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" SUNG BY REYNOLDS IN 1820 " (11 S. v. 88, 172). Whether the lines quoted by MB. WILMOT CORFIEIYD were actually sung, and, if so, whether they were sung by Tom Reynolds the' pugilist, I cannot say. But there can be no doubt that the author of them was John Hamilton Reynolds, the friend of John Keats, and brother-in-law of Thomas Hood, with whom he collaborated in the once famous ' Odes and Addresses to Great People.' They are to be found in a poem entitled ' Lines to Philip Samson [not Sampson], the Brummagem Youth,' in a little book ' The Fancy : a Selection from the Poetical Remains of the late Peter Corcoran, of Gray's Inn, Student at law. With a Brief Memoir of his Life.' In Tfie London Magazine for June, 1820, it was announced as " preparing for publication," and in the following month as " recently published," in which number it was reviewed concurrently with the notice in Blackwood's. In the preface to the book there is a reference to a " mill between Belasco and the Brum- magem Youth " which sufficiently explains the allusions in the poem.

S. BUTTERWORTH.

' THE BRIDES OF MAVIS ENDERBY ' (11 S. v. 149). I believe it was demonstrated in ' N. & Q.' many years ago that a tune played on Boston chimes was composed to satisfy the want created by Jean Ingelow's invention of a title which piqued the curiosity of her admirers. ST. S WITHIN.

CURIOUS STAFF (US. v. 49, 138). This is very possibly a High Sheriff's staff. I have the small silver top of one, with arms engraved on it, which was used by my great - grandfather as High Sheriff of co. Stafford in 1804. T. JESSON.

NOTTINGHAM AS A SURNAME (11 S. v. 169). S. & E. Coleman's Catalogue of Deeds. &c., No. 6. 1912, just issued, has: " Deed between Elizabeth Nottingham of Ramsey, Hunts, 1708, and Robert Spike " ; and another " between Emanuel Nottingham of Ramsey and John Mead, 1697."

R. J. FYNMORE.

Nottingham is not an uncommon surname. Several examples will be found in ' The London Directory.' I knew a family of Nottinghams at Princes Risborough, Bucks, years ago, one of whom is entered in an old directory as " Nottingham, James, boot and shoe maker, Duke Street," in that town. RICHARD WELFORD.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

The name was represented in the neigh- bourhood of York forty years ago, and I fancy there are still people there who bear it. A former headmaster of St. John's Diocesan Training College, a clergyman, was a Mr. Nottingham, and I think he came from Northamptonshire. ST. S WITHIN.

In the ' London Directory and County Suburbs ' there are fourteen persons named Nottingham, three in Leeds ' Directory,' two in Birmingham, &c. I knew Mr. Spenser Nottingham, an authority on Gre- gorian tones ; and there was a C. H. Notting- ham, a composer of music, who succeeded him. J. SPENCER CURWEN.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (11 S. v. 129):

1. When Newman chose " Cor ad cor lo- quitur " he was unaware of its source. See ' Life,' by Wilfrid Ward, vol. ii. p. 457. Writing from Rome, 25 April, 1879, he says :

" Do you recollect in the Vulgate, or in A Kempis, the words 'Cor ad cor (cordi ? ) loquitur ' ? Look into the concordance of the Vulgate, among the books of reference in the Library, and find out if there is any such text in Scripture."

Mr. Ward does not record any answer to the question. WM. H. PEET.

3. Kiihn ist das Miihen, herrlich der Lohn. From Goethe's ' Faust,' part i., soldiers' chorus, scene where Faust and Wagner walk among the people.

FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. Streatham Common.

4. That most perfect of antiques

They call the Genius of the Vatican, &c.

is from Mrs. Browning's ' Aurora Leigh,' bk. iii. 11. 513-16.

For the work of art in question, No. 189 (250) in the " Galleria dells Statue," see Helbig's ' Fiihrar durch die 6'ffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertumer in Rcfm,' vol. i. 2nd ed., pp. 108-10. It is there described as a statue of Thanatos. At one time it was regarded as an Eros. Helbig adds numerous references to the literature of the subject. EDWARD BENSLY.

GRETNA GREEN RECORDS (11 S. v. 110). See also 5 S. vi. 508 ; x. 388 ; 7 S. iii. 89 ; iv. 329, 496 ; ix. 186 ; 8 S. ix. 61, 149, 389 ; xi. 294, 338. 511 ; xii. 170, 331, 411, 449, 511 ; 9 S. iv. 541. By way of annota- tion to the full information concerning these records given by MR. BERNARD P. SCATTER- GOOD at 10 S. ii. 386, I perhaps may repro- duce the following. It is taken from the