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reprinted in February, 1903. The first part of the volume, which inlcudes ' Rivals,' bears the dedication "To my Daughter," while the second and longer part is dedicated
 * 'To my Mother."

In transplanting the poem to his own pages, Mr. Rudyard Kipling omitted two of the original lines, and made a few verbal alterations. J. R. H.

HUGH DAVIS (OR DAVYS), WINCHESTER SCHOLAR (12 S. vii. 188). I quote the follow- ing from Burrows' ' Register of Visitors of the University of Oxford, 1647-58 "pp. 403 to 404.

Burrows gives the date of Davis's B.C.L. as 1657.

" At a meeting of the Visitors of the University of Oxon :

May 10, 1655.

" Whereas severall orders have beene made by the visitors concerning the Law-line in New Col- ledge in Oxon : which, as is alledged by Mr. Elliot, Mr. Davis, Mr. Deane, and Mr. Allen Fellowes of the said Colledge, may be prejuditiall to their proceedings in the House, who therefore desire to offer some things therein : The visitors (not having time at present) doe order that they shall take into consideration what shall be offered hereafter in their case : and also that the said Mr. Elliot, Mr. Davis, Mr. Deane, and Mr. Allen, shall not receive any prejudice in the meane time by any delay, nor incurr any penalty any manner of waies, either for not taking their Batchelors of Arts degree, or not performing the publique exercise of the University belonging to it." A. R. BAYLEY.

RICHARD SMITH (12 S. vii. 29, 92). As to 'Thomas Swynnerton (Swinnerton) Dyer, -see Baronetage of the present time and Somerset Notes and Queries, in the latter of which is given the lineage of Swinnertons, Dyers, and Swinnerton-Dyers.

G. D. MCGREGOR.

3 Carlton Hill, Exmouth.

A STOLEN TIDE (12 S. vi. 335 ; vii. 38, 53, 173). This is not " a piece of pseudo folk- lore made up by Jean Ingelow " as the follow- ing extract from Pishey Thompson's ' History of Boston ' will show.

" On the evening of Nov. 30, 1807, the tide rose so high at Boston that very few houses near the river escaped its effects .... at the west end of the Church it was two feet six inches deep and flowed up as far as the pulpit.

"In it's progress considerable damage was done, and it being, what is called a stolen tide, the country was not prepared for it : in consequence many sheep in the marshes were drowned."

It is clear from this that when Pishey Thompson wrote, in 1820, the expression was in common use. B. INGELOW.

" WALDO -LYNNATUS " (12 S. vii. 149). The piece of verse entitled ' A Supply of the Description of Monsier Pandorsus Waldo- Lynnatvs, that merrie American Philosopher or the Wise man of the New World, being Anlipode to Aesop, placed with him as parallel in the front,' &c. is to be found in. the following book :

" Philomythie or Bhilomythologie, wherin Out- landish Birds, Beasts, and Fishes, are taught to speake true English plainely. By Tho. Scot, Gent. .. .London for Francis Constable at the white Lyon in Paules Churchyard, 1616." After page 82 there is another title-page : ' Certaine Pieces of this Age Paraboliz'd. .. . 1615.' After the two leaves containing this title-page, six lines addressed to the Earl of Essex and twenty -two ' to the intelligent Reader,' the pagination is continued at 83. Can the copy in the sale-catalogue referred to by the querist have lost the first title-page, one engraved by R. Elstracke, and have substituted for it the title of the second part ?

There are two puzzles to be solved. Who was Thomas Scot, gentleman ? and whom is the satirist attacking under the name of ' Pandorsus ' ?

The late Thompson Cooper dealing in the 'D.N.B.' with Thomas Scott (1580 ?-1626), regards it as uncertain whether this last- named political writer is identical with the author of ' Philomythie. ' The British Museum, it may be remarked, has more than one copy of 'Philomythie,' and a reproduc- tion of Elstracke 's engraved title, as it appeared in the second edition, is given in Pickering and Chatto's 'Illustrated Cata- logue ' published in fourteen parts ten years and more ago. 'Much of Scot's satire is very dark, no doubt intentionally. In any case, I do not think the hunter after Ameri- cana is likely to have much of a find. Pan- dorsus (explained by the author as Pandus dorsus, i.e., humped back) is apparently styled an American philosopher in the same sense as he is "the wise man of the New World " and ^Esop's ' Antipcde.'

Some hints are furnished as to the person assailed. " Lynnatvs " can obviously be taken as meaning that he was born at Lynn. That he was a native of Norfolk is again shewn by lines 13, 14 of the ' Description ' :

Within that Shiere where Hyndes with dumplings

fed, Beget best Lawyers, was Pandorsus bred.

Fuller's first two proverbs for the county in his ' Worthies ' are " Norfolk Dumplings " and " Norfolk Wiles," and Camden, whom