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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. i. FEB. 19, 1910.

under the designation ' Ladies' Diary.' During this period the older work was referred to as the ' Old Ladies' Diary.'

R. C. ARCHIBALD. Rue Soufflot, 3, Paris.

' TBABALHOS DE JESUS.' I am compiling the English bibliography of a Portuguese classic, the ' Trabalhos de Jesus ' (' Suffer- ings of Jesus'), by Frai Thome de Jesus. Can any one give me the exact title of the English translation made by Dr. R. Welton, and published in London (?) about 1721 ? The translation is a rare book, and not even mentioned in the ordinary bibliographical dictionaries. There is no copy in the British Museum. EDGAR PRESTAGE.

Chiltern, Bowdon, Cheshire.

EDWARD FITZGIBBON, 1803-1857. Does any one know of a portrait of Edward Fitzgibbon, who wrote under the name ' : Ephemera n ? After living six years in France he came to England and contributed to The Morning Chronicle and Bell's Life. He also published a ' Handbook of Angling/ 1847, and (with A. Young) ' The Book of the Salmon,' 1850, and edited 'The Complete Angler,* 1853. See ' D.N.B.,' first edition, vol. xix. p. 154. R. B. M.

LADY CLAVERING. Can any of your readers give me information concerning Clare, the wife of Sir Thomas John Claver- ing, Bt., of Rywell, Durham ? Lady Clavering died in 1854. She was a French- woman, the daughter of the Count de la Sable, and was the " Lady C." to whom Napoleon addressed the ' Letters from the Cape.' CLEMENT SHORTER.

' LIFE OF MRS. ELIZABETH WISEBOURN.' About 1720 there appeared a pamphlet with the following title-page :

" The Life of the late celebrated Mrs. Elizabeth Wisebourn, vulgarly called Mother Wybourn, con- taining Secret Memoirs of Several Ladies of the First Q y, who held an Assembly at her House. By Anodyne Tanner, M.D. London. Printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul's."

There are several names in it in cipher. Does a key to it exist ?

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

THE " PRINCE FRED " SATIRE. Few personal satires in our language are better known than that upon " Prince Fred, who was alive and is dead " ; but a document just brought to light indicates that it was not so original as has been always considered. The account of it given in that one of

Thackeray's lectures on * The Four Georges * which dealt with George III. is the generally accepted version :

" What had Frederick, Prince of Wales, George's father, done, that he was so loathed by George II. and never mentioned by George III. ? Let vis not seek for stones to batter that forgotten grave, but acquiesce in the contemporary epitaph over him :

Here lies Fred,

Who was alive and is dead.

Had it been his father,

I had much rather.

Had it been his brother,

Still better than another.

Had it been his sister,

No one would have missed her.

Had it been the whole generation,

Still better for the nation.

But since 'tis only Fred,

Who was alive, and is dead,

There's no more to be said."

But in the second volume of the Historical Manuscripts Commission's Report on the MSS. of the Earl of Egmont, issued in 1909, there is a letter (pp. 17-18) from Robert Bowyers to Robert Southwell, dated 9 July, 1667, which includes the passage :

"It is said these verses were written over the grave of one of the sons of the Lord Chancellor of England :

Here lies Tom Hyde,

It 's pity that he died ;

We had rather

It had been his father ;

If it had been his sister,

We had not missed her ;

If the whole generation,

It had been better for the nation."

The Lord Chancellor at that moment was Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon ; and the animus of the writer is shown in an earlier portion of the same letter, which ran :

" Great matters is expected when the parlia- ment sits, much wrong hath been done, God Almighty find out the authors and bring them to condign punishment."

This, as I have noted, was written in July, 1667 : in the August Clarendon was dis- missed from the Chancellorship, and two months later the House of Commons decided on his impeachment. It would be interest- ing, therefore, now to learn whether this satire on a son of his was generally circulated at the time, and when and by whom the extended and embellished version on " Prince Fred '* was brought to the notice of the world. ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

DAIS IN MEDIJEVAL HALLS. The dais was frequently raised at one end of a mediaeval hall, and I am very anxious to learn if there are any examples in England of the crown of the vaulting in the undercroft, im-