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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. x. NOV. u, MI*.

THE HEIGHT OF ST. PAUL'S. I should be glad to know if there is any architectural authority extant for the height of St. Paul's Cathedral. I was brought up in the tradi- tion that it was 401 feet from the floor to the top of the cross, and I find that this view is supported by ' The Encyclopaedia Britannica ' and several of the older books of reference. In Nelson's 'Encyclopaedia,' however, and sundry later books, the height from the pavement to the top of the cross is given as 365 feet, and I believe this to be the more accurate statement.

CLEMENT SHORTER.

"OLD ETONIANS. I shall be grateful for information regarding any of the fol- lowing : (1) Grenville, Richard, admitted 24 June, 1754, left 1758. (2) Grimes, Abraham, admitted 24 June, 1757, left 1763. (3) Grimstone, Robert, admitted 28 Aug., 1759, left 1764. (4) Gunman, Hanson, admitted 31 Jan., 1762, left 1764. (5) Hall, Thomas, admitted 7 Oct., 1764, left 1765. (6) Hall, Thomas, admitted 25 May, 1759, left 1759. (7) Hamilton, Archibald, ad- mitted 9 June, 1761, left 1761. (8) Hanbury, Charles, admitted 12 Jan., 1760, left 1762. (9) Hanbury, John, admitted 11 March, 1758, left 1766. (10) Hanbury, William, admitted 20 Feb., 1758, left 1765.^ (11) Han- son, John, admitted 1 Sept., 1755, left 1759.

R. A. A.-L.

JANE AUSTEN AND COLUMELLA. In the nineteenth chapter of ' Sense and Sensi- bility ' Jane Austen writes :

" ' The consequence of which, I suppose, will be,' said Mrs. Dashwood, ' since leisure has not pro- moted your own happiness, that your sons will be brought up to as many pursuits, employments, professions, and trades <os Columella's.' "

The dictionaries assure me that nothing is known of Columella's private life. Mrs. Dashwood's unexpected erudition cannot, therefore, have come from that source. It is sfcill more difficult to suppose that she had read 'De Re Rustica.' But does that work contain anything on which her remark might have been founded ? B. B.

THE GERMANS. In his reply to Bern- hardi, Prof. Cramb says that the German Crusaders " set Mahommed above Christ " (p. 114). When did that happen ?

And what are the Black Mass and ' De Tribus Impostoribus ' (p. 115) ? J. D.

[Two important articles on ' De Tribus Impos- toribus,' by CHANCELLOR CHRISTIE and MR. J. ELIOT HODGKIN respectively, will be found at 7 8. viii. 449-53.]

COMPLETE VERSIONS WANTED. (1) What is the remainder of the poem beginning, so- far as I can recollect,

Forget not, earth, thy disinherited ; Forget not the forgotten, &c. ?

The lines occur, I believe, in the poems of some sisters named Shore. Where could I get a copy of these poems ?

(2) Can any one supply in full the Latin rendering of

Teddy Perowne has gone to his own, &c., of which I can only remember Sua regna Peronius ivit ?

Z. Y. X.

SIR THOMAS BERNARD, BART. : FRANCIS E. PAGET, M.A. I should be grateful for information concerning the above authors of the following works (I give the title-page of each) :

" Sporinna ; or, the Comforts of Old Age, with Notes and Biographical Illustrations. By Sir Thomas Bernard, Baronet. London : Printed by W. Buhner and Co., Cleveland- Row, St. James's,, for Longman, Hurst, Bees, Orme and Brown' Paternoster-Bow. 1816."

" Tales of the Village. By Francis E. Paget M.A., Bector of Elford, and Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Oxford. Series the Third and Last. [Here follows a quotation from Herbert's ' Country Parson.'] Third Edition. London : James- Burns, 17, Portman Street, Portman Square* M.DCCC.XLIII."

A. S. WHITFIELD.

PIERCE POWER, ESQ., J.P., of Clonmult, Ireland, married, 1 Nov., 1789, Teresa, fourth daughter of William Coppinger of Barrys Court, Midleton, co. Cork, by his wife and cousin Elizabeth, daughter of John Galwey of Lota, co. Cork, ancestor of the Marquis of Clanricarde, and M.P. for Cork City in James II. 's Parliament.

Can any reader inform me who Pierce Power's mother was ?

His father was Pierce Power, Esq., J.P., of Clonmult, a descendant of Walter, llth Earl of Ormonde.

A direct reply would be greatly appre- ciated. J. J. PIPER.

88, Becket Boad, Worthing.

HEART LOCKED WITH A KEY. How far back may the idea of locking the beloved up in one's heart and losing the key be traced ? The first poem in ' Das Oxforder Buch Deutscher Dichtung,' a tender little lyric of six lines, dating from the twelfth century, is on this subject. Its original was a love-letter in Latin. Are earlier instances to be found ? H. D.