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" J'AI vu CARCASSONNE" (11 S. v. 348' 473; vi. 57). " J'ai vu Carcassonne " is the statement which seemed to me to be used as a quotation, and provoked my query. Your correspondents are kind, and more helpful than I thought at first, in supplying " Je n'ai jamais vu Carcassonne " from Gustave Xadaud's poem. It is suggestive of the fancy that " J'ai vu Carcassonne ! ; ' may have been uttered by one who rejoiced in the realization of a beautiful vision, thinking of one who had been less fortunate.

I need not trouble MR. T. F. DWIGHT for a copy of Xadaud's lines, but I wish to thank him for his ready courtesy.

ST. SWITHIN.

CASANOVIANA : CASANOVA AND LORD LINCOLN (11 S. vi. 4). Sir Horace Mann confirms Casanova's account of the young Lord Lincoln's doings. He wrote from Florence in 1772 :

" What did the Duke of Newcastle say to his son's being so great a Dupe to a proud prostitute and a set of sharpers ? He had literally once lost to them forty-four thousand zecchins, but, after supper, he was let to win two Cards, one of 18, the other of Irt thousand, and then thought himself happy to leave off with a debt of eleven hundred [sic], for which he has given his Obliga- tions, besides, a thousand in presents to the Girl." ' Mann and Manners at thu Court of Florence,' ii. 234.

A. FRANCIS STEUART.

79, Great King Street, Edinburgh.

" HERE I LAY OUTSIDE THE DOOR " (11 S v. 489 ; vi. 57). According to Abraham Hawkins, ' Kingsbridge and Salcombe,' 1819, p. 1 9, Robert Phillips, the person whose name the inscription commemorates, was by profession a cooper, and a strange fellow, well known to the inhabitants by the nick- name of " Bone Phillips," and as one of whom it was difficult to say whether he were more knave or fool. He was in the habit of repeating the lines to all ranks and degrees in his mendicant vagaries, drunk and sober, as intended to be engraved on his tombstone, and his wishes were at length fulfilled by the liberality of the late William Clark, Esq., of Buckland Tout Saints, near Kingsbridge.

MR. J. T. PAGE'S version of the epitaph is correct, except that " Comonly " should read " Commonly," and the lines are " in- serted," not " inscribed." According to Miss Sarah Prideaux Fox, ' Kingsbridge Estuary,' 1864, p. 10, some one has since carved an additional figure on the stone, so as to make it appear that the age of this individual was 165 years ; whence, as she

remarks, it is by no means improbable that hereafter the inscription may be quoted in proof of the longevity of the inhabitants of Kingsbridge. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

ATKYNS FAMILY (11 S. ii. 429, 474; v . 448). Since my reply at 11 S. ii. 474 I have gathered many particulars relating to the family of Sir Robert Atkyns the elder which offer evidence that he had more than the one son mentioned in ' D.X.B.,' and also corroborate the fact, inferred from the extract from the Blakesware indenture given by MR. GOSSELIN, that he had a grandson named Robert.

The first and best authority proves to be Sir Robert himself, for at the commence- ment of his will, dated 27 May, 1708, a copy of which is before me, he refers' to " my late Son Edwd. Atkyns," and, further on, to " my Grandson Robt. Atkyns." The next evidence I can offer is from a printed case relating to the Atkyns estates at Lower Swell, in Gloucestershire, which was heard at the Bar of the House of Lords on 24 Jan., 1758, and, incidentally, contains interesting biographical information relating to the Atkyns family. Here Sir Robert the younger is referred to as the eldest son and heir apparent of Sir Robert the elder. From the case it is clear that in 1698 there was a Robert Atkyns, who is described as " nephew and heir-at-law " to Sir Robert Atkyns the younger, and appears to have shown signs of lunacy, for certain properties were in consequence leased to the sons of Ann Tracy, the daughter of Sir Robert the elder by his second wife. In 1708 Robert, the grandson, was still appre- hended to be a lunatic ; but on the death of his uncle, Sir Robert the younger, 29 Xov., 1711, without issue, he entered into posses- sion of the Atkyns property at Lower Swell ; and as he was defendant in the trial for ejection which ensued on behalf of Ann Tracy's sons, it is evident that he had not been actually so declared. He continued in possession of the estates until his death on 16 March, 1753. Two daughters, Elizabeth and Ann, are named as defendants in the trial of 1758.

In ' Allegations for Marriage Licences issued by the Vicar-General of the Arch- bishop of Canterbury ' (Harl. Soc., 1886, p. 263) occurs the entry :

" 1676/7, Feb. 8. Edward Atkyns [sic subs.], of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., Bachr., abt 23, & Mrs. Agnes Atkins, of St. Giles in Fields, Spr, abt 18 ; consent of father Sir Richard Atkins, of Hadham, co. Herts, Bart. ; at St. Andrew's, Holborn, or Lincoln's Jnn Chapel."