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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. OCT. 21, 1916.

227th page of a ' Collection of Prayers and Hymns ' lately printed. The hymn begins with these words : ' O Deus ego amo t e,' kc. , and was composed by the famous missionary Francis Xavier, whose apos- tolical and successful labours in the East, united with his eminent sanctity of life, procured him the title of ' Apostle of the Indies.' Mr. Pope appeared to receive this proposition with indifference ; but the next morning, when he came down to breakfast, he handed Mr. Brown a paper with the following lines, of which I took a copy, and have since retained them in my memory. SENEX."

Is the translation in Prof. Kelly's book by Pope, or, as he says, by Dryden ? and which is the better authenticated rendering ?

ARCHIBALD SPAKKE.

NAVAL RECOBDS WANTED, c. 1800. Would any genealogist tell me how to set about finding out facts about my great- grandfather, who was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy about 1800, and served during the Peninsular War ?

His name, and that he was on the Statira under Commander Boys at the siege of Walcheren and received some medal, is all that is known.

What naval records are there accessible to the public ? D. B.

" THE HIGH COURT OF CHIVALRY." On Sept. 14, 1699, Dawks's News Letter contained the item :

' We hear that to-morrow a Court is to be held at the Heralds Office near Doctors Commons, where several Persons are to be Tryed before his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England, for Assuming Coats of Arms that do no ways belong to them."

This was added to two days later by the statement that

" Yesterday the High Court of Chivalry sate at Doctors' Commons, where several Gentlemen paid for Assuming Coats of Arms," &c.

Does the Duke of Norfolk of to-day, the present Earl Marshal, or his deputies at Heralds' College, hold anything approaching to similar Courts of Chivalry now ?

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

BARNABD FLOWEB : BISHOP Fox OF WINCHESTER. Could any reader inform me in what year Barnard Flower, King's Glazier to Henry VIII., received that appointment ?

What foundation is there for the statement that Bishop Fox of Winchester was appointed to supervise Flower's work at King's College, Cambridge ?

Who were the executors of King Henry VII.'s will ? I understand that Bishop Fox of Winchester was one. Who were the others ?

JOHN D. LE CONTEUB. Plymouth.

TOUCH WOOD. I should be deeply obliged if any reader of ' N. & Q.' would kindly give me information concerning the origin of the practice of touching wood after having made a boast, or having congratulated oneself upon having escaped a danger.

C. EDGAB THOMAS.

Sion College, E.G.

[Our correspondent will find a good deal of in- formation as to the prevalence of the practice, and as to verbal formulae accompanying it, at 10 S. vi. 130, 174,230. The reason why wood in particular should be touched is not, as HKLGA, the original querist, points out, made clear.]

AUTHOB AND TlTLE WANTED : BOYS'

BOOK c. 1860. Can any reader tell me the title and author of a boy's book of adventure, published, probably, about 1860 ? It related the voyage of a ship called the Leda, and was illustrated with woodcuts. One : prisoners suspended by ropes over a precipice, one falling, a savage with uplifted axe ready to sever the rope of another. A second : the cabin of a ship frozen-in in the Arctic, the dead captain seated at his table. A third : boats leaving a burning vessel ; this last is also used in ' Sea Sketches about Ships and Sailors,' Religious Tract Society, 1863.

N. D. F. PEARCE. Cambridge.

UDIMORE, SUSSEX. I shall be greatly obliged to any reader of ' N. & Q.' who can furnish me with any information (other than that to be found in printed histories of Sussex and other well-known sources) re- lating to the following families formerly settled in this Sussex parish, viz. : Freebody, Waters, Burdet, Bromfield, Dulvey, and Sloman. Any other information likely to be of service in the compilation of a history of the parish would also be welcome. Please reply direct. LEONARD J. HODSON.

Robertsbridge, Sussex.

MBS. EDWARD FITZGEBALD'S PICTURES. Can any one tell me what became of the pictures (particularly one by Crome and one by Cotman) belonging to Mrs. Edward Fitzgerald, after her death at Croydon in 1890 ? G. A. ANDERSON.

DICKENS'S ' BLEAK HOUSE.' I have been under the impression that there was a concurrence of opinion in accepting Rocking- ham Castle (though in an adjoining county) as the original or prototype of " Chesney Wold," and works of some writers on Dickens have contained illustrations of Rockingham in that connexion. But the ' Illustrated Guide to Lincolnshire,' by G. J.