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flight of FJames II. The 30th of January fell on a Monday in 1693. It was on 29 May, 1692,, that John Evelyn regretted the growing neglect of these anniversaries, and our preacher was clearly of his mind, the notice being expanded to form a protest.

The discourse is rather more racy in parts than the other : the covetous man is styled a " muck- worm," as his life is " spent in preying upon earth and filth " ; the righteous man has always " angels ministering unto him and encamping round about his person." " Who would be allways tost up and down upon waves and billows, y fc might if he would ride safe in a calm and quiet Har- bour ? "

It has been considerably cut about in some places to make it a funeral sermon for " Stagg's 2 d wife." A later and worse hand has substituted Proverbs xi. 16 for the original text, not only at the head, but wherever it is quoted or used. Proverbs xxxi. 30 is also written at the end of a seven- page epilogue dealing with the virtues of the deceased lady. This is clumsily tacked on to the closing words, " received into his ever Blessed presence " "whither doubtless the gracious Soul of our departed neighbour has been introduced with the acclamations of her sister saints," &c. The words " or women " have been added to the original "men " in this later hand ; " gracious " is preferred to " righteous " ; and the con- cluding " word of application " is now " to ourselves and the deceased." Mrs. Stagg excelled as a saint, regularly attending her own or some other church ; as a gracious wife, somewhat older than her hu-band, but " a pilot to steer the vessel of his youth " ; as an indulgent mother ; and as a sincere and obliging neighbour, " no modern talebearer." Can any one say where she lived ?

W. E. B.

REAR- ADMIRAL DONALD CAMPBELL. I shall be very glad if any one can tell me what is known of this officer (1). His services are not among the Returns of Officers' Services of 1817 in the Admiralty Records probably owing to his having died soon after that year. His name does not appear in the Navy List after 1818. The date of his seniority as Commander is 5 June, 1793 ; Captain, 26 Oct., 1795 ; and Rear- Admiral, 4 June, 1814. There is no trace whatever of him in the Navy List before 5 June, 1793.

He is not to be confounded with Admiral Donald Campbell (2), whose seniority as Captain is 1 Aug., 1811; who died on his

flagship Salisbury in the Leeward Islands on 11 Nov., 1819 ; and whose name is to be found in the Navy List of that year among the Post Captains.

Owing to the similarity of names, I find in the Navy List and Records that the first - mentioned Admiral Campbell is stated to be "appointed Commander-in -Chief of the Leeward Islands " ; and in consequence of this the date of his seniority, 4 June, 1814, is given to the second Admiral Campbell in Naval Histories.

As an additional difficulty in tracing the officer about whom I inquire, I would mention that there was living at the time a third Donald Campbell (3) men- tioned in Naval Histories. He was an Admiral in the Portuguese Navy, and previous to Trafalgar gave the important information to Lord Nelson as to the destination of the French fleet, viz., the West Indies. He died in 1806. The first and last mentioned admirals were born in the island of Islay. A. H. MACLEAN.

14, Dean Road, Willesden Green.

AUTHORS WANTED. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' kindly give authorship and ex- planation of these old lines ?

London Bridge is broken down ;

Dance over Lady Lea.

Search in all available books of reference has so far failed. CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

Can any reader inform me where the quota- tion " Life is a romance " may be found ? ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.

Can any of your readers tell me where the folio wing Verse occurs ?

Round he spun, and down he crashed. A flash like fire between his eyes Blazed as he fell, no more to rise : And then a sudden darkness sunk O'er all that palpitating trunk.

ARTHUR R. PRIDE AUX. 13, Talbot Square, Hyde Park.

WILLETT FAMILY IN AMERiCA.-The fact that so many contributions in ' N. & Q-! have recently appeared from correspondents in the United States leads me to hope that possibly some of them may be able to furnish data in regard to the above family.

I am especially desirous of obtaining information regarding the parents of Samuel and Walter Willett, mentioned in Sabine s American Loyalists.' The first was a Cornet of Cavalry in the British Legion, and the latter a Lieutenant of the Bucks