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there. He was again at Rheims from April 15 to 25, 1593, when he returned to Douay (' Records of the English Catholics, Douay Diaries,' pp. 248, 249, 250, 280). Probably this was another son.

JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.

CASANOVA IN ENGLAND. (See 10 S. viii. 443. 491 ; ix 116; xi. 437; 11 S. ii. 386; iii. 242 ; iv. 382, 461 ; v. 123, 484 ; 12 S. i. T 2l, 185, 285.) In a letter to the Senator Francesco I. Morosini, brother of Fran- cesco II. Lorenzo Morosini, procurator, one of the Venetian envoys to England in 1763, Casanova says :

"Please tell your august brother that I have seen him in Paris in the beginning of June, 1793, without having been able to approach him, and that upon my arrival in London on the 14th of the same month I have heard of him." 'Casanova's Correspondence,' published by Rava and Gugitz, Munich, 1913, p. 97.

June 14, 1763, fell on a Tuesday, but Casanova, in his ' Memoires ' (Gamier, vi. 343, 353), says he arrived in London " to- wards evening " on the Monday, i.e., June 13. HORACE BLEACKLEY.

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WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

' VANITY FAIR.' How many issues were there of the first edition of ' Vanity Fair ' ?

Most booksellers, speaking of the first issue, say that " it contains the woodcut of Lord Steyne which was suppressed in later issues." It is certainly incorrect to say the woodcut was suppressed in all but the first issue. I have a copy in the exact state in which it was purchased on publication by my grandfather, which contains everything except the rustic letters.

ASTLEY TERRY, Major-General. Bath.

WRIGHT : PAYNE : WILDER. In 1634 arms were granted to Wright (of London, North- ampton, and Surrey) similar to arms on a tomb erected to Judge Gore in Tashinny Churchyard, co. Longford, Ireland. Alex- ander and Capt. John Payne, who settled in Longford, were related to General Sankey. Samuel Payne, a grandson, married Cathe- rine Wilder about 1735.

I shall be glad of information about the descendants of any of the above.

E. C. FlNLAY. 1729 Pine Street, San Francisco.

ELI COMYN OF NEWBOLD COMYN. He lived temp. Edward III. What were his arms ? Whom did he marry ? And if his wife was an heiress, what were the arms of her family ? I shall be glad to have par- ticulars of any quarterings to which Eli Comyn was entitled.

R. VAUGHAN GOWER.

Boughton Colemers, Matfield, Kent.

' WANTED A GOVERNESS.' I shall be glad to learn who wrote some clever verses thus entitled, and describing the qualifications the applicant should possess. The opening lines are :

A governess wanted well fitted to fill The post of tuition with competent skill In a gentleman's family highly genteel. Superior attainments are quite indispensable.

The verses date evidently from the forties of the last century. B. B T.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. The following lines are part of some noble verses on those who have fallen in their country's service. I shall be glad to have the words of the whole poem, and to learn who wrote it:

Where shall England find her own ?

The desert places are her sanctuaries ;

The five lands and the seven seas

Shall answer for her when the trump is blown.

WILLIAM PEARCE. Perrott House, Per shore.

Browsing the other day in an old volume of ' N. & Q.,' I came across (5 S. ix. 129) a request for the authorship of a quotation to which, apparently, no reply was offered. The quotation is so singularly appropriate just now that I am tempted to repeat the query R. C. A. P. asked thirty-eight years ago/

Who is the author of the lines, Instead of useful works, like Nature's, grand, Enormous cruel wonders crush the land ?

W. E. WILSON. Hawick.

PICTURES BY GEORGE ROBERTSON. On Feb. 1, 1788, John & Josiah Boydell of 90 Cheapside, London, published five large line engravings after a series of pictures painted by George Robertson, shortly before his death, in the neighbourhood of Iron Bridge, Shropshire, the engravers being James Fittler, Wilson Lowry, and Francis Chesham. These somewhat scarce prints are thus inscribed :

1. "A View of the Iron Bridge taken from the Madeley side of the River Severn, near Colebrook Dale in the County of Salop. This Bridge was