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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [us.vn.Jan.4,1913. (gumes. 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. Sir John Greville or Binton, 1480.— In the east window of Binton Church, War- wickshire, there were formerly the kneeling figures of Sir John Greville (in armour, and a surcoat with the Greville arms), who died in August, 1480, and his wife Johanna. A scroll over the head of Sir John had the words, " Jhu fili dei miserere mei " ; and another scroll, over his wife, had an inscrip- tion, which in an old etching appears to read. '* intercede pro me Johannes Xpn earn." The last three words in the second inscription are impossible, and suggest an error on the part of the copyist. Can any correspondent kindly give the correct read- ing of the second inscription ? The glass has long since disappeared. W. G. D. F. Brisbane of Barnhill.—William Bris- bane of Barnhill, parish of Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, undoubtedly the progenitor of the Brisbanes of Barnhill. died 11 Jan., 1591. His " Testament Dative and In- ventory " (Edinburgh Commissariot Testa- ments, vol. xxix.) mentions " Issobella Maxwell his relict." One of his daughters is named Janet. I should like to know the parentage of Issobella Maxwell. William Maxwell, who died 13 July, 1542 (son of Sir John Maxwell of Pollock), and who was generally designated of Carnnaderick, left by his wife Janet Cathcart two sons and a daughter. Isabel. Is there any way of ascertaining whether Isabel, the daughter of William Maxwell of Carnnaderick, was the Issobella Maxwell, wife of William Brisbane of Barnhill ? E. Haviland Hillmax. F.S.G. n, Somers Place, Hyde Park, V. Salehurst. Sussex.—I am collecting data for a history of this parish (which includes the small country town of Roberts- bridge), and shall be grateful to any corre- spondent who can furnish me with any information bearing on the subject. I am, of course, already in possession of all the information to be foimd in the Transactions of the Sussex Archaeological Society and in Horsfield's ' History of Sussex.' &c. Please reply direct. Leonard J. Hodson. Robertsbridge, Sussex. A Ballad of the Revenge. — I am anxious to learn the name of the author of the poem having for subject Sir Richard Grenville's last fight on the Revenge, which begins :— Up from the south at the break of day Where the gathered winds go free. and ends :— I hear a voice through the salt and spray Blood kin to the ooean roar, " All day long down Flores' way, Richard Grenville stands at bay ! Come and take him an you may !" Then hush for evermore. I have always thought this poern far finer than Tennyson's ' Ballad of>, the Revenge ' ; in fact, I consider it the finest and most patriotic song of the sea ever penned. A. J. Baker. Mexico City. Kennedy Family. — Can any of your readers send me particulars of the parentage of Sir Thomas Kennedy of Kirkhill, sub- sequently of Dunure, in Ayrshire, who was Lord Provost of Edinburgh in the seven- teenth century, and knighted before 1686 ; also the names of his wife and of his brothers and sisters ? F. A. Johnston. Wellington Club, Grosvenor Place, 8.W. The First Folio Shakespeare : Earliest Reference to, and Pictorial Represen- tation of.—The earliest reference I have seen is in the auction-sale catalogue, dated 9 May, 1687, of books belonging to Sir W. Coventry, in the British Museum, press-mark 1422. c. 6 (4). The well-known entry in the Stationers' Register, 8 Nov., 1623, is not sufficiently specific, though no doubt it refers to the First Folio. Prynne's reference to " Shackspeers .... Playbooks ... .Folio," in his ' Histrio-Mastix ' (1633), may, though I do not think it does, refer to the Second Folio (1632). Some portion of 'Histrio- Mastix ' (Prynne's reference is on p. 1) was probably written before 1633. On the whole, I think Prynne did refer to the First Folio. The earliest pictorial representation I have seen is in an engraving by Sharp, dated 8 May, 1789, alleged to be from the portrait of the Earl of Southampton (1573-1624) in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, in the Print-Room, British Museum. The portrait of Southampton in the Duke of Bedford's collection, which I have not seen, is painted by Mierevelt (1568-1641), but it is obvious that the 1789 engraving cannot correspond in details with any portrait painted m or before 1641, the style being at least 150 years