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NOTES AND QUERIES. ins. XL FEB. 6, 1915,

invite their kind co-operation. I should also be most grateful to any who happen to possess copies of my first edition, if they would point out any mistakes and omissions in it.

Riddall. Husband and Lover.

Rogers. St. Kevin, and Other Irish Tales.

Russell. Sprigs of Shamrock ; or, Irish Sketches and Legends.

Sha nd. Ki Icarra.

Slieve Foy. Stories of Irish Life, Past and Present.

Townshend. The Children of Nugentstown and their Dealings with the Sidhe.

Tranton. The United Irishman.

Tynan. A Shameful Inheritance.

Vereker. Old Times in Ireland.

STEPHEN J. BROWN, S.J.

Milltown Park, Dublin.

(To be continued.)

ELBEE FAMILY. I should like to have a few particulars about the Elbee family, their titles and armorial bearings. Bietstap gives " d'argeiit a trois fasces de gueules," but there should be supporters and a motto. The family is not mentioned in the Marquis de Buvigny's new book. J. A. A.

HERALDIC : FOREIGN ARMS. Could any of the readers of ' N. & Q.' identify the following family shields ? (1) A bird resting on a five-pointed star. (2) A cross, the ends divided, and forming eight eagles' heads. They are, of course, foreign arms, and prob- ably of Belgium, Holland, or just across the frontiers. The heraldic colours are not indicated. No. 1 has nothing to do with the Schwalenberg swallow on star in the arms of Lippe. Louis A. DUKE.

Hornsey.

AUTHOR WANTED. Where do these lines occur ?

Methought the lone river that murmured along Was more dull in its sadness, more sad in its song. They were prescribed by the musician Hullah in certain exercises for the voice.

8. Africa.

J. K.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. I should be glad to obtain further information concerning the parentage and career of the following Old Westminsters : (1) John Bead, K.S. 1668. (2) Edmund Bedmayne of Trin. Coll., Camb., B.A. 1676/7. (3) John Remington of Trin. Coll., Camb., B.A. 1632/3. (4) Vincent Bice of Trin. Coll., Camb., B.A. 1702/3, son of David Bice of Ambleston, co. Pembroke. (5) Edward Bichards, Scholar of Trin. Coll., Camb., 1664.

(6) Francis Bichards, Q.S. 1712, son of John Bichards of Chelsea. (7) James Biehards- of Ch. Ch., Oxon., M.A. 1734/5, son of John Bichards of the parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster. (8) John Bichards of Ch. Ch. r Oxon., B.A. 1665, son of George Bichards of Silverton, Devon. (9) Bobert Bichards, K.S. 1683. (10) William Bichards, K.S. 1669. G. F. B. B.

HARRISON = GREEN. On 14 Aug., 1816, a marriage took place at St. Martin's-in-the- Fields, London, between Thomas, son of George (later Sir George) Harrison, and Elizabeth Green. Elizabeth Green is said to have been an orphan and a ward of John Tweedy, and was at that date living in the parish of St. George, Hanover Square. I should be greatly obliged if any of your correspondents could give me the parentage of this lady.

Sir George Harrison was for many years Assistant -Secretary to the Treasury, and was knighted at St. James's Palace on 13 April, 1824. His son above named was a Com- missioner of Inland Bevenue, and died 8 May, 1851. W. H. CHIPPINDALL, Col.

Kirkby Lonsdale.

"SCOTS" =" SCOTCH." Why is the once recognized adjective " Scotch " commonly elbowed out nowadays by " Scots " ? Surely this is of recent coinage ; and, indeed, is it an adjective at all ? I read in The Times: Literary Supplement of 21 Jan. : " Such an education includes French, but does not include Scots." Certainly, we used to speak of the " Scotch language." Were we wrong ? And " Scots " used to connote men of Scotland: " Scots wha hae," and so on. Was Burns wrong ? S. B. C.

The Precincts, Canterbury.

SOURCE OF QUOTATION WANTED. In the ' Adagia ' of Erasmus (Leyden, 1703), III. vii. xii., is quoted an answer of Alexander to one who suggested to him that a much larger revenue could be extorted from hi* empire : KOL K-rjirutpov juucrw TOV fK pi$v K- TffMVovra TO. Xdyava. In Freinsheim's ' Sup- plement ' to Quintus Curtius (II. 6) this; appears as " Bespondit etiam olitorem se odisse qui radicitus exscinderet olera, quse- carpere debuisset." According to the Vari- orum Edition of Curtius (Elzevir, Arnst., 1664), the authority for this is " Hippol. a Collibus Princeps cap. 33, ex Maximo Tyrio." I do not find it in the ' Princeps ' of Hippo- lytus a Collibus, nor in Maximus Tyrius. Can any one kindly throw light upon this ? SLEUTH-HOUND.