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 NOTES AND QUERIES.

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daughter of John Neville, Marquess of Mont acute (married 1457, killed 1471), she cannot have been much more than 40 at her - second marriage with Brandon. The identity of these two ladies seems extremely uncertain, but perhaps some more definite information has now been discovered.

M. T. P.

' MB. HOWARD,' PORTRAIT BY G. H.

HARLOW. Can any reader tell me who was the Mr. Howard whose portrait was painted by G. H. Harlow and engraved in mezzotint by W. Say ? He is seated in an armchair, holding a piece of paper with both hands. The portrait is full length. The mezzotint is 22 fin. by 17 in. W. H. QUARRELL.

WANTAGE, BERKS : INN CALLED THE PRICE'S ARMS. I am anxious to locate an inn at Wantage, Berkshire, formerly situated on the " Prior's Hold " estate, in 1784 belonging to John Price, Esq., of " The Ham," Wantage, High Sheriff of Berks in 1752. The inn bore his arms as its sign, and is said to have been a stopping-place of some interest in the coaching days. Upon what road was it situated, and when was it demolished ? Any information will be gratefully received.

LEONARD C. PRICE.

Essex Lodge, Ewell, Surrey.

SHEPPARD MURDER STONE. This square hewn stone, half hidden in the grass by the side of the Mansfield-Nottingham main road, about 2 miles from Newstead Abbey, bears the legend :

Near this spot Elizabeth Sheppard

of Papplewick

was murdered by

Charles Rotherham

July 7th, 1817

Aged 17 years.

Will some one give me details of the crime and trial ? The Nottingham gazetteers are silent. BEE.NARD M'QuiLiiN.

Liberal Club. Leicester.

LANDED GENTRY temp. GEORGE III. Were county directories or any work on the landed gentry published as early as the reign of George III. ? H. L. H. B.

PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART AND A FRENCH PRINCESS. Is anything known about a project of marriage between him and one of Lewis XV.'s daughters ? I am interested in an engraving (without any title or signature, but certainly French, and of the middle of the eighteenth century) which

seems to be connected with such a pro- spective event in the Pretender's life.

The young princess is represented stand- ing before the door of a small circular temple ; two columns of its peristyle bear medallions of her ancestors Henry IV., Lewis XIII., Lewis XIV., and Lewis XV. ; and her personal resemblance with the last of the kings is emphasized by the engraver. To the same temple is going the young prince, led by a female figure who is revealed to be the Queen of France by her fleur-de- lised crown and mantle. A child near the Queen has a double shield bearing (1) France, (2) quarterings of alliances, legible with difficulty, one of them seeming to be Medicis, for Henry TV.'s wife, I suppose. I do not think it necessary to describe the symbolical figures surrounding the group above : Truth, Justice, War, Arts, Religion, Love, and the lying Error and Discord ; they are too well known in subjects of that period.

With respect to the figure supposed to be the Young Pretender, nothing is really convincing as to his identity ; he is dressed as a Roman warrior, but the head seems to have been traced after a portrait. A child before him carries a laurel branch and a sceptre. In the background a crowd applauds. It should be added that the Queen's head is certainly intended to be a portrait, too, and reminds one forcibly of Mary Leczinska. Had not she some special interest in the Young Pretender, he being the son of a Polish woman?

PIERRE TURPIN. 44 Heath Terrace, Leamington Spa.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

1. Who wrote the following lines, and where do they appear ?

His taste exact for faultless fact Amounts to a disease.

2. Calderon is stated to have said that " the greatest sin that man commits is being born." Is this correct ? If so, where do^s he use the words? F. R. CAVE.

Folly Gate, Okehampton, Devon.

3. " Too wise to err, too good to be unkind "- as applied to God. I have known this quotation all my life. I find it used in the first verse of a poem on ' Submission,' by G. B. W.,in The Baptist Reporter for April, 1843, as follows :

My God ! Thou art too wise to err,

Too good to be unkind ; My way I would to Thee refer, And wait Thy will, resign'd. Is this its origin ? JOHN T. PAGE.

[Mr. Garney Benham, in ' Cassell's Book of Quotations,' revised edition, 1912, attributes the expression to the " Rev. John East (19th Century)," but cites nothing in support of the authorship.]