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NOTES AND QUERIES. ni s. i. JUNE n, 1910.

Thompson (in ' The Mistress of Vision ' ) has a similar reference :

East, oh, east of Himalay

Dwell the nations underground, Hiding from the shock of day,

For the sun's uprising sound... So fearfully the sun doth sound,

Clanging up beyond Cathay ; For the great earthquaking sunrise Rolling up beyond Cathay.

Or must we suppose that Thompson merely " took over " Kipling, obliviously ?

W. M.

' MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE FRENCH ': B. ROTCH. This work was published by Thomas Sotheran in 1815, and contains quaint illustrations of French manners at the time of Waterloo in a series of letters to an old City baronet from his nephew, whom he has allowed to visit France. It is illustrated with ten designs taken on the spot, and coloured by hand in the style of Rowlandson. The work was reprinted in an edition of 250 copies with preface by Henry Sotheran, who remembered hearing his father say " that they were by one Benjamin Rotch, a Middlesex magistrate." I should like to know if Rotch was the author.

M. A. C.

' LOVERS' Vows.' Was ' Lovers* Vows, 1 the play represented in Miss Austen's for private performance, an actual play, or imaginary ? If there was any such play at the time, where can it be seen ? J. T. F.
 * Mansfield Park ' as having been rehearsed

Durham.

[The play was real, an adaptation from Kotzebue by Mrs. Inchbald in 1798.]

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Can any one tell me where the following quotation is to be found ?

Winter slumbering in the open air

Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring.

INSHREACH.

What a smile may procure Never lose by a frown.

Will some one be so good as to complete the context of the above. MAY.

VENICE AND ITS PATRON SAINT. In the ' Memoires de Jacques Casanova,' Paris, Gamier Freres, vii. 199, the Empress Cathe- rine II. of Russia says to Casanova :

" Venice is remarkable also for its arms, which, follow no rules of heraldry, for the picture [le tableau] cannot, properly speaking, be termed an escutcheon. It is also remarkable for the pleasing face which it gives to the evangelist its patron, as well as for the five Latin words which it dedicates

bo him [qu'elle lui adresse], in which, as I have been told, there is a grammatical error, an error respectable from its antiquity."

This passage is not in the Brussels edition of Casanova.

What are these five words containing a grammatical error ? I presume that ' ' the picture " refers to the Lion of St. Mark.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

THE RAVENSBOURNE. I shall be glad of an early instance of the name Ravensbourne as applied to the Kentish stream which has its source at Keston, and joins the Thames at Deptford Creek. PHILIP NORMAN.

THOMAS CARKESSE was admitted on the foundation at Westminster School in 1727, aged 14. I should be glad to obtain par- ticulars of his career and the date of his death.

G. F. R. B.

GEORGE FAIRBORNE was admitted to Westminster School in April, 1730, aged 15. Particulars of his parentage, career, and death are wanted. G. F. R. B.

ABRAHAM FARLEY was admitted to West- minster School in October, 1720. Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' help me to identify him ? G. F. R. B.

SWEENY TODD ANTICIPATED : DELONEY'S ' THOMAS OF READING.' In Deloney's novel of ' Thomas of Reading ' (1598 ?) occurs a story of an innkeeper of Colnbrook who murders his guests by means of a collapsible floor, which precipitates them (asleep in bed) into a cauldron arranged in the basement. The innkeeper's name is given as Jarman, and his inn as "The Crane," and several incidental touches favour the impression that the story is either taken from tradition or actual fact.

fc Are any sixteenth -century (or earlier) analogues of this story known to your readers ? F. O. M.

[Sweeny Todd and his crimes have been ex- tensively discussed in ' JS. & Q.' ; see 9 S. vii. 508 ; viii. 131, 168, 273, 348, 411, 512 ; ix. 345, 477 ; x. 303.]

" BARN " OR " BARM " IN PLACE -NAMES.- Will some kind reader enlighten me on the derivation of " Barn " or "Barm " in Barnby Moor, Barmby Moor, Barnby Don, Barmby Marsh, &c. ? W. D. W. REES.

Barmby Moor, York.

THE WOE WATERS OF LANGTON. What gave rise to this Yorkshire name ?

W. D. WOOD REES.