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words, they were more probably meant for Decimus Brutus, for whom Csesar had a very strong regard, than for Marcus Brutus, for whom he had much less regard. The in- fluence of Shakespeare has completely dis- torted the true view of Marcus Brutus.

G. DRAINER.

THE KING OF BATH (10 th S. v. 28, 75, 132). Your correspondent is not quite correct in stating that Gainsborough's portrait of Capt. Wade was sold at Christie's ; it was offered for sale, but was withdrawn, and re- placed in the Assembly Rooms, Bath, from which it has again disappeared. Wade, no doubt, was compelled to resign his office of M.O. through the crini. con. action in which he figured as defendant. A few years later he again offered himself, but his candidature was so coldly received that he withdrew, and resumed his duties at Brighton. B. W. T.

DEATH-BIRDS IN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND <10 tb S. iv. 530 ; v. Ill, 158). I wonder if the REV. JOHN PICKFORD can oblige me with the other verses of the lines to a robin beginning 41 Little bird with bosom red." I remember their being repeated to me as a child, but have never seen them in print.

A very pretty poem entitled * To a Robin,' by Norman Gale, appeared in The Christian World of 20 December, and was reprinted in The Literary World of 21 December, 1900. The penultimate verse is as follows : For hearts that were cold and unheeding,
 * Tisfiaid when the Saviour was bleeding

Thy forefather tried, Where steel and His flesh met together, To staunch with a kerchief of feather The wound in His side.

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

KYNAN (10 th S. y. 169). The genealogy of the Kings of Britain and the Kings and Princes of Wales is given by William Betham in his * Genealogical Tables,' 1795, tables 590 and 591 : Cad wan, sixteenth king of Britain, Prince of North Wales, 634 ; Cadwallo or Cadwallin, 678; Cadwallader, 688 or 689, King of the Britons and Prince of Wales ; Idwallo or Edwal, 720; Roderic Malwinoe, 755 ; Conan, 818 or 820 ; Esyth, 843, married to Mervin, King of Man ; Roderic, Maure, the Great, 876 ; Amarawdth, Prince of North Wales, 913 ; Edwal, Voel, 940; Meric (third Prince of North Wales); succeeded by his brother James or lago, 982 ; Conan, son of James; Gryffith ap Conan, 1137; Owen Guinedh, 1169; David ap Owen, 1194; Jorveth; Lewellen (sic) ap Jorveth, 1240;

David ap Llewellen, 1246 ; succeeded by his nephew Llewellen, 1282, eleventh Prince of North Wales.

Betham (table 92) gives the genealogy of the " Kings and Princes of Wales, according to the Welch History, beginning with Roderic, Maure, the Great '' : Roderic, 876 ; Amauraudth ; Edwal, Voel, Prince of North Wales ; Eric or Meric ; Edwal, 1003 ; lagoap Edwal, 1037; Conan; Gryffith ap Conan, 1137; Owen ap Gryffith, 1169; Jorweth ; Llewellen ap Jorwith, 1242 ; David ap Llewellen, 1246 ; Llewellen, 1282, who married Joan, daughter (illegitimate) of John, King of England (see table 606).

I give only the direct line as it appears. According to the Welsh table, some of these were not Princes of North Wales, others of the family having taken their places. The dates given appear to be the dates of death. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

GEORGE BAKER, OXFORD PRIZEMAN (10 th S. v< 1(59), George Baker was connected with my own family. He was deputy commissary and private secretary of J. Erskine, com- missary general to the army in the Peninsula. He died 22 July, 1811, I believe unmarried. If H. C. will write to me, giving particulars, I may be able to furnish him with further information. T C. T. BAKER.

Mapperley Rise, Sherwood, Nottingham.

QUARTERING OF ARMS (10 th S. v. 168). This question of marshalling is dealt with in Cussans's 4 Heraldry,' Dallaway's 'Heraldry,' the introduction to Burke's * Armory,' and in other works,

1. The daughter C would be entitled to bear her mother's arms surmounted by those of her father charged upon a canton, but not using the paternal quarterings, if any.

2. The right to arms through heiresses descends in the same way as a title to heirs general, and in the case cited the issue of ( would be entitled to quarter the arms of^ A, the prior representation of the arms having died out. ARTHUR VICARS, Ulster.

In marshalling these arms both C and her son would be entitled to quarter the arms of C's father and mother. B. M.

HOMER AND THE DIGAMMA (10 th S. v. 168). There are no manuscripts of Homer in existence with the digammainsitu. Probably the letter had ceased to be pronounced before the poems, oral at first, were put into writing. See Jebb's 'Homer,' fourth ed., 140. The earliest manuscripts of Homer now extant (except a few fragments) are of the tenth century A.D., when the digamma had been