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REFERENCES WANTED. 1. Fielding i Western to her harpsichord, * Old Sir Simor the King.' Can any reader tell me where i is to be found ? I have been told that i is by Ben Jonson, but I have searched un successfully for it.
 * Tom Jones ' mentions a song sung by Sophi

2. What play of Dryden's contains th stanza,

How happy the lover, how easy his chain ?

F. ROSE. 18, Grosvenor Place, Bath.

GLASGOW CROSS AND DEFOE'S 'TOUR.' In Defoe's ' Tour through the Island of Grea Britain,' 8th ed., " with great additions anc improvements," 1778, vol. iv. p. 118, we reac concerning Glasgow :

"Where the four principal streets meet, th. crossing makes a very spacious market-place, as may be easily imagined, since the streets are so large. In the centre stands the cross."

In ' Glasghu Facies,' 1873, i. 15, a quotation is given from the fifth edition of the ' Tour,' but the words in italics are omitted.

I should like to know whether the state- ment " In the centre stands the cross appears in the first edition, and in which edition they were first omitted (if they were omitted, for it is possible the quotation in anything known of the author of the Scot- tish portion of the * Tour,' if he was not Defoe ? WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK.
 * Glasghu Facies ' may be inaccurate). Is

Ramoyle, Dowanhill, Glasgow.

DR. THOMAS LAWRENCE, BATH. In perus- ing Hay ward's ' Dr. Johnson's Mrs. Thrale,' new edition, edited by J. H. Lobban, pub- lished by T. N. Foulis, Edinburgh, 1910, p. 40, I find a reference to Dr. Thomas Lawrence, the friend and physician of Johnson. I am inclined to believe he is identical with a Thomas Lawrance who, according to a distant relative of mine, became a notable surgeon at Bath. He certainly agrees with the time of Thomas Lawrance of my race, whose career I have been unable to trace satisfactorily. The man I am searching for was the second son of Charles Lawrance and Margaret Greig (relative of Grieg, the famous composer), born at Lulenstone, Rathen. Aberdeenshire ; baptized 29 October, 1757, before witnesses, John Birnie and William Sutherland (Rathen Baptismal Register, preserved at Register House, Edinburgh).

Can any reader corroborate or upset my theory ? ROBERT MURDOCH LAWRANCE. 23, Ashley Road, Aberdeen.

DUCHESS OF BOLTON. Can any reader give the dates of birth, marriage, and death of the wife of the fourth Duke ? It is stated in G. E. C.'s * Complete Peerage ' and elsewhere that Lord Harry Powlett (who became fourth Duke of Bolton, and died in 1759) married Catherine, dau. of Charles Parry of Oakfield, Berks. The parish registers of Stratfield-Mortimer and Sulhamstead show that this Catherine Parry married, 14 April, 1737, James Morgan, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, and that he survived her until September, 1771 ; therefore she could not have married the Duke of Bolton. Is it possible that the Duchess was daughter of Francis Parry of Oakfield 2 G. R. B.

THE ROYAL ARMS. In The Common- wealth of Australia Gazette (Saturday, 2 Aug., 1913) and also in Supplement to the Govern- ment Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Wednesday, 20 Aug., 1913) appears an illustration, published for general in- formation, described as 'The Royal Arms, 1911.' In The New South Wales Gazette it is accompanied by the following dispatch rom the Secretary of State for the Colonies :

Downing Street,

20th June, 1913.

SIB, I have the honour to transmit to you for he information of your Ministers copies of the new lesign of the Royal Arms, which has been approved >y His Majesty the King.

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your most obedient humble servant,

L. HARCOURT. Governor Sir Gerald Strickland, G.C.M.G., &c.

In what way does this design differ leraldically from previous designs for the Royal Arms say, from that under Royal /Varrant issued at the beginning of the eign of Queen Victoria ? Its differing rom others decoratively can hardly be he reason for its publication.

E. WILSON DOBBS.

LAND'S END, CORNWALL. This English ame has always seemed to me unexpected n this district. A Celtic scholar has sug- ested that it is Llan sen, and connects it dth Sennen, the patronal saint of the parish rhere it stands. Can early forms of the ame be traced ? What is the earliest refer- nce for the present form ? YGREC.

SONGS IN LAMB'S c MEMOIRS.' Where can find two songs mentioned in Charles ,amb's ' Memoirs,' viz., ' Water parted from Sea ' and ' In Infancy ' ? MIRANDA.

New South Wales, No. 105.