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 ii s. ix. APRIL ii, 1914.] NOTES AND QUERIES,

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"THE FISHER BOY.' Can any of your readers tell me who was the author of

" The Fisher Boy, a Poem comprising his several Avocations daring the four Seasons of the Year (Inest sua gratia parvis), by H. C., Esq. Printed for Veruor, Hood & Sharpe, 31, Poultry *! There is no date on the title-page, but the illustrations bear the date 1809. My copy has on a fly-leaf the following inscription : " 2 nd Edition. To Rich d H. Davis Esq. with the Author's most respectful compliments. W. H. C. L" Apparently the initials " H. C." were only a portion of the author's full initials. G. E. M.

BONS MOTS : AUTHORS WANTED.

1. Who was it that said, and in what Latin words, " It 's ill arguing with the master of many legions," and to whom was the remark made ?

2. When Napoleon Buonaparte was in occupation of Rome during the war following the French Revolution, he is reported to have said to an Italian lady, in a moment of ill- humour caused by some unexpected re- sistance, " Madame, your countrymen are all of them thieves (tutti ladroni)," and to have received from her the answer, " Non tutti, ma buona parte." Who was that witty and plucky lady ? G. H. POPE.

CAPT. JOHN CAMERON, NORTHERN FEN- CIBLES, 1793. This officer, who was court- martialled for insubordination, is described in P. L. Gordon's ' Personal Memoirs,' i. 145, as having been

" bred, if not born, in France, owing to the [Jacobite] misfortunes of his father, and [John] did not see his mountains until he was an adult. His father had been very popular."

Who was his father ? Was he the son of Dr. Archibald Cameron (1707-53), a son of the eighteenth chief of Lochiel, who was executed on his foolhardy return to Scot- land ? J. M. BULLOCH.

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PUMBERSFELTEN. Can any reader inform me where this place is situated ? It existed in the seventeenth or eighteenth century, and had a chief rabbi. Possibly this spelling is a corrupted form of the original spelling, or it is known under another name. I have searched at the British Museum, but can find no clue. P. JONAS.

WILLIAM IVE. This musician is said to have been born at Ware, and baptized in the church there on 20 July, 1660.

Where can I find further information con- cerning him ? W. B. GERISH.

PAGE FAMILY. (11 S. ix. 191, 232.)

THERE is evidence of the existence of at least two men bearing the name William Page, and both living in 1633.

The elder William Page is found referred to in Wood's ' Athense ' (ed. Bliss), iii. 653, the ' D.N.B.,' and in Foster's ' Alumni.' All three agree that this William Page was born at Harrow-on-the-Hill in 1590; Balliol Coll. matric. 7 Nov., 1606, aged 16 ; B.A. 26 April, 1610 ; M.A. 2 July, 1614 ; Fellow of All Souls, 1619; B.D. 12 July, 1621 ; D.D. 5 July, 1634 ; Master of the Free School at Reading, 1628 ; sequestered from the rec- tory of Hannington, Dorset, 1646 ; Rector of East Lockinge, Berks, until his death, 24 Feb., 1663 ; buried in the chancel of the church at Lockinge.

The younger William Page was a son of William of Wickham, Kent, born 4 Nov., 1610 ; admitted to Merchant Taylors' School, 1621 ; St. John's Coll. matric. 13 Nov., 1629, aged 18 ; B.A. 5 June, 1632 ; M.A. 3 May, 1636 ; D.Med. 6 July, 1653.

As far as I can discover, all authorities so far have only named one William Page who was master of Reading School, and this has been the one who was born at Harrow in 1590 ; but there is contemporary evidence that the younger William Page (b. 1610) was also a master there. Could they have been masters in succession, and con- fusion have arisen thereby ? Coates in his ' History of Reading,' 1802, p. 337, mentions William Page, who was master at Reading in 16289, and this was he of Harrow-on-the- Hill (b. 1590). It could not have been the other, because he was only 18 years old in 1628, and would not have been offered so responsible a post.

Under date 20 Dec., 1636, ' The Diary of the Corporation of Reading ' states :

" Afterwardes in the same daye lettres from the Lord Archbishopp's Grace of Canterburye, for the admitting of Mr. William Page, a Master of Artes and Fellowe of St. John's Colledge, were receaved, and he instantlye admytted Scholmaster of the Free Schoole in the room and place of Doctour Uyrd, deceassed, &c. All the lettres and copies of lettres sent and receaved about this newe Schoolmaster are in the box of bandes and other thinges in the Hall."

This William Page, one may mention in- cidentally, was not a success, for early the fol- lowing year, and only about two months after his appointment, he complained that he had