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AUTHOR WANTED (12 S. ii, 108). The lines,

The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach,

are from one of Marvell's poems, ' The Garden,' beginning :

How vainly men themselves amaze. It was included by Palgrave in his ' Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics.' Lamb quotes the greater part of it in his essay, ' The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple,' and also uses a phrase from it in a letter to Bernard Barton, dated Sept. 2 [1823].

A selection from the poems of the " garden- loving poet " was published a few years ago by Messrs. Methuen & Co. in their delightful ''Little Library" series.

S. BUTTER WORTH.

[Several correspondents thanked for supplying this reference.]

FIRST ILLUSTRATED ENGLISH NOVEL (12 S. ii. 90). Alfred W. Pollard, in his ' Fine Books' ("Connoisseur Library"), p. 294, says :

" It is a satisfaction that the plates to the first edition of ' Robinson Crusoe ' (1719) were engraved by two Englishmen, and not very badly. Their names are given as ' Clark and Pine,' the Clark being presumably John Clark (1688-1736), who engraved some writing books, and the Pine John Pine (1690-1756), who imitated some designs by Bernard Picart to the book of Jonah in 1720, and may have been a pupil of his at Amsterdam."

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

If the editor of Pearson's Weekly is correct in his statement that ' Robinson Crusoe ' was the first novel ever published in this country to contain an illustration, he might with greater exactitude have cited the first volume (published April 25, 1719, and containing a frontispiece by Clark and Pine, representing the immortal hero on his island, shouldering two guns and clad in sheepskins), instead of the second, published Aug. 20, 1719. An earlier novelist than Defoe was Mrs. Aphra Behn (born 1642, died 1689) ; but whether any of her works of fiction published before April, 1719, were illustrated, I cannot say from memory.

GUNNER F. CURRY.

CHURCHWARDENS AND THEIR WANDS (12 S. ii. 90). It is a mistake to suppose that the custom of churchwardens bearing wands is extinct. It is done in the parish church here (Weston, near Bath). The wardens sit on opposite sides of the centre of the nave, the vicar's warden on the left. The wands are tipped with a cross patee.

ASTLEY TERRY, Major-General.

The old custom of carrying their wands of office is still maintained every Sunday by the wardens of Stratford-on-Avon Parish Church. These wands consist of slender brown rods, about five feet in length, with. slightly ornamental tops.

WM. JAGOARD, Lieut,

SIR DAVID OWEN, KT. (12 S. ii. 107). The best account that I have met with of this famous knight and his effigy which, by the way, is not in Eastbourne Church, but in that at Easeboume, near Midhurst, in the north-west division of Sussex will be found in a lecture read by Mr. W. H. Blaauw, F.S.A., to the Sussex Archaeological Society in 1854, and published verbatim in that Society's Proceedings, vol. vii. 22.

The author shows that there is little or no doubt that Sir David was an illegitimate son of the great Owen Tudor, not his grandson,, as usually stated, and he bases his conclusions on two documents which are still extant.

The first is the report of the evidence given, by Sir David before the Royal Commissioners at the time when, in 1529, it became neces- sary for Henry VIII. to adduce legal proof" of the previous marriage of his queen, Catherine of Arragon, to Prince Arthur- This document is still in the British Museum (Vitellius, B. xii. p. 124), and from it we learn that he was then 70 years old so> we may place his birth in 1459, two years before the death of Owen Tudor ; that he was born and brought up in the county of Pembroke ; and that he had lived for forty years in Sussex, which would give the pro- bable date of 1489 for his marriage with his first wife, Mary Bohun, the heiress of Cow- dray, where he lived for the rest of his life. It also proves his intimate connexion with the Court in the reign of his half- nephew, Henry VII., as well as in that of Henry VIII. He swears, among other things, that he was present at the marriage of Henry VII. with Elizabeth of York; that he remembered the birth of Prince Arthur at Winchester, and of Prince Henry at Greenwich, was present at both their baptisms, and was afterwards in attendance upon the King in St. Paul's Cathedral, when he saw Prince Arthur married to Catherine " with his own eyes, being then and there present " ; and he concludes by assuring the examiner that he had given his deposition " neither compelled by entreaty nor corrupted by reward."

In the Burrell MS., p. 457, too, we leanx that Sir David was one of the twelve knights bachelor who held the canopy at the-