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NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. VIL APRIL 26, 1013.

TITLE-PAGE WANTED. I have before me a square duodecimo (pp. iv and 165), whereof the title-page is missing. It con- sists of verse in riming couplets in twenty- two chapters, each headed with a copper- plate. The engraving heading chap. i. is entitled * Folly whipping the Alphabet.' The book deals with the problem of the taming of a shrew, one Lady Loverule, by transforming her into a stout cobbler's wife. Will some reader kindly give me the title, author's name, and date of production ? J. HAMBLEY HOWE, M.B.

WILLIAM PUBBEAB was churchwarden of Cranfield (Bedfordshire) in the reign of Edward VI. I should be glad of any information about him.

F. PUBYEB WHITE.

Cambridge.

SALT - MINES. Is it known when the English salt-mines were first worked ? Has a list ever been compiled of the salt -ways running inland from the sites of ancient salt-pans on the coast ? J. H. T.

THE FOURTH DUKE OF QUEENSBEBBY (" OLD Q."). I should be very much obliged if any correspondent of * N. & Q.' could give me a reference to any published letters of " Old Q.," other than those con- tained in Jesse's ' George Augustus Selwyn ' and Lord Carlisle's MSS. printed by the Historical Manuscripts Commission. I should also be grateful for the sight of any unpublished letters written by the Duke remaining in private hands.

ABTHUB IBWIN DASENT.

The Dutch House, Hampton-on-Thames.

AUTHOBS WANTED. Who wrote " The Fawcetts and Garods, a Novel, by Sai- math," published by J. & R. Maxwell, London, about October, 1886, and dealing, for the most part, with life in the Cumberland dales ? I arn unable to trace the assumed name upon the title - page, and should be glad to know if any other Works are attri butable to the same author. W. B. H.

I have frequently heard the quotation " Man is immortal till his work is com- pleted," which, I believe, has several variants. I have never been able to trace the author of the saying. Can any reader help me ? HENBY P. WARD.

[The authorship of " Man is immortal till his work is done," the form in which the line is gener- ally cited, was inquired for at 5 8. x. 349 (1878) and again at 6 S. v. 309 (1882), but without eliciting any reply in either case. We hope the present querist may be more successful.]

TOLLING ON GOOD FBIDAY. About twenty years since I learnt that it was the custom at Ayot St. Peter in this county to t-oll the church bell thirty-three times on Good Friday afternoon. On a recent visit bo that village I was informed that the bell was tolled on Good Friday this year as usual, viz., thirty-three strokes at quarter- minute intervals, commencing at 3 o'clock.

Can any of your readers inform me whether this custom obtains elsewhere, and of how long standing it is ?

HENBY T. POLLABD.

Bengeo, Hertford.

MB. RICHARD BALL, B.D. A tablet was erected to his memory in the chancel of Chaltpn Church, Hants, at the sole expense of his sorrowful relict, Elizabeth Ball, A.D. 1632.

Biographical information relating to the above Richard Ball would be much appre- ciated. F. K. P.

LORD WELLESLEY'S ISSUE. (11 S. vii. 249.)

THE history of the first marriage of Richard, Earl of Mornington, afterwards first Marquess Wellesley, resembles in many respects the romantic story of the late Lord Sackville and Pepita, the Spanish dancer, which came before Mr. Justice Bigham in the Probate Court a year or two ago. The Peerages are all silent with regard to the Mar- quess's family, but as a fact he had four natural children, of whom the first Mar- chioness was the mother. Their names were (1) Richard (born about 1786), (2) Anne, (3) Hyacinthe Mary (born 1789), and (4) Henry (born 1791). Col. G. B. MaUeson in his * Life of the Marquess Wellesley ' says :

" On Nov. 29, 1794, Lord Mornington was married at St. George's, Hanover Sq., to Mademoiselle Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland, a native of France, only daughter of Pierre Roland and of Hyacinthe Gabrielle Daris of the city of Paris, who had for nine years lived with him and borne him children.

"Notwithstanding the beauty of the lady, her wit, her wonderful fascination, the marriage was not a happy one. When Lord Mornington proceeded to India he felt that under the circumstances he could not take her. Nor did she live long with him after his return. For reasons which have never been given to the public they agreed to live sepa- rately. The lady died in 1816." Who the lady was is not clear. Mr. R. R. Pearce, who published the ' Memoirs and Correspondence of the Marquis Wellesley '