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 NOTES AND QUERIES. fll & v. A,, e, 1912.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. What is the reference in the following quota- tion ? George Eliot's ' Romola,' chap, xii init. :

"But what says the Greek ? ' In the morning of life, work ; in the midday, give counsel ; in the evening, pray;' "

EDWIN ABBOTT.

Jesus College, Cambridge.

Nay, but aff when one layeth

His worn-out robes away, And, taking new ones, saveth, " These will I wear to-day" ; So putteth by the spirit

Lightly its garb of flesh, And passeth to inherit

A residence afresh.

I last read these lines in 1884 or 1885, and believe them to be an exact rendering of a Sanskrit hymn ; but I cannot find " them among Sanskrit texts.

DAVID ALEC WILSON.

Source of following quotation wanted :

'Twas thou that smooth'd'st the rough rugg'd bed of pain.

A. B. E. R.

QUOTATION FROM EMERSON. In one of his essays Emerson speaks contemptuously of Xorman descent, and ridicules people who are anxious to establish their relationship with the " filthy thieves " who came over with the Conqueror. I should be obliged to any one who could give me the exact reference. E. W.

H.E.I.C.S. : CHAPLAINS' CERTIFICATES OF APPOINTMENT. When the Company ap- pointed chaplains to their service in India and sent them out, they gave them a certi- ficate of appointment to carry with them and present on arrival, in order to prevent any mistake of identity. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' help me to obtain sight or copy of one of these documents of a,ny date before 1835 ? Not even the form of them is pre- served at the India Office. It is possible that some one may have preserved among the family records the appointment certi- ficate of his father or grandfather. If so, I shall be very grateful for the loan or copy of li - FRANK PENNY.

RALPH ANTROBUS. B. 1576. On 30 Aug., 1577, Ralph Antrobus, who was probably the gentleman of this name then residing at Great Peover, Cheshire, was committed to the Poultry Counter for religion, but was delivered thence two days later (Cath. Rec. Soc., i. 63). Ralph Antrobus of Cheshire, doubtless son of the above,

matriculated at Oxford from Brasenose College on 17 May, 1596, aged 20 (' Brasenose College Register,' 86). On 1 Sept., 1604 r Ralph Antrobus and Robert Wooley, or Wolley, left the English College at Douay for Spain, with the intention of becoming Benedictines (Cath. Rec. Soc., x. 341),. and on 28 Sept. applied to be admitted to the monastery of San Benito, Valladolid, but were refused, owing to the large number of Englishmen who were already there. They then went to Rome, and applied for admission to the monastery of St. Paul- outside-the- Walls, 8 Jan., 1605 with what result is not stated (' Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, 15th Report, Duke of Buccleuch's MSS.' 49). I should be grateful if any one could throw any light on Antrobus's sub- sequent career.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

JOHN LELAND : PORTRAIT BY DE WEEST. In a newspaper advertisement of 1774 I find a " Mr. Parsons, portrait painter, in Albemarle Street, Piccadilly," offering for sale a number of what appear to be important portraits. One of these is "a fine Portrait on Board of John Leland, the famous Anti- quary, by W. de Weest, painted in 1554." Is anything known of this portrait ?

W. ROBERTS.

TENTERDEN STEEPLE AND GOODWIN SANDS. Is there an article or sermon on this in Jeremy Taylor or La timer, and what is the origin of the saying ?

MERRINGTON. [See 6 S. viii. 430 ; ix. 15, 73, 158, 258.]

BYRON AND THE SIDNEY FAMILY. Mr. J. A. Symonds, in ' Sir Philip Sidney ' in ' English Men of Letters," says (p. 5) that, of Sir William Sidney with Sir William Fitz- William, " Lord Byron laid claim to a drop of Sidney blood." A daughter of this Tiarriage appears to have married a John Byron. Is there any reason to believe that was an ancestor of the poet ? G. B.
 * hrough the marriage of the third daughter

DE QUINCEY AND CoLERiDC4E. (See 11 S. ii. 228, 477.) At the first of these reference* I asked for information regarding a note written by De Quincey and constituting part of a pamphlet, and which Coleridge allude* to in a letter to Stuart, May, 1809. MR. LANE COOPER, at the second reference, sug- gests that this does not mean a pamphlet of De Quincey's own, but a note of his in Wordsworth's ' Convention of Cintra.' But this cannot be, for Coleridge refers to this note, written at Grasmere, as the reason for