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 12 S.X.JUNE 24, i922/i NOTES AND QUERIES. 493 respecting Read in ' Some Notable Quacks,' j yards beyond the Capon Tree. ... It is close to British Medical Journal (1911), p. 1264. i the ed & e of the wood. J. PAUL DE CASTRO. I ^ ut P erna P s the King of the Woods has now I disappeared. THE ADVENTURES OF A COIN (12 S. x. ! If "capon"' is a corruption of " covin," 452). Any account of the literature relating j or " covine," or '' coven," the tree was to the adventures of a coin should include i probably a place where witches assembled. the ballad, attributed to Jonathan Swift, ' The Jacks put to their Trumps ' : a Tale of King James' Irish Shilling. London : Printed and sold by R. Burleigh, in Amen- corner, 1714. (Price 3d.)' FRED. R. GALE. Gerrards Cross. In this connexion the following may be j ssuec i > noted : The Splendid Shilling,' in JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. ' THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN REVIEW ' (12 S. x. 453). The British Museum Cata- logue states that The British and Foreign Review ; or, European Quarterly Journal, was first issued in 1835, and ceased publica- tion in 1844, eighteen volumes in all being ^ARCHIBALD SPARKE.' Philips (John), ' Works,' 1708. Addison, ' Adventures of a Shilling,' Tatler, Nov. 11, 1710. Bathurst (Richard), ' Adventures of a Half- j Penny,' Adventurer, April, 1753. Johnston (Charles), ' Chrysal, or the Adventures j of a Guinea,' 1760/1. J. ARDAGH. Does MR. ANEURIN WILLIAMS mean The Home and Foreign Review, edited bv Richard Simpson, 1862 to 1864 JOHN B. WAIXEWRIGHT. THE CAPON TREE IN JED WATER (12 S. x. 450). In the fifth volume (N.S.) of the SPENCER SMITH (12 S. x. 370). I regret inability to answer the query, but should like to ask whether the wife of John Spencer Smith was not Byron's '" Florence," apostrophized in the lines ' To Florence,' which was written at Malta in September, Transactions of the Cumberland and West-, 18 <}9, i n ' Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,' morland Antiquarian and Archaeological j canto ii>5 st> 30> and in the < Stanzas corn- Society, pp. 129-142, Mr. Henry Penfold ! posed during a Thunderstorm' on the road gives a fairly exhaustive account of the to Zitza, Oct. 11, 1809? The lady is thus capon tree at Brampton, and refers to those mentioned in a letter to his mother from at Alnwick Castle and near Jedburgh. Malta He quotes from George Tate's ' History of Alnwick, from Jamieson's ' Dictionary,' from London's ' Arboretum and Fruti- This letter is committed to the charge of a very extraordinary lady, whom you have doubtless heard of, Mrs. Spencer Smith, of whose escape cetum,' from Bosworth's ' Anglo-Saxon Die- ; ^ejMarquis fnflilli'S!!!!? 1 ^^ tionary,' and other sources of inform and comes to the conclusion that derived from cepan, which, among j fertile i n remarkable incidents, that in a romance its they would appear improbable. She was born at meanngs, has "to go about, to betake Constantinople, where her father, Baron Herbert, oneself to," and interprets it as a trysting- i was Austrian Ambassador ; married unhappily, tree, meeting-place, or rendezvous. He, yet has never been impeached in point of j character ; excited the vengeance of Bonaparte dismisses some other interpretations and | by taking a part in some conspiracy ; several mentions that the Brampton tree was used | times risked her life, and is not yet five-and- as a gibbet for six of the local rebels in 1745. I twenty. She is here on her way to England to He gives a picture of the tree as it was ^ereThe^^a ^n^a ^^^her^mother^b 6 ' in 1833, and says that nothing now remains ; ^approach^the^t-enc^fand embarifs soon in of it but the " site of the Capon Tree." j a ship of war. Since my arrival here I have had JOHN R. MAGRATH.f j scarcely any other companion. I have found Queen's College, Oxford. ^ m J MR. HILSON calls this venerable oak ''j(the last survivor of the ancient Jed Forest " ; but Mr. M. J. B. Baddeley, in ' Scotland,' Part III. (5th ed., 1908)M p. 174, writes : Another survivor . ' to the same forest, i OAR M9 S -v her very pretty, very accomplished, and extremely eccentric. Bonaparte is even now so incensed against her that her life would be in danger if she were taken prisoner a second time., JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. SIR WM. HENRY CLINTON, G.C.B. (1769- _ T an olrl nrini- wood on the left of the road starting about 80 ; being a portrait of Sir William Clinton,