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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL J^E i, 1907 —Upwards of twenty years ago I asked in your pages where the following lines were to be found. May I repeat the question?

If the forgotten word in the last line could be recovered, it might supply evidence as to authorship.

Will one of your readers help a busy man to the exact ""locale " of the two following rather threadbare quotations?

Where in Macaulay's 'History' does the following passage occur?

was at Westminster School in the second decade of the eighteenth century. Any information concerning his parentage and career would be useful. G. F. R. B.

, son of Samuel Crooke of St. Christophers, was elected a King's Scholar at Westminster in 1757. I should be glad to obtain further information concerning him and his family. G. F. R. B.

—Can any of your readers state where I can see a pedigree of Page of Wembley, Middlesex?

—In 1822 Sir Walter Scott was commissioned to edit a projected edition of the national poet. After three volumes had appeared the crash of 1826 put an end to the scheme. Can any one kindly refer me to a set of the three volumes, or odd ones? Presumably the size is octavo, and date of publication between 1822 and 1826—perhaps 1825.

—Has it been ascertained when autograph letters were first sold by auction in England? I have no opportunity at present of seaching the earlier sale catalogues, and in those at hand the first occasion apparently was in the sale of the second portion of Dr. Mead's library, April, 1755. They occur on p. 239 of the catalogue:—

My copy of the catalogue is without names of purchasers or prices.

—In 1572, a commission having been issued "for general musters and training of all manner of persons hable for the wars," the Sheriff and Justices of Devon returned a certificate wherein it was stated that "the nomber of th' abell men mustered within the said countie, as well Tynners as Marryners, are " Can any one explain the above use of the term "Tynners"? Were these the Dartmoor miners or "Stannators?" and if so, were they peculiarly liable to be called out on military service? There was a Guild of Tin Miners : did they constitute a special regiment? A certain number of men were, we read, "to be trained and armed at the reasonable chardge of the inhabitants in everie shire." Were the "Stannary towns" responsible for the training of the "Tinners"?

In the churchwardens' accounts of South Tawton, in the year 1557-8, I note the item: "To Willya' Smyth for the Tyners xxijs" ; also expenses for repairing "the Harnes" (i.e., the parish armour) and for the purchase of "a Narming Sorde." This was a year of enforced activity in matters military—see the Instructions to the Earl of Bedford, Lieutenant of co. Devon (inter alia).

South Tawton was "Ancient Demesne of the Crown," and, lying on the border of the forest, included many tinners among its inhabitants.

The Lay Subsidy Rolls at the Record Office—that of 1348, for instance (95/14,