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NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 s. iv. APRIL,

HUTCHINSON FAMILY. Can any reader give me a copy of the descent of the Hutchin- son family (now Hely Hutchinson and Hutchinson baronets) from the earliest known record down to 1660 or thereabouts, or tell me where I can find a copy ? Burke' s ' Peerage ' and ' Landed Gentry ' only begin the descents of these families from the seventeenth century : I want the earlier ones. J. W. FAWCETT.

Oonsett, co. Durham.

CAPT. JOHN MACBRIDE AND MARGARET BOSWELL. In Boswell's memoirs appears the following : " The M.P. for Plymouth, Captain Macbride, is the cousin of his wife and the friend of his heart." Among the mourning rings left by his will to friends was one " to Captain John Macbryde [sic], B.N."

How was Capt. John Macbride related to Margaret Montgomery, wife of James Boswell ? C.

New Hampshire, U.S.A.

"COLONEL OF THE HAT-MEN." I am puzzled by this strange designation, quite new to me, which I recently came across in the pages of ' The Historical Register' for 1737 (Chron. Diary, 8), as under:

" June. Capt. Neadham, to be Colonel of the Company of Hat-men, in the Boom of Col. Churchill. Capt. Hodges, Captain of a Company of Grenadiers, to be Colonel of a Company of Hat-men in the Room of Col. Eaton, deceas'd."

W. R. W.

" FLAT CANDLE." What is meant by a " flat candle," so often mentioned * by Dickens, and where is an illustration of one to be found ? J. ARDAGH.

' THE HIBERNIAN MAGAZINE.' Any in- formation about The Hibernian Magazine, a Dublin publication, will be acceptable.

J. ARDAGH.

JACK PRICE OF PEPYS'S DIARY. Has this character ever been identified ? The name is distinctly Welsh, and as a Welshman I should like to know who he was.

T. LLECHID JONES.

HERALDIC: A SHIELD SABLE. Can any of your readers tell me what family bears the following arms ? A shield sable, with a lion passant gardant or between three helmets argent. I find these arms quartered with those of Douglas and Leveson-Gower.

W. COURTHOPE FORMAN. I 1 Cricklade Avenue, Streatham Hill, S.W.2.

ICKE FAMILY. The Ickes have resided in Shropshire for many years, and are related to the Goughs and Tunnicliffes (the latter a very old Shropshire family). Can any one tell me whence the name is derived, and what was the original home of the family ? W. J. ICKE, Capt.

Holmside, Rosemount Road, Boxirnemouth.

AUTHORS OP QUOTATIONS WANTED. 1. Some- where in ' Parerga and Paralipomena ' Schopen- hauer quotes the following English verses,

That I could clamber to the frozen moon,

And draw the ladder after me, as being " from a modern drama." Does any correspondent happen to know from which drama the quotation is taken ? E.

2. Forget us not, O land for which we fell I May it go well with England still go well ! Keep her bright banners without blot or stain, Lest we should dream that we have died in

vain.

C.

3. Words are easy as the wind ; Faithful friends are hard to find.

LOMBARD.

4. Where can I find the following lines ? They appear to be by Tennyson, but ray search through his poems does not help me :

Home they brought him slain with spears,

They brought him home at even-fall ; All alone she sits, &c.

C. L.

[4. The notes to ' The Princess' in the " Eversley Edition," 1908, p. 263, state that this version of "Home they brought her warrior dead" was published in the 'Selections,' 1865. T. J. Wise, ' Bibliography of Tennyson ' (privately printed, 1908), notes that this version was reprinted only in the " Miniature Edition," 1870, vol. iii. p. 147. The song as it now appears heads canto vi. of ' The Princess.']

THE STEELYARD IN THAMES STREET.

(12 S. iv. 14.)

MR. HIRST'S qiiestion is difficult to answer ; but the following information, taken from the erudite ' Dictionary of London ' com- piled by the late Henry A. Harben, and just published by Mr, Herbert Jenkins under the editorship of Mr. I. I. Greaves, may be of service to him. The whole of the article on the Steelyard will well repay study by any one interested in the history of London in bygone days. Mr. Harben' s work is specially valuable because exact references are supplied for most of the statements set down.