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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, MAY, 1919

C N T E N T S. No. 92.

NOTES : Byron Apocrypha, 113 Shakespeariana, US- Correspondence of Richard Edwards, 117 New College, Oxford Little Montague Court, 118 Ripon Sours "Nos habitat, non tartara," 119 Letter from the " Kingmaker" Ireland : Early Italian Map, 120" Fire out" Coins of Ancient Britons Westminster Hall Roof Walton Relic Interments in Graves belonging to other Families, 121.

QUERIES : Bristol Wills Missing Byron's Bust at Oxford R. S. Surtees Gladstone on Dante Sir Francis Anderson's Descendants English Parishes in 170o Anguish Street, 122 Capt. Palliser Scotchman's Post "Three Black Crows" Vickers Family May Labour- in- Vain Street " Talks about Old London " Marlipins "The light invisible" Joseph Knibb. Clockmaker, 123 John Winter, Dial-maker Rev. HfMiry Guy, Chaplain to Charles II. W. H. Wills on Dr. ftdd Andrews and Hardy Families Good Friday Pleasure Fairs Hon. John Shakespear Derby of 1811 Puleston of Gresford and Hants -Exchange of Souls in Fiction Rev. Dr. Clenock, 124 "Bayninge" and "Blankett" Ant-bear and Tortoise Richard Snow Lord Roberts : House in which he died William Simpson Ford Rev. W. Bartlett Dr. T. Harrison Convex Lights, 125 " Penniles Bench " Bluecoat Schools Edward Allen, Painter W. H. Arnold Sir Edward Paget Aaron Hugh "Per- versity of inanimate objects" Clements Family, 126 Author Wanted, 127.

REPLIES: Churches used for the Election of Municipal Officers, 127 " Straitsman." 128 Mr. Justice Maule on Bigamy "Lick into shape" Bibliography of Epitaphs, 129 The Swin Craggs and Nicholson Families H. C. Pidgeon Richard Baxter Brooke Robinson, 130 French National Emblem Submarines Cornish and Devonian Priests executed J.Turner, Painter " Trouncer," 131 Bird-scaring Songs Missel Thrush Morland Gallery W. F. Shrapnel" Pro pelle cutem " Markshall and the Fuller Family, 132 Captor and his Captive's Arms "Oh, dear! What can the matter be?" Henchman, 133 Heart Burial Paten or Salver? 134 Vauvenargues Inscriptions in St. John's, Waterloo Road Lines under a Crucifix, 135 "Drink by word of mouth '' Dickens's Topographical Slips "Camouflage" Chess : the Knight's Tour, 136-Grim or Grime Gilt Wand Odessa in Roman Times 'N.E D.' : Changes in Accentuation, 137 "Derby Blues" Boumphrey Family Inscriptions at Gipping Mr. Medop- Cutting off the Hair Rose of Denmark Inn, 138 Author's Name Wanted " Irrelagh " Pragell Family Author of Quotation Wanted, 139.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Visitation of England and Wales ' 'Visitation of Ireland' Journal of the Folk-Song Society.

Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents.

THE BYRON APOCRYPHA.

No exhaustive list of the poems and prose pieces that have been attributed to Lord Byron exists. E. H. Coleridge notes a few poems, but his list is far from complete and not altogether accurate (Byr oil's ing described several items in Englische Studien, xxvi. 67 f., and refers to others in his edition of Byron's ' Werke,' Band ii. p. 46 f. In the collations of different editions of Byron's poems Mr. Coleridge set down various spurious pieces (' Poetry,'
 * Works,' 'Poetry,' iii. xx. f.). Prof. Kolb-

vii., passim). ' N. & Q.' has printed many notes on individual pieces ; see especially Seventh Series, vol. ii. (index). And de- scriptions of several impostures may be found in works on Lord Byron such as Elze's ' Life ' and Miss Mayne's ' Life.' But no full accurate list is in existence. The courteous and satisfactory answers that I received by post in reply to my previous query on ' Byron in Fiction ' ('N. & Q.,' January, 1918, p. 10) encourage me to offer the following tentative list in the hope that as it stands it may be of value and interest to students of Byron, and that some such students may be" able to furnish me with a description of those items (marked with an a^teri^k) that I have not seen, and may perhaps be able to add to the bibliography of the subject.

1. ' Ode ' : " Oh, shame to thee, Land of the Gaul I "See ' N. & Q.,' Second Series, ii. 48, for a query (unanswered) as to its authorship. Repudiated by Byron, July 22, 1816 (' Letters and Journals,' iii. 337). First published, over the signature " Brutus," in The Morning Chronicle, July 31, 1815. The copy of R. Edwards's edition of Byron's ' Poems on his Domestic Circum- stances,' 1816, in the New York Public Library, has a MS. note (p. 27) : " By William Cone but published under Lord Byron's name." (Query : Hone ?) In John Robertson's edition of ' Fare thee Well ! and other Poems ' (Edinburgh, 1816) a note on p. 24 states that the ' Ode ' " has been ascribed by many to the Author of the ' Pleasures of Hope.' " This piece turned up persistently in early pirated editions of Byron's poems ; for example, in Hone's, Edwards's, Robertson's, Sheppard's, Limbird's, Bumpus's, Knight & Lacy's, Cole's, Bembow's, Dove's, and Jones's volumes. It was in Galignani's edition of the works from 1819 (yi. 121) till 1835, when it was omitted. It is ascribed to Byron in ' The Laurel,' a collection of fugitive nineteenth-century verse published by Tilt, 1841 ; and is among the " attributed poems " in the Bohn edition of 1851. The piece is in nine stanzas (the last repeating the first) of ten lines each. It is "a vehement in- vective against the French people for their desertion and neglect of Napoleon when fortune no longer attended his arms." It is sufficiently Byronic in its sentiments and rhetoric to make the fact that it so long passed current not astonishing.

2. ' Madame La.valette.' Repudiated by Byron, July 22, 1816. First published, over the initials " B. B.," in The Examiner, Jan. 21, 1816. William Hone printed it in the first and all subsequent editions of his pirated ' Poems on his Domestic Circumstances,' 1816 f. Besides being in many pirated editions of these poems during the following years, it is in Moses Thomas's reprint (Philadelphia, 1816) of ' Lord Byron's Farewell to England ' (see next entry). John Robertson (Edinburgh, 1816, 'p. 30) apologizes for its inclusion. It is in Baudry's edition of the Works (Paris, 1825, vii. 34.9), and in Galignani 1826 and 1828 among the " attributed poems " ; not in Galignani 1835. It occurs among " attri- buted poems " as late as the Bohn edition of 1851.