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one that has not been broken for riding, nor employed in working." He appends other two uses of the term : (2) "a stallion ; a riding horse " ; and (3) " metaph. applied to young courtiers."

THOMAS BAYNE.

VILLAGE POUNDS (12 S. i. 29, 70). For many years there were the visible remains of a pound in Clapham, Beds, on the north side of the road leading to Milton Ernest. It may interest your readers to know that in Herts the impounder went by the name of the pinner. M.A.OxoN.

AUTHORS WANTED (US. xii. 360). I know thee, who hast kept my path, and made Light for me in the darkness, tempering sorrow So that it reached me like a solemn joy. A ' Concordance to the Poems of Browning,' complete in MS. and nearly ready for the press, edited by Dr. L. N. Broughton, of Cornell University, and the writer, shows that these lines are to be found in * Para- celsus,' v. 71-3. BENJAMIN F. STELTER. University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

'12 S. i. 29.)

I have these verses set as a song entitled The name of the author of the words is not given. The publisher is J. H. Larway, 14 Wells Street, Oxford Street, London. In the song the first line runs :
 * Good-bye,' the music by Robert E. Clarke.

We say it for a moment, or for years.

JESSIE H. HAYLLAR.

(12 S. i. 69.)

2. " Too quick a sense of constant infelicity " may be found in one of Jeremy Taylor's sermons. SUSANNA CORNER.

L. A. W. will find a full account of "* Thinks I to Myself,' which was written by the Rev. Edward Nares, D.D., Regius Professor of Modern History in the Univer- sity of Oxford, in G. C. White's ' Versatile Professor' (1903), pp. 172-99.

G. F. R. B.

CLOCKMAKERS : CAMPIGNE (12 S. i. 47, 97). Referring to MR. PEDDIE'S query, it may interest your correspondent to know that I possess a long-case clock bearing the name " David Compigne, Winton," and I know of other clocks by the same maker in Winchester. I have heard that this clock- maker belonged to a Huguenot family that settled in this city. At St. Michael's Church there is a memorial to David Compigne, who died May 28, 1780.

The clock in my possession has a somewhat elaborately decorated dial, with brass filigree work in the angles. It also has the spaces between the hours divided into " quarters " on the inner circle, and into " five minutes " on the outer one. This double arrangement, I have been told, was used for some time after the introduction of the minute hand, and so may indicate a date. From the general style of my clock I put the date at about 1750; and so, if the David commemorated at St. Michael's was a clock- maker, it might have been his work. MR, PEDDIE appears to put the date a century earlier, and spells the name with an a in lieu of an o. It certainly is a curious coincidence of both Christian name and place, if there is no connexion between the Winchester clockmaker and that on the label in the Bagford Collection.

N. C. H. NISBETT.

Winchester.

GENERAL SIR ROBERT WILSON (11 S. xii. 319). MR. LANE may be able to obtain the information required from Mr. A. Wallis Wilson, late Manager of Selinsing Estate, Taiping, Federated Malay States, now, I believe, on active service. His home ad- dress is Edgmead, Leamington, Warwick. H. C. BARNARD. Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States.

FRANCIS MERES AND JOHN FLORIO (11 S. xii. 359, 458; 12 S. i. 54). My attention has only just been called to the communication from MRS. STOPES at the last reference, in which she complains that I " published in your columns private information," given me in a letter from her to me, " without further explanation." Now I should be the first to apologize, and to express regret, if I thought I had done anything at variance with the honourable understanding with regard to the publication of " private in- formation." But what are the facts ? In her work on * Shakespeare's Sonnets ' (1904) MRS. STOPES twice makes the statement that Meres was Florio's brother-in-law (pp. xl, and 185), but gives no authority for it. The late Rev. Walter Begley, however, accepted it on the authority of MRS. STOPES, and uses it in support of a Baconian argument ( 4 Bacon's Nova Resuscitatio,' vol. ii. pp. 75 and 199)., I also incautiously adopted the statement in my book * Is there a Shake- speare Problem ? ' (p. 222, note, and p. 355.) Whereupon a correspondent wrote to ask me on what evidence the allegation was based, stating that he could find none, and that he had, some time ago, vainly applied