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NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. VIIL JULY ae,

which shews that the times are loose, and come to a great disregard of the King, or Court, or Government."

This broadside has now become very scarce. At the sale at Sotheby's of Mr. Frederick Ouvry's library on 5 April, 1882, copies (lot 1624) of the ' Petition ' and the ' Answer.' together with four other broad- sides of a similar character, realized the sum of 131. 15s., and were bought by Mr. F. S. Ellis for the British Museum. They had been previously reprinted by Mr. Ouvry in a quarto volume for private distribution. I doubt very much if Ralph Wallis had anything to do with the author- ship. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

THE SANCTITY OF ROYALTY (11 S. vii. 249 335, 493). On 10 August, 1475, Margaret Past on wrote to her son Sir John Paston : "As for tidynejs here in this contre, we have non, but that the contry is bareyn of money ; and that my Lady of Yorke and all her howsold is here at Sent Benetts, and purposed to abide there stille, til the Kynge come from be yonde the see, and lenger if she like the eyre ther, as it is seide." 1 The Paston Letters ' (eel. 1875), iii. 138.

Mr. James Gairdner. the editor, states that "my Lady of Yorke" was Cecily, Duchess of York, daughter of Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland, and mother of King Ed- ward IV. ; and that " Sent Benetts " was the abbey of St. Bennet at Hulme in Nor- folk. M. H. DODDS.

CHABLES DILLON (11 S. vii. 469). It may assist PROF. MOORE SMITH in his researches into the history of the portrait of Charles Dillon to know that from 1830 to 1838 Maclise published a series of sketches of eminent persons in Frascr's Magazine. According to Bryan, he abandoned the practice of portrait painting about 1833. Dillon died suddenly 24 June, 1881, aged 62. E. HOWARTH.

Sheffield.

GUIDO DELLE COLONNE IN ENGLAND :

L. F. SIMPSON (11 S. vii. 509).

" The Sicilian Guido deColumna is said, on the authority of Boston of Bury, to have written his Troy book at Edward I.'s command, but the work is dedicated to another." Mary Bateson's ' Mediaeval England ' (1903), p. 298.

FIRST DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND NATURAL ISSUE (US. vii. 486). His two natural daughters were buried in the Percy vault in the Chapel of St. Nicholas, which is the easternmost chapel on the south side of the chevet of Westminster Abbey. A. B. BAYLEY.

HORACE SMITH'S VERSES ON SURNAMES 11 S. viii. 10):

Surnames.

Men once were surnamed from their shape or

estate,

(You all may from History worm it) ; There was Lewis the Bulky, and Henry the Great,

John Lackland, and Peter the Hermit. But now, when the door-plates of Misters and

Dames

Are read, each so constantly varies From the owner's trade, figure, and calling,

Surnames Seem given by the rule of contraries.

Mr. Box, though provoked, never doubles his fist,

Mr. Burns, in his grate, has no fuel ; Mr. Playfair won't catch me at hazard or whist,

Mr. Coward was wing'd in a duel. Mr. Wise is a dunce, Mr. King is a whig,

Mr. Coffin 's uncommonly sprightly, And huge Mr. Little broke down in a gig,

While driving fat Mrs. Golightly.

Mrs. Drinkwater 's apt to indulge in a dram,

Mrs. Angel 's an absolute fury, And meek Mr. Lyon let fierce Mr. Lamb

Tweak his nose in the lobby of Drury. At Bath, where the feeble go more than the stout,

(A conduct well worthy of Nero), Over poor Mr. Lightfoot, confined with the gout,

Mr. Heaviside danced a Bolero.

Miss Joy, wretched maid, when she chose Mr. Love,

Found nothing but sorrow await her : She now holds in wedlock, as true as a dove,

That fondest of mates, Mr. Hayter. Mr. Oldcastle dwells in a modern-built hut,

Miss Sage is of madcaps the archest ; Of all the queer bachelors Cupid e'er cut,

Old Mr. Younghusband 's the starchest.

Mr. Child, in a passion, knock'd down Mr. Rock,

Mr. Stone like an aspen-leaf shivers ; Miss Poole used to dance, but she stands like a stock

Ever since she became Mrs. Rivers ; Mr. Swift hobbles onward, no mortal knows how,

He moves as though cords had entwin'd him ; Mr. Metcalfe ran off, upon meeting a cow,

With pale Mr. Turnbull behind him.

Mr. Barker 's as mute as a fish in the sea,

Mr. Miles never moves on a journey ; Mr. Gotobed sits up till half-after three,

Mr. Makepeace was bred an attorney. Mr. Gardener can't tell a flower from a root,

Mr. Wilde with timidity draws back, Mr. Ryder performs all his journeys on foot,

Mr. Foote all his journeys on horseback.

Mr. Penny, whose father was rolling in wealth,

Kick'd down all his fortune his dad won, Large Mr. Le Fever 's the picture of health,

Mr. Goodenough is but a bad one. Mr. Cruickshank stept into three thousand a year,

By shewing his leg to an heiress : Now I hope you '11 acknowledge I 've made it quite clear

That surnames ever go by contraries.

The above verses are taken from The Portfolio, No. XIX., p. 304, published in or about 1823. CHAS. A. BERNAU.