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 NOTES AND QUERIES.

[11 S. V. JAN. 13, 1912.

Sage's work including any indication of this further portion. I have it in English, French, and Spanish, but all are alike in concluding with the marriage. It is stated on the title-page of each volume that it i translated from the French ; but though it is indubitable that the original is Le Sage 1 work verbatim up to the end of vol. iv., and the balance is of equal merit, Le Sage' name is not mentioned.

I think you will esteem these facts suffi- ciently curious and of sufficient literary interest to justify my troubling you with the inquiry. CHAS. T. DEUEBY.

EPIGRAM ON ST. LUKE. Can you kindly inform me what is the source of the following words ?

Lucas evangelii et raedicinae numera pandit Artibus hinc illinc relligione potens.

St. Luke, by medicine and religion joined. Restores the body and relieves the mind. Blest in both labours, dark diseases part, And darker ignorance forsakes the heart. Thrice happy Luke ! sustained by God on high, Preserves in life and teaches how to die. They are quoted as from a speech by the late Rev. Dr. McNeile, 1867 (afterwards Dean of Ripon). J. A. OWXES.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED.

1. BARROW. Aubrey in his ' Brief Lives ' (1898), vol. i. p. 94, says that the father of Isaac Barrow, Master of Trin. Coll., Camb., was one Barrow, " a brewer at Lambith : a King's Scholar at Westminster." I am aware that the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' iii. 299, says that Thomas Bai*row, linendraper to Charles I., was the father of Isaac Barrow, but I am anxious to obtain further informa- tion about this Lambeth brewer to whom Aubrey refers. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' kindly supply it ?

2. COL. JOHN HENRY BELLI, eldest son of John Belli, sometime secretary to Warren Hastings, served in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo. Can any correspondent of ' X. & Q.' kindly give me the full dates of his birth and death ?

3. COL. HENRY MORDAUNT CLAVERING, second son of Major-General Sir John Clavering, K.B., was born 16 Dec., 1766 When did he die ? He married first Lady Augusta Campbell, elder daughter of John, 5th Duke of Argyll. Who was his second wife ?

4. ROBERT CLAVERING was admitted to Westminster School in 1777. I should be glad to obtain any information concerning his parentage and career. G. F. R. B.

BOLIVAR AND THE JEWS. I have read somewhere that Bolivar, the South American Liberator, addressed a letter to the Jews of the City of London asking their help for his enterprise, and I think his appeal was successful. Can any reader assist me with references ? ISRAEL SOLOMONS.

SAMARITAN BIBLE. In ancient works on. star lore it is said that the world was formed when the sun was in the zodiacal sign of Capricornus, the goat. This statement is said to be founded upon the Samaritan version of the Pentateuch. Information required. WM. WYNN WESTCOTT.

BELLS RUNG FOR KING CHARLES'S EXE- CUTION. There is said to be a tradition that a peal of bells was rung in some parishes when the news arrived that King Charles was beheaded. I shall be much obliged by any information especially as to whether any Sussex parish was among those that did so. R. A. B.

GELLYFEDDAN, CYNGHORDY, AND LLETTY- SCILP. Will one of your readers please give the English translation of the above Welsh place-names ? J. F. J.

Minneapolis.

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED. Can any of your readers tell me whence the following portions of verses are taken ?

What miscreant knave dares disturb the quiet of

Old Wiscard's grave ?

I wot the world is fangled all anew, thou tiny elf,

Prithee tell me, are other folks like thee ?

Go, bear thy pygmy corpse elsewhere, and disturb

not the quiet ot Old Wiscard's grave.

I am led to believe that they may be from Colley Gibber, but this is only conjecture.

A. J. IKIN. Creosote, Washington.

R. R. : HIS IDENTITY. In 2 S. x. 99 one R. R. replied (4 Aug., 1860) with informa- tion as to the Scottish origin of the Earl of Gosford's family. Can any reader inform me of the identity of this writer and where his genealogical notes are now ?

W. ROBERTS CROW.

' LlLLIBULLERO ' : " BULLER-A-LAH." In

1753 there began an agitation against the Jews, when the populace in London went about singing ' Lillibullero,' and chalking upon walls

No Jews,

No wooden shoes.

The words were composed in 1686 to a much older tune. I should like to know the mean- ngof the refrain and also of " Buller-a-lah,"