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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. ii. SKIT. 30,1918.

Arc. Probably Capt. Warde purchased the house and made the alterations ; it is hardly likely that any one else would place the arms (.f Warde there. Owing to disputes with the t hen lord of the manor, Warde removed from Folkestone to Hythe, where he died.

It is shown at p. 44 that the house was tenanted prior to 1701 by Capt. Jordan, who was also an officer of Sandgate Castle fur forty years. R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

OLD MS. VERSES (12 S. ii. 229). Bishop Corbet's lines, 220 in number, ' To the Lord Mordant, upon his return from the North,' beginning :

My lord, I doe confesse at the first newes, nnd those ' On Great Tom of Christ-Church,' 50 in number, beginning :

Be dumb, ye infant- chimes, thump not your mettle,

are on pp. 68-81 and 209-11 of Octavius Gilchrist's edition of ' The Poems of Richard Corbet,' London, 1807.

It might be easier to identify thepiece called ' To the Comedians of Cambridge ' if the open- ing lines or some account of it were given. Could it have been written on the occasion <;f James I.'s visit to the University of Cambridge in 1615, when two Latin comedies, Cecil's ' ^Emilia ' and Ruggle's ' Ignoramus,' an English comedy, Tomkis's ' Albumazar,' r,nd a Latin pastoral, Brookes's ' Melanthe,' were acted before him ? (See Cooper's ' An nals of Cambridge,' vol. iii. pp. 71 sqq.; Mullinger's ' University of Cambridge,' ii. pp. 518 sqq.) Corbet's lines, beginning :

It is not yet a fortnight since Lutetia entertain'd our prince,

deal with this visit and mention the " six hours' " performance of ' Ignoramus.'

The epigram on the removal of Queen Elizabeth's body the beginning of which is quoted in Miss Strickland's ' Life of Queen Elizabeth,' and the poem said to be pre- served in more than one chronicle as given, with slight verbal differences, in Camden's ' Remaines concerning Britaine,' ed. 1636, p. 393. The lines on Queen Anne are on pp. 397-8 of the same book.

EDWARD BENSLY.

In ' Everybodv's Book of Epitaphs,' at p. 99, I find :

From Barrow Churchyard on Mr. Stone. Jerusalem's curse is not fulfilled in me, For here a stone upon a STONE you see ;

while the epitaph on Queen Anne, wife of James I., is given at p. 39.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

If the writing is " early eighteenth cen- tury " (and not early seventeenth), so far as the verse on " Queen Elizabeth's bodie Ir goes, these " passionate dolefull lines " had i'-ppeared in print long before. So described,, and written by Hugh Holland, your corre- spondent will find them on p. 342 of Camden's ' Remaines,' 1623 (described fully in. my v Shakespeare Bibliography,' on p. 707). WM. JAGGARD, Lieut.

' An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess,' published in 1816, contains some verses headed " The Famous Game of Chesse-Play : Copied from a scarce little Work 011 Chess, by Jo. Barrier, Printed in 1652." The first verse is :

All you that at the famous Game

of Chesse desire to play, Come and peruse this little Booke,

wherein is taught the way.

I will gladly copy out the " poem " for MR. H AMBLE Y ROWE, if he will write to me.

GEO. WALPOLE. 26 Newlands Park, Sydenham, S.E.

DR. THOMAS CHEVALIER (12 S. ii. 100, 158). Will R. J. B., who, at the latter reference, advises me to consult the 29th Bulletin of the Societe Jersiaise for the pedigree, kindly tell me where I can obtain this publication ?

I should be grateful if any correspondent could give me any information as to whether Dr. T. Chevalier had brothers and sisters, and if there are any descendants of his living at the present time.

He was born about 1767, and lived till 1828, became surgeon to the King, and was a well-known writer on various subjects. Whom did he marry, and had he' a family '! I am very desirous of finding out FJ!! that is known of this man. F. CHESHIRE.

Alma Cottage, Lynton, Devonshire.

[Our correspondent might communicate with the Beresford Library, Jersey.]

STEYXTXG : STEXING (12 S. ii. 190). Steyning was a royal vill in the time of King Alfred, who bequeathed it to his brother's son ^thelwald. It is described in Alfred's will as " ]>one ham.... set Steningum," v. Birch, ' Cartul. Saxon.,' ii. 1887, No. 553. The e was long in Alfred's time (c. 885), and so it still was, presumably, in that of Edward III. ; v. Nonse Rolls, 1341, " Sten- yng." Conception of thise has taken place, and in Sussex we make Steyning nme with " penning." Similarly we call Poynings " Punnings."