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FABLE OF COUNTRYMAN : REFERENCE WANTED. A countryman bargained to possess a field until the first crop on it came to maturity, and planted acorns. What is the source of this fable ? I have looked through Babrius and ^Esop without finding it. Is it, perhaps, Russian or Oriental ?

W. H. J.

GARNHAM AND HILLMAN FAMILIES. Roger Garnham, gent., of Chieveley, Berks, died 1703. He married Martha, daughter of Robert Hillman (armiger) of Prior's Court, Chieveley, by his wife Miss Goddard, sister of Francis Goddard, Esq., of Cliff Pypard Manor, Wilts. To which branch of the Hillman family did Robert belong ? The following arms of Hillman impaling Goddard are on the monuments in Chieveley Church : Arg., three bends sable. Were these Hillmans related to the Hillmans of Ramsbury Park, Wilts ? Any information will be gratefully received.

LEONARD C. PRICE.

GLAMORGAN VOLUNTEER RANGERS. I should be grateful if any one could give me information about the above corps. When was it founded ? Does it still exist ? Its badge was " G. R." between two sprays, a crown above ; on the top a trumpet held up by a ribbon and tassels.

LEONARD C. PRICE.

Essex Lodge, Ewell, Surrey.

TENNYSON. I have in my possession a fragment of a poem evidently by (and in the handwriting of) Lord Tennyson. Part of this has been torn, and part cut away, and I am unable to decipher more than the following words :

[An]d dimpling eddies kiss the shore

And in the shingle crisp .... pies wrinkles to the door

[An]d round the threshold lisp.

If any reader of * N. & Q.' could identify

these lines or give me the context, I should

be grateful. I may add that reference to a

Tennyson concordance has been of no avail.

A. STANTON WHITFIELD, F.R.Hist.S. 16 High Street, Walsall, Staffs.

HERODIAS AND ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST'S HEAD. In a window of Winchester Cathe- dral Library is a panel of early sixteenth- century French glass depicting Herodias mutilating the head of St. John the Baptist with a knife. Other representations of the subject appear in the west window of Wells Cathedral (also in early sixteenth -century French glass), and in a late fifteenth-century window in Gresford Church, Denbighshire ;

whilst the mutilated head lying in a charger appears to have been a favourite subject of English alabaster tablet carvers.

Where can I find the authority for this incident ? The ' Legenda Aurea ' is silent on the subject, though it states that " when Herodias held the head between her hands she was much joyful, but by the will of God the head blew in her visage, and she died forthwith." JOHN D. LE COUTEUB.

Southsea.

ROBERT SIMPSON, ROYAL FARRIER. Robert Simpson, born Aug. 30, 1777 eldest Fon of James Simpson by his first wife, Nell Forrestor (married about 1774 at Cramond), who claimed descent from the Lords Forrestor of Corstorphine was farrier to Frederick, Duke of York, son of King George III. Robert Simpson married a Miss Hastie, and had issue.

Will the descendants of the said Robert please communicate with me ?

JAMES SETON-ANDERSON.

BOUMPHREY FAMILY OF LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER. I am interested in this family, and should be glad of information relating thereto. Is the family connected with that of Count Boumphre of France ? JAMES SETON-ANDERSON.

18 Culverden Down, Tunbridge Wells.

WILL. FISHER SHRAPNEL, F.S.A., d, c. 1817. Was he related to the contem- porary inventor of the shell ? He appears to have been surgeon to the Gloucester Militia before 1799, at which date he became physician to Berkeley Castle. In 1805 I find him established in the Gate -House there, and honoured with the old title of " Con- stable of Berkeley," held in former days by the Thorpe family of Wanswell manor. ST. CLAIR BADDELEY.

HAWKS TO CATCH SALMON. An Act passed in the reign of William and Mary- prohibits at a certain season the taking of salmon of any age by hawks, racks, gins, &c. Is the word " hawks " here used for the bird, or does it mean some kind of net known by that name ? J. H. GURNEY.

Keswick Hall, Norwich.

[The * New English Dictionary ' defines " hawk" as " a kind of fish-trap," and cites as the earliest quotation for this use of the word the following from Worlidge's ' System of Agriculture ' (1669) ; " There is a sort of Engine, by some termed a Hawk, made almost like unto a Fish-pot, being a square frame of Timber fitted to the place. . . .and wrought with Wire to a point almost, so that what Fish soever go through the saix2, cannot go back again."]