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SIR HENRY LAWSON'S PAPERS : WHERE ARE THEY ? The papers and collections of this well-known genealogist and biographer, who lived in the first half of the nineteenth century, must still be in private hands, for I cannot find them at the College of Arms or in any of the libraries.

Information as to where they are will be greatly appreciated by me, and doubtless also by many others.

JOHN Ross DELAFIELD. New York.

AUTHOR WANTED. Can any of your readers tell me where the following lines are to be found ?

Suffer not the old king, Well we know that breed

Hosts of hungry (?) spies, Money poured in secret, Carrion-breeding flies, Long-forgotten bondage,

Dwarfing heart "and brain ; All our fathers died to loose Shall we bind (?) up again. The lines are from memory, and not alto- gether correct I think, Kipling's.

KELSO.

REFERENCES WANTED. (1) Where does Dr. Johnson say, " Ply thy book when thou art young, for in age thou wilt find it but an irksome task " ?

(2) Where does Keble use the expression " wind one's soul too high " ?

(3) In what ancient author were the Greeks accused of being always children ?

(4) Is the story told in Prof. Seeley's ' Natural Religion ' (to the effect that the theophilanthropist La Revelliere-Lepeaux complained to Talleyrand that his new religion made no headway, and the old statesman, after politely condoling with him, suggested that there was one plan he might at least try to go and be crucified and the third day rise again) authentic, and what is its authority ? HENRICUS.

[2. Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky.

3. Plato, 'Timajus,' 22 B, said by the Egyptian priest.]
 * Christian Year ' ' Morning.'

THROWING BALLS IN CHURCH ON EASTER MONDAY. I have seen it stated somewhere that it was formerly customary in some parts of England, and notably in Chester Cathe- dral, to dancs and throw a large ball about during service on Easter Monday. Was there ever such a custom ? If so, what did it symbolize ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

ARMOURERS AND BRASIERS' COMPANY. I shall be glad of any references from the Company's records, or other manuscript authorities, to the following members of the craft, viz. :

John Andrews, 1683. Gregory Barker, 1589. John Brock, 1674. William Hopton, 1589. Joshua Millward, 1602. Rowland Stanoe, 1624. Thomas Stanoe, 1628. Humphrey Woodhouse, 1636. Thomas Woollard, 1665.

The dates placed against the respective names are the latest which I have been able to obtain in each instance, being in several cases taken from wills or probates of wills.

Failing anything further, the dates at which the persons named filled office as Master of the Company will be welcome. Morley's ' Account,' published in 1878, is silent upon the point.

Each of the persons mentioned is under- stood to have been a parishioner of one or other of these united parishes, or to have at least had some connexion therewith.

WILLIAM MCMURRAY, SS. Anne and Agnes with St. John Zachary, Gresham Street, E.G.

REGENT'S CIRCUS. Formerly, up to per- haps thirty years ago, what are now called respectively Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus were each called Regent's Circus.

" Regent's-Circus, The. 1. is at the inter- section of Regent-street and Oxford-street. 2. is the intersection of the same street and Piccadilly." ' A Topographical Dictionary of London,' by James Elmes, 1831. I suppose that the name was given to each when Regent Street was made. My impres- sion is that the present names were popularly adopted some years before they received official recognition. If a map entitled 'Wallis's Guide for Strangers, through London, and its Environs, 1824,' is to be trusted, there was, or there was intended to be, a Regent's Circus at the north end of Portland Place, including what is now called Park Crescent, and a like part of a circle on the other side of the Paddington Road (now Marylebone Road). This latter part of the circle, if it ever existed, covered a portion of what is now Park Square, the whole Circus being, of course, much larger than the other two Circuses put together. Neither of these is named on the map. Did this large Regent's Circus ever exist ?

In the 'Plan of the Regent's Park' in ' Metropolitan Improvements ; or London in the Nineteenth Century,' the drawings