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 88 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2svn. JULY si, 1920 change of the harmony, but his arms were grounded, and his fire extinct ; and he sat down as orderly as if he had come from one of Aris- totle's lectures. . . [Timotheus] could neck a passion at a stroke, and lay it asleep." If the essaj^s were published before September, what more probable than that Dry den, in search of a musical subject, should look up the latest pronouncements on music ? In any case, several of the essays were current before the collected publica- tion. Dryden's genius has " loaded every rift with ore," but even Collier is richer than Suidas. It is piquant to think of the poet borrowing a hint from his ferocious critic of the following year, when ' A Short View of the Immorality of the English Stage ' was published. G. G. L. (EJuerus. We must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direot. BYRON : REFERENCE WANTED. Could some expert Byronian tell me where, in the poet's work, are the following verses : Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'Tis something better not to be. REN& PUAUX. Le Temps, Paris. [This is the concluding stanza of ' Euthanasia ' a poem which will be found in editions of Byron's ' Poetical Works,' under the heading ' Occasional Pieces,' 1807-1812.] FREEDOM OF CITY OF CORK. Can any reader supply a list of freedoms conferred 1820-1850 or inform me where such in- formation may be obtained ? A. W. WALLIS-TAYLER. Beulah Cottage, Tatsfield, nr. Westerham. HOPWOOD FAMILY. In Abram's ' Black- burn,' p. 398, ('Hopwoods of Rockcliffe, Blackburn and Bracewell, Lancashire '), Robert Hopwood is said to have been born at Clitheroe, 1773 ; died Blackburn, 1853. I should be glad to have the name of his wife and earlier details of his family. C. B. A. WILLIAM EADEN. Wanted particulars of the baptism of William Eaden, which is believed to have taken place in 1738 in a Cambridge or Fen District Church. H. ST. J. D. SIR RALPH BASHE OR BAESHE OF STAN- STEDBURY, HERTS, K.B. Sir Ralph was one- of the Knights of the Bath who took part in. King Charles II. 's coronation, and was son, of Edward Bashe ' f of St. Margaret's al's- Thele," by Frances Wright, of Northampton. Was it Sir Ralph's sister Anne who married. as his third wife the regicide Thomas Scot between 1645 and 1655, or was it his widow Anne nee Skipwith ? In 1660 "Anne Bashe" sent a petition to the King to say she was " in great distress- as, besides her husband's estates and goods being seized, her unnatural brother with- holds her portion." What children did she have by Thomas Scot ? Any information sent direct will be gratefully received. CONSTANCE RUSSELL. (Lady Eussell), Swallowfield Park, Reading. PAINTING BY G. BARAT. I have an oil' painting by this painter. It is a moonlight lake scene. The moon is partly obscured by clouds. In the right foreground is a, boat in which are three figures ; a rower, a- woman seated bowed down, and a woman,- apparently a nun, standing with bowed- head. On the left is a square towered church or abbey very close to the water's; edge. A funeral cortege is approaching the- building. At the far end of the church on the water's edge are two figures, apparently sentries. On the right in the background 1 beyond the lake is a rocky hill. Can any one tell me what the picture represents ancb anything about the painter and probable? date of the picture ? J. S. S. RAVEN, MINIATURE PAINTER. I have- in my possession a circular snuff-box in papier mache, 5 inches in diameter. On the lid is painted, and very well painted too. one* whom I take to be the First Gentleman in. Europe. Inside the lid is the following in- scription : " S. Raven Pinx 1 ., Patronized by H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex and Prince- Leopold." Can any one tell me who S. Raven was ?' There are two of that name, I believe,, mentioned in the ' D.N.B.,' a father and son, but these were both apparently landscape- painters. My Raven was evidently a differ- ent bird, but a bird worth knowing some- thing about, at least I think so as I gaze upon my " fat Adonis of forty " whom h painted so well. ERNEST HEDGER~ Coxwold Vicarage, York.