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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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of this novel and the return of Buhver from France occurred in the same month, there can be no doubt about the time when the meeting took place.

And yet the first Earl of Lytton, in his unfinished biography of his father, strangely asserts that Bulwer paid his visit to France in the spring of 1825, and that on his return he met Miss Wheeler at " Miss Berry's " a misreading, I have no doubt, of some old document for " Miss Benger's." He does not even allude to the discrepancy between his statement and that of his father. What Bulwer was doing in the spring of 1825, and in the preceding autumn and winter, is fully shown in his ' Autobiography ' ; but the Earl, being possessed with the notion that his father at that time went to France, proceeds to assign to 1825 certain undated letters which obviously belong to 1S26. He admits that Miss Wheeler was acquainted with Bulwer's ' W T eeds and Wildfiowers,' and entirely overlooks the fact that the date on that collection of poems is likewise 1826. Mr. Escott has followed the Earl's lead in assigning the meeting to 1825, and I am sorry to say that, not only in this, but also in other matters, both biographies contain inaccuracies Mr. Escott's the more, as he brings his narrative down to the novelist's death. The two biographers do not deny that Bulwer returned from France in April, 1826, but they think this was after a second visit. They have, in fact, split one visit into two. W. A. FROST.

16, Amwell Street, E.G.

LATIN QUOTATIONS IN ABRAHAM FRAUNCE'S 'VICTORIA.' (See 10 S. v. 88; 11 S. i. 393.) Among the quotations for tracing at the first reference were the fol- lowing :

15. O furise, o stridor dentium et ingens Luctus et inferni metuendus carceris horror. ' Victoria,' ed. G. C. Moore Smith, 1543-4. .This is to be found in Johannes Ravisius Textor's ' Dialogi,' ii. 166-7, p. 30, in the Rotterdam edition of 1651. The first line runs :

O dolor ! o rabies ! o stridor, &c. The lines are repeated at 198, and, with a slight difference, at 189.

34. Femina Cerbereum pascere digna canem, and

Femina Maenaliis projicienda lupis, are 11. 20 and 16 of Dial. 22, p. 321.

EDWARD BENSLY. University College, Aberystwyth.

F.E.R.T. (See 9 S. x. 345, 412, 453; xi. 95.) ' N. & Q.' has often discussed these letters, and it may be as well to put on record that the Journal des Debats of 10 May says :

"Selori les uns elles seraient une vieille forme

du mot iranoais Fertv, qui veut dire forteresse ou encore fermett '; suivant d'autres, une corruption de fiert, qui signih'e II frappe."

After various suggestions the Debats (fol- lowing the Tribuna) offers us : " Frappez, entrez, rompez tout"; or " Fortitude ejus Rhodum tenuit. Sa force asoutenu Rhodes."

H. K. H.

EDWARD BARKER, CURSITOR BARON OF THE EXCHEQUER. His father, James Barker, baptized at Wandsworth, co. Surrey, 1 1 April, 1642 (buried there 13 Jan., 1672/3), and his uncle, Edward Barker (baptized 16 Sept., 1644), admitted Fellow-Commoner of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 12 Nov., 1662, who adopted him, were the sons of Edward Barker the elder, buried at Wandsworth, 23 Jan., 1672/3.

Edward Barker, born at Wandsworth, 19 Dec., 1671, baptized 21 Dec. following, was admitted pensioner of Corpus Christ i College, Cambridge, 9 May, 1688, and graduated B.A. in 1 691--2. His " supplicat " as a candidate for the degree, dated 22 Jan., 1691, is preserved in the University Registry, Cambridge. He was admitted to the Inner Temple 30 Oct., 1690, and called to the Bar 5 June, 1698. He became Bencher of his Inn 1721, Reader 1729, and Treasurer 1732. Appointed Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer 9 May, 1743, he resigned office 19 April, 1755. He married Dorothy - , who died 13 April, 1749, and was buried at Wandsworth, and by her had several children, of whom Dorothy the eldest (baptized 20 Oct.. 1711), married to Abraham Tucker, Esq., of Betchworth Castle, Surrey, at St. Saviour's Collegiate Church, South- wark, 3 Feb., 1735/6, died 7 May, 1754 (M.I., Dorking, Surrey) alone survived.

He died 10 June, 1759, and was buried 16 June in the family vault in Wands- worth Church. The will of Edward Barker, Esq., of the Inner Temple, London, dated 10 Aug., 1758, was proved 16 June, 1759 (P.C.C., 194 Arran). Arms : Or, a bend between six billets sable.

He has not hitherto been identified with the Cambridge graduate of 1691-2.

Edward Barker, appointed Secretary to Queen Anne's Bounty 1727, and Collector of Tenths in 1730 (Add. MSS., 36,126, f. 302 ;