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 US. VII. June 28, 1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 509 Byron and the Hobhouse MS.—In ' Cobwebs of Criticism ' Mr. Hall Caine writes, at p. 113 :— " Seventeen years hence [from 1883] the Hob- house MS. will be published which is expected to prove that Byron had failings—many failings— but was untainted by the baser vices " ; and at p. 116 :— " What the extent was of Byron's culpability we may never know (unless, as seems improbable, Lord Broughton's papers seventeen years hence may tell us)." What was this " Hobhouse MS." ? and was it published, as expected, in 1900 ? J. B. McGovern. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester, Rev. John Smith, Rector of Ennis- killen.-—Probably a native of Yorkshire, as when he escaped from Ireland he lived and died at Bondgate, co. York. In his will, dated 8 Feb., 1652, he mentions his wife Deborah, and his brothers-in-law, Dr. Margettson (? James, the Archbishop of Dublin, and, on the death of John Bramhall, Primate of Ireland), and Mr. Wm. Bram- hall ; a John Bramhall is a witness. A tablet to his memory was placed in Ripon Cathedral. Would some correspondent kindly give the inscription ? Charles S. King, Bt. St. Leonards-on-Sea. The Twelve Good Rules.—Goldsmith in his ' Deserted Village ' says :— The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. Also, in his ' Description of an Author's Bedchamber,' occurs :— The royal game of goose was there in view, And the twelve rules the royal martyr drew.. What are the twelve rules to which Goldsmith refers ? Any light on them I shall be thankful for. George J. Dew. lower Hey ford, Banbury. GUIDO DELLE COLONNE IN ENGLAND : L. F. Stmpson. — Before me lies a work, published in 1851 by Bentleys, ' A Sketch of Italian Literature in the Fourteenth Century,' by Leonard Francis Simpson, who states that Edward L. on returning from Palestine in 1273, met the poet Guido delle Colonne, and persuaded him to return to England with him. What truth is there in this statement ? Likewise who was this L. F. Simpson ? Is anything known of his career or other works ? M. L. R. Breslar. South Hackney, N.E. Gundrada de Warenne.—I should be glad to have the references to Prof. E. A. Freeman's papers or works bearing on the parentage of Gundrada. Are the charters of William de Warenne to Lewes Priory, which were preserved at Cluni, extant and accessible ? Are they the original charters, or later copies written in some chartulary T Is the charter of William the Conqueror to Lewes Priory of the Manor of Walton preserved at Cluni, or elsewhere in France ? And if so, does this charter or copy contain the words " uxoris suae Gundradse filise meae " ? In some of the copies—e.g., that in MS. Cott., Vesp. IH. fo. 1—the words " filiae mese " are interpolated by a later hand. W. G. D. Fletcher, F.S.A. Oxon Vicarage, Shrewsbury. Miss Catherine Fanshawe : ' Politics.' —Amongst the many excellent drawings of Miss Catherine Fanshawe of ' Letter H' celebrity is one called ' Politics,' in which the gentlemen are standing in front of the fire discussing the affairs of the nation, while the poor neglected ladies are sitting in two groups looking cross or dozing. The figures are said to be portraits, and there is an engraving of the drawing by Pollard. Can any one of your correspondents supply me with the key ? I know that a key existed once, as a copy of it was found among the papers of Miss Fanshawe's sister, who died in 1856. This key was unfortunately mis- laid by her executor, and has never been seen since. B. D. Andrew or George Melly.—Sir Harry Johnston in ' The Nile Quest,' 1903, p. 99, writes that " Andrew Melly, a member of a Liverpool family, though born in Geneva," visited Khartum (in 1850), and died near Shendy on his way back. It was not near Shendy that Melly died, as stated by Sir Harry, but at Gagee, Gageh, or Geygeh (as the name is variously spelt), near Abu Hamed, something like 150 miles north of Shendy; and his name, apparently, was not Andrew, but George. His son, George Melly, who wrote an account of the journey (' Khartoum and the Blue and White Niles,' London, Colburn & Co., 2 vols., 1851), curiously omits to mention his father's Christian name, nor does he even give the date of his death. Capt. (afterwards Sir) William Peel passed the grave in October, 1851 (' A Ride through the Nubian Desert,' by Capt. W. Peel, R.N., London, 1852, p. 43). Bayard Taylor, an American tra- veller, visited it in December of the same