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NOTES AND QUERIES. tn s. v. JAN. 27, 1912.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

NEW ZEALAND : GOVERNORS' DESCEND- ANTS WANTED. I am endeavouring to trace the descendants of the under-mentioned gentlemen, who were Governors of New Zealand at the period mentioned against their names :

Capt. William Hobson, R.N. 1840-42.

Lieut. Shortland. 1842-3.

Lieut.- Col. Robt. H. Wynyard. 1854-5.

Sir George F. Bowen. 1868-73.

The object'of the inquiry, when the relatives have been traced, is to endeavour to obtain portraits of the four gentlemen in question. ARTHUR S. Row.

13, Victoria Street, S.W.

MRS. MARY YOUNG, ETON DAME. Can any one tell me what was the maiden name and who was the husband of Mrs. Mary Young, a well-known dame at Eton during the eighteenth century ? Edward Young, Bishop of Dromore, and afterwards of Ferns, was her son ; and she had a daughter Catherine, who married the Rev. Septimus Plumptre, Vicar of Mansfield. Mrs. Mary Young died in 1775.

Further, what was there that was " shocking " about the death of Mrs. Young, the wife of Edward Young ? Lady Sarah Bunbury mentions the death in a letter to her sister dated 22 June, 1765 (' The Life and Letters of Lady Sarah Lennox,' vol. i. p. 170) ; and a foot-note mentions that Mrs. Edward Young was probably a natural daughter of Lord Holland. Is anything more known about her ?

R. A. A. L.

"CHRISTIANA REGINA BOHEMIA NA.TA HEREVIA" (?), born 1724, died 1780. This is the description of a Queen pictured in an engraving, whom I wish to learn about. Presumably she belonged to one of the ex- tensive and confusing families of the Pala- tinate. Was she born in Bohemia, and a Queen somewhere else ? NEL MEZZO.

GIGGLES WICK SCHOOL SEAL. Can any of your correspondents give me information on the Giggleswick School seal ? It is oval shape, with Virgin and Child, and beneath a priest praying. Round the rim are these words : " Sigillu Prebendarii de Buldon."

It has been suggested that Nowell, 1553, the second founder of the school, gave his seal as the corporate seal, but has any one heard of a collegiate church at Buldon ?

E. A. BELL.

CADELL & DAVIES : THEIR SUCCESSORS. T. Cadell & W. Davies were publishers with offices in the Strand in the early part of the nineteenth century. Who succeeded them, and what publishing house of to-day might by chance have their filed proof copies ?

It would be interesting, I am sure, to many readers to have a list of early publishers and printers, with their successors and their modern representatives. J. H. R.

[See F. A. Mumby's ' Romance of Bookselling,' 1910, and the numerous lists that have appeared in 'ft.&Q.']

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Can any of your readers help me to the name of the author of the following lines, and of the poem in which they occur ?

O voi ch' avete gl' intelletti sani, Mirate la dottrina che s' asconde Sotto '1 velame degli versi strani.

P. I. [Dante, ' Inferno,' ix.]

Where do the following occur ?

1. His life but a handbreadth, his cares and sorrows but a dream.

2. Man appoints, but God can disappoint.

" Handbreadth," I suppose, is the equiva- lent of "span," but I have not met with it in any book. PENRY LEWIS.

[" Handbreadth " has been in use since Coverdale's translation of the Bible, and occurs in the A.V. and the Revised Version. See also the quotations s.v. in the 'N.E.D.']

Could some one inform me what is the source of the following ? He spurns the earth with a disdainful heel, And knocks at heaven's gate with his bright [steel]' I am not sure of the last word. A. S.

Emerson gives the following quotation as the translation of an old French poem : Some of your hurts you have cured,

And the sharpest you still have survived ; But what torments of grief you endured

From evils which never arrived ! Who was the author, and what are the original lines ? M. L. R. BRESLAR.

1. Can any one give me " chapter and verse " for the following quotation, often, but I believe erroneously, attributed to Carlyle ? " I shall pass through this world