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Helen Elphinstone. This David Livingston was descended from the Dunipace branch of the Livingston family, and Dunipace was a cadet of the Livingstons of Callendar. E. B. LIVINGSTON.

REFEBENCES WANTED (US. viii. 349). 1. Does Fielding say that Sophia sang ' Old Sir Simon the King ' ? He speaks of it as one of her father's " most favourite tunes," ' Tom Jones,' book iv. chap. v. ; and we hear that on one occasion

" she played, all his favourites three times over. . . . .This so pleased the good squire, that he. ... gave his daughter a kiss, and swore her hand was greatly improved. .. .Sir Simon was played again and again, till the charms of the music soothed Mr. Western to sleep." Ibid.

Xothing is said about singing here. The question of the tune and words has already been discussed in ' X. &Q.' See 9 S. ii. 173, where the late MB. GEOBGE MABSHALL wrote :

" It [the tune] was first printed in Playford's ' Musick's Recreation ' (1652), and is included in the later editions of the ' Dancing Master,' and also in ' Pills to purge Melancholy.' Chappell, in his ' Popular Music,' gives a very full account and two distinct versions of the tune, which has appeared under various names (' Round about our Coal Fire,' &c.)....The tune, with its roystering burden

Says old Sir Simon the King, Says old Sir Simon the King, With his ale-dropt hose, And his malmsey nose, Sing hey ding, ding-a-ding, ding, was adapted to many songs of the Restoration, probably the most famous, certainly one of the best, being the 'Sale of Rebellious Household Stuff,' given in the Percy collection."

Two verses from Durfey's ' Pills to purge Melancholy ' are given at this reference. See also 11 S. i. 154. 2. The song,

How happy the lover,

How easy his chain,

How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover

He sic;hs not in vain, &c.,

is to be found in Act IV. sc. i. of Dryden's ' King Arthur.' According to the stage directions, it is sung by a bass and two trebles to a minuet. EDWABD BENSLY.

BISHOP RICHABD OF BuBv's LIBRARY (11 S. viii. 341). Has not MB. McGovEBN, in the foot-note to his interesting paper, overlooked the difference between the old and new calendar ? In the fourteenth century the year was reckoned as beginning on 25 March. In translating " xxiiij die Januarii anno Domini millesimb trecentesimo quadragesimo quarto " as 14 January, 1345,

Dean Kitchin was wrong in the day, but right in the year, according to modern computation. He was perfectly right, there- fore, in stating that Bishop Richard died only three months after the completion of ' Philobiblon.' HEBBEBT MAXWELL.

Monreith.

In his foot-note on p. 341 MB. McGovEBN brings a charge of inaccuracy against the late Dean Kitchin. It seems to me that all it amounts to is this, that Dean Kitchin, in translating a Latin note and a colophon into English, gave the date according to the " New Style " now in use. Hence " the Feast of the Purification, 1345." rightly became 1346, and "the 24th January, 1344, ?! rightly became 1345. G. C. MOOBE SMITH.

" SS " (11 S. viii. 350). I suggest that it may be the monogram of the Holy Ghost (Spiritus Sanctus). Was the device below the letters perhaps a dove or a ship, both emblems of the Holy Ghost ?

G. S. PABBY.

Has Miss DOBMEB HABBIS considered the judge's collar ? In ' The King's Peace,' by Inderwick, is an interesting note on the badge or livery of SS, said to have originated with John of Gaunt (see p. 176).

YGBEC.

HlGHLANDEBS AT QUEBEC, 1759 (11 S. Viii.

308, 354). Sir R. Levinge's ' History of the 43rd Regiment ' gives on p. 33 a list of the British Army at the siege of Quebec. It includes the 78th or Erasers Highlanders, which was 662 strong on the day.

H. J. B. CLEMENTS. Killadoon, Celbridge.

"CASTILL JOBDEYN"(!! S. viii. 350). The name " Jordeyn " suggests the district of Gordano, in which are four villages, Clapton, Easton, Walton, and Weston, all being included in the Hundred of Portbury, and lying between Clevedon and Bristol, and in the county of Somerset. There is also a " Castlejordan " parish some way west of Dublin, and in the province of Leinster. But " Duke " is rather a West-Country family name.

OBIGIN OF PICTUBE SOUGHT : ' THE LAST COMMUNION OF ST. MABY ' (11 S. viii. 308).

Mrs. Jameson in her 'Legends of the Madonna ' (1899 ed., p. 304) states that this subject is entirely " confined to the late Spanish and Italian schools," but does not mention any one painting.

W. A. B. COOLIDGE.