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NOTES AND QUERIES. [us. vi. JULY 27, 1912.

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT. What books on this subject may be recommended as the most reliable and complete dealing with all classes of schools, re- formatories, training-ships, &c., and also with home life in the past ? Cooper's ' History of the Rod ' is known to me, but seems to contain much that is more likely to be fiction than fact. SICILY.

["Rev. W.H. Cooper "was a pseudonym. The author was James G. Bertram, who died in his sixty-eighth year on the 3rd of March, 1892. The Athenceum in its obituary notice on March 12th described him as "one of the pioneers of cheap newspapers in Scotland." He was a contributor to The Quarterly. Blackwood, Fmser, and Chambers s Journal, and also wrote a number of books.]

CORA KENNEDY AITKEN. Who was this writer of verse ? Some lines by her are preserved in Longfellow's ' Poems of Places,' vol. ii. pp. 367-9. A lady who signed herself Cora Kennedy Sad a was a corre- spondent of ' N. & Q.' in 1887, and maybe in other years. She sent from San Guglielmo , Tortona, a reply which appears at 7 S. iv. 177. The identity of the Christian names leads me to suspect that she may have been the rimer who has evoked my query.

ST. SWITHIN.

QUARLES : BACON : MILLER. 1. Sir Robert Quarles, Knt., of Romford (1580- 1640). See ' D.N.B.' under Francis Quarles. By his last wife, Mary, he had a daughter Elizabeth. Did Elizabeth marry, and if so, whom ?

2. Sir Robert Bacon, Bart. (3rd), of Red- grave, died 1665. Where can his will be seen ?

3. Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, Dumfries (1731-1815). The 'D.N.B.' says his eldest son was named Patrick. Did he marry and have issue ? C. G.

HERALDIC. If a man marries the only child and heiress of the younger son of an ancient family bearing arms and crest, is their son entitled to bear his maternal grandfather's crest after his grandfather's decease ? That he can quarter his grand- father's arms I am aware. CURIOUS.

HOPPNER'S BIRTHPLACE IN WHITECHAPEL. Can this be identified ? If so, a memorial tablet ought surely to be affixed there, especially as the East End is not over-rich in literary and artistic associations.

M. L. R. BRESLAR.

BOOK OF LECAN. Has this Irish MS. ever been translated ? If so, where can it be found ? A. W. A.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. 1. JOHN LANGHARNE was admitted to Westminster School 24 Oct., 1770, Par- ticulars of his parentage and career are desired.

2. WILLIAM LANGLEY was admitted to Westminster School 18 April, 1770. Who were his parents ? Did he enter the Bengal Native Infantry ?

3. LASCELLES. Edward Robert Lascelles was admitted to Westminster School 22 Feb., 1820 ; Francis Edward Lascelles, 12 Jan., 1824 ; Francis George John Lascelles, 22 Feb., 1820 ; Herbert Lascelles, 18 Sept.. 1820 ; John Lascelles, 26 Jan., 1824, and William Lascelles, 26 Jan., 1824. Particulars of their parentage are much wanted.

4. ROBERT LATHAM was admitted to West- minster School 31 Jan., 1771. Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' help me to identify him ? G. F. R. B.

I'ANSON.

(11 S. v. 330, 416, 497.)

IN connexion with MR. PERCEVAL LUCAS'S enumeration at the last reference of the various forms assumed by this name, those concerned with the family may be interested to know that as early as 1477 Nicholas Hyenson was a Fellow of this College. In 1473, 1474, and 1475 he appears as " serviens " and chaplain, with the spelling " Mr. N. Hynson " ; and in 1477 is third Fellow and " thesaurarius " (senior bursar) as " Mr. Nic. Hyenson." The accounts of the period are not completely preserved, but in 1479 there is an entry " pro paviac'one sepultfurse] m'ri Nichi. Hynson iij d ." .He had a brass " fixed to a marble stone laying on the ground, with the proportion of a man engraven over it," and an inscription below, read by Antony Wood :

" Orate pro aia Mri Nicolai Swinerton quon- dam Socii istius Collegii qui obiit anno Dom. MCCCCLXXIX xx [die] Octob r . Cujus aie pro- picietur Deus. Amen."

Wood says that in his time " the brass. . . . is much worn " (it lay in the middle of the entrance to the inner chapel), " so that I am not certain whether the party's name be Swinnerton or not " (' Hist, and Antiq. of Colleges and Halls,' ed. Gutch, 163).

Edward Rowe Mores, doubtless on the evidence given above from the College accounts, states, without hesitation (Gough MS. Oxon. 15, Bibl. Bodl.), that the brass is