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later. I cannot think that the portrait by Mierevelt contains the representation of the First Folio which is in the 1789 engraving.

Can any of your readers tell me of an earlier reference to, or pictorial representa- tion of, the First Folio than the above ?

EDWARD B. HARRIS. 5, Sussex Place, Regent's Park, N.W.

" TAMSON'S MEAR (MARE)." I find this phrase, meaning to go afoot, in * Catriona.' I shall be much obliged for information regarding its origin. P. V. ACHABYA.

Chepauk, Madras.

WORDS ON A SAMPLER. I have recently acquired by purchase in England a sampler upon which are embroidered the following words :

Sasidu by eouer and to misfourtiii born

by man forsaken

and left my compains scorn

When foia opress me

f reands i siek in vain

wat then is left i my self and god remains.

The condition of the letters is perfect, and there is no mistaking the identification of each. The word *' year " is elsewhere spelt " hear " and " heir," as further evidence of illiteracy. I think the third word may be intended for " hour," but I have not even a guess as to the first word. If any reader recognizes the lines as a quotation, I shall be happy to learn the source.

JAMES W. WALKER. 1504, E. Fifty-Third Street, Chicago.

CARDIGAN MANUSCRIPT : WHAT HAS BE- COME OF IT ? Lipscomb in his * History of the County of Buckingham,' written in 1847 and before, frequently refers to this manu- script as an authority for his statements, especially in matters of pedigree and genealogy. He states that it was then in the possession of Lady de Grey at Wrest, Bedfordshire. The manuscript is evidently an important one from an historical point of view. I hope it may have been deposited in the Bodleian Library at Oxford with the other manuscripts there, or in some other repository where it will be carefully pre- served. Can any one tell me where this manuscript may now be found ?

MONUMENTS AT WARWICK. Is there any list or catalogue of the inscriptions on the monuments and tombstones in the church and graveyard at Warwick, and where may this list be seen ?

JOHN Ross DELAFIELD.

New York City.

POLHILL FAMILY. I am in search of information regarding the brothers, sisters, and daughters of David Polhill, M.P. for Rochester.

Was " Jane from Barkhamstead," whose burial with her mother at Otford is men- tioned by MR. COLYER-FERGUSSON at 10 S. xi. 315, married ?

I received intelligence from Otford that David Polhill had four daughters, only one of these being alive when he died in 1754. Since then a representative of David Polhill has kindly sent me an extract from their pedigree, stating that David had but the one daughter, Elizabeth (b. 1727, d. 1815). Are there any grounds for the first statement, or is it merely a misapprehension ?

Is there positive proof that Mr. Charles Polhill, grandson of General Ire ton, died without issue ? In many cases this is stated in pedigrees, simply because the descendants are unknown to the compilers.

Was his brother Henry buried at Otford, or is it possible that he left, married, and had a son and daughter ?

Were David, Charles, Henry, and Jane the only children of Mrs. Elizabeth (Ireton) Polhill ? (Miss) E. F. WILLIAMS.

10, Black Friars, Chester.

PAYMENT FOR GOOD FRIDAY SERMON. It is stated in a Parliamentary Return of Sussex Charities made in 1836,

"There is an annual payment of 6s. M. to the officiating minister of Yapton for preaching a sermon on Good Friday, issuing out of land called Bury (or Berea) Court. The vicar's terrier, taken in the year 1689, mentions this payment, but it does not appear whence it originated. This is probably the charity mentioned in the Parlia- mentary Returns as land,' the proceeds of which are incorrectly stated to have been applied to the use of the poor."

I cannot hear of similar payments, and I shall be glad if any reader of ' N. & Q.' can say if these charges exist in other parts of England, and if so, where, and how they originated. S. J. B. F.

RECORDS OF NAVIGATION IN INDIA, Mr. John R. Spears, in his valuable little work on ' Master Mariners ' (Williams & Norgate), affirms that " there are records showing that the coasts of India have been navigated for at least 9,000 years."

Of what nature are these records ? Or must the statement be classed with that recently made by Mrs. Walter Tibbits when she speaks of " the long pointed boats which have navigated the Gunga for millions of years " (' Cities Seen,' p. 225) ?

O. KNOTT.