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to be no historical foundation for this state- ment, and it is more probable that, having sacrificed his all in the Royalist cause, his one hope was in the restoration of Charles, and that he made his way to the French Court and died, either there or, as suggested by Prince, about the time of the king's return. In the latter case his burial may be recorded in some London church. There is no record of it, as far as I can ascertain, in Devon. HUGH R. WATKIN. Chelston Hall, Torquay.

' ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN.' I should be grateful for help in elucidating any of the following points in this novel of Scott's :

1. " Our Lady's Knight bless thee and prosper thee " (ch. ii.). Who was " our Lady's Knight " ?

2. " A Swiss maiden should only sing Albert Ischudi's ballads" (ch. iv.). Who "was he?

3. Where can I find " Matthew of Doncaster, a bowyer who lived at least a hundred vears ago " (ch. iv.), i.e., before 1370 ?

4. Who was Bottaferma of Florence (ch. vi.) ? Apparently a fencing master.

5. Where can I find " the holy hermit, Berch- told of Offringen " (ch. xiii.) ?

6. " The Baron Saint Antonio be praised " (ch. six.). Which St. Antony was thus ennobled ?

7. "Such an influence. .. .as the rites of the Druids [had] over [the mind] of the Roman general, when he said,

I scorn them, yet they awe me " (ch. xxii.). From the way in which this is printed I take it to be a quotation from an English play ; it is not in ' Bonduca,' which seemed a likely '' earth."

8. Charles the Bold calls Margaret of Anjou his cousin (ch. xxv.), but I cannot trace the relation- ship.

9. What is the allusion in " by the White Swan ! " (ch. xxx.) ?

10. Good King Bend proposed to meet his daughter " in the character of old Palemon,

The prince of shepherds, and their pride " (ch. xxxi.). Who was Palemon, and whence is the quotation ?

11. When Margaret knelt to her father, he also knelt to her, " a situation in which the royal daughter and her parent seemed about to rehearse the scene of the Roman Charity " (ch. xxxi). What does this refer to ?

12. Whence comes the line :

" With hostile faces thronged and fiery arms,"

(ch. xv.) ?

C. B. WHEELER. 80 Hamilton Terrace, N.W.8.

REV. THOMAS GARDEN, RECTOR OF SNAITH (?). The Rev. Thomas Garden or Gairdyne, who was ordained minister of the parish of Clatt, Aberdeenshire, in 1669, appears to have been deprived of his living in 1681, probably on account of Test (Scott's ' Fasti,' iii. 553), and to have taken orders in England. He bequeathed his

books to King's College, Aberdeen, where he had graduated M.A. in 1663, and where they are still preserved. The exact date of his death is not known, for the books were received only

" after the death of the said Mr. Thomas's cousin, Mr. Robert Anderson, minister in England, and the said Mr. Robert being now dead the bocks mortified were in the hands of Mr. George Anderson, Rector of Lutterworth." College minute, Oct. 26, 1719.

Elsewhere Garden is styled " Rector of Snaith," but inquiries made in the parish of Snaith, Yorks, fail to trace the name of Garden among the incumbents, so that the place-name is probably an error. I shall be grateful for any suggestion that may help me to identify. Garden's parish.

P. J. ANDERSON. The University, Aberdeen.

SONG : ' THE SPADE.' Could any one inform me of the writer of the song entitled ' The Spade,' the first line of which runs : " Give me a spade and the man who can use it " ? The song was, I believe, popular some few years ago. I should be glad of any information concerning it through the columns of ' N. & Q.'

WM. J. HARRIS, Chief Librarian.

Central Library, Holloway Road, N.7.

LE MONTJMENT " QUAND MEME." I have seen a mention in print of a Parisian monu- ment which is so called. What is the object of it ? Was it erected as a reminder of the temporary loss of Alsace and Lorraine ?

ST. SWITHIN.

ST. LEONARD'S PRIORY, HANTS. Is any- thing known of this quaint old place ?

(Mrs.) E. E. COPE. Finchampstead, Berks.

WILLIAM THOMAS ROGERS, SCULPTOR AND CHURCH BUILDER. This man is said to have been born in 1807, a son of one of the over- lookers in the famous Penrhyn Quarries, and to have died about 1870 at Beaumaris. I have never seen a published account of his life and work, but tradition says that he built more churches and beautiful chapels than any other one contractor in North Wales. This is very probably true. I have seen it stated also that he was elected a " Fellow of the Royal Architectural Society " in 1857, and subsequently a " Fellow of the Royal Society," and that he wrote important articles to The Times, on architectural sub- jects presumably, now and then for twenty years. Could any one tell me whether' all this is also true ? T. LLECHID JONES.

LJysfaen Rectory, Colwyn Bay.