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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. NOV. ie, 1907.

in another form. It is satisfactory to know that a letter exists in which King George gives his reasons for jilting Lady Sarah Lennox, and this document will throw a new light upon a much-debated question. Is it not possible for H. to publish extracts from the letter, or at all events to give the date on which it was written ?

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. I believe the following lines are by a well- known living writer, who has published only one small volume of poems, now out of print :

The orthodox said that it oame from the air, And the heretics said from the platter.

Who was he ?

I wish also to learn the authors of the following :

1. " I am Lycidas," said he,

" Fam'd in funeral minstrelsy."

2. Have you not heard love is more fierce than

hate?

3. From youth to age, whate'er the game, The unvarying practice is the same The devil take the hindmost, !

V. T.

The following are before 1709 :

1. There all those joys insatiably to prove

With which rich Beauty feeds the glutton Love.

2. Oh, mortal man, thou that art born in sin. Where does Rochester write ?

3. And while the priest did eat, the people stared

(starved).

K. K.

HORACE IN LATIN AND ENGLISH VERSE. I should feel obliged to any reader of ' N. & Q.' who could tell me where to find the good translation of Horace's second Epode in alternate Latin and English riming lines. It begins thus :

Happy the man from busy hum

Ut prisca gens mortalium, Who whistles his oxen o'er the lea Solutus omni foenore.

H. N. ELLACOMBE. Bitton Vicarage, Bristol.

CORNISH CHOUGH AND WITCHES. A passage in ' Guernsey Folk-lore,' from MSS. by the late Sir Edgar MacCulloch, edited by Edith F. Carey, 1903, says that the favourite forms for witches to appear in are those of cats, hares, and " cahouettes " or red-legged choughs. It is added that the chough's predilection for wild and un- frequented cliffs and headlands the very places where witches hold their meetings may have gained it a bad reputation ; and

a note containing a quotation from Metivier's ' Dictionnaire Franco-Normand ' shows that the bird played a part in Neo-Latin mytho- logy-

What folk-beliefs are connected with ifc in Great Britain and Ireland ? L. C. S.

DUCHESSE D'ANGOULEME. Can any of your readers tell me whether any life of the daughter of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette has been published, or any memoirs of or by her ? I have seen allusions to her in a variety of books, but her life was so interesting that I thought it might have been written. H. A. B.

[M. Imbert de Saint-Amand has devoted two- volumes to her : ' La Jeunesse de la Duchesse- d'Angouleme ' and 'La Duchesse d'Angouleme et les deux Restaurations.' Both were published in English translations in 1892. An older work \s Mrs. Romer's 'Filia Dolorosa,' memoirs of the Duchess, published in 1852 ; and reference is cor- stantly made to her in new books relating to Man> Antoinette's imprisonment.]

LONDON QUERIES OF THE EARLY EIGH- TEENTH CENTURY. The following queries; relate mostly to the year 1710 :

1. Who was Richard Farloe, a London, doctor ?

2. Who was a Dr. Laugham in London ?

3. Where was Morris's Coffee-House ?

4. Where was " The Pestle and Mortar " Inn ?

5. Who was the famous Dr. John Young, alias Margery, a woman who practised physic in man's clothes ? She was nick- named the Squeaking Doctor.

SEAWEED NEEDING RAIN. In Sir Edgar MacCulloch's ' Guernsey Folk-lore ' we are informed that

"it has been remarked that dry seasons are un- favourable to the growth of seaweed, and that rain is almost as essential to its development as it is to that of the grass of the field a singular fact when we remember that the marine plant has always a supply of moisture." P. 78.

Can this be true, or is it folk-lore only ?

ASTARTE.

LODOWICKE JACKSON. Can any English or Irish correspondent of ' N. & Q.' give me genealogical particulars of the family of Lodowicke Jackson ? His daughter Eliza- beth was baptized in St. Mary's Church, Youghal, co. Cork, on 8 June, 1666, and interred there in 1667. Could he have been a son of Sir Anthony Jackson, who was interred in the Temple Church, London, in 1666 ? WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.

Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down.