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Robert (banker at Rouen), for the latter survived at least till 11 33. The wife of the Auditor may have been Elizabeth Berkeley (her Christian name was Elizabeth, and a brother-in-law, Mr. Berkeley, is mentioned), and this represents all that is known so far. The information is desired for a History of the Arbuthnot Family now being prepared, and I shall be grateful for any communications on the subject.

(Mrs.) A. J. ARBUTHNOT. 53 Harley House, Eegent's Park, N.W.I.

GRIFFIN FAMILY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. I shall be grateful to any one who can supply the names and other details of the children of John Griffin, a Londoner who married Bridget Pye at Much Dew- church, co. Hereford, September, 1639. I also desire to know the parentage of John Griffin of Weobly, who married there in 1669 Joane Sheward, and in 1676 Margaret Eckley ; and that of William Griffin of Frog Street, co. Hereford, and Presteigne, co. Rad., who married a lady named Jane in or before 1672. Reply direct to

J. H. BLOOM.

329 High Holborn, E.C.I.

CBAGGS AND NICHOLSON FAMILIES. The Rev. William Nicholson of Old Hutton in Westmorland married Margaret (surname wanting), who is said to have been first cousin to Secretary Craggs. Cdn any reader elucidate this, with names and dates ?

J. W. F.

PLAGUE GRAVESTONES. I should be glad to know of any gravestones in churchyards upon which it is stated that the persons buried beneath died of the Plague. At Sutton in Surrey there is a leger stone in the churchyard with arms and crest of the Pistor family, two of whose members died " in the great sickness " of 1665. Any information will be gratefully received. Please reply direct. LEONARD C. PRICE.

Essex Lodge, Ewell.

ASTLEHAM, MIDDLESEX. I shall be much obliged if any one will give me any informa tion concerning Astleham, near Littleton Middlesex. In a map of Middlesex of 16 1( it is shown with a church.

T. D. HORNER.

Fernleigh, Shepperton-on-Thames.

EDWARD WINSTANLEY was in business a ? wholesale druggist in the Poultry in 1834 and supplied various country doctors, &c Is anything known of his antecedents Did he succeed his father ? If so, what wa his father's Christian name ? R. H.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. . The poor shall feed on buttered crumpets, And eat roast beef to the sound of trumpets* The beggar shall smoke the best cheroots, And another man shall black his boots.

2. He whose ear is untaught to enjoy the armonious discord of the birds travels alore hen he might have company. J. B. H.

3. Paper (is the material out of which are made the wings of the Angel of Knowledge.

J. E. HARTING.

,ATIN ELEGIAC RENDERINGS OF A

COMMITTEE NOTICE.

(12 S. iv. 73, 167.)

! WAS well acquainted with the late Dr. Benjamin HaU Kennedy (1804-89), Senior Classic of 1827, Head Master of Shrewsbury, and afterwards Regius Professor of Greek in the Hon. George Denman (1819-96), who was educated at Repton, and was Senior lassic at Cambridge in 1842, and Judge of he High Court from 1872 to 1892. Any one who examines the first edition of Dr. Kennedy's 'Between Whiles' (1877) will iind on p. 164 a version of the Committee Notice, with the following note:
 * he University of Cambridge ; and also with

" This circular was sent by a friend, with the 'ollowing statement. In a Combination-room at Dxford an assertion being made, that any ntelligible English could be turned into Latin Elegiac verse, a guest present took from his pocket the circular above printed, and offered it is a test for such translation. The challenge was, [ believe, successfully met ; but / have not seen any version except that tchir,h was returned to my friend."

The words which I have printed in italics are clearly Dr. Kennedy's slightly circum- locutory way of saying that the version which he prints is his own. It is only in the second edition (1882) that any mention is made of a second version, ascribed by one of his correspondents to Kennedy's school- fellow Edward Massie of Wadham. This is obviously different from Dr. Kennedy ]s version. The whole of Dr. Kennedy's. ' Between Whiles ' (except the long poems at the end) consists of his own compositions, and this particular version is definitely claimed as his own by the signature " K.' r in ' Sabrinse Corolla.' It is idle to suppose that he could possibly have claimed as his own a composition ascribed to a schoolfellow, which he had not even seen in 1877, at the time when he included his own version in the first edition of ' Between Whiles.'