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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. JULY 27, 1907.

made by Frederic Leighton in Rome in 1859 ; and I hope that an inquiry in ' N. & Q. may bring the information. SENON.

" EDWAKD " IN SLAVONIC. Now that the Balkan Exhibition is attracting attention perhaps some reader can explain what has long puzzled me, viz., why the Servians Croats, and Montenegrins translate our royal name Edward as Slavoljub. Render- ings of Western names into Slavonic tongue generally start from some resemblance oi sound or meaning. Slavoljub certainly ii quite unlike Edward in sound, and I can see no point of contact in sense. According to Miss Yonge, Edward means " rich guard.' Slavoljub she renders as " glorious love." I may add that I have heard this name pronounced both as Slavoljub and Slavoljub, the accent varying according to dialect.

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

BASSE FAMILY. Information is wanted in regard to the family or history of William Basse, who began writing in 1602, and con- tinued to write until 1659. Any facts may be communicated until 24 August directly to me, care of Brown, Shipley & Co., 123, Pall Mall. E. C. BASS, D.D.

[Dr. Sidney Lee supplies a pretty full account of Basse in vol. iii. of the 'D.N.B.' The references appended include several articles in the first volume of N. & Q.']

GRAY'S LETTERS. I should be glad if readers of ' N. & Q.' could assist me in tracing " Res est sacra miser " a quotation of Gray to Mason, 1765 ; also the reference in a letter to Wharton, 5 March, 1766, " buried under the snow, like the old Queen of Denmark." D. C. TOVEY.

Worplesdon Rectory, Guildford.

[" Res est sacra miser," Seneca, Epig. 4, 9 (King's ' Classical and Foreign Quotations,' 231)).]

ROSSETTI'S POEM ON THE BOER WAR, 1881. I have been asked for a poem by D. G. Rossetti on the Boer War of 1881. I cannot, however, trace such a poem. Could any of your readers enlighten me on the point, stating, if there is such a poem, where it is to be found ? HUBERT J. AYLMER.

Tate Library, Brixton, S.W.

HIGHLANDERS " BARBADOSED " AFTER THE 1715 AND '45 REBELLIONS. 1. In Southey's 'West Indies' (vol. ii. 211) it is asserted that in 1716 " one hundred of the prisoners taken at Preston in Lancashire, who had been confined in the Savoy, were shipped off for the West Indies." If any of the '15 prisoners were transported to the island plantations, it is highly probable that

Barbados, a favourite island for banishment, would have got its share. In the records of that island, however, I have been unable to trace any arrival of such prisoners. If there is trustworthy authority for Southey's. statement of shipment for the West Indies, were any of the men sent to Barbados ? If so, what were their names, the name of the vessel conveying them, and the date and port of sailing ? Finally, was anything heard of their after-history ?

2. In his ' Memoirs of the Pretenders ' (Bell, 1890), p. 275, Jesse states that after Culloden a large number of men were shipped to Barbados, that many died aboard ship, that 81 reached Barbados, and that three years afterwards only 18 of these were alive. I have a copy of an " Indenture " signed by 127 Jacobite prisoners, who apparently were sent to Barbados in the ship Frere in 1746. (The list includes 20 McDonalds, 19 McKenzies, and 16 Grants : 112 of the prisoners sign by "mark.") How many of them arrived at Barbados I do not know : the records of that island are in some respects in a very imperfect condition. Nor have I yet ascertained from the burial registers the mortality after arrival. On what authority did Jesse base his statement ? What were the names of his 81, and what the names of the 18 ? What were the ship, port, date of sailing ?

3. Have any books been published on Covenanters and Scots Jacobites " bar- badosed " ? What MSS. on that subject, and on their lot in the island and their after- history, are known to exist ?

4. I am studying the fate of those un- fortunate men, some of whose descendants remain in Barbados to this day under tie name of " Red Legs." But one is terriby handicapped " our side the water " ly distance from libraries and manuscri)t collections. I should gratefully hear of any information, either through ' N. & Q' or direct, on the matter.

J. GRAHAM CRUICKSHANK:. Audit Office, British Guiana.

KENTISH NEWSPAPERS. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' inform me if there exists in any public or private library The Kentish Post, or Canterbury News-Letter, for the years 1750, 1751, and 1752 ? I particularly desire to refer to these years for certain local nformation. W. J. MERCER.

12, Marine Terrace, Margate.

BINGLEYS OF NOTTS. Can any of your eaders give me information regarding the Nottinghamshire family of Bingley ? Their