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referred to was actually inscribed on her tombstone ? Where was she buried ? Is the inscription still visible ? D. M. R.

PROVENAL FOLK-SONGS. From the fol- lowing remarks in ' L'Homme qui rit,' Pt. II. bk. iii. c. viii., it would appear that Victor Hugo entertained but a poor opinion of modern Provencal folk-songs. He is de- scribing the behaviour of the sailor Cap- garoupe, who is drinking his eau de vie and mumbling his verses alternately to keep up his spirits during a storm in the Channel :

"Entre chaque gorgee, il machonuait un couplet d'une i de ces chansons campagnardes dont le sujet est rien du tout ; un chenun creux, une haie ; on voit dans la prairie par une crevasse du buisson Tombre allongee d'une charrette et d'un cheval au soleil couchant, et de temps en temps au-dessus de la haie parait et disparait 1'extr^mite de la fourche chargee de foin. II n'en faut pas plus pour une chanson."

Is this estimate a'fair one, or is the author merely giving way to his jocular vein ? At 10 S. vi. 386 ST. SWITHIN wrote : " The carriers of Provence, in olden times, used to sing to the accompaniment of their horses' steps and to the jingling of the bells on their harness." Perhaps this practice may in part account for the poverty of sentiment of which the poet complains in these com- positions. N. W. HILL.

New York.

GEORGE FLEETWOOD 's PORTRAIT : ARMS OF THE SWEDISH FLEETWOODS. At Gowran Grange, Naas, co. Kildare, the seat of the Baron de Robeck, there is a fine and appa- rently contemporary portrait in oils of George Fleetwood, Baron of Sweden, second son of Sir Miles Fleetwood of Aldwinkle. The following inscription is painted on the canvas on the left-hand side, near the top :

"Baron George Fleetwood | Governour of Cal- mar | and of the Isle of Oeland | in Sweden. 1630. | Brother of S r W Fleetwood | of Woodstock, and of | Charles Fleetwood, Lord 1 Deputy of Ireland."

At the right-hand top corner these arms are emblazoned : Quarterly, 1 and 3, Az., a lion rampant or ; 2 and 4, Gu., a royal crown or. On an inescutcheon appear the Fleetwood arms, viz., Per pale nebulee az. and or, six martlets count erchanged.

As the Baron de Robeck is a member of the Swedish nobility, it occurred to me that possibly there might be some connexion by marriage between the De Robeck or Fock family and the Swedish Fleetwoods which would account for the presence ol the portrait at Gowran Grange. But there is no such connexion, and the portrait is believed to have been purchased. There

was a branch of the Fleetwood family resident in Athy, co. Kildare, for nearly a century ; but these Fleetwoods seem to have been descendants of the Kilbeggan Fleetwoods, established in the co. Westmeath so far back as 1625, and there does not appear to be any reason why the Athy Fleetwoods. should have possessed a portrait of Baron George Fleetwood. Information is sought as to the prior ownership and history of this portrait.

In the ' Sveriges Adelskalendar ' for 1905 there is an illustration of the arms of the Swedish Fleetwoods, which are identical with those emblazoned on the portrait. The coat which bears the inescutcheon must no doubt have been granted at the time that George Fleetwood was enrolled a member of the Swedish nobility. But can. any of your readers explain the quarterings ? George Fleetwood married in 1640 Brita Gyllenstjerna, of noble birth ; but the arms of her family are not included in these quarterings. EDMUND T. BEWLEY.

40, Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin.

CHARTERHOUSE POETRY COLLECTION : ' THE FARMER'S AUDIT.' I want to find a little collection of poetry, which I believe was in use many years ago at Charterhouse School. The volume contains a poem entitled ' The Farmer's Audit,' and it gives an account of how the farmers used to pay their rent, and at the same time grumble :

One talking of mildew,

One of frost,

And one of storms of hail,

And one of pigs that he had lost

By maggots at the tail.

W. PAGE WOOD.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. W T ho was the author of Leave me not wild, and drear, and comfortless, As silent lightning leaves the starless night ?

It is quoted in K. H. Digby's ' Compitum/ 1850, iii. 8. ASTARTE.

In what poem (of Tennyson's ?) does the phrase " moonless stars " occur ?

A. WATTS. 13, Prestonville Road, Brighton.

ARMS ON PUNCHBOWL. On a punchbowl of Lowestoft ware are the following arms : Per pale, Or, three escallop shells ; Azure, three griffins' (?) heads erased, 2 and 1. The mantling round what might be either a knight's or esquire's helmet is gules lined azure ; and the crest, two serpents entwined respectant, vert. The motto is " Sis falix