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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vni. DEC. 20, 1013.

Jampot (The). Three stanzas stated to have been written by the author while at school. Reprintec in The Captain (London), April, 1907.

Limerick (A). Beginning "There was once a writer who wrote." Addressed from Rottingdean September 17, 1898, to the Editor of The Cantal (Cambridge). Quoted in * A Ken of Kipling,' bj Will. M. Clemens, 1899 (Toronto, Morang).

""Men say 'tis wondrous strange to see." Fir> line of two stanzas written in 1891 for a privatel., printed catalogue of Edmund Gosse's library. Quoted in No. 1 of The Literary Collector (New York). No date.

Neighbour Rudyard Kipling. An inscription in eight rimed lines written in a presentation copy of ' The Day's Work,' and sent to Miss Julia Mar lowe. Quoted in 'A Ken of Kipling.'

""This is the ocean bright and blue." A single stanza \vritten as a title for a water-colour draw ing executed by Sir Robert Baden-Powell, o Scout fame. Quoted in The Grand Magazine January, 1907.

""Through war and pestilence, red siege and fire.' First line of a single stanza written as a prelude to Lionel James's tribute to G. W. Steevens, the war correspondent in South Africa for The Daily Mail. In ' War's Brighter Side,' by Julian Ralph (Pearson).

44 Your trail lies to the westward." First of eight lines written by way of acknowledging a copy of J. Whitcomb Riley's 'Child World.' Quoted in
 * A Ken of Kipling.'

""Zogbaum draws with a pencil." First line of four stanzas inscribed in a presentation volume sent to Capt. (afterwards Admiral) R. W. Evans of the U.S. Navy. Quoted in ' A Ken of Kip- ling.'

Since the publication of the first article in ' N. & Q.' of 6 Dec. it has been suggested that there was at least one article by Mr. Kipling in The Spectator. That is true, but it took the form of a letter, and consequently hardly comes within the scope of my endeavour. W. ARTHUR YOUNG.

FREDERICK ST. JOHN, VISCOUNT BOLTNG- BROKE. There is always a suspicious un- certainty about the bare year when given as the date of birth in a pedigree. In such cases it is generally arrived at by computa- tion from the age at death, and conse- quently it is not always correct. In the latest edition of the G.E.C. ' Peerage ' the second Viscount Bolingbroke is said to have been born in 1734, a statement which occurs in some other Peerages, including rect date is supplied in Add. MS. No. 36,243 (Brit. Mus.), a volume of private papers relating to the succession of Frederick St. John to his uncle's honours. Mary Dorrell, who was a servant to Lady Ann both before and after the Viscountess's marriage, made a sworn declaration that
 * }ven Doyle's ' Official Baronage.' The cor-

Frederick St. John was born 21 Dec., 1732, in the parish of St. George, Hanover Square. With regard to his baptism, Philip Worledge of St. Michael in Cornhill, gentleman, made a sworn declaration that he had searched the Registers of St. George, Hanover Square, and had found

"under the title Baptisms an entry in the follow- ing words, viz fc Baptisms 1732. January, Bapt. 17, Frederick St. John, of the Hon ble John esq re and Ann; Nat. 21. And the deponent further saith that it is the custom of the said parish of St. George, Hanover Square, to insert the day of the nativity of such persons whose baptisms are registered in the said parish, and that by an entry in the said Register Book it does appear that the day of the month in the column under the title Nativities has always a retrospect to the preceding month unless particularly expressed to the contrary."

There is a trace of the lawyer in the explanation about the date of birth, but this explanation would not apply in the case of a birth in the early part of the month and a baptism towards the end of the same month. Viscount Frederick St. John was therefore born 21 Dec., 1732, and baptized 17 Jan., 1732/3, at St. George's, Hanover Square. There does not seem to have been much trouble taken to secure the exact date by the compilers of the published pedigrees. Perhaps this item may now find its way into future Peerages. LEO C.

A GORDON AS A HUNGARIAN NOBLE. A correspondent pointed out twenty years ago in your columns (6 S. vii. 166) that the lame of a Gordon of Park appeared " in 1790 on the list of Hungarian nobles." I lave never been able to verify this, but I Grordon, second son of Sir Adam Gordon of Park and Glenbucket, whose origin is dealt ,vith in one of those admirable birth-brieves which Scots wanderers used to carry about nth them, and which, as in this case, were ssued after their death to prove their dentity. This brieve is unusually illu- minating :
 * hink it may have some reference to Francis

Att Aberdein the tuentie-one day of Apryll, 663, in presens of the magistrats.

The said day, it was judiciallie verefied and >roven, be the depositions of James Gordoun of iothemay, Thomas Gordoun, shirref-deput of Aberdein, John Ker of Culquiche, and Mr. John 'jrordoun, merchant, burges of Aberdein.

That Patrick Gordoun of Glenbucket, Jeane, Slspet, Helen, Magdalen, and Anna Gordons, awfull bairns to the deceast Sir Adam Gordoun of Jrlenbucket], knicht, procreat betwixt him and he deceast Dame Helene Tyrie, his spous, ar the awfull brothers and sisters german of the deceast rancis Gordone, lawfull sone to the said deceast Jame Helene Tyrie, his mother ; and that Andro [ay of Ranes ' is husband to the said Jeane