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tionist, took up his residence there many years ago whilst an exile in England. The figures are richly draped, and each is bedecked with jewels in gold ornaments in one case with the addition of a garland of flowers on the head, as well as around the small medallion picture in the corner, repre- senting the Nativity and other episodes in the life and death of Christ.

BR. LE WETT. Teddington.

EDINBURGH STAGE : BLAND : GLOVER. Wanted genealogical particulars of the connexion between families of Glover and Bland. In Dibdin's ' Annals of the Edin- burgh Stage ' it is stated that John Bland, of the Theatre Royal, was an ancestor of William Glover, the painter, whose father was Edmund Glover, son of the famous Mrs. Glover, and proprietor of Prince's Theatre, Glasgow, who died in 1860. John Bland was of an old Irish race, and before he took to the stage was a cornet of dragoons, carried the colours of his corps at Dettingen, was taken prisoner at Fontenoy, and served subsequently under Col. (afterwards General) Honeywood in repressing the Jacobite rising in 1745. He was for many years treasurer of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh. Mrs. Glover's daughter married a John Bland, an actor, and both were at the Olympic, with Madame Vestris, about 1826. John Bland, the T.R.E. treasurer, died in 1806. The writer is most anxious to learn all about his descendants. J. F. FULLER.

Brunswick Chambers, Dublin.

[See the articles on John Bland at 9 S. xii. 207, 277 ; and especially that by MR. W. J. LAWRENCE at 10 S. iv. 204.]

QUADI AND MARCOMANNI. Gibbon says : "Marcus Antoninus obliged the vanquished Quad! and the Marcomanni to supply him with a large body of troops, which he sent into Britain." Is anything known as to where these troops were sent, or is there any account of the Quadi in later accounts of early Britain ? Is it known to what part of Spain a large portion of the tribe went when driven from the banks of the Danube ? L. D.

[A full list of Gibbon's authorities will be found in Prof. Bury's edition of the great history.]

" STEDANESE." In the Chertsey Car- tulary in the Public Record Office is a rental made 22 Sept., 1444, of lands at Fremley (If. 28b sqq.). On If. 29 are several instances of this word, e.g. :

"Ricardus Bristowe [Custumarius] tenet unum Mesuagium et unani virgatam terre native unam

purpresturam apud Brad more et unum Buticium pro ingre'ssu habendo in la lyecrof t.

" Ricardus Eyre atte Mershe tenet unum mesua-

gium et unam virgatam terre unum Croftum

vocatum Southecrot'te et Axelane unum Buticium

ibidem Et reddit inde de annuo Redditu cum

certo Tallagio et j Stedanese. x. s. xj. d. q.

"Willelmus at Mershe reddit cum certo

Tallagio et Stedanec[io] ad iiijor terminos usuales ix. s. viij. d. q."

I shall be glad to know the meaning~[of the English " stedanese " (Latinized " sted- anec[ium ?] "). Q. V.

LAME DOG POEM. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' supply the name of the author and the remaining verses of this poem ? It begins :

A long day's journey there lay before ; I crossed the meadow at breaking morn ; I saw the road by hill and moor ; Beyond the hills was my distant bourne.

F. H. SUCKLING.

SIR COSMO GORDON, BYRON BIOGRAPHER. In 1824 Knight & Lacey published an octavo pamphlet (80 pp.) entitled " Life and Genius of Lord Byron, by Sir Cosmo Gordon." Who was this person ? I can find no " Sir " Cosmo of the period, either as knight or baronet. The pamphlet con- tains many blunders, such as the statement that Byron was born in Aberdeenshire.

J. M. BULLOCH. 118, Pall Mall, S.W.

SONNETS BY ALFRED AND FREDERICK TENNYSON. ' Friendship's Offering ' for 1832 (Smith, Elder & Co.) contains two sonnets (one by Alfred and the other by Frederick Tennyson) which I do not re- member to have seen before. The difference between the styles of the two brothers as exemplified in these two compositions is remarkable. Alfred's sonnet, which begins

Me my own Fate to lasting sorrow doometh, reminds one of the * Ode to Claribel,' and is dull, pretentious, and insincere. Frederick's sonnet, on the other hand, addressed to Nature, is joyous, bird-like, and full of the zest of life, and winds up

Sure thou art everlasting, and in thee

There is a part of our eternity. Have these poems been reprinted ?

JOHN HEBB.

PARRY AND HALLEY FAMILIES. The will of Sybilla Halley, widow of Edmund Halley, jun., surgeon R.N. (found recently by Mr. Ralph J. Beevor, of St. Albans), is dated 1 May, 1771 ; proved 13 Nov., 1772 (P.C.C., Register Taverner, folio 406) ; and gives bequests to good friend Catherine Beaumont,