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 12.8. IV. MARCH, 10W.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

FOREIGN GRAVES or BRITISH AUTHORS : REV. H. F. LYTE (12 S. ii. 172, 254, 292, 395, 495 ; iii. 39, 59, 96, 114, 176, 238, 277, 460). With reference to the inquiry of MR. CHAMBERS with regard to the inscription on the grave of the Rev. H. F. Lyte at Nice, the following is the inscription on the marble slab covering the grave in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, rue de la Buff a, Nice :

Here rest the mortal remains of the Rev. Henry Francis Lyte, A.M.,

(for 25 years minister of Lower Brixham in the County of Devon).

Born on the 1st of June. 1793. Died on the 20th of November, 1847. " God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ." Gal. vi. 14.

I may add that the chaplain, the Rev. T. F. Buckton, regrets that the inscription does not mention that Mr. Lyte was the author of probably the best-known hymn in the world, ' Abide with me.' H. A. L.

Paris.

CEDARS IN ENGLAND (12 S. iv. 15). The girth measurement of a tree at 1J ft. from the ground is not a satisfactory indication of its size. S. R. C. does not indicate the habit, height, or length of clean bole of the cedar at Camer. Messrs. Elwes and Henry give a long list of great cedars of Lebanon in the British Isles (' Trees of Great Britain and Ireland,' vol. iii. pp. 460-66), awarding the palm for height and bulk to one at Pain's Hill, near Cobham. Measured in 1904, this tree was from 115 to 120ft. high, with a girth of 26 ft. 4 in.

HERBERT MAXWELL.

Monreith.

S. R. C. does not mention the heighjb of the cedar at Camer, but its girth of 26 feet is notable. I do not find it recorded, how- ever, among the remarkable trees in ' Trees of Great Britain and Ireland/ by H. J. Elwes and A. Henry (Edinburgh, privately printed, 1906), vol. iii. pp. 460 et seq. It may be noted that in the Lebanon

" most of the single trees of antique growth average 20 to 30 feet in girth at about 6 feet from the ground, but the enormous fathers of the forest are in reality a congeries of two, three, or even more trees which have grown so closely together as to coalesce and actually form a single trunk. Among the- younger trees twin and triplet trees are rather the rule than the exception, and this will explain such a girth as Dr. Wartabet measured round the largest tree on the slope north of the Maronite Chapel overlooking the ravine, viz., 48 feet." P. 456, quoted from S. R. Oliver in Gardeners' Chronicle, xii. 204 (1879).

C. W. FIREBRACE, Capt.

Your correspondent does not indicate what land of cedar tree it is about which he wishes to have particulars, and as there are many varieties it will perhaps be useful to give him a list of books from whick he is likely to obtain the information :

Ravenscroft's ' Pinetum Britannicum.' 3 vols. 1884.

London's ' Arboretum et Fruticetum Bri- tannicum.' Vol. iv. 1844. On p. 2042 is a detailed description of many of these trees to be found in and around the South-Eastern counties of England.

H. Clinton-Baker's ' Illustrations of Conifers." 3 vols. 1909. Hertford, privately printed.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

C. RYCKWAERTS (12 S. iii. 448, 489; iv. 26). Mr. W. J. C. Moens in his book on ' The Walloons and their Church at Nor- wich ' (Huguenot Society, 1888), when detailing the religious troubles in Flanders in 1568, says :

" Charles Ryckewaert, alias Theophilus, a native of Neuve Eglise, who was a preacher at Ypres in 1566 and signed the Accord, was summoned before the magistrates. . . .not appear- ing, he was sentenced to 50 years' banishment and confiscation of all his goods.... He took refuge

in Norwich Returning to the Netherlands, he

died at Ypres in 1578."

Mr. Moens in his Historical Introduction to the ' Registers of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, London,' states :

" It is, no doubt, to Solen's press that we are indebted for those rare books in the Dutch language, printed at Norwich, of which one of the scarcest is of the highest importance for the history of ' the times of the troubles,' namely, ' Chronyc Historie der Nederlandischer Oorlogen, Troublen ende Oproeren, &c., tot desen jare 1580, Gedruct tot Noortwitz,' the preface being dated 2 Dec., 1579, and signed ' Theophilus ' ; ... .a French translation, s.l., appeared in 1582, the preface being signed Theophile, D.L. ; an English edition, translated from the French by Thomas Stoeker, followed with the same sub- scription. Slightly altered in the text, it appeared again, published at Lyons by Jean Stratius, as a. new work in 1583, and another edition of the same in 1584."

Mr. Moens further states that the history is said, in the first Dutfeh edition, to have been written by Adam Henricipetri, Doctor of Law at Basle, and to have been trans- lated from the German by C. Ryckwaert.

The entry of Ryckwaert' s marriage will ba found (as quoted by MR. WAINEWRIGHT at the first reference) in the printed Registers of Austin Friars.

The translator is said to have been buried in the church of St. Martin at Ypres in 1578. GEORGE RICKWOBD,

Public Library, Colchester.