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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. DEC. 28, 1907.

I know that he was born in 1784, and died in Yeovil when, not known. I believe that he belonged originally to South Pether- ton, but after personal search there I could find no trace of him, nor at Yeovil any epitaphs or inscriptions concerning his burial. Perhaps he was buried at Ports- mouth. All private history concerning him and other members of the family will be gratefully received, inasmuch as I am writing a genealogy of both these families.

A. G. MABKS. 24, Hewlitt Road, Old Ford.

AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED. Who is the author of the following ?

There is so much bad in the best of us, And so much good in the worst of us, That it ill behoves any of us To find fault with the rest of us.

I have seen the lines ascribed to R. L. Stevenson, but The Reader of 7 September states that they were written by Goverror Hoch of Kansas, the last two lines bemg slightly altered, as follows :

That it hardly behoves any of us To talk about the rest of us.

A. L..

[MB. C. A. BERNAU stated at 10 S. v. 76 /hat a Calendar for 1906 credits Stevenson with the Author- ship ; but this is not conclusive evidence.] /

Would you kindly inform me whpre the following quotation comes from ? 'Tis hard if all is false that I advance,, A fool must now and then be right byrehance.

JJD. G.

[Cowper, ' Conversation,' 11. 59-tt).]

LIFE IN BOMBAY. Emigrants proceeding to our colonies have excellent sources of information in the publications of the Emigrants' Information Office, /as well as in other books, and can also rea/lily find out what a given income is worth in most of our colonies. With respect to thecost of living and manner of domestic life pf Europeans in Bombay, however, I haye been quite unable to obtain reliable information. Such informat on as may be foun in the guide- books for travellers does not/meet the case. Can any one offer information, or indicate where it may be found ? / ALLEGRO.

"PARSLEY PEEL." Can any of your readers in the calico-priixing district en- lighten me as to the earlr struggles of the founder of the Peel familr ? I know that he was originally a yeonan, and that he was the first Robert Pefel ; also that his first attempt at calico-printing, out of which his family subsequently rose to fame

and fortune, was with the aid of a common calendering machine borrowed from a poor neighbour, his first subject being a parsley leaf ; hence to this day, I believe, he is- known in Blackburn as Parsley Peel, the grandfather of the great Sir Robert. What I should like to know is this : Was not?, the idea of printing on calico, the first conception of the thing, the work of another ? Also, is it not a fact that Parsley Peel virtually stole the idea, and left the inventor to want ? The thing occurred somewhere- about 1750. G. D. S.

' THE FACE OF CLAY.' A Scotchman in Barrie's ' Sentimental Tommy,' speaking in the vernacular, makes use of the expres- sion " the face of clay." I am under the impression that there is a recent novel bear- ing this title. What does it mean ?

JOHN HEBB.

[The novel of that name is by Mr. H. A. Vachell, and refers, if we remember aright, to a sculptor's work in clay of a human face.]

" FFBEE ROBEBDS " : " The CHEQUERS." The former appears as the name of a " tenement " in the parish of Walton-on-the- Hill, Surrey, in 1629. Can it be an inn sign, such as "The Highwayman," or merely freehold property as distinct from copy- hold ?

" The Chequers " is an inn in the village, but does not occur in the list of names from which " ffree Roberds " is taken. What is the earliest reference to " The Chequers " as an inn sign in Surrey or contiguous counties ? W. P. D. STEBBING.

BEULAH SPA, UPPER NORWOOD. I have made many attempts to find out the date, or the approximate date, when these gardens were finally closed to the public, but so far without success. Mr. J. Corbet Anderson in the ' Great North Wood ' merely alludes somewhat vaguely to the waning in the popularity of the spa, which eventually led to its being closed ; but he does not speak definitely on the point. Mr. Allan M. Galer in ' Norwood and Dulwich ' de- scribes the gardens, but does not bring his history of them to a conclusion. From searches in old newspapers and other con- temporary publications, I gather that the place came to an end as a public resort some time in the fifties ; but as I am pre- paring an account of Beulah Spa, I naturally wish to be more exact than this.

Perhaps some one familiar with the neighbourhood and its history may be able to give the information required, or to