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widow, proved in P.C.C. 27 April, 1636 (41 Pile). John was father of Abraham Vandenbendy of the parish of St. James, Middlesex, whose will was proved in P.C.C. 22 Oct., 1687 (131 Foot), by his son John Vanden Bemcle, the testator of 1726. The Vanden Bempdes were a Dutch family, but I cannot trace them in England before John, the husband of Elizabeth Vanloore. Is it a fact that their first ancestor in England was knighted by Henry VIII. ?

W. G D. FLETCHER, F.S.A. Oxon Vicarage. Shrewsbury.

MUNGO CAMPBELL'S DYING MESSAGE : " FAREWELL, VAIN WORLD ! " The following lines- are said to have been found in the condemned cell of Mungo Campbell, excise- man, Saltcoats, who was sentenced to death for the murder, on 24 Oct., 1769, of Alex- ander, tenth Earl of Eglinton. Campbell, however, committed suicide, and these lines were found on the cell floor close to the body. They were quoted in Ally Sloped s Half- Holiday, October, 1887. Aii endeavour was then made to trace the source, but without success. I have never come across the lines in any other sketch of Campbell's career. Can any of your readers trace them, or mention any source whence they are quoted ?

Farewell, vain world t I Ve had enough of thee, And now am careless what thou say'st of me : Thy smiles I court not, nor thy frowns I fear ; My cares are past, my heart lies easy here. What faults they find in me take care to shun, And look at home enough is to be done.

R. M. HOGG. Irvine, Ayrshire.

[The lines were discussed in the Ninth Series of ' N. & Q.,' but the name of Mungo Campbell was not mentioned in connexion with them. What proof is there that they were found in the cell at the time of his suicide ? What is the date of the earliest reference to their being so found? That the lines were in use as an epitaph in widely separated districts of England in the eighteenth century was shown by the instances cited at 9 S. ii. 306, 536 ; iii. 191. The earliest definite example of the whole verse is from Thomas Wright's grave at Kensington in 1776 ; but our old contributor J. T. F. of Winterton, Lincolnshire, who intro- duced the subject, showed that the first two lines, in " characters uncouth and spelt amiss," formed the epitaph of John Rhodes, sen., buried at Winterton in September, 1728. Mr. E. R. Suffling includes some versions of the lines on p. 114 of his ' Epitaphia.'J

SINTRAM AND VERENA. In f The Heir of Redclyffe ' Miss Yonge mentions Sintram and Verena as companion characters in a tale of the period. I should be glad to know what the tale is. HENRY OGLE.

CARDINAL NEWMAN'S EPITAPH. In the epitaph on Cardinal Newman appear the words " Ex Umbris et Imaginibus in Veritatem." No classical Florilegium, nor the works of Augustine or a Kempis, con- tain the expression ; and I shall be greatly obliged to any correspondent of * N. & Q.' who can refer me to the origin of the words. T. E. YOUNG, B.A.

STOREY'S GATE TAVERN AND COFFEE- HOUSE. In relation to the changes at Westminster noticed at 10 S. ix. 225, &c., it may be of interest to record the dis- appearance of Storey's Gate Tavern. It terminated its existence as a licensed house on Christmas Eve, 1911, in order to make room for the extension of the building of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Was this tavern the successor of Storey's Gate Coffee-House, which was a noted resort of M.P.s and fashionable folk at the beginning of the nineteenth century ? If not, where was the exact site of the Coffee- House ? H. W. DICKINSON.

T. COMPTON, ARTIST. Can information be afforded respecting the above ? His name is not included in standard works of reference, but he executed numerous water- colour drawings which were aquatinted in colour by Clay of Ludgate Hill in 1818 and following years, and formed part of " The Northern " Cambrian Mountains Series," where they compared not unfavourably with reproductions after David Cox, Cop- ley Fielding, and some others who have achieved fame. Compton's name appears more frequently in the above series than that of any other contributor. W. B. H.

" HE " JN GAME OF " TOUCH." Could any reader give the derivation of the term " he " in the very popular children's game of " touch," or, as it is sometimes called, " tag " ? The expression " You 're he " is used to indicate the one who runs after and endeavours to touch somebody else, who in turn becomes u he." GEORGE F. VALE. Stepney Reference Library, Mile End, E.

ADAM OF FANNO. Fanno was in Forfar- shire, and an account of the family in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is given by the late Sir Bernard Burke in his ' Visitation of Seats and Arms ' under the heading of ' Blair- Adam ' (Second Series, vol. ii.). Can any reader supply cprrobora- tion and amplification of the details of the family there mentioned ?

W. A. ADAM, Major t