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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[12 8. V. DEC., 1919.

Newton. According to the Latin epitaph, into which the Greek word philanthropsia is incongruously introduced, Conduitt, who had been Master of the Mint for ten or twelve years, left an only daughter, who married Lord Lymington. So that the name and its spelling could not have been perpetuated by that lady. I have been told that there was in the last century a Master of the Fruiterers' Company of London bearing the name spelt also with two t's.

Can any of your readers identify the " beautiful Mrs. Conduitt " or throw any light on her family ? L. G. R.

ANN OF SWANSEA. This lady poet pub- lished ' Poetic Trifles,' 12mo, Waterford, 1831, also 'Cambrian Pictures,' &c. Who was she ? Brief particulars will oblige.

ANETJBIN WILLIAMS.

Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

1. I should be greatly obliged if I could be informed who is the author of a little poem beginning :

In summer when the vales are clear And lowlands blithe with flowery heights. 1 thought it was one of Hartley Coleridge's, but I cannot find it in my edition of liis poems.

P. T. CRESWELL. 57 Esm6 Road, Sparkhill, Birmingham.

2. I should be glad to know the author of the following linen, and where they appear :

Say not good-night, but in some brighter clime Bid me good-morn. MOLLOID.

3. Can any of your readers supply the name of the author and the poem in which occur the lines beginning :

Blest be the man who first invented sleep, feo Sancho Panza said, and so say I. I have searched several Dictionaries of Quotations and the like without success. W. H.

4. In Arizona caught Perished with all his crew.

Quoted by Kingsley in ' Westward Ho ! ' of the loss of Sir Hugh Willoughby on the Lapland coast.

G. M. Y.

5. I shall be very glad if any reader can tell me the author of the poem, of which the following is the first verse :

What part of dread Eternity

Are those strange moments which I gain,

Mazed with the doubt of fear and pain,

Whereas thy delicate face I see

A little while before farewell ?

EMILY DAYMOND.

6. By whom, and where, was the apophthegm uttered :

When Milton lost his eyes, poetry lost hers.

PURBLIND.

JUplus*

YEOMEN OF THE MOUTH. (12 S. iii. 508 ; iv. 89 ; v. 239.)

IN 'Ordinances of the Household of King Henry VI. in the 33d Year of his Reign, A.D .1455. From the Cotton Library, Cleo- patra, F. v.P. 170,"

s.v. " Th' office of the Kechyn," appears William Pratte, Yoman ; John Couper, Groome ; and Robert Golding, Page, all three " for the King's mouth."

s.v. " Th' office of the Lardery," John Mrtyn, " Yoman for the King's mouthe."

s.v. " Th' office of the Catery," William Stoughton, " Yoman for the King's mouthe."

s.v. ''Th' office of the Sauliery," John Browne, Yoman, and John Merston, Grome, both " for the King's mouth."

s.v. * ' Th' office of the Ewery," John Penne, " Yoman for the King's mouth."

s.v. ' ' Th' office of the Pulterie,' ' Thomas Laurence, Yoman, and Thomas Gardyner, Grome, both " for the King's mouthe."

See 'A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household. . . .from King Edward III. to King William and Queen Mary,' Printed for the Society of Antiquaries by John Nichols, 1790, pp. *20-*22.

In this collection is the ' Liber Niger Domus Regis Edw. IV.' (in Bibl. Harl., No. 642, fol. 1-196), from which may be gathered some of the duties of the Yeomen of the Mouth. The pages refer to the collection : s.v. " Office of Bakehouse,"

" One yoman in this office for the Kinge's mouthe, recevyng the mayne floure of the Sergeaunt, by tayle, and woode to bake with the mayne chete, and payne demayne ; and alwey ii loves of these to wey a chete lofe. He hath also sakkes, lethyr, bagges, canvas, candylles, bulters, berme, and all other necessaries of the Sergeaunt by controlment." Pp. 69, 70.

" Oftvyce of Waferes, hathe one yoman making wafyrs, and saufely and clenely to kepe them covered, and under locke and by assay, to be delyvered for the Kinge's mouthe to the sewar." P. 72. s.v." Office of Sellar,"

" One yeoman for the Kinge's mouthe, that with the sergeaunte chooseth the wynes most pleasaunt to the Kinge's drinkinge, and moste wholsome, and he saufely to keepe it with all his dylygence, that noe person, but for the mouth, intermeddle therewith ; he serveth the Kinge, at the cup-bourde and barre, in the absence of the sergeaunt, both with the cuppebourde, clothe, pottes, and cuppes, for wyne and ale." P. 76.