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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. v. MAY n, 1912.

walls of Ovid's native town, Sulmo ; so there is a special appositeness in Johnson's em- ploying them of the garret where a poet lives. EDWARD BENSLY.

AUTHORS OP QUOTATIONS WANTED (US. v. 129). 7. Je suis verm trop tard dans un monde trop

vieux.

Surely this is by Alfred de Musset. It is more than thirty years since I read his works, but if I remember rightly he says :

Je ne crois pas, O Christ, a ta parole sainte,

Je suis venu trop tard dans un nionde trop vieux.

11. " Je souffre," &c., is, I believe, from the same poem. G. W.

SELBY (YORKS) PECULIAR COURT (10 S. xii. 409, 475 ; 11 S. i. 37, 97). It may interest some of the readers of ' N. & Q.' to know that these records have been found. It appears that they were in the possession of the late Mr. W. W. Morrell, who was in- tending to write a history of Selby, and that he lent them to the late Canon Raine of York. The wills, administrations, &c., have now been printed by the Yorkshire Archaeo- logical Society (vol. xlvii.), and the originals deposited in the District Probate Registry, York. HENRY FISHWICK.

The Heights, Rochdale.

ROBERT DREWRIE, PRIEST, EXECUTED AT TYBURN, 25 FEB., 1607 (11 S. v. 249). Dom Bede Camm, O.S.B., in the ' Catholic Encyclopaedia,' Mr. Gillow in his ' Biblio- graphical Dictionary of the English Catholics,' and Bishop Challoner in his ' Memoirs of Missionary Priests ' tell us nothing as to the Venerable Robert Drury's origin except that he was of a good Buckinghamshire family. On 10 March, 1586/7, one Henry Drury had lately been apprehended and committed to prison in London. He is described as a young gentleman who, by the death of his father, had recently come into possession of lands worth 300?., and as a most obstinate recusant and receiver of priests and suspected persons. See the Catholic Record Society's Publications, ii. 276. He died at Antwerp shortly before June, 1594 (C.R.S. Publ., v. 261). He was probably an elder brother of our Robert.

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

The ' D.N.B.' says that Robert Drury was a Catholic divine, born of a gentleman's family in Buckinghamshire in 1567. He was educated at the English College of Douay, then temporarily removed to Rheims, where he arrived 1 April, 1588. He was

sent to the college at Valladolid, and in 1593 to England. We are told that he resided chiefly in London and its vicinity. In 1606 the Government of James imposed upon Catholics a new oath. Drury was apprehended, brought to trial, and con- demned to death for being a priest and remaining in this realm contrary to the statute of Elizabeth. He refused to save his life by taking the new oath, and con- sequently was drawn to Tyburn, hanged, and quartered on 26 Feb., 1606/7.

The name is spelt Drewrie in an early publication noted at the end of the article in the ' D.N.B.' by Thompson Cooper, F.S.A. For other details see the article, from which the above is taken.

F. C. WHITE.

26, Arran Street, Cardiff.

[MR. A. R. BAYLEY also refers to the ' D.N.B.'J

MAUREPAS ON MADAME DE POMPADOUR (11 S. v. 228). In the ' Memoirs ' of Count d'Argenson may be found an account of the incident which gave rise to the quatrain by Maurepas " qui lui valut sa disgrace."

F. KOCH, Jun.

CUMBERLAND EPITAPH (11 S. v. 210). The lines quoted by MR. CHAMBERS are in Alston Churchyard, Cumberland. The stone is now much weathered. On the front there is

"... .the Memory. ... | ....[? Jefferson] | . . . .ho | of Ja 83 | aged -3 years."

There is an entry in the register, " Thomas Jefferson of Alston bu. Jan. 12, 1783." The lines "My cutting board's to pieces split," &c., are on the back of the stone, and are readable, though chipped and weathered. The version given differs very little from what I copied a year or two since.

EDWIN DODDS. Low Fell, Gateshead.

I annex an extract (at pp. 26-7) from T. Sopwith's book entitled " An Account | of the | Mining Districts I of | Alston Moor,

Cumber-


 * Weardale, and Teesdale, | in

land and Durham," published at Alnwick, 1833, which will answer MR. CHAMBERS'S inquiry :

" Town of Alston, Cumberland. " The church is dedicated to St. Austin, and stands on a commanding situation. In the churchyard is the following singular epitaph, erected at the expense of the sons of Crispin to commemorate an eccentric brother : My cutting board 's to pieces split, My size-stick will no measures meet," &c. CHAS. L. CUMMINGS. Sunderland.