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NOTES AND QUERIES. tn s. iv. NOV. is, 1911.

HEXBY BOWYER LANE, Brevet-Major, Royal Artillery, died at Brighton on 2 May, 1 843. He had served with the rank of second captain in the Peninsular War in 1809-10, and again in 1813-14.

It is believed that letters written by him from Portugal and Spain during that period are extant. Can any information be given as to their present possessor ?

J. H. LESLIE, Major, R.A.

(retired list).

"RESURRECTION MEN." The following paragraph appeared in The Northampton Mercury of 2 November, 1811 :

"Last week the whole of the corps denominated ' Resurrection Men,' employed in London and its environs, struck for an increase of wages. Last winter they entered into a similar conspiracy, and their anatomical friends acceded to the proposed advance of a guinea upon each body. At that time they received 3 guineas a corpse, and they now demand 5 guineas per body, male or female. The surgeons have in vain remonstrated with them."

How did this remarkable strike end ?

JOHN T. PAGE.

'OLD MORGAN AT PANAMA.' Could any reader tell me who was the author of ' Old Morgan at Panama,' one of the pieces appearing in Dr. Doran's ' Bentley Ballads ' ?

R, P. S.

CAPT. EDWARDES = FORSTER, Could any of your readers help me to find out where Capt. David John Edwardes of Rhyd-y-gorse, Carmarthen, married on 14 Oct., 1817, Caroline Forster, second daughter of John Forster of Southend, Kent, as I want the marriage certificate ?

D. J. W. EDWARDES.

The Bank House, Salisbury.

MANZOXI : ' PROMESSI SPOSI.' Who was the translator of

';The Betrothed Lovers [ a | Milanese Tale of the XVIIth Century | translated | from the Italian | of ! Alessandro Manzoni | Pisa [ Niccolo Capurro, Lung ' Arno | 1828 " ?

DUNHEVED [2].

" RYDYXG ABOUTE OF VICTORY," &c. Colet in his ' Statutes of St. Paul's School ' says :

" I will they use noo Kokfighting nor rydyng aboute of victory, nor disputing at sent Bartilmews whiche is folish babeling and losse of tyme."

What is meant by " rydyng aboute of victory" ? Horse-racing? What was the " folish babeling " at " sent Bartilmews " ?

ST. S WITHIN.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Who wrote the following lines ? We hurry to the river we must cross,

And swiftly downwards every footstep tends ? Happy who reach it ere they count the loss

Of all their memories and of half their friends.

I believe that they were quoted by Mr. Chamberlain in a speech somewhere about 1883. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

Can any one supply the lines beginning Fly, Honesty, fly

And ending

Stay, Honesty, stay in this favoured retreat,

For the lawyers are just at the end of the street, And the bargees are just at the other, and relate the anecdote connected with them ? R. C. C. WILLIAMS.

[The first epigram was written by James Smith (1775-1839), and begins In Craven Street, Strand, ten attorneys find place. A rejoinder by Sir George Rose, beginning

Why should Honesty seek any safer retreat ? is included in Davenport Adams's ' English Epigrams ' (Rout ledge), p. 127.]

HOLWORTHY PORTRAIT, CIRCA 1805. I understand that in some series of portraits, circa 1805, there appears a full-figure portrait of Matthew Holworthy, in the uniform of a captain of the 7th Light Dragoons. I have searched the British Museum Print-Room without success, and shall therefore be very grateful to any one who can tell me where I mav see a copy.

F. M. R. HOLWORTHY, F.S.G.

THOMAS RAYNSFORD OF LITTLE COMPTON, co. GLOUC. Wanted, date of marriage of above with Barbara, daughter of Dr. Bent- ley, physician to Henry VIII. (see ' Vis. of Glouc., 1623'). F. VINE RAINSFORD.

66, Oseney Crescent, N.W.

' COCKLES AND MUSSELS.' I shall be much obliged if one of your readers will kindly inform me who is the composer of this song. E. F. BUSHBY.

2, Egerton Gardens, S.\\.

DR. JOHNSON AND ' THE PILGRIM'S PRO- GRESS.' A much-esteemed and able writer says in the October number of The Cornhill Magazine, p. 543:

" Dr. Johnson was a shrewd and perceptive judge of certain qualities in literature, but the fact that he thought ' The Pilgrim's Progress ' a stupid and barbarous book does not make Johnson a bad critic, or ' The Pilgrim's Progress ' a bad book.