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are universally regarded as classic.' For many years ' this little gem ' was a favourite piece, it seems, with a favourite reciter. Mr. Myers was stated to bs alive, but, so far as I am aware, he did not come forward to establish the claim."

Can any reader throw fresh light on the matter ? LA WHENCE PHILLIPS.

Theological College, Lichn'eld.

BREEDING OF WOODCOCKS. Could the following story from Rev. Wm. B. Daniel's verified at Somerset House or elsewhere ?
 * Rural Sports,' vol. iii., pp. 167-8 (1812), be

" Mr. Jeremiah Tnpmau, who died about nineteen years since -circa 1793] at Berkeley, caught upon his estate at Lyston a young male woodcock, which he carefully reared, and having procured a mate for it they bred in considerable abundance. He was so pleased with his success that he actually altered his will, which was originally made in favour of a young Lady, and left his fortune to the Minister al Berkeley, to be principally laid out in the breed ol Woodcocks, upon the neglect of which the fortune was to revert to the family relations, a reversion for which probably the family were not long in expectancy."

HUGH S. GLADSTONE.

GREEN HOLLY. The refrain to Amiens's song ' Blow, Blow, thou Winter Wind,' in ' As You Like It ' (II. vii.), is : Heigh-ho ! sing, heigh-ho ! unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly Then, heigh-ho, the holly ! This life is moat jolly.

As to the invocation of the green holly in connexion with jollity there is no note in Malone or any other edition of Shakespeare to which I have access, except that in Horace Howard Furness's Variorum Edition of the play (Philadelphia, 1890) there is the following :

" HALLIWELL : Songs of the holly were current long before the time of Shakespeare. It was the emblem of mirth."

Can any reader give references to sub- stantiate this statement, and explain why holly was the emblem of mirth ?

C. A. COOK.

Sullingstead, Hascombe, Godalming.

" CELLARIUS." In the ' Comic History of England,' vol. ii., p. 132, " [Guy] Fawkes kept up a regular Cellarius," and to this there is a note :

" We may as well state, for the benefit of that posterity which this work will reach and the Cell- arius will not, that the Cellarius is a dance fashion- able in the year 1847 when this history was written."

I have looked up the word in the ' N.E.D.' and in Punch of 1847, but can find nothing about it. What was this dance, and why was it so named ? J. J. FREEMAN.

Shepperton, S.O.

HARRY TAYLOR of Lending, near Rochdale, o. Lancashire, and Townhead, Lake Wir.der- mere, who died August, 1723, married Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Sandys, a son of Samuel Sandys of Esthwaite, Lancashire. Information is sought about his parents and brothers.

Was he related to James Taylor of Whitworth, co. Lancashire, buried at Roch- dale 1789 ? H. C. BARNARD. The Warren, Burnham, Somerset.

GEORGE DEERING. I should be very grateful to any correspondent who could give me authentic information regarding the parentage of George Deering. The following facts are known : He was in Dartmouth 1584-5, and disappeared from there about 1627. He married (1) Margery [Adams], who was buried at Dartmouth, July 16, 1619 ; (2) Fridiswide, a French widow, in 1619, She was buried at Dartmouth, 1666. George Deering does not appear to have returned to Dartmouth after 1627.

CLEMENT INGLEBY.

22 Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.2.

RICHARD PROSSER OF BIRMINGHAM, CIVLL ENGINEER. I shall be glad to receive any information as to the parentage of the above named, who was my grandfather and the father of your long-time correspondent R. B. P. According to an article in The Birmingham Journal for May 27, 1854. Richard Prosser was born at Birmingham on April 3, 1804. He obtained various patents between the years 1839 and 1853, in the earlier of which he is described as of Cherry Street, Birmingham, and in the later ones as of King's Norton, near Birmingham, where he died on May 21, 1854. Please reply direct. G. PROSSER.

26 Crowndale Road N.W.I.

MINIATURE MAN-OF-WAR. Is there any- thing known of an admiral or old naval officer, about 1700, who had a small man-of- war, large enough for him to sit in, and complete with miniature cannon and sail ? This small man-of-war was towed round a pond, possibly in the garden of a private house, by a sailor with a wooden leg. On one side of the pond was a miniature fort at which the naval officer could fire off his cannon. CHARLES E. FRANCE:.

30 Albert Street, Shrewsbury.

WM. HAWKINS : ANNE WALTON. In 1678

Dr. Wm. Hawkins married Anne, only

daughter of Izaak Walton. Dr. Hawkins

was prebend of Winchester and rector of

I Droxford. Can any of your readers tell me