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The connexion of ideas may still not be very apparent ! But the consideration that, under the old mining laws of Dartmoor, no tin might be sold till tested and stamped with the Duchy arms, at one of the Stannary towns, suggests to me that the bole might perhaps signify a similar seal of approbation set on lead of standard quality by the Derby mine-officials.

ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

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.

" TERTIUS GAUD ENS." The Scotsman of 9 October, 1901, had the words : " As in all questions touching the relations between Great Britain and Russia, *he German press takes up the attitude of a tertius gaudens with regard to the death of the Ameer." I should be glad to know the source of the Latin expression. J. A. H. MUBBAY.

Oxford.

HANOVERIAN REGIMENT. r A foreign scholar writes tc me :

" There is, at this moment, in the German Army a Hanoverian regiment who have for their dis- tinctive on their shakos the word ' Sebastopol,' and on their arm the word 'Gibraltar.' Can it be possible that this regiment fought under English commanders as late as the middle of the past century, or how am I to account for the facts ?" This is hardly a query for an English dic- tionary, so I pass it on to * N. & Q.' on the chance that it may meet the eye of some one who can dispose of it.

J. A. H. MURRAY.

THE AUTHORIZED VERSION : DATE OF ITS TRANSLATION. Can any of your readers throw light on a question which has arisen in connexion with the Tercentenary of the Authorized Version of the English Bible ? It is usually said, as in Hastings' s ' Dic- tionary of the Bible,' vol. v. p. 253, that, although the translators were appointed in 1604, the work of translation was not begun till 1607. In writing, however, on the sub- ject in 'Our Grand Old Bible' I ventured to say: "It is possible, however, that it was the revision which was begun in 1607 ; and it seems fairly certain that some of the translators were at work as early as the spring of 1605."

This has given rise to a private corre- spondence, and as the matter is of public

interest, any information your readers could render as to when the translators actually began their work would be welcome to many. On 25 March The Graphic stated :

"The said translators (says Wood in his ' Annals') had recourse, once a week, to Dr. Rain- olds his lodgings in Corpus Christi College, arid there, as 'tis said, perfected the work, notwith- standing the said Doctor, who had the chief hand in it, was ail the while sorely afflicted with the gout."

Dr. Grosart has a note to the same effect in a memoir prefixed to ' Rainolds on Obadiah.' But Dr. Rainolds died on 21 May, 1607.

WILLIAM MUIR.

Stormont, Monreith Road, Newlands, Glasgow.

A ST. HELENA PORTRAITIST : DENZIL IBBETSON. I have succeeded in clearly tracing to Denzil Ibbetson, a Commissariat officer at St. Helena, an interesting series of portraits hitherto attributed to George Cruikshank, who very probably etched the plate from which they were engaged. Denzil Ibbetson first sketched Napoleon on the deck of the Northumberland in 1815 ; he made various sketches of him between 1815 and 1821, one of which (now in my possession) he gave to Theodore Hook, who endorsed the fact upon it in 1817. He made an elaborate water-colour of Napoleon as he lay dead, from which he executed two oil paintings of doubtful artistic merit. One was given to King George IV., and the other .(from which a life-size lithograph was made in 1855) now belongs to me. At the back of the picture there is a long inscription, probably in Denzil Ibbetson' s handwriting. Ibbetson entered the Commissariat Service in 1810 as Deputy Assistant Commissary General ; he was promoted Assistant in 1814, and Deputy Commissary General in 1830. His name disappears from the 'Army List ' in 1858. I am anxious to obtain his full name, and any particulars as to his career, ancestry, and descendants. Some of his drawings are much above the average, and for a time he resided close to Longwood.

A. M. BROADLEY. The Knapp, Bradpole, Bridport.

DELAFIELD : AGE OF GRADUATION FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY. The ' Oxford Uni- versity Register, 1449-1622,' vol. ii. part iii., contains the following entry at p. 72 : " Dali- feld (Delafielde), John ; suppl. B. A. 12 Dec., 1577 ; adm. 1 Feb., 1577/8 ; det. 1577/8." From the Brasenose College Regis- ter it appears that this John Dalifeld was of that College. So far as can be learnt, there were but two persons of the name John Dalifeld living in 1578 ; they were