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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. iv. JULY i, 1911.

Probably the ' Treatise on Spousals ' (first published in 1686) was written shortly after 1591, certainly while Greene's pam- phlets were fresh in men's memories. Who was this " famous forger," and when did he die ? P. A. MCELWAINE.

Dublin.

APOPHTHEGMS FOR SCHOOL MUSEUM. For the purposes of a Public School Museum, I am looking out for a series of pithy and characteristic sayings of great men, such as Goethe's " Man sieht nur was man weiss.' Can any reader guide me to, or supply me with, a selection of choice illuminating utter- ances suitable for inscription ? Please reply direct. G. M. TAYLOR.

Stanford, Rusholme, Manchester.

DEAN MEBIVALE ON PERSEVERANCE. " The first man who inhabited the Alpha Cottages, Regent's Park, was knocked down three hundred ana sixty-five times by footpads on his evening walk home ; and it was not till the end of the year that he said he had given the place a fair trial and it would not suit him."

I find this humorous illustration of per- severance given with that of Bruce's spider to Mrs. J. E. Frere by Charles Merivale in March, 1852 (' Autobiography of Dean Merivale,' p. 189). Was it due to his own invention ? ST. SWITHIN.

RIDDLE. Can any reader give the solu- tion of the following conundrum, which was found amongst some papers over a century old ?

" Spirit of our mother," said the daughter. " 'Tis yours and mine," said the son. "Tales! idle tales ! " said the judge, and drove them from his presence.

The answer is to be one word of two syllables. RAVEN.

ROBERT BLINCOE. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' tell me where Robert Blincoe was buried, and also whether there is any exist- ing memorial of him, either over his grave or in his native town ? A reprint of his 4 Memoirs ' was brought out in the U.S.A. some thirty years ago, but all my efforts to procure a copy have so far been in vain.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

LORD FALMOUTH'S CHARTERS. Does any one know what became of the MS. Index to the Charters in the Muniment Room at Tregothnan, which was compiled by the Rev. Lambert Larking, and was once at the disposal of Sir John Maclean ('Hist, of Tngg Minor,' ii. 540) ? J. H R

ST. LUGIDIO. I find in ' Acta Sanctorum,' vol. xxxv., August, p. 341, under the life of St. Molua, an Irish saint : " de S. Lugidio sive Luano Lua et Lugith seu Lugaidh." ' Mo Lua " =my dear Lugide.

Would some Irisn scholar kindly say what is the equivalent English name Lewis ? Louis ? MAY.

PORT HENDERSON : CORRIE BHREACHAN OR BHREACHAN' s CAULDRON ? Where are these places ? I presume on the Scotch coast, but cannot find references, nor the localities on any map at hand.

R. C. HOPE, F.S.A.

Florence.

JUplus.

BISHOP KEN: IZAAK WALTON'S WIVES.

(11 S. iii. 248, 290, 431.)

ONE of the best Ken authorities I know, James Heywood Markland, the ecclesiastical antiquary (died 1864) himself a descend- ant of Abraham Markland, one of the three witnesses to the will of Izaak Walton made a pedigree of the family of Ken, in the compilation of which he had the assistance of Mr. Serjeant Merewether, a connexion of the Walton-Hawkins family, and also Sir Harris Nicolas' s pedigree to guide him. He states that the Bishop's father had three children by his first wife, viz. : Jane, who married John Simmonds ; Anne, who married Izaak Walton ; and John, born 1626/7, who died unmarried in 1651. Thomas, it will be observed, is not named.

With his fuller knowledge one would have expected greater accuracy in this writer ; but if Jane Ken died before 1625, she could not have been the mother of John. Truly it is

A pedigree such as would puzzle Old Nick, Not to mention Sir Harris Nicholas.

Sir Harris, however, is hard to beat in these matters, and I am inclined to pin my faith to his statement that the three children were Thomas and the above-named daughters ; consequently John becomes the eldest son of the second wife. This John died as men tioned above, and his will was proved by his brother and sole executor Ion (or Hyon) Ken. Nearly all the children of Thomas Ken the elder seem to have been baptized or buried at St Giles's, Cripplegate.