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parish, and Vicar of Stebbing in the county of Essex. He died March 10th, 1831, aged 81 years. Also that of Fanny his wife. She died Dec. 16th, 1844, aged 88 years."

Mrs. Belgrave died in Westgate Street, Bury St. Edmunds (see Ipswich Journal, 21 Dec., 1844). Dr. Belgrave built a considerable part of the present rectory house at Cockfield. When Churchill Babing- ton wrote his ' Materials for a History of Cockfield, Suffolk,' in 1880, he stated :

" There are now among us some who can recol- lect his cocked hat, as well as his kindly manners and instructions."

See the valuable notes by the late J. E. B. Mayor and Robert Forsyth Scott to the bridge,' part iii., 1903.
 * Admission Register of St. John's, Cam-

It is a pity that the ' Diary ' of Arthur Young was not properly indexed. The Index appended to the volume is of little use, and the notes inadequate two faults hardly excusable in these days.

A. L. HUMPHREYS.

187, Piccadilly, W.

SCOTT AS A CORNET OF HUSSARS (11 S. xii. 241). Plate in James L. Caw's book, ' Scott Gallery,' published 1 903. Half-length, looking to right, in Hussar uniform. Sir Wm. Allan painted the portrait. I do not know the name of the engraver. The British Museum, Department of Prints and Draw- ings, contains a copy. THOS. WHITE.

Junior Reform Club, Liverpool.

' THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH' (11 S. xii. 140, 185, 207). 5. " Gorgonius " was not a mistake of Charles Reade's, but the name as printed by earlier editors of Horace. Bentley on the authority of the MSS. restored the true form Gargonius.

8. " Quariana's Cliff." The general direc- tion in which this must be looked for is shown by " Darien's deserts pale,'* a few lines before, and " the Indian's venom' d wound " a few lines later, in * Rokeby.' Now the first chapter of the ninth book of part i. of Purchas's ' Pilgrimage' is headed, ' Of the Southerne America, and of the Countries on the Sea-coast betwixt Dariene and Cumana,' and of this section iii. deals with "Tunia, St. Martha, Venezuela, and Curiana." May not this last word be the same as Scott's "Quariana"? In Helps's ' Spanish Conquest in America,' book ix. chap, iv., in the description of the voyage of Guerra, we are told that " from thence [i.e. the island of Margarita] they passed

on to the coast of Curiana, which embraces the province of Cumana and that of Maraca- pana." The town of Cumana is marked on modern atlases at the mouth of a bay^cn the mainland of Venezuela, to the southof the island of Margarita.

10. (a) " Quae mine perscribere longum est." Perhaps Reade had at some period of his life devoted himself, like Gregory Parable, LL.D., of the ' Bab Ballads,'

to sit and cram A goodish deal of Eton Gram. At any rate, the line

Cum multis aliis quse nunc perscribere longum est is from the rules on genders of nouns in the old Eton Latin Grammar. See King's The Eton Latin Grammar was a modification of Lily's Grammar, which had already passed through several stages. Perhaps the line can be traced back. The words of the beginning, " Cum multis aliis," were quoted by Dudley Carleton in 1612, accord- ing to ' The Stanford Dictionary.'
 * Class, and For. Quotations,' No. 404.

EDWARD BENSLY.

LUKE ROBINSON (11 S. xi. 9, 55, 70, 111, 177, 197). Luke Robinson of the " Long Parliament " appears among members satirized in * The Rump Carbonado'd ; or A New Ballad,' thirty-third stanza :

Luke Robinson wants both his Bristles and Aule To stitch up his lame Legge, and help him to craule, Who down-right hath halted betwixt God and Baal. See ' Rump : or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to the Late Times,' 1662 (reprint), vol. ii. p. 84.

Probably the following extracts refer to Luke Robinson :

His Excellence had no sooner pass'd this Declara- tion and Promise,

But in steps Secretary Scot, the Rumps man

Thomas,

With Luke, their lame Evangelist

By this time, Death, and Hell appear'd in the

ghastly Looks

Of Scot, and Robinson ; (those Legislative Rooks). ' Saint George and the Dragon,' eighth and twelfth stanzas, ibid., pp. 179, 180.

From all the Rich People that ha' made us Poor ; From a Speaker that creeps to the House by a

Back-dore : From that Badger Robinson, (that limps, and bites

sore :) And that dog in a doublet Arthur, that will do

so no more.

From Fools and Knaves, in our Parliament-free Libera nos Domine.

ibid., p. 185.
 * A Free-Parliament Letany,' seventh stanza,

ROBERT PIERPOINT.