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 12 S. HI. MARCH 10, 1917.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Of the engravers, to W. J. Linton I trace 22, to W. L. Thomas 19, J. Cooper 5, Butterworth and Heath 4, F. Wentworth, Bolton, and Morgan 3 each, Pearson 2, H. Sinton and T. Cobb 1 each.

I regret I am not expert enough to decipher the others. R. J. PARKER.

Brockley, S.E.

I am not acquainted with this edition. I have an edition by Bohn, published in 1855, which is one of the be^t illustrated books I have ever seen. It has twelve beautiful sieel engravings by Stephenson after Stothard, and seventy excellent wood en- gravings, chiefly by Harvey.

J. FOSTER PALMER.

I have a copy given to me in October, 1878. Among the artists who collaborated in this beairtiful book are Percy William Justyne, William James Linton, and William Luson Thomas, all three of whom are commemorated in the ' D.N.B.' Others are J. Cooper, H. Linton, T. Macquoid, R. P. Leitch, T. Bolton, R. S. Marriott, T. Cobb, F. Wentworth, A. P., J. R. H., G. H. T., Pearson, Morgan, and " Butterworth and Heath." JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

CAPT. Ross AND THE GLUCKSTAD (12 S. ii. 531 ; iii. 59). The tombstone in Minster Abbey Churchyard has been cleaned, and the inscription reads quite distinctly :

" In memory of EDWARD BASS, Esq., | Captain of H.M. ship GLUCKSTAD | who died on the 9th day of January, 1819 | Aged 51 years.

" He was a native of Shropshire. | In him the service has lost j an able Commander | and his acquaintances | a sincere friend."

This stone, which is three-quarters covered

with earth, lies flat in the pathway of the

churchyard leading to the west door of the

tower, and is badly worn by constant traffic.

PERCY F. HOGG, Lieut. R.G.A.

Minster- tn-Sheppey.

MEWS, MlLDMAY, AND HONYWOOD

FAMILIES (12 S. ii. 26, 93, 331, 419, 432; iii. 16, 52, 107, 113). In my ' Memoir of the Mildmay Family,' published for me by Mr. John Lane, will be found an account of the Haliday (one I) family monument in St. Lawrence Jewry Church ; an illustration and description of the panelled room in the Mildmay house at Newington Green ; the letter of James I. on the marriage of Sir Henry Mildmay to Anne Haliday ; a mention with particulars of the four pictures given by James I. to Sir Henry, and the portraits of Sir Henry before and after his death,

though a very competent authority who saw the latter picture expressed the opinion that it represented some one of an earlier date than Sir Henry. There is an illustration of this picture in the ' Memoir,' and I venture to think that in this same ' Memoir ' will be found information that might be of value to those interested in the above-named families, or in Hampshire and Essex.

H. A. ST. J. M.

AUTHORS WANTED (12 S. iii. 108). This is no doubt a perversion of Isaiah Lxvi. 3 : " He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man." ST. S WITHIN.

(12 S. iii. 148.)

There rolls the deep where grew the tree, &c. Can the passage in Ovid, of which Lucis is in search as a parallel to this stanza from ' In MemorianV cxxiii. 1, be in the description of Deucalion's flood in the ' Metamorphoses,' i. 281, sqq. ?

With Tennyson's first line may be com- pared :

Hie summa piscem deprendit in ulmo. Figitur in viridi, si fors tulit, ancora prato, Aut subiecta terunt curvse vineta carinae.

' Met.,' i. 296-8. and :

Silvasque tenent delphines et altis Incursant ramis agitataque robora pulsant.

' Met.,' i. 302-3.

Pieter Burman in his edition of Ovid, 1727, vol. ii. p. 45, and Moritz Haupt more fully in his notes on the ' Metamorphoses,' 8th ed., 1903, have pointed out the detailed resemblance between the passage in Ovid and a picture of the same subject in Lyco- phron's ' Alexandra,' 80 sqq.

It may be fanciful to find in the " central sea " of the English poet's fourth line a reminiscence of " omnia vel medium fiat mare " in Virgil's eighth Eclogue (1. 59). The likeness is at least worth noting.

EDWARD BENSLY.

The Tennysonian stanza beginning There rolls the deep where grew the tree was probably suggested by the following lines :

Vidi ego, quod fuerat quondam solidissima tellus, Esse fretum ; vidi factas ex aequore terras ; Et procul a pelago conchas iacuere marinas.

Ovid, ' Metamorphoses,' xv. 262 foil. N. POWLETT, Colonel.

OFFICERS' " BATMEN " (12 S. ii. 409, 495). The earliest example (from Wellington, 1809) in the ' N.E.D.' is a belated one. In letters dated May 16, June 1, 24, 1757,