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course, there was not much diplomatic business to be done. We dined with him at a very pretty villa, where he and his family were passing the summer months, and where his beautiful children were running about the garden like so many Cupids and Psyches. He was much beloved at Dresden, and I believe all strangers who were willing to be sociable were sure of being kindly treated in that capital.

" We again embarked on the Elbe on the 10th for Hamburg."

In 1806 Miss Knight became one of the " attachees " of Queen Charlotte at Windsor, and afterwards lady companion to the Princess Charlotte at Warwick House until 1814. In 1815 she Went abroad, and for twenty years Wandered about Europe until 1837, When she died at Paris.

See the very interesting work entitled ' Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight, Lady Companion to the Princess of Wales, with Extracts from her Journals and Anecdote Books/' by J. W. Kaye, 2 vols., 1861 D. J.

ENGLISH KINGS BUBIED IN FRANCE. Le Petit Journal of Friday, the 20th of May, contains the following :

LES TOMBEAUX DBS PLANTAGENET.

(De"peche de notre correspondant. )

Saumur, 19 Mai.

Des ouvriers travaillant a la refection de la chapelle du grand moutier de 1'ancienne abbaye de Fontevrault ont, en op^rant des fouilles, mis a d ^convert les v^ritables tombeaux des Plantagenet, rois d'Angleterre.

M. Magne, Inspecteur ge"nral des monuments historiques, a e"te imm^diatement avis6 de cette dcouverte.

N. MOBY.

JEBEMY TAYLOB AND POLITIAN. The following passage contains a quotation that C. P. Eden failed to identify in his edition of Taylor's works :

" The way is long and difficult at first ; but in the progress and pursuit we find all the knots made plain, and the rough ways made smooth, jam monte potitus Bidet. "

Vol. iv. p. 502, ' A Course of Sermons for all the Sundays of the Year,' Summer Half-year, Serm. xiv.

The Latin words are from Angelo Poliziano's prefatory poem on Homer, 1 Ambra,'- 11. 29, 30 :

iam monte potitus

Ridet anhelantem dura ad fastigia turbam. ' Delitiae CC. Italorum Poetarum,' Part II., p. 307.

Camden, ' Britannia, 1 in his description of Oxfordshire, applies " iam. . . .turbam " to Chaucer, attributing his quotation to a

learned Italian who sang of Homer and other Greeks. Burton, ' Anatomy of Melancholy,' partition 2, section 3, member 6, has " summo jam monte potitos, u which, though gram- matically connected with an immediately preceding quotation from Lipsius, does not form part of it, a fact that is not brought out by A. R. Shjilleto's translation.

The only quotation from Politian recorded by Eden's index to Taylor (under ' Angelus Politianus * in the A's) is on p. 231 of vol. ix., ' Ductor Dubitantium,' Bk. I. chap. v. rule 5, 10, where two lines are quoted from the epigram on Michael Verinus (see 10 S. xi. 366). EDWABD BENSLY.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their name's and addresses to their .queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

" TEABT." The London Gazette (No. 4478) of 1708 has the following : " Stolen or Stray'd .... a sanded grey Mare .... with a white snip on the Nose, and a Teart or Anbury in the inside of one Ear, about the bigness of a hasle Nut. n

I have not met with the word teart before ; has any reader of ' N. & Q.' ? Is it still in use, and where ? (It is not in ' Eng. Dial. Diet.*) What does it exactly mean ?

J. A. H. MUBBAY. Oxford.

RICHARD II. NEAB CALAIS. Can any of your readers tell me on what authority Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove states, rather circumstantially, that the Piedmontese Mar- quis de Saluces saw King Richard II. at the jousts of St. Inglevert, near Calais, in March, 1390 ? (Cf. his edition of Froissart's ' Chro- niques,' Brussels, 1872, vol. xvi. p. 323.) I derive no help from Froissart and the Religieux de St. Denys among the dead, nor M. Raynaud, Froissart's present cour- teous editor, among the living.

JOHN S. P. TATLOCK.

University of Michigan, U.S.A.

' JONATHAN SHABP. ? Who wrote ' Jona- than Sharp ; or, the Adventures of a Ken- tuckian,* 3 vols., Colburn, 1845 ? The Library of Congress informs me that search has been made in vain in the British Museum Catalogue and in various authorities on pseudonymous and anonymous literature.

Maryland.