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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. iv. JULY 22, mi.

What is the meaning of the word " swale " ? I find in ' E.D.D.' two East Anglian words thus spelt : swale, sb. 1, " shade, a shady place " ; and, swale, sb. 2, " a slight dip or depression in the surface of the ground."

I should be much obliged if one of the American correspondents of * N". & Q.' would kindly inform me whether the New Jersey " swale " is used in either of the East Anglian senses, or whether it has a meaning unknown to 'E.D.D.' A. L. MAYHEW.

Oxford.

WILLIAM BADGER was Mayor of Win- chester 1597, and M.P. for that city in the same year. Is anything known of his parentage ? Was he connected with the family of Bagehott alias Badger of Prest- bury, Gloucestershire ? A William Badger was admitted a scholar of Winchester school in 1561, aged 10, and was transferred in 1569 to New College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. 15 December, 1572. If, as stated by Joseph Foster, he became Canon of Sarum in 1579, he could not have been the later Mayor. W. D. PINK.

ELECTOR PALATINE c. 1685. A rare volume in my possession has the following inscription on the binding, " A son altesse Mons r Le Prince Electoral Palatin & " The book was published in 1685, and I am desirous of ascertaining who the Prince was. Could it have been Ernest Augustus, who subsequently in 1692 was created Elector of Hanover, and whose son was George I. of England ? W. H. C.

" BONNY EARL o' MORAY." I should be glad of any particulars about " the bonny Earl o' Moray " of the old ballad his ap- pearance, whether fair or dark, and his history. ZEPHYR.

WILLIAM WEBB, COMEDIAN. In ' Echoes of the Week ' in The Illustrated London News of 25 October, 1884, it was stated that an article on a comedian of this name, written by Lord William Lennox, appeared in vol. ii. of The Sporting Magazine for 1839. I have searched the Magazine of that year, but cannot find the article. I shall be grateful to any of your readers who can supply me with the correct reference, which they might send to 80, St. George's Square, S.W.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

ADMIRAL DONALD CAMPBELL. This officer was a Rear-Admiral of the White and Com- mander-in-Chief of the Ships at the Leeward Islands Station. He died on board his

flagship the Salisbury at sea, 11 November,. 1819 ; and was buried in the ground of Portsmouth Garrison Chapel, aged 67. Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' tell me aught of his parentage ?

I might add that there was another Donald Campbell in the R.N. at the same time, who attained only captain's rank, but with whom I am not concerned.

I should be glad if any information were sent directly to'me. W. C. BOLLAND.

5, Essex Court, Temple, E.G.

" THINK IT POSSIBLE THAT YOTJ MAY BE WRONG " : CROMWELL. In The Times of 3 July, p. 5, col. 5, at the end of his letter, " Another Flag Officer " writes :

my old comrades of the Senior Service who are being so wofully misled : 'My brethren. I beseach you in the name of common sense to think it pos- sible you may be mistaken ! ' "
 * ' To paraphrase Cromwell, I should like to say to

If I remember rightly, the original saying is " I pray you in the bowels of Christ to think it possible that you may be wrong." la any such saying rightly attnbuted to Cromwell ? My impression is that I have seen it quoted somewhere, perhaps in one of Charles or Henry Kingsley's novels, as a saying of an " old divine." Who was its author ? ROBERT PIERPOINT.

" HAPPY THE COUNTRY WHOSE ANNALS

ARE DULL." Could you let me know who is the author of the phrase " Happy the country whose annals are dull," quoted by Carlyle in his ' History of the French Revolution ' ? HENRY SAMUEL BRANDRETH.

[The phrase is often quoted in the form " Happy is the country that has no history."]

SIR ANDREW HACKET. When did he become a Master in Chancery, and how long did he hold that office ? I should be glad to know the dates and particulars of his first and second marriage. He died 19 March, 1709. G. F. R. B.

EDMUND HAKLUYT, son of Richard Hakluyt the famous geographer, became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1618. Is anything known of his later career t When did he die ? G. F. R. B.

SAMUEL HORSLEY, only son of the Rev. Heneage Wyndham Horsley of Dundee, graduated M.A. at Oxford University from Balliol College in 1837. Was he any rela- tion of the Right Rev. Samuel Horsley, Bishop of Rochester ? When did he die ?

G. F. R. B