommon thing at that period. The author expresses his opinion that Coleridge, Blake, and Flaxman had laid a foundation for a purer philosophy than then existed ; and in a note he says :

"Blake and Coleridge, when in company, seemed like congenial beings of another sphere, breathing for a while on our earth ; which may easily be per- ceived from the similarity of thought pervading their works."

Does this mean that Blake and Coleridge

were ever personally acquainted ? It seems to bear that interpretation; but possibly it only means that when they were in the com- pany of other people they seemed like beings of another sphere. Is there any record of any meeting between the two poets'? I do not think there is. Among Coleridge's letters there is one, dated 1818, addressed to his friend Mr. Tulk, who had sent him a copy of Blake's poems, in which high admiration is expressed for many of the designs and poems of the poet- artist. Perhaps there may be other references to Blake in Coleridge's writings ; but I am not aware of them.

B. DOBELL.

ROSE : ROBINS : EDMONDS : BOSSEY. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give information about the husband or family of Mrs. Eliza- beth Rose who was buried at Seal, 1783. She was the mother of Richard Rose (in the Permit Office), grandmother of Samuel Rose (commissioner of excise at Edinburgh, <fec.), and ancestress of the Rev. Sanderson Robins, Mrs. Edmonds, the Rev. George Rose, Dr. Bossey, &c. The family was a branch of the family of Rose of Kilravock.

(Mrs.) MARSHALL RIGBY.

White Knowle, Buxton.

M.A. AND M.P. : PARLIAMENT. In for- mal speaking one says "a Master of Arts," " a Member of Parliament" : but in private conversation the abbreviations are often used, and pronounced " an Em. A." or an "Ern.Pe." When the initials are used in print, or in writing, by which form of the indefinite article ought they to be preceded by a, calling for member, or an, calling for em?

As I write there are no Members of Parlia- ment other than the Lords, who make no use of these initials. Would it not be a desirable reform to suppress the comparatively modern, and useless, letter i, and spell the word

Parlament'"? EDWARD S. DODGSON.

Hotel Central, Biarritz.

GOLDEN ROOF AT INNSBRUCK. I should be rery grateful to any of your readers for iu- ormation respecting " The Golden Roof " at "nnsbriick, erected by one Frederick of the Smpty Pocket. What is the date of it ? and

what gained for Frederick his nickname?

Was it really cased in gold when first built ?

Any other information would be gladly eceived. (Mrs.) A. HARRIS.

Wharfenden, Farnborough, Hants.

"SHAKKESPERE" : "SHAKSTAFF." In a file f Court Rolls of Warwick College at the 'ublic Record Office (Bdle. 207, 88), Richard