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NOTES AND QUERIES. tns. v.F EB .3, 1912.

tobakcoe you Left mee ; I pray send mee sum this weeke ; and some angelleco ceedd & sum cerret sed ; to sow at buknum .... &c. Your Af extinat wife

Buknum May the 04. SUSAN CRANE.

Send word what thinges you old caried to holbroke.

These foor Isaac Appleton Esq r at his Chamber in Grayes Inn p'sent.

Susan Crane, widow of Sir Robert Crane, was the second wife of Isaac Appleton of Buckraan Vail, Norfolk. The extract is from ' Family Letters from the Bodleian Library, with Notes by W. S. Appleton,' p. 49

My query is, did the lady require tobacco in the form of snuff ? The year of the letter is not given, but the following one is February, 1653, i.e., 1654. A. RHODES.

MAJOR JAMES KILLPATRICK. I should feel extremely obliged if any of your readers could give me information as to the family and early services of Major James Kill- patrick of the Madras Army, who was sent up to Bengal in 1756, where he served under Clive in command of the troops at that settlement until his death in 1757.

C. B. NORMAN. St. Margarets-at-Cliffe.

BREAM OF BREAM'S BUILDINGS. Who was Bream of Bream's Buildings, Chancery L ne ? J. H. R,

[See 10 S. viii. 206.]

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED.

1. SIMON ANDREW FORSTER. When did he die in 1870, and where was he buried ? A short account of him is given in the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xx. 24.

2. CHARLES KNYVETT, JUN., AND LORD DUDLEY AND WARD. In the 'Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xxxi. 341, it is stated that Knyvett "was educated at Westminster School, where he formed a close friendship with Lord Dudley and Ward which lasted until his death." I should be glad to know the authority for this statement, and if there is any evidence that Lord Dudley and Ward was educated at any public school.

3. THOMAS ELLIS OWEN. According to the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xlii. 456, he died in 1814, and was buried in Llanfair-is-Gaer Church, Carnarvonshire. I should be glad to know the full date of his death, and whether he ever married.

4. WALTER POPE, ASTRONOMER. Accord- ing to the 'Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xlvi. 138, his mother was a daughter of the Puritan divine John Dod. I should be glad to know some particulars of his father and the Christian name of his mother. G. F. R. B.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Can any one give the names of the authors of the following verses, and say where the original poems or hymns are to be found ?

1. Who laughs at sin laughs at his own disease, Welcomes approaching ruin with his smiles,

Dares at his soul's expense his fancy please, Affronts his God, himself of peace beguiles.

2. I envy not their hap whom fortune doth

advance ; I take no pleasure in their pain that have

less happy chance.

To rise by others' fall I deem a losing game ; All states, with others' ruin built, to ruin run

amain.

W. A.

Who wrote the lines

I was for that time lifted above earth,

And possessed joys not promised in my birth,

quoted by Izaak Walton in the Third Day of ' The Compleat Angler ' ?

T. BALSTON.

Who wrote the following beautiful lines anent Charles Dickens ?

And God did bless him if the prayers and tear s Of countless thousands : if the knowledge sure Of heart uplift, or strengthened to endure, Have aught of blessing. Surely he who cheers The mourning heari> bids fly the sick man's fears Is blest, thrice blest. A Prophet of the Poor, In darksome den and squalid slum obscure He shows a world of love wherein appears The Way to God not in lone hermit cell, In Nature-worship, stately rite, stern creed, But through the human hearts he loved so well. Angelic hosts might pause to tell Of " Tiny Tim," or " Paul," or " Little Nell."

I. X. B.

[Asked at 11 S. iii. 3, 48, but without receiving an answer.]

" If ever I run a horse for the Derby I will call him F & M (a well-known firm of suppliers of Derby hampers)."

My remembrance of this is that Dickens either said it or wrote it. It may, perhaps, have been Thackeray. I cannot, however, find it. WM. H. PEET.

PEVERIL FAMILY. The historic surname Peveril, in its varied forms, occurs in Not- tingham records and registers, apparently without break, from the eleventh to the nineteenth centuries, but is not, I believe, now extant here. Does it survive elsewhere in England ? A. STAPLETON.

Nottingham.

ROYAL MINT : GUILDFORD, SURREY. In what reigns was the Royal Mint set up in Guildford, Surrey, and when was the last issue of money made there ?

J. LANDFEAR LUCAS.