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NOTES AND QUERIES. >[ii s. via AUG. 23, 1913. mentions his brothers Edmond and John (whose wife was Damaris), and was probably the will of the eldest son of Edmond Hawes of Solihull. Can any one throw any light on the end of this Edmond? The pedigree and arms of the family are given in the printed Visitation of Warwickshire taken in 1619. I am writing this away from my papers.

WARREN OF OTTERY ST. MARY, DEVON. About 1820 the Rev. John Warren, D.D., of Ottery St. Mary, applied for a grant of arms, asking that allusion should be made therein to his descent from one Grace Saun- ders of Teale (?).

The arms actually granted bore : Per chevron gules and sable, a chevron chequy or and azure between three elephants' heads argent.

The elephants' heads appear to have refer- ence to Saunders. Can any one confirm this, and state where records of this family and arms are to be found ? R. E. B.

CALDECOTT'S ' THREE JOVIAL HUNTS- MEN ' : " POWLERT." I should be glad to know the origin of the folk-song ' The Three Jovial Huntsmen,' which I have never seen except in ' R. Caldecott's Picture Book No. 1' (F. Warne & Co.). It is a variant of ' The Three Huntsmen,' not so good a song, whose words and music are given, No. 24 of ' English Folk-Songs for Schools,' by S. Baring-Gould and Cecil J. Sharp (1906 ?). The metre is the old undivided alexandrine, in iambics, with refrain (Henry Blackburn in his ' Memoir of Caldecott,' 1886, says nothing as to where Caldecott got it from). The song relates how the rustic huntsmen ran to earth in turn a " tatter 't boggart in a field," a " gruntin', grindin' grindlestone," a " bull- calf in a pinfold," a " two-three children leaving school," a " fat pig smiling in a ditch," and " two young lovers in a lane."

The last stanza is :

Then one unto the other said, " This huntin'

doesn't pay ; Butwe'n powlcrt up and down a bit, and had a

rattlin' day.

Look ye there ! " The word powlert has escaped the editors of both the ' New English ' and the ' Century ' Dictionaries. Wright's ' English Dialect Dictionary ' gives " powlert, ppl. adj. Lancashire," and defines it as " knocked about ; also, figuratively, distressed, broken down, impoverished." Two quota tions are cited : one from the songs of

Edwin Waugh, the Lancashire poet (1866, edition of 1871), and the other from one of the voluntary readers, G. H. Brierley of Cardiff, from ' Jingo and Bear ' (1878).

Whatever its source, ' The Three Jovial Huntsmen ' is a North-Country song, very likely, like Caldecott, Lancashire born. There are two other North-Country \vords in it : grindlestone, occurring in the thir- teenth-century metrical romance of ' Gawain and the Green Knight,' used by Ben Jonson in ' Love's Welcome at Welbeck,' 1633, and now dialectic (Whitby and Chester) ; and boggart, a scarecrow, used by Charlotte Bronte in 'Shirley' (1849).

MARY AUGUSTA SCOTT.

Northampton, Mass.

SEVEN SPRINGS, COBERLEY. Who wa* T. S. E., the writer of the line

Hie tuus O Tamisine Pater Septemgeminus fon% on the tablet in the wall near the Seven Springs pool at Coberley ?

ROLAND AUSTIN.

Gloucester.

c MEMOIRS OF MRS. CAMPBELL OF CRAIGIE.* I am anxious to buy or borrow these ' Memoirs,' which have been privately printed, as I am informed they contain letters by Miss Catherine Fanshawe. If this is the case, and if any reader of ' N. & Q.' should chance to have a copy, I should be most grateful for the loan of it, unless, indeed, the owner should be willing to part with it. Communications may be sent to me direct.

(Miss) LUCY B. LOVED AY.

7, Menai View Terrace, Upper Bangor, North Wales.

SNUFF-BOXES. Could you inform me if there is any book on old snuff-boxes ? I have six which have come down to me, and, save one which was presented to my ancestor Col. Adam Murray by William III., after the Battle of the Boyne, and another which is a musical box, I know nothing of them, and am anxious to hear of any standard work which would enable me to ascertain their date, nationality, &c.

I should also like to know where the following verses in praise of snuff are to be found :

O snuff, do thou my box abundant fill, And so supply thy poet's want of skill ; Largely thy pungent particles dispense, And set a keener edge upon his sense ; Brisk seeds of life through all his nerves diffuse* And to thy bard at once be theme and muse.

V. WILSON.

Karinya, Woodstock Eoad, Oxford.