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JOHN PAINE OB PAYNE, of Mount Pleasant, Dinahely, co. Wicklow, married Mary Francis, daughter of a clergyman of co. Wex- ford. She was born c. 1790. Can any one give me further information about husband or wife ? E. C. FINLAY.

1729 Pine Street, San Francisco.

CORONATION AND ROYAL MEMORIAL MUGS AND BEAKERS. (See ante, p. 370.) Ol what monarchs of the house of Hanover do these exist previous to Queen Victoria ? Are there any of the Stuart kings or princes, or any commemorating the birth of Edward VII. as Prince of Wales ?

, P. BERNEY-FlCKLIN.

Tasburgh Hall, Norwich.

AUTHORS WANTED. I shall be glad to learn who wrote the poems beginning respectively :

1. I climbed the dark brow of the mighty

Hellvellyn ;

Lakes and mountains beneath me gleamed misty and wide.

2. They tell upon St. Bernard's Mount, Where holy monks abide.

G. A. ANDERSON.

[1. Scott's 'Hellvellyn.']

Where do the lines come from which stand at the head of one of the chapters of ' Middlemarch ' and embody George Eliot's teaching ?

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are.

G. B. VANE.

[Mr. Gurney Ben ham in * Cassell's Book of Quotations ' gives these lines as George Eliot's own.]

" SEA-BOARD" AND" SEA-BORD." Are not these terms distinct, with clearly denned and separate meanings? Thus the former may stand for a committee of admirals or of Trinity House. " Sea-board," too, may be used for the table rations of one at sea, who might be termed a " sea-boarder." Seamen on a coasting voyage speak of ships away on the " sea-board," meaning water-borne on the broad table of the open sea, the offing, a term analogous to the coachman's term " the off side."

But the word " sea-bord " seems to be an abbreviation of " sea-border," as " sea- marge " is an abbreviation of " sea-margin," both meaning sea-coast. Thus the " sea- bord " of England, geographically speaking, is its " border," save where the Welsh and Scotch borders intervene. Carlyle has written "sea-bord," and given it his sanction with this meaning; and the two terms

appear as distinct as do the two words " boarder " and " border." The first mean- ing of the French word bord is border or fringe, and it is in this sense that we have- here adopted it in English.

I should like the opinion of philologists on, this point, because, in a recent article, having intentionally, and, as I thought,, advisedly, referred to the " Atlantic sea- bord " of the United States of America, this was corrected (?) for me in the press to '' the Atlantic sea-board," and this seems to have the sanction of ' The Oxford Dictionary,' and, in my modest judgment,, without sufficient authority.

HUGH SADLER.

ELIZABETH WEST, THIEF. In the ' Memoirs of Patrick Madan ' (see ante r pp. 265, 393), p. 26, there is a reference to " the famous Miss West," who in 1776 is said to have been " conducted to the New Gaol in the Borough." This was Elizabeth West, a very notorious pickpocket of the period, concerning whom I have seen many paragraphs in contemporary newspapers- Unfortunately, it is impossible to copy every- thing of interest that one encounters when, upon another quest, but I have preserved the following :

Public Advertiser, March 21, 1776, con- tains two paragraphs about the famous Miss West, who was taken into custody for picking pockets. The charge was not proved. It is stated that " she has escaped twenty times."

Public Advertiser, Oct. 17, 1776, contains an account of the examination of Mrs. Elizabeth West at Bow Street for robbing Mr. Wilson. She was committed for trial.

Public Advertiser, Oct. 19, 1776, contains an account of Miss W[est's] discharge at the- Sessions House.

The Morning Post, Aug. 21, 1782, contains a paragraph about " the notorious Miss West of London," where it is said that she has been " imprisoned at Newcastle."

The Gentleman's Magazine of April, 178$ (vol. liii. pt. i. 364), has the following obituary notice :

" At Hampstead Miss West, the accomplice of Barrington, and many years celebrated under the appellation of ' the modern Jenny Diver/ She has bequeathed to her two children near 3,OOOL The eldest of these was born in Clerken- well Bridewell, and some weeks after removed with the mother to Newgate, she being sentenced to a year's imprisonment for picking a gentleman's pocket in a room over Exeter 'Change, while the body of Lord Baltimore was lying in state there.'!