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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. iv. NOV., 1918.

HARROVIANS. Can any one oblige me with information about the families o Joseph Jones, who was at Harrow from 1858 to 1862, and of Douglas Edwarc Anderson, 1865-9 ? J. Jones's father was of Severnstoke, Warwick. I cannot trace Anderson's parentage. Are any members of either family alive ? G. W. E. R.

HA WORTH FAMILY OF MIRFIELD. Any information about the ancestry of John Haworth of Mirfield, who died about 1863, will be acceptable to

C. W. BTJCKENHAM-HA WORTH, Lieut.

H.M. Prison, Wormwood Scrubs, W.12.

REAR - ADMIRAL WILLIAM BROWN. He was of an old Leicestershire family, and commanded the Venus frigate in the Channel fleet under Lord Howe. In what part of Leicestershire was he born ? I should like to get in touch with his descendants, if any are living. The ' D.N.B.' does not mention his parentage. Please reply direct.

(Miss) E. V. LAURENCE.

Grange Avenue, Wickford, Essex.

ANCIENT ORDER OF FORESTERS : BLUE EYE. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' en- lighten me as to the meaning of the blue eye, with yellow rays radiating downward from it, which figures in the illustrated certificate awarded to members of the Ancient Order of Foresters ? I should also be glad of references to the origin and history of this order. G. W. H.

[The eye appears also on the certificates of other friendly societies. The Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows describes it thus: "Above all, and en- circling the whole [design] with Divine effulgence, beams the Omniscient Eye of the Grest Creator, whose all-searching glance each brother must pre- pare to meet."]

MICKLE : ' CUMNOR HALL.' - - In the 'D.N.B.' it is stated that " There's nae luck about the hoose " has been attributed to Mickle, but that " internal evidence is rather against the likelihood of his author- ship, and in favour of that of Jean Adam (1710-1765)." On the other hand, Mr. Gurney Benham in ' Cassell's Book of Quotations,' while apparently admitting Mickle' s authorship of " There's nae luck," says in a note : " The ballad ' Cumnor Hall ' is also attributed to Jean Adam (1710- 1765)." Had Mickle's authorship of ' Cum- nor Hall ' ever previously been questioned ?

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. [The writer of the notice of Jean Adam in the D.N.B.' argues strongly against her authorship of "There's nae luck."]

REV. JOHN WOODHOUSE. I should be glad to learn the parentage and date of birth of the Rev. John Woodhouse, who was the master of the famous Nonconformist Academy at Sheriff Hales, 1676-96, and died in October, 1700. According to Burke's ' Landed Gentry,' he was the third son of John Wodehouse of Wombourn ; but this is in conflict with the ' Staffordshire Pedigrees, 1664-1700,' published by the Harleian Society in 1912. A. T. M.

BISHOP HALL ON DOING NOTHING. No fewer than five bishops of this name are mentioned in the ' Dictionary of National Biography ': (1) George, Bishop of Chester, 1612-68 ; (2) George, Bishop of Dromore, 1753-1811 ; (3) John, Bishop of Bristol, 1633-1710 ; (4) Joseph, Bishop of Exeter and Norwich, 1574-1656 ; (5) Timothy, titular Bishop of Oxford, 1637-90 (he was re- fused installation to the bishopric by the canons of Christchurch, 1688).

To which of these divines is the following opinion to be attributed ? ; ' There is nothing more troublesome to a good mind than to do nothing." It is quoted as a saying by Bishop Hall, but without any date or reference to publication. In view of the fact that No. 4 was the author of poems, meditations, devotional works, and bio- graphical tracts, as well as ' Observations on Specialities of Divine Providence,' it seems ikely that he is the writer referred to, but I lave no evidence of it. tPerhaps some reader may have found it, and can supply the desired information. J. E. HARTING.

Weybridge.

SWEDENBORG AND ' THE GENTLEMAN'S

VlAGAZiNE.' In The Gentleman's Magazine "or 1754, on pp. 423-4, is ' A curious Me- morial of M. Emanuel Swedenburg [sic] concerning Charles XII. of Sweden.' Can any of your readers kindly furnish me with .he name of the contributor of this article he was also, probably, the translator of it rom the Latin original, which I know), .nd any other particulars concerning it ?

CHARLES HIGHAM. 169 Grove Lane, S.E.6.

' LOVE, CARE, AND STRENGTH.' An ano- nymous poem thus entitled, and beginning

If any little word of mine, was included in ' The Treasury of Consola- ion,' compiled by the late Albert Broad- ent. It appeared on p. 26 of the first dition (1900), and on p. 80 of the second 1908). Messrs. Bell & Sons, who published