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give his rural visitor abundance of informa- tion regarding the writers who astonished the world month after month, sending him among his associates brimful of extravagant and startling fictions. " Then," says the reminiscent narrator,

"away I flew with the wonderful news and, if

ttny remained incredulous, I swore the facts down through them ; so that before I left Edinburgh I was accounted the greatest liar that was in it except one."

Altogether, unless we get more evidence as to the Canadian origin of the song than the literary statement regarding its transmission from a friend, we shall not be justified in accepting it as a fact, any more than the enthusiastic and credulous Shepherd was warranted in believing what he was solemnly told about the masterly achievements of Peter Robertson, Sheriff Cay, Dr. Scott, Sam Anderson, and the rest.

THOMAS BAYNE.

BASIL GOODE (10 S. xii. 387). Will TRIN. COLL. CAMS, permit me to suggest that his blazon of the book-plate is hardly heraldic ? If, as is probable, the Tudor roses are cinquefoils, and some allowance be made for engraver's faults, it would possibly read : ' ' Gules, on a chevron between three lions rampant or, as many cinquefoils of the first.' 1 This is the coat of Goode of Whetstone, Cornwall, entered at the 1620 Visitation ; but the crest is that of, or similar to, the Goods of Lincoln, Wilt- shire, and Worcester. The motto, however, does not fit either of these families. But as mottoes and crests were frequently changed on marriage with an heiress, or without SAML. H. GOOD.
 * ' rime or reason," this is of little moment.

Adelaide, S. Australia.

THE YEW IN POETRY (10 S. xii. 388, 436, 477). The yew is generally associated in old authors with the English long-bow : All nuulr of Spanish yew, their bows were wondrous

strong ;

They not an arrow drew, but was a clothyard long.

Dray ton.

F. A. W.

I'aris.

ARCHDEACON OF TAUNTON AS NAVAL AUTHORITY (11 S. i. 68). After the victory of Lewes on 28 May, 1 264, Henry of Montfort (eldest son of Simon and Eleanor of Eng- land, and godson of Henry III.) was made Constable of Dover Castle, Governor of the Cinque Ports, and Treasurer of Sandwich. In this capacity he gained the nickname of "" the wool -merchant," enforcing the pro-

hibition laid by the new Government on the export of wool so strictly that he was accused of seizing the wool for his own profit. As Constable of Dover he had for some time the custody of his captive cousin, the Crown Prince Edward. He fell at Evesham, 4 Aug., 1265. A. R. BAYLEY.

VOLTAIRE ON LOVE (10 S. x. 69). MR. R. L. MORETON wished to know whether the thought of the distich,

Qui que tu sois, voici ton maitre II Test, le fut, ou le doit etre,

had previously appeared in a classical dress. Byron in a note on ' The Island, 1 Canto IV. 192 (Stanza ix.),

For love is old,

Old as eternity, but not outworn With each new being born or to be born, says :

"The reader will recollect the epigram of the Greek anthology, or its translation into most of the modern languages

Whoe'er thpu art, thy master see He w r as, or is, or is to be."

But Mr. E. H. Coleridge's comment on this in his one-volume edition of Byron's poetical works is :

" Byron is quoting from memory an * Illustra- tion ' in the notes to ' Collections from the Greek Anthology,' by the Rev. Robert Bland, 1813, p. 402

Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.

The couplet was written by George Granville, Lord Lansdowne (1667-1735), as an ' Inscription for a Figure representing the God of Love 5 (see the 4 Genuine Works,' &c., 1732, i. 129)."

EDWARD BENSLY.

THOMAS CREEVEY (10 S. xii. 146). Capt. Gronow in his ' Reminiscences, 4 Second Series, pp. 49-50, relates the interview of Creevey with the Duke of Wellington.

There is a reference to Creevey in ' The Greville Memoirs,' i. 235 and ii. 194.

In ' The New Annual Register,' under date 6 Sept., 1810, we read :

" George Payne, Esq., nephew of Creevey,

Esq., M.P., shot in a duel. Mr. Payne was younger son of Ren6 Payne, Esq., deceased, who left him a fortune of 14,OOOZ. a year. He left a widow (Miss Grey) and four children."

There was recently a letter advertised in a second-hand bookseller's catalogue, dated about 1814, from Lord Brougham to H. S. Fox :

" I shall go to Whitbread's for a few days, and Sheridan and Creevey are both under a compact to go there at the same time."

R. J. FYNMORE.

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