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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vn. MARCH 23, 1007.

Garrick ' (1868, i. 125) gives an incorrect date in connexion with little Davy's de- parture for Parkgate ; but he conjectures very feasibly that as he was unaccompanied by Peg Woffington, she doubtless remained to go with the Smock Alley company to Preston.

Tate Wilkinson paid an unprofessional visit to the Jubilee in August or September, 1762, but was disappointed with his ex- perience. " At Preston," he writes in his ' Memoirs,'

"we found very bad accommodation, very dear, very dirty, and much crowded. The procession was tolerable, but not worth the trouble or expence of a journey to see it ; indeed, I was very glad on the second day to persuade Mr. Sowdon to quit Preston for Chester, for it was all confusion and mire, except the main street, which I recollect is spacious and handsome, but it was the crowd and inconveniency that made us glad to depart." Wilkinson also tells us that during the festival of 1762 Hull and Younger' s players came from Birmingham to support the London performers who had been engaged. W. J. LAWRENCE.

AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED.

1. "0 Charidas ! What is there down below?" "Much darkness." "And what is this other life ? " "A lie!" "And the god of hell?" "A fable." "All is over with death !"

This is attributed to Callimachus. Can any one supply me with the reference ?

2. "Did we think victory great ? So it is. But now it seems to me, when it cannot be helped, that deteat is great, and that death and dismay are great."

Walt Whitman expresses the same idea (' Song of Myself ') in these words : Have you heard that it was good to gain the day ? I also say it is good to fall.

3. Quae venit indigno pcena, dolenda venit.

CHR. WATSON. 264, Worple Road, Wimbledon.

[No. 3 is slightly varied from Ovid, Heroides ' v. 7.J

What are the source of the following quotations in Coleridge's ' Biographia Lite- raria ' ?

1. Vir bonus es, doctus, prudens ; ast haud tibi spiro. Bonn s Library Ed., p. 110.

2. Their visnomies seemed like a goodlv banner spread in defiance of all enemies. P. 252. :

The second quotation is, according to Coleridge, taken from Spenser ; but I have not been able to trace it in Spenser's works. J. SHAWCROSS.

KIRBY HALL, NORTH ANTS. When and in what paper did an article on Kirby Hall, JN orthants, by either Lady Constance Howard

or the Lady Winefred Howard of Glossop, appear ? I do not know the title of the article. (Miss) F. CHAPMAN,

79, Eccleston Square, S.W.

ARMS WANTED. Can some correspondent) identify for me the following arms, appa- rently foreign ? Quarterly, sable and argent, on a scutcheon of pretence a tree (perhaps an orange tree from its shape) the tincture not very clear, but possibly or. They are in the corner of a panel portrait of a man of about twenty- five, with an amiable but rather weak face, in the " Puritan " black,, with plain collar, and with flowing locks, circa 1640-60. W. C. J.

ROGER LANGDON, Mus.Doc. Roger Langdon, Doctor of Music, was clerk of the- parish church of Chiselborough, in the county of Somerset, from 1769 to 1791. He died 27 August, 1791, and was interred on the 29th, in the seventy-third year of his age. I am anxious to discover further particulars about him or any members of hi& family. (Mrs.) TEMPLE.

8, Keble Road, Oxford.

PORLOCK CHURCH. There is a niche roughly cut in the north-eastern face of an octagonal column in the nave of Porlock Church, the purpose of which I should like to ascertain. The demolished rood-screen formerly came against this column, so that the niche would be just to the right of the return stalls. The bottom of the niche is 3 ft. 8 in. from the present floor ; its height is 10^ in., and width 6| in. It is cut 3 in. into the column, and its floor is rectangular. The upper part of the niche is semicircular in front, and coved back. There is no trace of an ambry in the chancel, and the piscina has double basins, so that there is little room for movable utensils.

My own opinion is that the niche was used for the pax, but I should be glad of other opinions. JOHN H. WHITHAM, M.D.

Seaward Cottage, Porlock, Taunton.

" TWOPENCE FOR MANNERS." Was this charge at all common in private schools ? and when was it discontinued ? The Daily Mirror, in an article the other day, dealing with the present time and manners, said : "We were never the politest of people, and un- less we take care we shall become the most boorish. The old joke against unmannerly people, that their parents hadn't paid an extra twopence for them to be taught manners, has unfortunately become true of the British nation."

The only reference I can recall just now to this practice is in that excellent novel