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 ID* s. v. JUNE 2. 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 th S. v. 408). The lines beginning " Before me lie dark waters" really occur in Hood. ' They form the second stanza of a poem entitled

^'To. Composed at Rotterdam." See

'Poems by Thomas Hood,' seventh edition, Moxon, 1854, p. 201. The poem begins : 1 gaze upon a city.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

The lines quoted are by Thomas Hood the elder, and are to be met with in 'Up the Rhine,' published in 1839. The stanzas in question must not be confused with 'Up the Rhine,' one of the short 'Comic Poems' published in 1868. I doubt if the edition of Hood's Works, 7 vols., represents a complete collection. ROBERT WALTERS.

[MR. R. J. FYXMORE, ST. S WITHIN, and MRS. B. SMITH are also thanked for replies.]

" PIT "-COCKPIT (10 th S. v. 407). The lines inquired after by DR. MURRAY,

And make him glad (at least) to quit His victory, and fly the pit,

occur in 'Hudibras,' Part II. Canto iii. 11. 1111-12. CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

[Two other replies have been forwarded to DR. MURRAY.]

DR. RICHARD GARNETT (10 th S. v. 367). The following cutting from Light of 12 May is, I think, worthy of being reproduced in 'N. &Q.':

Dr. Richard Garnett and Astrology.

SIR, The facts mentioned in Light last week, which were not generally known, prove, without doubt, that the late Dr. Richard Garnett was a believer in astrology. Those who feel any desire to become acquainted with his reasons cannot do better than read his article ' The Soul and the Stars,' published under the name of ' A. G. Trent,' in The University Magazine for March, 1880, and reprinted in Wilde's 'Natal Astrology. 3 Mean- while, it may interest students to note that the very date of his death is a proof of the principles of the science. The terminus vital was reached on Good Friday, April 13th, and the ephemeris will show that at that time Saturn was transiting the place of the moon in 'A. G. Trent's' horoscope (as given in 'Natal Astrology,' p. 183), and the sun was exactly in opposition to Saturn's place in the horoscope. The former coincidence only happens once in thirty years, the latter once in a year. The simultaneous affliction of sun and moon is perfectly significant of the event, and I have found that some such testimonies commonly occur at death. Yours, &c., GEORUE FRANCIS GREEN.

62, Auckland Road, Upper Norwood.

JULIAN E. O. W. PEACOCK. 348, Moss Lane East, Manchester.

LORD CAMELFORD'S DUEL (10 th S. v. 162, 218). In ' The Field of Honor/ by Major Ben C. Truman, New York, 1884, is an account

of the duel and the cause thereof, which differs from that given in The Times and in the * Dictionary of National Biography.' Although Major Truman does not give his authority, the story of the cause is possibly worth reproducing (p. 186) : "Camelford and Best had always been close

friends Early in the month above named [March,

1804] they had spent a few hours one evening at Hammond s, a noted gaming-place, when Camelford retired and left his companion at play with one Symons, who had already commenced to fleece Best through the medium of marked cards. The Captain [i.e., Best] shortly afterward caught the sharper just as he was about to introduce some extra cards from within the sleeve of his coat ; and, jumping up, seized Symons by the throat, and hurled him violently to the floor, and then kicked his face into a jelly, and otherwise so bruised the cheat that his wife hardly recognized him when they met. Mrs.

Symons promised her husband that he should be

avenged She wrote to Camelford as follows:

4 1 beg you to be strictly on your guard in your future dealings and associations with Captain Best, who speaks of your lordship in disrespectful and disdainful terms, especially when he is beside him- self with wine.' 'There,' she murmured, 'is

your death warrant, my noble Captain.'"

Then came the quarrel, Camelford de- clining to give up the name of his informant.

COL. PRIDE AUX (ante, p. 162) says that Camelford fired first. The book from which I am quoting says :

" They took their positions at fifteen paces ; and

at the drop of a white hankerchief and the

words ' One two three fire ! ' both gentlemen discharged their weapons simultaneously."

Major Truman says (p. 480) that Best "never recovered from the shock he felt at seeing his antagonist fall mortally wounded." '' No moment of my life has been entirely a happy one," he once said, " since I killed that man. I often see poor Camelford stand- ing up before me." It is added that he died of delirium trernens at the age of forty-eight. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

BURY FAMILY (10 th S. v. 349, 396). was returned to the House of Commons at the general election of May, 1741, for New- port (Cornwall), a pocket borough of Sir William Morice, of Werrington, who had married, as his second wife, Anne Bury, of Berry Narbor. Presumably, this was the Thomas Bury referred to in a petition pre- sented to Parliament very early in the same century regarding the estate of Humphry Bury, of Collaton, deceased, father of Thomas, then (March, 1701/2) aged ten, and given in the * Commons' Journals,' vol. xiii. 780. Thomas Bury was re-elected for
 * Thomas Bury, of Colleton, county Devon, 7 *

ewport after the dissolution of July, 1747 but Sir William Morice died in 1750, and