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and popularity." Some details follow, and mention is made of the fire at Astley's Amphitheatre, " within a few yards of the chapel, the other night" ('Memoirs,' by Richard Treffry, 1840, pp. 261-2).

W. C. B.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

ARNOLFINI FAMILY. Mr. W. H. James Weale and other critics have from time to time published biographical details in regard to' Jan Arnolfini, whose portrait was twice painted by Jan van Ey ck, and La Borde quoted documents referring to " Jehan Arnoulphin, marchant de Lucques, demourant a Bruges."

It may perhaps be as well to place on record the following inscription that I lately read on a tablet on a house in the Via del Duomo at Lucca. Unfortunately, I copied only part of it :

" Qui Visse Gio. Attilio Arnolfini, uomo di Vasta mente e di larghi concetti. MDCCXXXIII

MDCCLXXXIl."

Do any of your readers know whether it is possible to trace the descent of Giovanni Attilio Arnolfini from the man whose features are preserved to us in the portraits in the National Gallery and at Berlin ?

MAUBICE W. BROCKWELL.

"GEORGE INN" AT WOBURN. In the Court of Requests temp. Elizabeth reference is made to "the George Inn" at Woburn, Beds. Can any of your readers inform me whether this inn is still in existence ?

TT r^ -ri

Christchurch, N.Z.

" PRO PATRIA EST DTJM LUDERE VIDEMUR."

Biichmann has not this saying at all ; King ranks it among the Adespota. Can it really not be traced back to its author ? It would be a pity. As long as PROF. BENSLY has not pronounced judgment, the case is not hopeless ; so I appeal to his vast learning. G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

REV. STEPHEN RADCLIFFE, D.D. I should be glad of any information concerning the family history of the Rev. Stephen Radcliffe, D.D., Vicar of Naas, co. Kildare, who died December, 1732. E. G. COCK.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Who is the author of the following lines, and to whom do they refer ?

A Scot and a Jesuit hand in hand First taught the world to say That peoples ought to have the power, And princes should obey.

Also, who is the author of the following, which is quite worthy of Burns ?

When Nature makes a man a king, Nae croon needs she to gie Mm. She claps a trade mark on his broo, An' sends his patent wi' 'im.

W. E. WILSON. Ha wick.

Can you help me to trace a quotation which seems very familiar, but which I cannot find? I may not have the exact words, but it is something like this : " Out of the - and waspish word ' No ' to pluck the sting."

T T? TJ 1 C* J. K. r. <JT.

The captain's little daughter took her father by

the hand : " Is not God upon the water as well as on the

land ? "

M. A. B.

In the forties I read as a boy the following verse in Chambers' s Journal. Who wrote it ?

Good reader, I this little booke Writ with one gray goose quill ;

A pen it was when it I tooke, A pen I leave it still.

G. C.

' SATURDAY REVIEW ' AND THE SAXONS.

" Alfred belongs to a state of society (I say it with all deference to The Saturday Eevieio critic who keeps such jealous watch over the honour of our Saxon ancestors) half -barbarous." M. Arnold, ' Essay on Marcus Aurelius.'

Who was The Saturday Review critic, or, at any rate, how, and in what numbers, did he protect the honour of our Saxon ancestors ?

[Probably E. A. Freeman.]

BISHOP OF DURHAM AND THE CURATE.

" We must pause, lest our readers reject us, as the Bishop of Durham the poor curate, because he was ' mystical and confused.' " Walter Bagehot, ' Essay on Shakespeare.'

Who was the Bishop, and where is the story told ?

THE THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES.

" A great divine tells us that^the Thirty-Nine

Articles are ' forms of thought.' " 7/m/.

Who was the great divine, and where

did he say this ? GEORGE SAMPSON.