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barity. I have read the story in some book or other, but cannot now recollect which. I was under the impression that it was narrated in Macaulay's essay on Frederick the Great, but I find I am mis- taken. T. DUNDAS PlLLANS. The Bungalow, Radlett, Herts.

CHBISTOPHEB BAYNES, D.D. I am seek- ing information respecting the Rev. Chri&- topher Baynes, D.D., Prebendary of Gloucester and Rector of Farmington. He died about 1718. I shall be glad if any readers of ' N. & Q.' can help me.

F. R. JAMES. 192 Musters Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham.

GTH WEST INDIA REGIMENT. Can any military or other reader kindly inform me where the important ' Statement of Services of Officers in the 6th West India Regiment ' for the year 1811 may be inspected or seen to-day ? GATLEY.

DEVILS BLOWING HOENS OR TRUMPETS. It is stated that on the screen in a York- shire church is a riming inscription, the last two lines of which read :

Bewar of the deuyl when he blawis his horn,

And eon thy good aurigel saue thee. Representations of devils blowing horns or trumpets are shown, as accessory details of the Last Judgment, in (1) the glass in Winchester College Chapel (tracery lights of east window), inserted 1822, as a copy of the original glass of 1387-94; and (2) in the well-known wall-painting at South Leigh, Oxfordshire. In the latter example a fiend sits in a pan of the archangel's scales, and blows a horn.

I should be glad of any information cqncerning the origin of this idea ; also to know the name of the Yorkshire church wherein the inscription quoted above may be seen. JOHN D. LE COUTEUR.

REV. CAVE BECK (? M.A.), 1623-1706. I should be extremely obliged for additions to the following details : son of John Beck, innkeeper of St. James's, Clerkenwell ; born at Clerkenwell ; educated at private school (Mr. Braithwayte) in London for five years ; admitted pensioner under Mr. Cleiv- land, June 13, 1638, set. 15 years teste ' Admissions to St. John's College, Cam- bridge,' p. 42 (47), part i. Presented by Charles II. to living of St. Helen's, Ipswich, 1662, and held it till his death. Held plurally Monk Soham in April, 1696, when he brought suit against tithe-payer there " in the Ecclesiastical Court " teste parish papers. In List of Suffolk Authors we find

" Beck, Cave ; died 1706 " (Suffolk Notes and Queries, xxxvi., 1878, No. 105). "The European, in the frontispiece to his * Uni- versal Character,' 1687. f.m. 8vo. Doubt- ful " (Glyde MS., in Ipswich Free Library). What relations had he ? and, most par- ticularly, who was his heir-at-law in 1706 ?

CLAUDE MORLEY. 3Ionk Sohara House,' Framlingham.

WILLIAM STOKES. Wanted biographical information concerning Prof. William Stokes, who was a well-known lecturer on mne- monics, and the author of a large number of works on memory. In 1866 he lived at 15 Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, W. ; and in 1894 at 42 Glenthorpe Road, Hammer- smith, where, I believe, he died.

W. HAYLEB.

" MORS SCEPTBA LIGONIBUS JEQUAT."-

Some years ago a query of mine as to the origin of the above (once popular) quota- tion was answered by PROF. BENSLY, who said that it was included in Johann Weber's ' Dicta Sapientum,' published at Frankfurt in 1705. There is no copy of this work in the British Museum library, and before the War I had a search made for it in the great libraries of Germany, but to no purpose no copy could be found. The sentence was said to be a quotation from Lucan, but I and others have looked through the whole of the ' Pharsalia ' without coming across it. It was inscribed over a fourteenth- century mural painting which formerly existed at Battle Church (Sussex), and (in its Latin form) it is included in the twelfth -century (French) ' Vers sur la Mort' ascribed to Thibaut de Marly (Paris, second edition, 1835, p. 16). It likewise constitutes the motto of one of Symeoni's emblematic devices (English translation of the ' Devices of M. C. Paradin,' &c., London, 1591, p. 273) ; and an English equivalent occurs in James Shirley's famous dirge :

Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. But in examining one of the few existing copies of Walter Colman's ' La Danse Machabre or Death's Duell ' (printed in London about 1633, p. 68) I have recently found it forming part of the following Latin couplet, the origin of which is not stated : More dominos servis et sceptra ligonibus aequat,

Dissimiles simili conditione trabens. Can any reader give me the source of these Latin verses ?

F. PARKES WEBER, M.D., F.S.A.