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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. iv. DEC. 30, 1911.

Sympathy ! or, Striking Objects of Travel in Italy, Prussia, Spain, France, Russia, &c.,' 12mo, 1796 ; and 'Angelo, a Novel founded on Melancholy Facts,' 12mo, 1796. His wife, Mary or Maria (Palmer), formerly an actress, wrote ' Poems, upon Several Sub- jects,' 12mo, London, 1808; 2nd ed., 8vo, Malta, 1818.

Frances Iliff, usually styled Mrs. Wynd- ham, was the mother of the children of George O'Brien (Wyndham), third Earl of Egre- mont.

See R. Hovenden, ' Monumental Inscrip- tions in the Old Churchyard of St. Mary, Newington, Surrey,' part i., 1880, p. 156; ' Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors,' 1816, p. 171 ; Catalogue of the Printed Books in the British Museum ; G. E. C.'s ' Complete Peerage,' s.n. ' Egremont.'

DANIEL HIPWELL.

AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED (11 S. iii. 228).

The bee and spider by a diverse power Suck honey and poison from the self-same flow'r.

Robert Burton in speaking of his book and its readers has a comparison which illus- trates this :

" Some are too partial, as friends, to overween, others come with a prejudice to carp, vilify, detract, and scoff (qui de me forsan, quicquid est, omni conteniptu contemptius judicant) ; some as bees for honey, some as spiders to gather poison." 'Anatomy 'of Melancholy,' vol. i. p. 26 (Shil- leto's ed.).

Pope in his ' Essay on Man,' Ep. i. 219, has In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew ? The spider has been mentioned in the preceding couplet. Elwin observes in a note on this passage of Pope :

" When the nectar of flowers is poisonous, the bee has not the power of separating its noxious from its wholesome properties, nor do bees always avoid the flowers which are hurtful to them."

EDWARD BENSLY.

" HOXORIFICABTLITUDINITATIBUS " (11 S. iv. 487). Certainly it is absurd to build anything upon this word, as it is so much older than Elizabeth's time. It is duly given in Ducange, with a quotation from Albert Mussato (or Mussati), who died in 1329 or 1330. See also the quotation from Nashe in 1599, in ' N.E.D.'

WALTER W. SKEAT.

DANIEL PURCELL (11 S. iv. 368). Daniel Purcell was born in London about 1660, and died in 1717. His compositions include ' A Lamentation for the Death of Mr.

Henry Purcell.' For further information see ' Cathedral Organists Past and Present/ by John E. West, 1899, p. 120.

CHAS. HALL CROUCH. 62, Nelson Road, Stroud Green, N.

JANE AUSTEN'S 'PERSUASION' (11 S. iv. 288, 339, 412).!. The author seems very partial to the use of an active tense where a passive would now be insisted on. Thus in ' Emma ' I find :

" The proposal. . . .was so effectually promoted that soon everything was clearing away."

"While the sleek, well-tied parcels of 'Men's Beavers ' and ' York Tans ' were bringing down and displaying on the counter."

" Tea was carrying round."

4. The reference to Henry and Emma is evidently to Prior's version of ' The Nut- brown Maid ' rather than to ' Speed the Plough.' N. W. HILL.

New York.

GUILD OR FRATERNITY or THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY (US. iv. 490). The " Frater- nity of the Blessed Virgin " was the name of the Guild of Carpenters. The " Guild of the Blessed Virgin Mary " was that of the Shoemakers.

From the members of these and the other trade guilds of Dublin (numbering in all twenty-five) the Common Council men were chosen for the old unreformed Corporation of Dublin.

A full list of the guilds and much informa- tion about them will be found in War- burton, Whitelaw, and Walsh's ' History of Dublin,' vol. ii. p. 1064. L. A. W.

Dublin.

ROBERT SOUTHEY'S LETTERS (11 S. iv. 429). For a notice of Whittle Harvey see 2 S. x. 109 :

" While alluding to Colchester I might as wetf make a Note respecting the boyhood of Daniel Whittle Harvey, Esq. When under articles to a solicitor there, named Daniels, the aspiring youngster scrawled upon a wall this inscription : D. W. Harvey, Esq., M.P. for Colchester. It nust be so.' This ambitious dream was singu- larly enough verified."

Tymms's 'Family Topographer,' 1832, has Daniel Whittle Harvey, Esq., M.P., Hare Hall, Essex. R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

HAMLET AS CHRISTIAN NAME (11 S. iv. 305, 395). Hamlet, or (more frequently) Hamblett, is still to be found in Warring- ton, both as surname and Christian name..

C. M.

Warrington.