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several Cole-Black-Jokes, Brown-Jokes, and ' Jokes as sweet as Honey."

A hope was expressed at the last reference of this heading that the words of the song might be forthcoming. The note in Elwin and Courthope's edition of Pope to the line already quoted shows conclusively that the genuine w r ords are not likely to come forth in ' N. & Q.'

AUTHOR WANTED (11 S. vii. 29). G. M. H. P.'s line- Nee licuit populis parvum te, Nile, videre, is from Lucan, ' De Bello Civili,' x. 296.

EDWARD BENSLY.

BEWICKIANA (11 S. vii. 28). As to the first of WHITE LINE'S queries, I have re- ferred to the ' Catalogue of the Bewick Col- lection (Pease Bequest),' by Basil Anderton and W. H. Gibson, Librarians ( Newcastle - upon-Tyne, 1904). In the notes (No. 76) concerning the first edition of vol. i. of nothing about the inking of anything. As to No. 96, ' Figures of British Land Birds,' <fec., vol. i., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, printed by S. Hodgson, 1800 (all published), i.e., the engravings without the description, the editors write :
 * History of British Birds,' 1797, I find

" This copy belonged to H.R.H. Princess Eliza- beth, Landgravine of Hesse Homburg, daughter of George III. It has the suppressed vignette in its rare uninked state."

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

Is not WHITE LINE satisfied with the ex- planation of Bewick's having inked the tail -piece, at p. 285 in vol. i. of the 1797 edition of the ' Birds,' which is given in Jackson's ' Treatise on Wood Engraving,' 1839, p. 591, in the paragraph beginning " Bewick's humour " down to the word " indelicate," also in the note to this para- graph ? R. A. POTTS.

JOHANNA WILLIAMSCOTE (US. vii. 49, 92)- The first thing to be noted is that Williams - cote, and Wyncote (i.e., D. S. Wenecote) in the manor of Clifford - Chambers, co. Glos., are two totally different names, and must not by any means be confused. The one was never spelt for the other, as the querist states they were. Willamescote (i.e., Wilhelmescote) was a hamlet of Cropredy, co. Oxon, near Banbury, and gave this name to a noted family.

Thomas de Williamscote held one fee at Banbury of the Bishop of Lincoln in 1212. In 1280 Sir Ric. de Willamescote was living. Another Sir Richard de Willamescote held & quarter fee in the manor of Wenric

(Windrush) in 1307 ; while in the same year Sir Henry de Willamescote was Lord of Asterley and Cudinton (Kiddington. co. Oxon). In 1331 Thomas, s. of Sir R. do Willamescote, Lord of Asterley and Wil- lamescote, was living. See Warton, ' Hist. of Kiddington,' p. 29. John Williamscote held a fee, 1346, in Wardyngton, co. Oxon, while another Richard held Kiddington.

The lands at Kiddington were still held by the same family in 1428, in the person of Elizabeth Williamscote, widow of Richard Williamscote. The Johanna in question may have been her daughter. But, as the querist does not let us know whether she w r as a Wyncote or a Willamescote, it is not possible to go further at present.

The querist's Elias de Wonecote was living at Bin ton in 1316 ; so we may take it that his name was really Wyncote, and that he was an ancestor of the later possessors of that name.

The Wyncote family in 1331 were repre- sented by Sir John de Wyncote, who had married Joanna, dau. of William ds Kerdiff (Walton-Cardiff, co. Glos.). She died in 1349, aged 32, leaving only daughters ; albeit the estate went to an Edward de Kerdef, who held it in 1369.

William Wyncote, until 1428, was holding one fee in Bonynton (Binton, co. Warwick). It is clear, therefore, that no Williamscote held Binton ; but Wyncotes did hold it.

But evidence of the possession of the Gloucestershire manor of Wyncote by any of these is extremely desirable. For the manor, as a manor, does not appear in Feudal Aids at all, although the Pipe Roll of 1175-6 gives it as Winecote. William de Winnecote held five cottages of the Lord of Clifford-Chambers (Glos.), 1266-7, but there is no evidence that he owned any manor of Wyncote. Of course, Clifford-Chambers, Wyncote, and Milcote all lie together ; but the main question remains, Was Johanna,, wife of Sir John Greville (d. 1480), a Wyn- cote or a W T illamescote ?* Her son Robert certainly married Isabel Wyncote of Byn- ton, and I suspect that this was the only contact by marriage of the families.

ST. CLAJR BADDELEY.

THE " LAST GOVERNOR OF CALAIS " : THE BELLS OF POWICK (11 S. vii. 49). The last Governor, or, as he was called, Deputy, of Calais, was Thomas Wentworth,

from the Rev. J. H. Bloom owns a totally different origin from that of Willamescote, and could not give rise to that name.
 * The Wilmcote referred to in A. C. C.'s quotation