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bridge to Belvedere Road was Bridge Street ; from there to the New Cut, as Lower Marsh was called, was Bridge Road ; from there to Oakley Street was Mount Street ; and from there to the Obelisk was Westminster Bridge Road. A. RHODES.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED ((11 S. i. 408). MB. E. HOWARD'S quotation, " An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege, 31 reads like a proverb, and the authors of proverbs are proverbially diffi- cult to trace. Similar sayings, with their counterparts in French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Latin, are to be found in

Various Languages,' collected and arranged by James Middlemore ; for instance,
 * Proverbs, Sayings, and Comparisons in

An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit, An ounce of fortune is worth a pound of forecast, An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.

I. M. L.

There are numerous varieties of the saying " An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege " Richard Baxter {died 1691) is credited with the expression

sorrow." Generally it is " wit " that makes the widest appeal to phrase-makers. Thus an Englishman says " an ounce of mother- wit is worth a pound of learning n ; the tScotsman homologates him "an ounce o' wit is worth a pound o'' lear n ; while the German has it "an ounce of mother- wit is worth a pound of school-wit. n To the Scotsman " wit " appears to be the one thing needful. Hence he says "an ounce o' mither-wit is worth a pound o* clergy."- But the Englishman discriminates " an ounce of wit that's bought is worth a pound that's taught."' Qualities other than "wit" also commend themselves to the English- man ' ' an ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit'* or "an ounce of wisdom is worth a pound of wit." It is unnecessary to cite further parallels. SCOTUS.
 * * An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of

Primus in orbe deos fecit timor. A piece of thirteen hexameters beginning with the above words was first published from an old MS. by J. J. Scaliger in his edition of Vergil's ' Catalecta,' and attri- buted to Petronius. The lines are to be seen in collections of the fragments of Petronius. If Fulgentius was right [* Mytholog.,* lib. i. cap. i.) in assigning

" Primus timor " to Petronius, then

Statins in ' Theb.'- iii. 661 was not original. EDWABD BENSLY.

THE HON. JOHN FINCH (11 S. i. 249, 297, 396). The report in The Pennsylvania Journal of* 16 July, 1777, quoted by MB. MATTHEWS, concerning the parentage of the Hon. John Finch, killed in June of that year, is certainly an error, as George, the ninth Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded 2 Aug., 1769), was never married, and Daniel, the eighth Earl (1730-69) had no son. My authority for saying that this John Finch was the fourth son of Heneage Finch, third Earl of Aylesford, is the contemporary peerages and the Finch family pedigree.

Heneage, third Earl of Aylesford, accord- ing to the ' Pocket Peerage of England,' a new edition by B. Longmate, printed in 1813 a singularly accurate record had, by his wife Charlotte, fifth daughter of Charles, sixth Duke of Somerset, twelve children, as here enumerated :

1. Heneage, fourth Earl, born 4 July, 1751 ; died 21 Oct., 1812.

2. Charles, born 4 June, 1752 ; died 17 Dec., 1819.

3. William Clement, born 27 May, 1753 ; died Sept., 1794.

4. Charlotte, born 13 May, 1754 ; died 7 July, 1808, Countess of Suffolk.

5. John, born 22 May, 1755; killed 20 June, 1777.

6. Edward, bom 26 April, 1756 ; died 27 Oct., 1843.

7. Daniel, born 3 April, 1757 ; died Oct., 1840.

8. Seymour, born 11 June, 1758 ; died 2 Feb., 1794.

9. Henry Allington, born 26 Feb., 1760 ; died 19 Nov., 1780.

10. Frances, born 9 Feb., 1761 ; died 21 Nov., 1838, Countess of Dartmouth.

11. Maria Elizabeth, born 7 Oct., 1766 ; died unm. 19 Dec., 1793.

12. Henrietta, Constantia, born 3 June, 1769, died, unm., in 1814.

That John, the fifth child, is omitted in Burke's ' Peerage * is due, I fancy, to oversight. F. DE H. L.

PETER WILCOCK (US. i. 347, 418). The translator of Bede's ? Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth ' was a Roman Catholic priest, not a Church of England divine. This is evident from a passage in the preface to his book, in which he makes a quotation from "a Protestant divine. n He officiated at the Catholic chapel in Dunning Street, Bishopwearmouth, in the registers of which chapel his name is entered for the first time in 1809. When, in 1812, the Rev. W. Fletcher, priest [in charge, died, Mr.