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genealogical information about the officers their age, parentage, &c. ?

BERNARD P. SCATTERGOOD. Moorside, Far Headingley, Leeds.

HOLM AND MASTICK TREES. In the first recorded instance of witnesses being, so to speak, "ordered out of court," viz, 'The History of Susanna/ we find reference to these trees. I should be glad to learn if such trees are now known as above or under other and what names.

JAS. CURTIS, F.S.A.

Glenburn, Worcester Road, Sutton.

[Many quotations for holm, used for the holm- oak and formerly for the holly, will be found in the 'N.E.D.' The name mcutic is applied to various species of trees. The large amount of information condensed in the article on this word in the 'N.E.D.' will probably supply nearly all you desire.]

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

My span of life is drawing to a close, A little farther on the landmark shows The end of my existence. Thither brought, 1 shall shrink up and wither into nought.

M. N. G.

In what poem do the following lines appear? They have been attributed to Wordsworth :

Thee with the welcome snowdrop I compare, That child of winter prompting thoughts that climb From desolation toward the genial prime.

W. T. BLEASE.

Pendleton.

This man miracle that thou art tho.u, With power on thine own self and on the world. I felt certain this was in Tennyson ; but I can find no reference in Bright well's con- cordance. Lucis.

COMPANIES OF INVALIDS: THEIR RECORDS. I shall feel obliged if any of your readers will kindly say where the records of the Companies of Invalids are kept. I wish to find particulars of a British officer about whom the only. definite record I have is his death-certificate, which describes him as "Major of Invalids, Berwick-upon-Tweed, died 2 Dec., 1806."

ALAISDER MACLEAN.

MEDICAL CORONER. When was a medical man first elected to a coronership ? In * The Ingoldsby Legends ' the line occurs : A medical crowner 's a queer sort of thing.

MEDICULUS.

AND MILTON. Some great writer speaks of "the Satan of Milton as the sublimest figure, with the exception of the Prometheus of JEschylus, in all lite- rature." Who is it] I wish I had noted

the passage at the time : had I done so, I should not now have to trespass on the kind- ness of your readers by asking the question ; and yet the answer, when given in * N. & Q.,' will become not only a reply to me, but also a reference for others. Lucis.

ETON SWISHING A full-page illustration of Eton customs and scenes was published in one of the London monthly illustrated maga- zines in 1899, 1900, or 1901. One of the medallions surrounding the centre, showed an Eton swishing, with boy on the whipping- block. .Can any one help me to find it?

WINCHESTER.

CHRISTINA, QUEEN OF SWEDEN. I should be glad to have information about the fol- lowing book :

" The Works of Christina Queen of Sweden con- taining Maxims and Sentences In Twelve Cen- turies ; And Reflections on the Life and Actions of Alexander the Great. Now first translated from the Original French. To which is prefixed, An Account of her Life, Character and Writings, by the Translator. London : Printed for D. Wilson and T. Durham, at Plato's Head in the Strand, MDCCLIII."

What was the translator's name 1

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

LAKE OF ST. LAMPIERRE IN CANTON OF BERNE. (Cf. ante, p 162.) Where is this lake? and who was this saint?

J. B. WAINEWRIGHT.

MACAULAY ON THE THAMES. Can any one kindly give the reference (by chapter, not by page) for the following sentence, which is quoted as " from Macaulay's ' History ' " ?

"That beautiful valley through which the Thames, not yet defiled by the precincts of a great capital, nor rising and flowing with the ebb of the sea, rolls under woods of beech round the gentle hills of Berkshire."

The 'N.E.D.' gives no instance of "ebb" meaning "flow," or even "tide" generally. Perhaps the sentence is not quoted quite accurately. The tide in the river would surely " rise and flow " with the flow of the sea-tide, not with the ebb.

H. K. ST. J. S.

WALL FAMILY. (See 10 th S. ii. 309 ; iii. 232 ; iv. 8, 14 ) I again refer to the family of Wall, to ask for the church, and the exact date in, it is said, 1740, of the marriage of John Wall, M.D., of Worcester, with Catharine, youngest daughter of Martin Sandys, barrister-at law, of Worcester, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Burton, of Worcester ; and for the date of death, and place of burial, of this Catharine Wall, who survived her husband. Where, on 8 July,