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wife. From Ellis and Martha descend the present family of St. John-Mildmay. Their eldest son Paulet was created a baronet, having been M.P. for Winchester and Hants, and chairman of Quarter Sessions, or what, at that period, corre- sponded to this post. He was also High Sheriff of Hampshire. S. G. G.

LATIN ELEGIAC RENDEBINGS OF A COM- MITTEE NOTICE (12 S. iv. 73). I have to thank several correspondents for their help in this matter. There still remains a difficulty, however. One of the two ver- sions is given in Dr. Kennedy's ' Between Whiles,' p. 164, but the note there leaves a doubt whether it is Dr. Kennedy's own, or by Edward Massie of Wadham. In the ' Sabrinae Corolla,' 4th ed., the same render- ing is given with the initial K., which implies, of course, Kennedy's authorship. If this be so (it might be a slip, and Massie was a Salopian), the other version, which is given in Judge Denman's ' Intervalla ' (and seemingly as his own !), I would maintain to be Massie' s. He was an examiner in Durham University in 1842, the date of the printed copy to which I previously referred. In that year Temple Chevallier was his co- examiner, and though Mr. Pears ( Cheval- lier' s grandson) has always regarded him as the author (as have others), it might be that Massie handed it over to Chevallier, who added the Latin notes and saw it through the press. If, of course, we dare assume the ' Between Whiles ' version to be Massie's (which Kennedy's note quite allows, though ' Sabrina? Corolla ' hardly sanctions It), then to Prof. Chevallier may be assigned the authorship of the other.

SEYMOUR R. COXE.

Precincts, Canterbury.

In ' Between Whiles,' by B. H. Kennedy (2nd ed., 1882, Deighton, Bell & Co.), on p. 164, is a rendering in Latin elegiacs of the committee notice, beginning :

Consilio bonus intersis de ponte rogamus, with a note appended as follows :

" This circular was sent by a friend, with the following statement. In a Common Room at Oxford an assertion being made that any intelli- gible English could be turned into Latin elegiac verse, a guest present took from his pocket the circular above printed and offered it as a test for such translation. The challenge was successfully met, and two correspondents have sent me the version produced at the time ; one telling me that the translator was my old schoolfellow and friend Edward Massie of Wadham College."

Kennedy's version reappears in ' Sabrinse Corolla,' 4th ed., G. Bell & Sons, 1890, on

p. 273, over the signature " K.," which' stands for Dr. B. H. Kennedy.

I have a copy (whence got I cannot remember) of another version, as follows: Concilio, pontis cui tradita cura tuendi,

ut bonus intersis posceris : ipse veni. Nam quarto nonas concurritur ante Novembres,.

Saturni medium sole tenente diem. Quserendum, an prosit, causam Deflete ferente,

ponere, quos tenuis penneet aura, tubos. Hanc scribse mittunt Fabri, natique paterque,

qui summe, pastor, te, reverende, colunt.

Whether this is by Edward Massie I do not know. Perhaps some other reader of ' N. & Q.' can throw more light on the question. H. K. ST. J. S.

If I mistake not, this notice was written, by the Rev. Temple Chevallier, B.D.,- Professor of Greek at Durham University and Perpetual Curate of Esh (1835-73). A sight of it would perhaps settle the question. J. W. FAWCETT.

" MB. LLOYD, FOUNDER OF LONDON EXCHANGE " (12 S. iv. 101). Portrait may not be that of Mr. Lloyd. I have a coloured etching, ' A Pillar of the Exchange,' Thos. Jones (fecit ?), " London, pub d Feb? 1829, by F. V. Webster, Bookseller, &c. at his Histrionic Repository, 11 Broad C fc Long Acre " ; it was again " Pub d by W. Clarke, 21, Finch Lane, Cornhill." The figure is as described, hands in pocket ; a squat tall hat, standing beside a pillar. This is,. however, a portrait of Nathan Mayer- Rothschild, the first of the family to settle in this country. ISRAEL SOLOMONS.

" VITTA LATTA " : NAPOLEON'S ' MOLIERE' (12 S. iv. 102). If a suggestion of mis- transcription is admissible, it would seem probable that the words should be " Vita Lotta. Libro Pace," i.e., Life a struggle- A book peace. C. A. COOK.

Perhaps Napoleon meant to write " Vita, Lutto ; Libro, Pace," i.e., Life [is] Combat, [a] Book [is] Peace.

JOHN B. WALNE WRIGHT.

[PROF. BENSLY makes the same suggestion as- SIR C. A. COOK.]

FAREWELL FAMILY (12 S. iii. 477). Lieut.- Col. John Farewell was made captain in the 1st Foot Guards, with the rank of lieutenant- colonel in the army, Oct. 15, 1689, but was out of the regiment in 1702. He was appointed Deputy to the Lieutenant of the Tower of London, Aug. 6, 1689, and had a fresh commission as such from Queen Anne,, June 29, 1702 (Dalton, v. 156).

W. R. W.