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

AUTHORS OP QUOTATIONS WANTED.

1. Died in foreign lands

For some idea but dimly understood

Of an English city, never built with hands,

Which love of England prompted and made good.

E. CAHAN. St. Martin's, Guernsey.

2. Good deeds immortal are they cannot die ; Unscathed by envious blight or withering

frost, They live and bud and bloom, and men

partake

Still of their freshness, and are strong thereby. They have been quoted as by Aytoun.

G. H. J.

3. Any particulars as to author, date, &c., of the following lines, which I remember at the time of the Crimean War, will be gratefully received :

In

The Bear the Crescent will assail ; But if the Cock and Bull unite, The Bear will not prevail.

In

years again,

Let Islam know and fear, The Cross shall stand, the Crescent wane, Dissolve, and disappear.

L. T.

4. Quand Italie sera sans poison, Et France sans trahison,

Et I'Angleterre sans guerre, Lors sera le monde sans terre.

J. B. H.

5. " Nothing but their eyes to weep with." To whom is to be ascribed the utterance that an invading army, in its treatment of the invaded population, should " leave them nothing but their eyes to weep with " ? It has been attributed, I believe, to General Sherman with reference to his march through the Carolinas in the American Civil War ; also to Bismarck. But I do not believe any American general ever said it. Did any one ever say it ? A. JACOBS.

6. There may be heaven : there must be hell. Meantime there is our life here. Well ?

It'sounds like Browning. HARMATOPEGOS.

7. Just at the journey's end We meet one gracious friend, Whom, having found,

We lose for evermore.

His name is Death ;

And he alone will absent be

When friendship's roll is called

On yonder shore.

D. G. C.

8. Truth versus untruth. Can any reader locate the following, which looks like an extract from a sixteenth- century author ? "The ancienty ofi.a, thousand years in an untruth cannot get the victory of one moment against the truth .... Neither can the eloquence of rhetoricians over- come the simplicity of truth ; but, being strickened with the very plainness and bareness of truth, it is driven to depart with shame enough." M. W.

HENCHMAN, HINCHMAN, OR HITCHMAN.

(3 S. iii. 150; 12 S. ii. 270, 338; ,iii. Ill; iv. 24.)

IN view of the misconceptions which seem to exist upon this subject, it is advisable (and indeed necessary to a proper apprecia- tion of the argument) to bear in mind that, apart from any aliases, the name of the original grantee of the arms in 1549 was not John Henchman, but Edward Henxman, and that the conversion, then as now, of an old-style * into an x, or of an indifferent x into an s, was no less simple a process than that of translating a blind e into an undotted i.

The connexion of such members of the family as have adopted a spelling other than that of Henchman with the worthy to whom Henry VII. exclaimed, after a strenuous day in the field, " Crosborough, thou art a veritable henchman ! " is not merely a tradition. In ' N. & Q.' 2 S. xi. 516 (June 29, 1861), over the signature of HENRY W. S. TAYLOR, appears this note :

" There is a still nearer approach to the original form of this name in a family still residing near Salisbury, the Hinxmans of Durnford, whose arms, to be seen on a monument to the memory of a member of the family, are, I believe, identical . . . .proving the common ancestry of the several variations of the name."

One authority has given it as Ed. Hinxman, alias Henxman.

On the other hand, are the Henchmans in. a position to affirm that the " grandchild and heir apparent " of Thos. Henchman, skinner of London (mentioned in the docu- ment recorded ante, p. 24), or one of his seventeenth-century successors, did not alter his name to, or assume, that from which, according to Prof. Skeat, " Henchman " was derived, and that the descendants of the aforesaid have not retained that nomen- clature to the present day ?

In a pedigree published in Allan Fea's ' After Worcester Fight ' all male lines to the Rev. Francis Henchman (d. 1824) are declared to be extinct, notwithstanding that the children of the latter' s great- grandson were presumably still living, interesting statement was apparently based on the assumptions (1) that of the six children of Thos. Henchman, " living in. 1633," only the progeny of the third could