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DOMINICK (see US. vi. 330. 477) : NOR LEIGH. I am extremely grateful to G. D. I for his kind information regarding th Dominick family of Ireland. l"am anxiou to obtain information as to the arms born by this family, and, if possible, to ascertain definitely the connexion between Christophe Dominick and the Vicar of Strathfieldsaye. Where can information regarding *th< family of Norleigh of Norleigh and Inward leigh, Devon, be obtained ? The name i not mentioned in Marshall's ' Genealogica Dictionary.' (Mrs.) FORTESCUE.

Grove House, Winchester.

PETER BROWNE. A diplomatist of thi name served as Secretary of Legation in Copenhagen from 1823 to 1852. He seems to have been a native of Westport, co. Mayo and unmarried.

Can any one give me any biographica notes about him, or the name of the pre sent representative of his family ?

W. R. PRIOR.

CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD, IN TIME OF ELIZABETH. During the first decade o1 Elizabeth's reign were there fountains and groves of trees in or near the Great Quad rangle by Christ Church Hall ? Some of Edwards' s plays were performed in this Hall. p.

Philadelphia.

AUTHORS WANTED. ' On a Peacock's Feather.' Lines beginning :

In Nature's workshop but a shaving, Of her poem but a word.

The lines are set out as those of a " Poet Artist " in Wallace's ' Darwinism.' Who is the poet ? Lucis.

What horrid silence doth assail my ear ? Who wrote this ? R. L.

Can any one tell me who is the author of, and where I may procure, the complete poem of which the following is one verse ? Arm of the Lord ! whose wondrous power

The world and all things made, Thou art our strength, defence, and tower, Our ever-present aid.

It appeared in ' A Golden Text-Book,'

gublished about 1860 by Messrs. Gardner, aisley, who cannot now trace the origin.

E. N. H.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED.

I should be glad if any correspondents of particulars of the following Stewards of the Westminster School Anniversary
 * N. & Q.' would kindly furnish me with

Dinners: (1) The Hon. Robert Trevor - Hampden, Steward 1770 ; (2) Henry Haw- ley of Lincoln's Inn Fields, Steward 1782 ; (3) Lieut. -General Johnson of South Audley Street, Steward 1782 ; (4) William Maxwell, Steward 1797 ; and (5) Col. Powell, Steward 1845. To save space in ' N. & Q.,' I may add that references to ' Alum. Oxon.,' ' Alum. Westmon.,' and the Westminster School Register are not wanted.

G. F. R. B.

AINAY.

(11 S. vii. 170.)

1. CETTE opinion a ete celle de nombreux ecrivains lyonnais des temps modernes. U me semble que, pour certaines raisons historiques qu'on va lire, elle n'est proba- blement pas exacte, d'autant plus que la basilique d'Ainay n'a jamais 6te appel^e "Athenaeum " par aucun auteur ancien.

Mais rappelons 1'histoire.

Drusus, fils adoptif d'Auguste, fit en 1'an 7 apres J.C. la dedicace d'un autel eleve par les 60 nations gauloises, a Rome et a Auguste, dans la partie gauloise de Lyon ; est-a-dire entre les deux rivieres de notre dlle. Get autel en marbre flanque a droite et a gauche de deux immenses colonnes de granit d'Egypte terminees a leur partie superieure de statues immenses de Victoires

se trouve rappele sur les anciennes monnaies frappees a Lyon. Ce fut Cali- gula (en 38 apres J.C.) qui institua le 'ameux concours de poesie et d'eloquence qu'on appelait " Athenee." II est prouve [ue ce concours avait lieu en face de V autel 'e Rome et d'Auguste. " Palleat ut Lugdu- nensem rhetor dicturus ad aram," dit Juvenal.

Dion Cassius, Strabon, Florus, et Suetone arlent egalement de ces concours devant ''autel lyonnais de Rome.

Tout serait pour le mieux, et 1'etymologie de Ainay venant.de Athenceum serait tres oetique et parfaite, si ... on n'avait pas lecouvert en 1859 sur la colline de St. Sebas- ien de Lyon, au bas de la Croix-Rousse, nfoui dans le sol, ce qui restait de 1'autel >rise en une infinite de morceaux, fragments "e Fepigraphe avec les grandes lettres ,OMJE ET AUG . . . et fragments du soubasse- ment sculpte de 1'autel.

L' Athenaeum n'etait done pas situe a \inay, mais sur la colline au-dessus de otre quartier des Terreaux, proche 1'^lglise