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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. xn. OCT. 23, 1915.

ST. JOHNSTON. 1. Can any cf your readers tell me where an old Scottish song called ' St. Johnston's Hunt is up ' may be found, and why it is so called ? The name of the Border family is Johnston. Was there at any time any other branch of it further north called St. Johnston ?

2. There is also a village in County Donegal, occasionally spelt St. Johnston. Is there any connexion with this, or was the village originally St. Johnstown ?

3. There is also a Perthshire family of Sowter- Johnston. Did this e\er become altered into St. Johnston ?

(Dr.) T. R. S. JOHNSTON. Lau, Fiji.

[Our correspondent would be greatly obliged by replies sent to him direct.]

WILLIAM HAYWAKD (OR HA WARD). Can any reader inform me in any way about a man of this name, of Merton Coll., Oxford, B.A. in 1723, M.A. in 1727, B.D. from Magd. Coll. 1735, and D.D. 1742? What prefer- ments did he hold ?

MATTHEW H. PEACOCK.

21, Northmoor Road, Oxford.

MAYORAL SWORD-RESTS. Is there any information available as to the beautiful wrought -iron mayoral sword -rests which form such a striking feature of our London City churches ? Was it usual for a man when he became Lord Mayor to present one to his parish church ? Where were they made, and are they peculiar to London ? It would be interesting to know the date of the oldest existing example. Were sword-rests used by the mayors in pre-Reformation times ? WAMBA.

REGALIA OF THE ANCIENT CORPORATION OF CASHEL. These are known to be in existence. Would some reader say with whom ? We might be allowed to get a photograph of them. THOMAS LAFFAN.

Cashel.

JOHN DALTON MSS. Information would be welcomed as to the present location of the large collection of Irish topographical MSS. left by the late John Daltcn, the historian. WILLIAM MACARTHUR.

79, Talbot Street, Dublin.

SAMUEL RICHARDSON. Has the place of Samuel Richardson's birth yet been dis- covered ? Perhaps some Derbyshire corre- spondent could supply information on this point. GWENDOLINE GOODWIN.

8, North Parade, Bath.

AUTHORS' NAMES WANTED. Who Hilary Quality, the pseudonym used by the author of ' Quality Papers,' edited by G. D. Wyseman, and published in London in 1827?

Who wrote the following : (1) ' Rambles around Nottingham,' of which only eight numbers were issued in or about 1855 ;. (2) ' The Religious Question of Tee totalising issued in 1840 ; (3) ' Remarks on Cobbett's " History of the Protestant Reformation," intended to be published in a series of letters, of which No. 1 only was published in 1825 ; and (4) ' The Rights, Privileges ,. and Laws of Women,' published in the year of Waterloo ?

ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.

AUTHOR OF VERSES ON BONAPARTE. -A correspondent in The Sydney Gazette for 17 Feb., 1816, quotes the following lines, " put into Bonaparte's mouth by an Emigrant Poet " :

Faut-il qu'un terrain neutre en ma course m'arr^te,, Soldats ! non, le chemin qui mene & la conquSte Des qu'il est le plus court, vaut le mieux, en avant T

Je ne connais de droits que ceux de Tamerlan, Ceux que dictait la gloirea 1'heureux Ginghis Khan-

Who was the emigrant poet ? According to the same correspondent, " the young Chevalier de Longeau would always add,, with a half -taunting air," to the above verses :

Monsieur !

Vattel ou Grotius deVangent-ils ses plans ? Bon ! Le succds bien mieux apprend le droit des

gens.

It is hardly necessary to remind the reader that Emer de Vattel was a celebrated Swiss writer on jurisprudence, whose princi- pal work was a ' Treatise on the Law of Nations,' and that Hugo Grotius, the famous Dutchman, was the author of the standard work ' De Jure Belli et Pacis/

L. L. K.

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED. Where do the following lines come from ?

A shepherd's crook, a coat of fleece,

A grazing flock, a sense of peace,

The long sweet silence this is Greece.

T. F. D.

PRUSSIAN BLUE. In the ' N.E.D.' this, word is used in the common sense of a dye. James Tod, in his ' Annals of Rajasthan ' (ii. 822), speaks of his garden at Udaipur producing vegetables " Prus- sian-blues," cabbages, cauliflowers, and others. May I ask the meaning of the word there ? EMERITUS.