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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[11 s. i. JAN. 22,

spellings " greate," " forgiue," " grante, n "least 2 ' (for "lest"), " wayes," " raisd,' ? " kingdome." Under the picture is written in Old English letters, " W m Fowler, Win- terton Delin fc 1785."

I should be very glad of any information with respect to the design and the verses. I bought the framed drawing at the auction- rooms of Messrs. Easton in Bowlalley Lane, Hull. They could give no account of its former possessors, nor can I. But as W. F. had two brothers residing in Hull, and other relations there and in the neighbourhood, it has probably belonged to some of them.

J. T. F.

Win teuton, Don caster.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONSI WANTED. I have searched the usual sources, but have failed to trace the following quotations :

1. While soft there breathes Through the cool casement, mingled with the

sighs

Of moonlight flowers, music that seems to rise From some still lake, so liquidly it rose.

The next is probably from the same source :

2. For who, in time, knows whither we may vent

The treasure of our tongue ; to what strange

shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent,

To enrich unknowing nations with our stores ?

3. A few white bones upon a lonely strand,

A rotting corpse beneath the meadow grass, That cannot hear the footsteps as they pass, Memorial urns pressed by some foolish hand, Have been for all the goal of troublous fears.

4. While the eagle of Thought rides the tempest in

scorn, Who cares if the lightning is burning the corn?

5. If the sea-horse on the ocean

Own no dear domestic cave, Yet he slumbers without motion On the still and halcyon wave.

6. Seated on Elysian lawns Browsed by none but Diaii's fawns.

7 Ka/cov yvva.LK<s' dAA.' 6/zws, <3 8^/xorat,

OvK IcTTl y OLKLV OlKlttV O.V6V KO.KOV'

Kou yap TO yvj[j.ai KCU TO p.?] yfjfjiai KO.KOV. E. L. CAPPEL.

[2. From Daniel's ' Musophilus,' stanza 163. 6. From Keats's 'Ode' beginning "Bards of Passion and of Mirth," included in the ' Poems published in 1820 ' noticed ante, p. 59. ]

From what song are the following lines ? Wen as the captain corned for to hear on 't Wery much applauded vot she 'd done.

About what date was it written ? It is referred to as " a well-known popular song " in ' The Comic English Grammar,' 1851.

J. R. C. H.

M. D. BYRNE'S ' THE BOAT-RACE. '- I am anxious to find some particulars of the above-named gentleman, who wrote a fairly long poem some years ago on the above subject. I had a copy, which I have now lost. It was written in the metre of

How the water comes down at Lodore, and was not in any way a bad imitation of it. All that concerns the writer of it will be welcome. HENRY G. VENN.

BRIGHTON VISITORS IN 1779. I should be glad if some one would inform me whether there are in existence any lists of visitors to Brighton in 1779, and if so, where. (Mrs.) M. M. HEPWORTH.

WIDOW T WANK AY. The name of the hero's mother in every pantomime of 'Aladdin' is "Widow Twankay." Why is this ? and when and by whom was it invented for the particular purpose ?

CHARLES KINGSLEY. I want accounts of Kingsley as he appeared to his contem- poraries, socially, politically, and religiously, at the ' Yeast ' and ' Alton Locke ' epoch. Where can I find information concerning the above in reviews, skits, &c. ?

J. R. PARKER.

WETHERAL PRIORY, CUMBERLAND. Had this priory any armorial bearings ?

DIEGO.

ARCHDEACON OF TAUNTON AS NAVAL AUTHORITY. In the time of King John the functions of "My Lords of the Admiralty >J were almost entirely exercised by Arch- deacon Wrotham above mentioned. Who was his successor in Henry III.'s reign ? Was it Hubert de Burgh ? In the reign of Edward I. the Bishop of Winchester, the Abbot of Beaulieu, and Sir John St. John appear for a time to have exercised naval control. R- B.

Upton.

NEWS-LETTERS IN THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE. I should be greatly obliged if any reader of ' N. & Q.' could inform me whether there are any old news-letters preserved in the Record Office ; and if so, under what class of documents and under what calendars they may be found. J. H. T.

DUKE OF LORRAINE KILLED IN 1396. Title and author needed of any book on the Duchy of Lorraine, or the general history of France, which would give the name of the Duke of Lorraine who was killed at the battle of Nicopolis in 1396. V. H. C.