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AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (11 S. vii. 508). The source of the quotation for "which H. A. B. inquires is surely to be found in Solomon's words :

" As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?" Pro- verbs xxvi. 18, 19.

W. D. MACBAY.

H. A. B. may be right that the ancient classics have a proverbial saying about the madman and the firebrand, but Dr. Watts has a moral song :

For none but a madman would throw about fire And say "it was all done in sport."

GEORGE WHERRY.

[C. C. B., C. S. J., and DR. J\ WILLCOCK also thanked for replies.]

(US. vii. 489 f viii. 14.) There is a great deal of human nature in man. This is by the American humorist Josh Billings, and may be found in his published works. FRED. C. FROST, F.S.A.

GENERAL INGOLDSBY (11 S. vii. 489). Lieut. -General Richard Ingoldsby was the younger son of Sir George Ingoldsby by Mary, daughter and heir of James Gould of Corbally, co. Limerick. Sir George Ingoldsby was the sixth son of Sir Richard Ingoldsby of Lethenborough, Bucks, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Oliver Cromwell of Hin- chinbrook, Hunts, and served in the army in Ireland during the Commonwealth. He was M.P. for Limerick and Kilmallock 1658-9, after the Restoration received a pardon, was High Sheriff of the county Limerick 1667-8, and Mayor of Limerick in 1672, about which time he was knighted. The elder son of Sir George was Henry Ingoldsby, who was born in Limerick in 1657; matriculated at Trinity College, Dub- lin, 1 June, 1675, as Fellow Commoner, aged 18 ; died 2 December, and was buried 3 December, 1675, at St. Andrew's, Dublin. Richard Ingoldsby, who became Lieutenant - General, 1 January, 1704. was M.P. for Limerick 1703-12. He was sworn one of the Lords Justices of Ireland during the absences of the Lords Lieutenants, 1709-11, and a Privy Councillor. He died 29 January, 1711/12. He married (licence <lated 6 July, 1688) Frances, daughter of James Naper of Loughcrew, co. Meath, by Dorothy, sister of Sfr William Petty, and left an only son, Henry Ingoldsby, who was M.P. for Limerick 1713-14 and 1727 till his death, 5 August, 1731, and who lived at Carton, co. Kildare, of which countv he

was High Sheriff 1713. He married Cathe- rine. daughter of Sir Constantine Phipps, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and had one son, Richard, who predeceased him, un- married, in 1720 ; and two daughters, who became his coheirs. Catherine married, September, 1734, her cousin James Lenox Naper of Loughcrew, co. Meath, and Frances married Hugh Massy. G. D. B,

MUNGO CAMPBELL'S DYING MESSAGE : "FAREWELL, VAIN WORLD!" (11 S. vii. 449.) In Capt. L. Benson's 'Book of Re- markable Trials' (n.d.) these words are said to have been found upon the cell floor close to Mungo Campbell's body on the morning of his suicide, 28 February, 1770. They cannot have been his composition, for at 11 S. vii. 266 they are said to have been composed, circa 1726, by William Len- ton of St. Ives " the night before his execu- tion."

I have long been interested in tracing this epitaph (see 9 S. ii. 536), and at present am in possession of the following instances of its occurrence (with slight variations) on tomb- stones :

Long Itchiiigton, Warwickshire (1714). Winterton, Lincolnshire (1728). Cromer, Norfolk (1755). Bow, Middlesex (1758). West Haddon, Northamptonshire (1763). Kensington (1776). Staple, Kent (1784). Bishops Cannings, Wilts (1792). St. Pancras, Old Churchyard (1811). North Wheatley, Notts (1820). Maxey, Northamptonshire (1822). Wingham, Kent (1822). Southam, Warwickshire (1830). Hewelsfield, Gloucestershire (1838). Duffield, Derby (1848). Barnwell, Northamptonshire (no date), Colchester, St. Mary at the Walls (no date).

It will thus be seen that the words were used as an epitaph at Long Itchington some years before they are said to have been composed by Lenton. I shall be glad to know if any one can trace them back further or give other early instances of their use as an epitaph.

" HOLLO!" (11 S. vii. 489.) I am a native of Northamptonshire, and have been in close touch with that county and with Warwickshire all my life. With very few exceptions I have always heard this word pronounced " Hello ! " in both counties.

JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.