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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. SEPT. 23, wie.

" S. J.," WATER-COLOUR AKTIST. Can any reader help as to the identity of S. J. on a water-colour drawing dated 1826, supposed to be an original illustration for the " Waverley Novels ? " I find that the dedi- cation 'of the "Waverley Novels" by Sir Walter Scott to George IV. was dated from Abbotsford on Jan. 1, 1829.

E. P. STEEDS.

Barkby Firs, Leicestershire.

THE REV. DAVID DURELL, D.D., PRE- BEND AKY OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. According to the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xvi. 251, he was a native of Jersey, where he was born in 1728. I should be glad to learn particulars of his parentage and the full date of his birth. Was he ever married ?

G. F. R. B.

GENERAL WILLIAM HAVILAND. The ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xxv. 183, says that he was the son of Capt. Peter Haviland, and " was born in 1718 in Ireland, where his father was serving in a marching regiment." I should be glad to learn the place and full date of his birth, the regiment of which his father was captain, and the maiden name of his mother. G. F. R. B.

" COALS TO NEWCASTLE." " Labour in Vain ; or, Coals to Newcastle : In a Sermon to the People of Queen-Hith," was advertised in The Daily Courant of Oct. 6, 1709, as being that day published in Paternoster Row. Are there earlier printed references to this well-known phrase ?

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

TOKE OF NOTTS. In a booklet entitled ' Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentle- men in England," Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.' by J. P. Neale (1826), occur the following remarks apropos of Godinton (Kent) :

" In the Hall are four armorial compartments, executed by T. Willement. (1) The Arms of Toke of Notts: argent, a chevron gules between 3 horse- shoes sable " ; and again :

" The family of Toke was settled at Kelham, Notts, and had considerable possessions in that county at a very early period vide Tkoroton. From them are descended the several branches of the family settled in Kent, Essex, and Hertford- shire."

I should like to find out what authority Neale has for this statement, and what Thoroton has to say.

There is a pedigree of Toke in the Visita- tion of Kent in 1574. What mention does this make of the origin of the Kentish family ? PIERRE TURPIN.

INSCRIPTIONS ON COMMUNION TABLES. On the disused wooden Comnvunion table in the Salusbury Chapel of Whitechurch, or Eglwys Wen, by Denbigh, there is in- scribed :

NON INCOGNITO DEO H B 1617 IB

Is this dedication " to the not unknown God " to be found on other Anglican Com- munion tables of the sixteenth or seventeenth century? E. S. DODGSON.

ROTTON FAMILY. Can any of your readers inform me who was the father of John Rotton of Oxley, Staffordshire, or perhaps of Mose- ley, Worcestershire, who died before 1720, and whether he made a will, and if so where it was proved ? He was the father of Samuel Rotton of Oxley, who died in 1724, and whose will (of which I have a copy) was proved in the same year.

J. F. ROTTON.

Godalming.

' CATO ' AND * ANTIC ATON.' Where can I find a description of ' Cato,' by Cicero, and of ' Anticaton,' by Julius Caesar the former written in praise of, and the latter an accusa- tion against, Cato Uticensis ? A. E. B.

(These works have been lost. Macrobius, VI. ii., speaking of passages which Virgil had^lifted from other authors, quotes the following sentence from Cicero's ' Cato ' : " Contingebat in eo, quod plerisque contra so-let, ut maiora omnia re quam i am a viderentur, id quod non saepe evenit, ut expectatio cognitione, aures ab oculis vincerentur." Of Caesar's ' Anti-Cato ' (called also ' Anti-catones ' from being in two books) the words " Unius arro- gantise, superbiasque dominatuque," quoted to show the dative in -u, seem to be all that has come down to us.]

EDWARD STABLER. Information re- quested regarding Edward Stabler, born 1722, died 1786, Lord Mayor of York, 1779.

Is there a portrait of him in existence ? GEO. MERRYWEATHER.

Park Lane, Highland Park, Illinois.

"CONVERSATION" SHARP. Mark Patti- son, in his essay on Macaulay, writes : " He [Macaulay] was treated with almost fatherly tenderness by ' Conversation Sharp.' " Who was this personage ? M. L. R. BRESLAR.

[A full account of Richard Sharp (1759-1835) is to be found in the 'D.N.B.' His talent for conver- sation gave him his nickname.]

THE WINCHELSEA GHOST. Can any reader give me information about the Winchelsea ghost a negro in a red uniform supposed to be seen in the churchyard ?

J. W. JARVIS.