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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. SKIT. ie, IQIG.

The mark like a horseshoe is simply the scar where the stalk of a leaf has dropped off, and the " ten or twelve nail-marks " represent the points where the bundles of sap vessels that ran up to the leaf have become detached. I have not heard of any legendary explanation. J. T. F.

Winter-toil, Lines.

SIR JOHN MAYNARD, 1592-1658 (12 S. ii. 172). See Selby's Genealogist, new ser., iv. 167, and other authorities mentioned in ' D.X.B.,' xxxvii. 161.

There are portraits of him in the National Portrait Gallery, and at Exeter College, Oxon. . A. R. BAYLEY.

Lady Warwick and Lady Algernon Gordon, Lennox are the direct descendants and living representatives of Sir John Maynard. Lady Warwick i* the owner of the house where Sir John Maynard lived. He is described some- times as of Estaines Parva, in Essex. That place is now known as Little Easton. There are many Maynard portraits at Easton Lodge, and I shall be surprised if among them there is not one of Sir John Maynard.

A. L. HUMPHREYS.

187 Piccadilly, W.

JOHN EVANS, ASTROLOGER OF WALES (12 S. ii. 149). Is mentioned in William Lilly's ' History of his Life and Times,' 1715, as in 1632

" one Evans in Gun-Powder Alley, who had formerly li% - ed in Staffordshire, that was an

excellent wise Man, and study'd the Black Art

He was by Birth a Welchman, a Master of Arts, and in Sacred Orders ; he had formerly had a cure

of Souls in Staffordshire He was the most

Saturnine Person my Eyes ever beheld.''

Then follow details of many defects, physical and moral. The portrait by Godfrey after Bulfinch is lettered : " lohn Evans, the Ill- fa vour'd Astrologer of Wales," and was published in Grose's Antiquarian Repertory in 1776. W. B. H.

AUTHORS WANTED (12 S. ii. 189). 1. The lines quoted from The Times were un- doubtedly written by Richard Barnfield, and were by him applied to Hawkins, not to Drake. They occur in the Preface of ' The Encomioii of Lady Pecunia : or The Praise of Money,' 1598. I quote from Arber's edition (1882), p. 83 :

"I have giuen Pecunia the title of a Woman, Both for the termination of the Word, and because (as Women are) shee is lov'd of men. The brauest Voyages in the World, haue been made for Gold : for it, men haue venterd (by Sea) to the furthest parts of the Earth : In the Pursute whereof,

d* Xe*tor and Xeplune (Haukin* and Drake) lost their Hues. Vpon the Deathes of the which two, of the first 1 writ thus : The Water* were hi* Winding heele, the Sea v;a

math hi* Toome; Yet for hit fame the Ocean Sea, teas not xutKcienf

roome.

Of the latter this :

England hi* hart : hi* Corj)* tin- Water* haue :

And that which rayxed hi* fame, became his grave"

It is absurd to attribute the lines to Prince, for he makes no claim to them, but professes to quote from Risdon, and both acknowledge the author to be one who wrote on the occasion of Drake's death. Unfor- tunately, both also apply them to the wrong person. R. PEARSE CHOPE.

Most of the inaccuracies into which all The Times correspondents but Mr. Lascelles Abercrombie fell may, I think, be accounted for by the error of the writer in the ' D.X.B.' in applying the following passage to Drake :

" In the words of an anonymous poet quoted by Prince (' Worthies of Devon,' p. 243), The waves became his winding-sheet ; the waters

were his tomb ;

But for his fame the ocean sea was not sufficient room."

DARSANANI.

3. " A small sweet world of wave-encom- passed wonder " is from the ' Garden of Cymodoce ' in Swinburne's ' Songs of the Springtides.' CHARLES J. BILLSON.

The Priory, Martyr Worthy, Winchester.

ST. GEORGE'S (HART STREET), BLOOMS- BURY (12 S. ii 29, 93, 155, 195). The identity of the statue is confirmed by a contemporary reference in ' A Xew Guide to London; or, Directions to Strangers,' &c., 1726, p. 80:

" From this [Montagu House] you may go to see the new Church which is in Bloomsbury market j the frontispiece of it is very fine, as well as its Steeple, on the top of which they have whimsically put King George's Statue, which is tolerably well done, and is 1" foot high."

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

THE CUSTODY OF CORPORATE SEALS (12 S. ii. 148). From a few inquiries I have made it seems to be usual for the corporate seal to have two keys, both of which are required to be used before the seal can be released. These keys are generally in the possession of the Clerk, who seals the various documents ordered to be so sealed by the Council ; officially, the keys are in the possession of the Mayor and the Town Clerk. The sealed document is useless as such without the