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NOTES AND QUERIES. tii s. vi. OCT. 19, 1912.

ADAM LINDSAY GORDON'S FATE (11 S. vi. 245). An uncorrected proof (due to holiday-making) has led me into making an erroneous statement about Mrs. Wolrige- Gordon's inheritance. It was Col. George Gordon (her grandfather), not Major Robert Gordon (her father), who married Henrietta Hope Napier. J. M. BULLOCH.

TRUSSELLS AND SWYNNERTONS (11 S. vi. 231). With regard to the inquiry as to whether any Breton house bore a cross flory on a plain field, I may say that there was a Breton family which not only bore the cross flory, but with the same tinctures as the Sw T ynnerton coat :

" De Nays, sieur dudit lieu, de Proce, de la Bachellerie et du Port Hubert, paroisse de Suoe, &c., d'argent a la croix fleuronne de sable. Reform- ation et montres de 1428 & 1543."- ' Nobiliaire et Armorial cle Bretagne,' par P. P. de Courcv, 1862, vol. ii. p. 208.

^Another Breton family, Menguy, sieur de Kergroas, ressort de Saint Brieuc, bore the cross flory argent upon azure. LEO C.

LATIN QUOTATIONS (11 S. vi. 227). The reading in the famous line of the ' Alex- andreis,' as given by the first printed edi- tion, should be corruis, not " curris." When the line is severed from the context and used, proverbially " incidit " has been sub- stituted for " incidis," and " qui vult " for
 * cupiens." EDWARD BENSLY.

EAST ANGLIAN FAMILIES (11 S. vi. 230). In Mr. E. G. Duff's 'English Provincial Printers to 1557,' pp. 51-5, is given the history of Hugo Goes, a printer of York, so far as it is known.

" Goes has been conjectured from his name to have been related to Matthias van der Goes, a printer of Antwerp, but for this no proof is forthcoming."

Only one of his books is now extant. It was "printed at York by Hugo Goes in the street called Steengate on the 18th of February 1509." One copy is in York Minster, and the other in the library of Sidney Sussex College. He is supposed to have printed two more books at York, one at Charing Cross in London, and a broadside ' emprynted at Beverlay in the Hye-gate by me Hewe Goes,' with his mark or rebus of a great H and a goose." None of these has been preserved. These facts and a few others connected with his work, which are given by Mr. Duff, are all that is known about him. The early printers were often wanderers, and Hugo Goes does not seem to have settled at York. I do not know

whether it might be regarded as a clu- that a contemporary of Goes, Gerard Wandsforth, stationer of York, died at King's Lynn in Norfolk in 1510, " on one of his journeys, presumably to sell books " (ibid., p. 47). M. H. DODDS.

Mr. Walter Rye's collection of Norfolk MSS., now housed in the Norwich Public Library, might be consulted by the querist.

One Peter Goos had a grant of land in Ashby, Suffolk, 3 Edw. IV. (Copinger's ' Suffolk Records '). W. B. GERISH.

JOHN BANNISTER, MUSICIAN TEMP. CHARLES II. (11 S. vi. 229). An account of his life may be found in Grove's ' Dictionary of Music,' 2nd edition, i. 179 ; ' D.N.B.,' iii. 119 ; Fetis, ' Biog. Univ. des Musiciens,' ii. 55 ; and Brown and Stratton's ' Brit. Musical Biog.,' 24. According to the 'D.N.B.,' "the name is given variously as Bannister, Banester, and Banster, but most commonly, and no doubt correctly, as Banister." He was born in 1630, and sent by Charles II. to study in France, having attracted the King's attention by his violin- playing, and on his return was made leader of the King's band, 1663. From this he was apparently dismissed. In the words of Grove's ' Dictionary ' :

" It is recorded, we know not upon what authority, that Banister was dismissed the King's service for saying, in the hearing of His Majesty, that the English performers on the violin were superior to those of France."

The French account is different (F^tis, 'Biog. Univ.') :

" II perdit cette place pour avoir dit devant le roi que le talent des Anglais sur le violon etait inferieur a celui des Fran^'ais."

As regards the concerts, the ' D.N.B.' says : "On 30 Dec., 1672, he inaugurated a series of concerts at his own house, which are remarkable as being the first lucrative concerts given in London. One peculiarity of the arrangements was that the audience, on payment of one shilling, were entitled to demand what music they pleased to be performed. These entertainments continued to be given by him, as we learn from advertisements in the London Gazette of the period, until within a short time of his death, which took place on 3 Oct., 1679- He was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey."

W. R. B. PRIDEAUX.

Not being able to see the ' D.N.B.,' I cannot say what is to be found there, but in the first edition of Wheatley's ' Diary of S. Pepys,' vol. v., there is a note to 18 June, 1666, which codifies what was considered by Mr. Wheatley to be necessary to explain the context about Bannister. There are