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NOTES AND QUERIES. [u s. xn. NOV. 6, 1915.

QUOTATION FROM BROWNING : REFERENCE WANTED. Could any one help me to find the following quotation, said to be from Browning, which, however, I have so far been unable to find in his collected works ?

I know Thee, who hast kept ray path, and made Light for me in the darkness, tempering sorrow So that it reached me like a solemn joy.

A. HARVEY JONES. Manor Road Cottage, Bexhill, Sussex.

ANTWERP AND CONSTANTINOPLE. I have read somewhere, in a book printed perhaps about fifty years ago, a saying of some statesman or strategist to the effect that if he could have possession of the two cities above named he would be master of the rest of Europe. Can any reader give me the reference to this ? M. N.

AUTHOR WANTED. Who wrote the poem ' My Own Green Isle,' commencing

Tho' lofty Scotia's mountains where savage grandeur reigns, &c. ?

A. B.

THE TABLE OF AFFINITIES. Some years ago there were at a certain school together three girls, of much the same age, one of whom was the great-aunt of the other two ! She was the youngest child by a second marriage of the grandfather of the others. She had five brothers, none of them much older than herself.

Should any one of these have desired to marry a great-niece, would the relationship have come within the prohibited degrees ?

Is there any authority on the subject ?

H. G. P.

BURIAL-PLACE OF SIR JOHN MUNDY. Sir John Mundy, Mayor of London, who died in 1537, and to whom a monument existed in the Church of St. Peter, Cheapside, is stated, in an old document, to have been " buryed at Tolsant Darcye, in the county of Essex." His daughter married a Darcy of the above place. Would it be possible to find any proof of this statement ? What records exist in the parish o.f Tolleshunt Darcy ? P. D. M.

' THE LADIES OF CASTLEMARCH.' Can any reader give the author of a story entitled ' The Ladies of Castlemarch,' which centres round the village of Abersoch in the Nevin Peninsula ? Possibly this may not be the correct title ; and I shall be glad, therefore, to know of any story which deals with the ladies of Castlemarch"

ARCHIBALD SPABKE, F.R.S.L.

DISRAELI : REFERENCES SOUGHT. I should be glad of the exact reference for the following sayings of Disraeli :

1. "I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with compre- hension."

2. That a clever fool was worst of all.

3. That James II. had. no other object in his Roman Catholic appointments than an impracticable scheme to blend the Roman and English Churches.

4. " Take this as an incontrovertible principle accept this as a moral dogma of your life every man has his opportunity. . . . .What you have to do in the interval is to prepare yourselves for that opportunity."

J. A. L. F.

[1. This seems a reminiscence of Dr. Johnson' 8 " to find you an understanding " (Boswell's 'Life of Johnson,' 1784).]
 * ' 1 have found you an argument ; I am not obliged"

CHURCHES USED FOR ELECTION OF MUNICI- PAL OFFICERS. Can any of your readers refer me to printed accounts of the practice of conducting the election of the chief governing officer of the municipality within the actual precincts of the church of the- place ?

Dr. J. Charles Cox mentions the occur- rence of these elections on p. 38 of his recent admirable book on ' The English Parish, Church.'

To what extent did the practice prevail in the Middle Ages especially in England 1

W. S. B. H.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. I should be glad of any information about the parentage and career of the following Old Westminsters: (1) John Lpmpton, admitted March, 1725/6, aged 15. (2) William Lampton, admitted January, l7i4/15, aged 14. (3) John Landford, admitted October,. 1716, aged 8. (4) Edmund Lane, admitted April, 1719, aged 11. (5) Obadiah Lane,, admitted February, 1722/3, aged 14. (6) George Lane, admitted June, 1726, aged 10.. (7) John Lane, admitted March, 1737/8, aged 11. (8) Thomas Lane, admitted Octo- ber, 1743, aged 12. G. F. R. B.

DR. HOTTON. In * Records of my Life * John Taylor tells us that a Dr. Hotton, when editor of The Morning Herald, " was nick- named Dr. Numpskull, because he placed the Poets' Corner in the middle of the paper." Who was Dr. Hotton, and when was he- editor of the Herald ?

HORACE BLEACKLEY.