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POEM WANTED. Wanted, a poem called ' From the Indies,' beginning :

Oh ! come you from the Indies, and, soldier, can

you tell News of the gallant 90th, and who are safe and

well?

It is supposed to be by Alfred Noyes, but I cannot find it in his collected, poems.

C. A. ANDERSON. The Moorlands, Woldingham, Surrey.

" FRENCH'S CONTEMPTIBLE LITTLE ARMY.' Does any one know where first appeared the phrase, credited to the Kaiser, about " the miserable little army of Marshal French " ?

There was also a statement on the part of the Wolff agency denying that the Kaiser had ever said it. Can any reader give the date of this statement, which appeared be- tween September and November, 1914 ? OTHON GUERLAC.

HERTFORDSHIRE SURNAMES. Will some generous reader give me information, or kindly refer me to published registers for information, anent Cooper of Mill End, Herts (c. 1780) ; De la Hunt of Bushey, Herts ; and Se'Nell ? I have heard the latter names spoken as Delaunt (two syllables) and Seneel, but I spell them as given to me in writing.

S. GREGORY OULD, O.S.B.

ALLEGORICAL PAINTING BY BENJAMIN WEST. In Sabin's ' Loyalists of the American Revolution,' vol. ii. pp. 171-5, reference is made to Dr. Thomas Bradbury Chandler (1726-90) and to the address which he made to the King. In connexion with this, it is stated that Benjamin West depicted the scene in an allegorical style, and that the picture was in the possession of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Inquiries have been made at the Society, but they neither have the picture nor do they know anything regarding it.

Can any correspondent help me to trace its present whereabout

E. HAVILAND HILLMAN, F.S.G.

4 Somers Place, Hyde Park, W.

PRICE : HERALDIC QUERY. What were the arms and crest of Sir Herbert Price, usually styled " knight," though in the letters of administration to his estate dated Nov. 6, 1679, he is .called " baronet," as was also his son Sir Thomas Arden Price in similar letters dated Dec. 23, 1689; while in the marriage licence of this son from the Vicar-General's office, dated June 16, 1675, the father was described as " Knight i

Baronett." His baronetcy is not recognized at the College of Arms, and no patent for it has been discovered. He was colonel in the army, and Master of the Household to Queen Henrietta Maria and King Charles II. ; M.P. for Brecon in 1640. Under ' Members ' Privileges,' he is said to have been committed to the Tower with Sir William Widdrington merely for bringing in candles into the House when the august assembly did not wish to have them. He was son of Thomas Price of Herefordshire, Esq., and married Goditha, daughter and coheir of Sir Henry Arden of Park Hall, co. Warwick, and died 1677/8. I should be grateful for any information respecting him. LEONARD C. PRICE.

Essex Lodge, Ewell.

BOMBAY GRAB : TAVERN SIGN. This is the name of a tavern which adjoins the Middlesex side of Bow Bridge in the East of London. It must be a rare sign, as I have not come across it in connexion with another house. What is its origin ? I shall be glad if any reader can inform me. The name is so obscure that 1 have known men bet with each other as to its being " Bombay Grab " or " Crab." Certainly Bombay is a very far call from a London tavern, but what seems more strange is the word " Grab." What does it refer to ? A reliable answer to this query would settle many a dispute.

H. RICHARD WRIGHT

64 Carpenter's Road, Stratford, Essex.

[This was discussed at 10 S. iv. 177. " Grab " was said to be an old slang term for a foot soldier, but was better explained as derived from gitrdb, the name of a two-masted coasting vessel formerly employed by the Bombay Government against pirates.]

MS. OF * THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR.' It was recently stated in the press that Sir Walter Scott's manuscript of ' The Bride of Lammermoor ' had been bequeathed to some Scottish institution. If I remember rightly, Sir Walter's handwriting does not app?ar in this MS. because Lockhart says it was dictated to James Ballantyne and William Laidlaw while Scott himself was suffering from severe illness. Can some one throw light on this interesting question ?

W. S.

ST. GENEWYS. The church of Scotton, Lincolnshire, is dedicated to St. Genewys. Is this a form of Gwynws ? A saint of that name is given in Stanton's ' Menology of England and Wales,' 1887, Appendix I., p. 631 : " Gwynws (fifth century), of family of Brychan, Patron of Llanwnws, Cardigan (R, 327, 153)." M. P.