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His widow died 2 Jan., 1681/2, and was buried at St. Andrew's Church.

Perceval's interest in Newport was pro- bably acquired through his connexion with Pym, said to have been his near relation, by whose offers (afterwards renewed to him by Hollis), it is stated, he was eventually persuaded to join the Presbyterian party. I do not know precisely what special in- fluence the Pyms had in Newport ; but that they had some hold is evident from the fact that it is tolerably certain that the colleague of William Prynne in the election of 7 Nov., 1648, was Pym's eldest son Alexander a circumstance, I believe, nowhere recorded in the annals of the Long Parliament.

W. D. PINK.

BEETHOVEN r S ' * IN DIESES GBABES DUN-

KELN n (11 S. i. 328). This song first appeared in 1808, in a collection entitled " ' In questa tomba oscura,' Arietta con accompagnamento di Piano -Forte, com- posta in diverse maniere da molti Autori e dedicata a S.A.U. Sig. Principe Giuseppe di Lobkowitz, etc. Vienna, presso T. Mollo." It had only Italian words.

According to Thayer ( ' Chronologisches Verzeichniss,' p. 74), the words " Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear,"- were set to the music by some one in America.

J. S. S.

This song was originally published by Artaria, Vienna, in 1807, with the title ' Arietta,' to Carpani's words ' ; In questa tomba." It was the sixty -third of a collec- tion of settings of Carpani's poems (Vienna, Mollo, 1808). It is virtually certain, there- fore, that Beethoven set the original Italian words to music, and that the German version was made afterwards. The English words must surely be a rare coincidence nothing more. FRANK SCHLOESSEB.

JOHN II. OF FRANCE : HIS SWORD (11 S. i. 307). When I was at Brighton six years ago there was a gentleman of the name of \Varre then living in Lansdown Place, who, I was informed, had in his possession the s \\-ord of King John. Hestercombe, the ancient seat of the Warre family, is in Somer- srt shire, not Dorsetshire ; and Miss Warre, an aged maiden lady, who died about 1872, \vas the last possessor of Hestercombe bearing the name. At her death it became the property of Lord Ashburton, who sold it to Viscount Portman, and it is now the residence of the latter's eldest son.

CROSS -CROSSLET.

' CORNWALL : ITS MINES, MINERS, AND SCENERY * (11 S. i. 329). The author of this work-, and of ' Our Coal and Coal-Pits,' 1853, was Mr. John R, Leifchild, M.A. He also wrote, under his own name, ' Our Coal at Home and Abroad, with relation to Consumption, Cost, Demand, and Supply,' &c., London, 1873. The three works may be consulted at the Patent Office Library. The first does not appear to be in the British Museum ; the other two are.

J. MACFARLAN.

J. R. L. stands for John R. Leifchild. Some information about him will be found in vol. i. of the ' Bibliotheca Cornubiensis,' by Mr. G. C. Boase and myself.

I have a note that he died in North Ken- sington in December. 1889.

W. P. COURTNEY.

HERB-WOMAN TO THE KING (11 S. i. 265). MR. PIERPOINT suggests that Miss Fellowes was the " great aunt " referred to, this lady having been Herb-woman to George IV. But at the previous coronation of George III. 22 Sept., 1761, there was also a Herb- woman, named Honor Battiscombe, who was ' ' followed by her Six maids, strewing the way with Sweet Herbs, a basket being carried by every two Maids " ('A Faithful Account,' &c., by Richard Thomson, 1820). Perhaps this lady was the great-aunt referred to.

Banks, ' Coronation Ceremonies, 1 1820 r does not make any mention of there being a Herb-woman at the coronation of George I. ; and neither he, nor Thomson, nor " Giles Gossip " in his ' Coronation Anecdotes/ 1823, makes any reference to the office of Herb-woman amongst the hereditary offices. JOHN HODGKIN.

"TRABALHOS DE JESUS " (11 S. i. 148). The following sentences I transcribe from a notice of Dr. Welton in Noble's ' Con- tinuation of Granger's Biographical History of England,' 1806, vol. iii. p. 152 :

"Dr. Welton died at Lisbon in August, 1726. This unquiet man possessed some abilities ; and published a volume of sermons, besides several single ones : and translated * The Sufferings of the Son of God,' written originally in Portuguese, by Father Thomas, but translated' into French, and by him into English, in 1720, 2 vols, 8vo. I suspect too that he wrote several anonymous political tracts, against the succession of the present royal family, by whom we have been so happily governed almost a century."

Welton, it may also be added, is believed to have been instrumental in procuring the insertion of a portrait of Dr. White Kennet>