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Jones. I have not even been able to find the Sessions paper containing a report of her

trial.

I shall be obliged for information. HORACE BLEACKLEY.

BRISTOL CATHEDRAL CLOCK. In a docu- ment of the year 1630, of which I have a copy, there is noted a sum " Paide to Richard Hebdi. . . .h " (or perhaps it is Heidi....) "for makinge y e Horologe at y e lower end of y e Cathedrall Church, with divers and sundry motions in it .... 131. 6s. 8d."

Can any reader help me to the surname of the maker of this horologe ? In the original it is partly illegible. E. T. MORGAN.

Bristol Cathedral.

CAPT. JOHN KYNOCH : QUATRE BRAS. In the church at Waterloo there is a tablet inscribed :

Sacred to the Memory of Captains Neil Campbell Duncan Macpherson John Kynoch John Rowling Eweri Kennedy and 9 Non-Commissioned Officers

75 privates,

of the 79th Regiment of Highlanders who fell in the memorable Battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, 16, 18 June, 1815. In which actions were also wounded of the same corps 24 Officers, 375

Non-Cqm. officers and privates.

In testimony of the valour of their deceased

brethren in arms this tablet is inscribed by the

surviving officers of the same regiment.

How sleep the brave who sink to rest?

By all their country's wishes blest.

Can any correspondent tell me the place of birth and the parentage of Capt. John Kynoch, which are not known at the head- quarters of the regiment ?

Probably a record could be found in the files of The Scotsman, or the newspapers of Perth and Inverness (where are depots of the regiment), after the arrival of news of the battles containing lists of the killed and wounded.

Adjutant Kynoch, appointed 19 May, 1814, served in the Peninsular War, being wounded at the battles of the Pyrenees and Toulouse. He was killed in action at Quatre Bras, 16 June, 1815. J. K.

Brighton.

BURIAL INSCRIPTIONS. Can any one in- form me if the inscriptions in the following burial-grounds have been published ?

1. St. George's, Hanover Square, Bays- water Road.

2. High Street, Lambeth.

3. St. Mary's, Paddington Green, church and churchyard. G. S. PARRY.

DR. THOMAS ARNOLD AND ' HUMPHRY CLINKER.' In 'The Life and Correspond- ence ' of Dean Stanley, by Prothero and Bradley, 2 vols., 3rd ed., 1894, chap, iv., p. 65, we read :

"He [Arnold] was looking at something about Smollett, and said 'Humphry Clinker' was not thought enough of, generally ; and upon my telling; him I had never read it' Oh ! you must read "Humphry Clinker"; if you have not got it, I will lend it to you. It is not too much to say that I have read it through fifty times 'and accordingly he jumped up and got it down for me."

Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' say whether there is on record another instance of a schoolmaster recommending ' Humphry Clinker ' to a pupil ? It seems a little puzzling why so austere a moralist as Dr. Arnold should be so enthusiastic in its praise. FREDERICK CHARLES WHITE.

26, Arran Street, Roath, Cardiff.

' KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTLE ' :

If you desire the price, shoot from your eye A beam to this place and you shall espy F.S., which is to say, my sweetest honey, They cost me three and twopence, or no money.

I. ii.

How does " FS." mean three and two- pence ? Of what is it a contraction ?

P. A. MCELWAINE.

' COMUS ' AT COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.

Mr. Walter V. Daniell's Catalogue No. 1, New Series, 1910, contains the following entry :

"403. Milton, Comus, as acted at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, Madame Vestris' manage- ment, a neatly written manuscript, 4to." When did this performance take place ?

R. B. P.

' THE STANDARD PSALMIST ' : W. H. BIRCH : REV. W. J. HALL. I have recently had lent to me the first volume of the above work, the title-page of which is worded as follows :

"The | Standard Psalmist, | A Collection of Tunes I for | Congregational and Private Devotional Singing, | adapted to the | Rev. W. J. Hall's Selec- tion of Psalms and Hymns | Arranged for four voices, with organ or pianoforte accompaniment, | by I W. H Birch, Organist of Saint Mary's Church, | Amersham. | Vol. I. I Ent. Sta. Hall. Price Is. Qd. | London : | Hall, Virtue and Co. 25 Paternoster Row; and Jewell and Letchford, 17 Soho Square. | Amersham : | Published by W. Broadwater, Letter -Press Music Printer, High Street."

The book consists of 214 pages, and contains many beautiful melodies of the old composers without alteration or amendment, thirteen of the tunes were composed for this work