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NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 s. in. AUG., 1917.

TITLE OF PLAY WANTED. I have a print (date between 1811 and 1827) of three characters in some play I am unable to identify. The late Mr. W. Douglas would have told me offhand. They are " Lieut. Macaire =Mr. Farley"; " Col". Gontraii= Mr. Barrymore " ; ""Senechal's Officer " no actor's name. Col. Gontran is holding up a belt to Macaire, who starts back in terror. Macaire has no belt. RALPH THOMAS.

ARBOR TRISTIS. (See ante, p. 323 note.) What tree is this ? SIR R. C. TEMPLE would have conferred an obligation on many readers had he given some explanation, for the name is not, I think, familiar to many. JAMES HOOPER.

02 Queen's Road, Norwich.

LETTERING ON A SWORD. At the " Old Curiosity Shop " of Mr. George Tyrrell, 7 Park End Street, Oxford, whence hun- dreds of books have passed into the Bod- leian Library, there is a short sword, or rapier, with a wooden hilt, the guard of which is in the form of a crown, in perforated metal. It looks as if it were of the tune of King Charles I. The inscription on the blade, in italic script, which bears traces of gilding, is one side :

Reason \\ Is Good To

The Stout || Hearted

Q?he space indicated by the two strokes is filled by a lion, or a mastiff, standing be- ,tween tufts of herbs, and looking towards the point of the weapon. The first word, apparently Reason, is not clear. On the other side we read :

Cruell (1 Against cruell

Hindret(h) \( the Battell

In. this statement the space is filled by two dogs, or a bear and a lion, facing each other, between tufts of herbs. At which factory would the sword have been made ? E. S. DODGSON.

LATIN VERSION OF A T CHANTEY. In Miss Sichel's Life of Canon Ainger there is a letter from the Canon to Mr. Bosworth Smith, in which he quotes a clever translation into Latin verse of the first verse of the sailor's chantey " about a sparrow, a pipe, and a thunderstorm." Can any of your readers grve me the translation of the second verse ?

HERGA.

BTJNYON. Can any reader advise me where to find particulars of the ancestry of Sarah Frances, eldest daughter of Robert John Bunyon, who was married to John William Colenso, Bishop of Natal (born

1814, died 1883), in 1846 ? Had the said; R. J. Bunyon a sister Elizabeth, who was married to the Rev. William Gordon Plees,. Vicar of Ashbocking, co. Suffolk (who died 1849) ? F. G. R.

" BULLER'S THUMB." An explanation is desired of the following passage in a. paper on ' Our English Cathedrals,' included in " Mornings of the Recess r 1861-4, Reprinted from The Times" London, 1864, published anonymously, but known to be- the work of Samuel Lueas. The locus is Exeter Cathedral :

" [In St. Mary Magdalene's chapel] we find here also some grave-looking fellows of peculiar anatomy in the tombs of Bishop Bartholomew (1184) and Bishop Marshall (1206). Their thumbs especially are in striking contrast, and are as . interesting in their respective categories as the thumb of Mr. Justice Buller, which. wa& of such consequence in the question of the liabilities of the irritating British matron."

We know the prominence of Buller as a Devonshire family name, but what was the special phase in the Judge's career which is thus alluded to ? W. B. H,

' JOHN INGLESANT ' : KEY WANTED. Is there any key published to ' John Inglesant ' t I believe the places (as Godstow) are identified. Lucis,

CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S FAIRY STORIES. About seven or eight years ago some fairy stories written by Charlotte Bronte as a child, and edited by Mr. Clement Shorter,, were printed in the Christmas number of a ixpenny magazine probably Pearson's or The Strand. I shall be obliged if any one- an give me the correct reference for this. M. H. DODDS. Home House, Low Fell, Gateshead.

WINTHROP SARGENT. Would any Ame- rican* reader of ' N". & Q.' kindly give- me information regarding Winthrop Sargent (author of the ' Life of Major Andre ') 2 Is there any one now living who remembers him ? I gather from his writings that his personality must have been a very beautiful'; and attractive one. FUIJLWOOQ ROSE.

Queen Ckarlotte's House, Sydney Place, Bath.

[F. S. Drake's ' Dictionary of American Bio- graphy ' (Boston, Mass., Osgood & Co.), ed. 1872 r. contains a short account of Winthrop Sargent. He was born at Philadelphia, Sept. 23, 1825, and died at Paris, May 18, 1870.. In addition to the ' Life of Andre,' he published ' Loyalist Poetry of the Revolution,' 1857, and ' The Loya! Verses of Joseph Stansbury and Dr.. Jonathan. Odell,' I860.]