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tions,' j 1837, i. 35-6. They seem to have formed part of a suppressed note to Cole- ridge's monody on Chatterton.

W. P. COUBTNEY.

MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS : LADIES-IN- WAITING AT ANTWERP (10 S. xii. 489 ; 11 S. i. 73). In his ' Fotheringhay and Mary, Queen of Scots ? (1886), Cuthbert Bede says that two of her women and four of her men were reluctantly allowed to attend her execution and that the two former were Jane Kennedy and Elizabeth Curie. A foot-note adds :

" Dr. Lingard calls her ' Elspeth ' Curie. Froude erroneously says, * Elizabeth Kennedy and Curie's young wife, Barbara Mowbray.' "

JOHN T. PAGE.

Barbara Curie and Gillies Mowbray went to Antwerp after Mary's deaih, lived there some time, and are buried in the church of St. Andrew there. Barbara and Gillies Mow- bray were the younger daughters of the Laird of Barnbougle, the estate now belonging to the Earl of Rosebery. The ruins of the dwelling-house are still to be seen in his grounds. Barbara married Gilbert Curie one of Queen Mary's secretaries. There were two older daughters (one the mother of the Admirable Crichton) and one younger.

Barbara Curie with Jean Kennedy wit- nessed the execution of their mistress, and bequeathed her portrait to the Scotch College at Douai. Jean Kennedy married Sir Andrew Melville. She was drowned in the Firth of Forth when going to meet Anne of Denmark, bride to James VI., to whose household she had been attached.

S AXE -DANE.

"FAIRERY" (11 S. i. 287). Of course this ignorantly formed word is not in the 'N.E.D.' The word fairy (F. f eerie] is the right form to express " fairy -land," as is duly explained in that monumental work. The extraordinary use of the modern English fairy, which actually makes it express what was properly called a fay, is only paralleled by the use of paynim (a short form of paganism ) to express a pagan ! WALTER W. SKEAT.

MAJOR WILLIAM FARQUHAR, 15TH FOOT (11 S. i. 128). Major Farquhar was gazetted lieutenant-colonel of the 15th Foot in 1758, tin* colonel commanding at the time being General Jeffrey (afterwards Lord) Amherst. The regiment saw service in Scotland during the rebellion of 1745-6, and afterwards in America in 1758 ; it took a distinguished

part in the capture of Louisburg and shared in the glories of Quebec, and was subse- quently sent to the West India islands.

The campaigns thus indicated probably covered the period of Farquhar's military service. His name disappears from the list of officers of the 15th Regiment previous to 1768. Perhaps the 'Historical Records of the 15th (East Yorkshire) Regiment, 1685-1848,' published at London by Parker, 1848, may afford further information.

W. SCOTT.

" DEW DROP INN " (11 S. i. 246). There is a public-house with this sign in the Wood- pecker Road, New Cross, S.E. ; but it is a modern house, between only thirty and forty years old. A. RHODES.

There is, or was a few -years ago, a " Dew Drop Inn " in Clifton Road, New Cross Road, near Deptford Broadway.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

THE "PRINCE FRED " SATIRE (11 S. i. 148, 292). There is no doubt that such lines as those in the satirical epitaph beginning with

Here lies Fred,

Who was alive and is dead.

were a " common form ? ' in such productions at one time.

MR. A. F. ROBBINS quotes a similar set from the Hist. MSS. Commission's Second Report on Lord Egmont's collection. Another will be found in the notes of Hals on the history of Cornwall (sub Egloshayle parish). Speaking of a notorious attorney called Hoblyn, he asserts that the following " taunting epitaph " was fixed upon his grave "by an unknown but arch hand, n viz.,

Here lies Ned,

I am glad he 's dead ;

If there must be another,

I wish 'twere his brother,

And for the good of the nation

His whole relation.

W. P. COURTNEY.

THE BRAZILS (11 S. i. 189). For many reasons Brazil was thought very little about for quite a century after its discovery ; but with the beginning of the seventeenth century French, Spaniards, and Dutch engaged in a series of conflicts with the Portuguese (and with one another) for possession of the land. The Dutch had by far the best success ; and when the revolution in Portugal gave to that state independence and a native sovereign, the Dutch, as enemies of Spain, became friends of the Portuguese ; and the