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I understand the general was well treated, and lived in one of our Southern shires, and was on good terras with the gentry of the district. R. B. MARSTON.

" OCEAN, 'MID HIS UPROAR WILD." I am engaged in editing for the Archiv f. N. Spr. three of Coleridge's letters, which the poet wrote from Germany on his tour through the Harz mountains, and I find a quotation from a poet which I unable to trace. I have sought it in vain in the quotation books of Wood, Bartletb, Dalbiac, and Bohn. The quotation has a Byronish tinge ; it runs : Ocean, 'mid his uproar wild, Speaks safety to his Island Child !

The poet quotes these verses in comparing a "miserable post" with the words "Pays neutre " on it to the natural defence of Eng- land by the ocean. I shall be very grateful for information concerning their author.

DR. ERICH VOLLMER. D. Wilmersdorf b. Berlin.

[We recall two lines which somewhat resemble those quoted by DR. VOLLMER:

And never was heard such an outcry wild As welcomed to earth the ocean child. They occur in Bryan Waller Procter's song beginning The sea, the sea, the open sea.]

MESSENGER FAMILY, FORMERLY OF FOUN- TAINS AND CAYTON. I should be glad to have information about the above especially from the date of Dugdale's Visitation, 1664, and the extinction of the family about 1806. R. TRAPPES LOMAX.

The Manor House, Chatham, Clitheroe.

"JAMES" UNIVERSITY. Can any reader inform me what is the University referred to under the name of " James " in the catch quoted below, which I have found in a col- lection called ' Catch that Catch Can,' by James Hilton, 1652 ?

As there be three blew beans in a blew Bladdor, And thrice three rounds in a long ladder ; As there be three nooks in a corner Cap, And three corners and one in a Map ; Even so, like unto these, there be three Univer- sities,

Oxford, Cambridge, and James.

S. F. HULTON. 10, King's Bench Walk, Temple.

TOWER OF LONDON. A friend of mine has diligently sought, with a view to purchase, a second- hand copy of Britton and Bray ley's 1830, 8vo, 374 pp. Among the illustrations are representations of the execution of Lady Jane Grey, the moat, and the Traitor's Gate.
 * Memoirs of the Tower of London,' London,

Appeal is now made to your helpful pages, in the hope that some reader may know of a copy for sale. EUGENE F. McPiKE.

290, East 42nd Street, Chicago, U.S.

REGINALD FITZ URSE. Can any of your readers kindly tell me where I can obtain information as to the life preferably domestic of Reginald Fitz Urse, one of the murderers of Thomas a Becket ?

C. R, STONE.

Helensbourne, Abingdon, Berks.

THE CONDADO. In December, 1652, soon after the unfortunate battle off Dungeness, a cruiser attached to the Dutch fleet picked up, off Dover, "a flyboat of London coming from the Condado with figs, the merchant being named William Watts." Condado, which is also written CondaU, seems to be the Spanish of the Italian contado and the English county, and in itself is a general and utterly vague term. A seventeenth- century Italian atlas which I consulted has, in the very neighbourhood of the Straits of Dover, Contado di Hollandia, di Flandra, and di Bolonia probably also many others in many different neighbourhoods. All these appear to be outside the limit of inquiry ; as well as the several inland towns of Spain called Condado. I take it that " the Condado" named was a maritime district not a town from which figs were habitually brought, though not necessarily ^ grown there. Will some one familiar with the history of the fig trade please help me to identify it?

I do nofc know whether the name William Watts may suggest anything, but in 1727 one Richard Watts was factor at Smyrna. J. K. LAUGHTON.

DURHAM GRADUATES. I should be glad to receive information concerning the following : Anderson, Philip, L.Th., 1838. Dalton, Thomas, B.A., 1838. Davison, John, L.Th., 1836. Grieve, John, L.Th., 1836. Griffith, Henry Deer, B.A., 1837. Mackay, William, L.Th., 1838. Massie, Charles, L.Th., 1836. Pratt, Robert Forster, B.A., 1836. Robinson, Ralph, B.A., 1836. Watson, William Thomas, B A., 1836.

W. C. BOULTER. 28, Queen's Road, Bayswater, W.

SIR GEORGE YONGE. Can any of your correspondents give me particulars of Sir George Yonge, who is referred to in * The Life of Sir John Beverly Robinson' (Chief Justice of Upper Canada), by his son, Major-