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have preferred their for these in the second line. But they are not printed in his works, though these contain many short epigrams and inscriptions. Is Pope known ever to have been at Stourhead, or acquainted with its owner ? FAMA.

NEVILL SIMMONS OF SHEFFIELD. Is it known whether Nevill Simmons who was in business as a publisher at Sheffield about the year 1700 was related to Samuel Sim- mons of Aldersgate Street, the publisher of
 * Paradise Lost ' ?

E. BASIL LTJPTON.

10 Humboldt Street, Cambridge, Mass, U.S.A.

GREAT BEDWYN, WILTS. I should be glad to know if any list of inscriptions in this churchyard has ever been made. Where can I find any reference to the Manor of Wexcombe in this parish ?

Savile Club, W. L K TANNER.

"GRINDERS." In the south of Ireland long round loaves are made, each length partly cut through by rings at short intervals, so that so many parts can be cut off for sale. These are locally called "grinders." What is the origin of this word ?

W^ALTER E. GAWTHORP.

16 Long Acre, W.C.2.

THE OLD HORSE GUARDS BUILDINGS. Can anyone tell me in what year the demo- lition of the old building of the Horse Guards which preceded the present building, took place, or was begun ?

HILDA F. FINBERG.

47 Holland Road, W.I 4.

MISSING WORDS : RECOVERY DESIRED. Will any correspondent favour me by

making good the words lacking in the lines

following :

1. A song heard in "the sixties " : o: verse will suffice :

Come not when I am dead

And shed thy useless tears upon my grave.

2. An epigram current in "the eighties " concerning the famous * ' Three acres and a cow " :

Ex nihilo nil fit. Tria jugera vaccaque ....

.. v Hodgins ipse venit. Deficit interea merces. Tria jugera posthac

Vacca vorat : vaccam rusticus : ecce nihil.

3. Of later date concerning a coal-strike : Dicite fossores. .

Copia fossori : pluribus ipsa fames.

K. S.

MARBURY : BLOUNT. In the ' Diary and Letters of Thomas Hutchinson,' is given a. short pedigree of the family of Marbury, the earliest name being that of William. Marbury who was married in to Anne,, daughter of Sir Thomas* Blount. I shall b& grateful for reference to these families.

STOCKTONIAN.

JUDGE PAYNE : REFERENCE WANTED. There are some lines quoted as by Judge- Payne :

Do what you can, being what you are, Shine like a glowworm, if you cannot as a star,. Work like a pulley, if you cannot as a crane, Be a wheel-greaser, if you cannot drive a train*

Who was Judge Payne, and where can I find anything about him ? G. H. J.

TIMOTHY CONSTABLE. I shall be glad if any reader can give me information relating, to the ancestors of Timothy Constable of Bradfield Combust in the county of Suffolk who married on Jan. 13, 1736-7 at St. James' Westminster, Elizabeth Hunting, and who was buried at Melford, Suffolk, in. March, 1750. CLIFFORD C. WOOLLARD.

68 St.Michaels Eoad, Aldershot.

THOS. THORPE. Clockmaker of Colchester, could any reader give me some information, concerning him ? C. HAMILTON.

C9 North View Eoad, Hornsey, N.

PRESIDENT JOHN RICHARDSON HERBERT OF NEVIS.

(12 S. vii. 129, 175).

I CANNOT agree with MR. V. L. OLIVER that the first settler of the family of Herbert of Nevis was Edward Herbert of Bristol and later of Montserrat, merchant, as stated in. ' Caribbeana ' V., and suggested in the last number of NOTES AND QUERIES, or that this- Edward Herbert was any ancestor whatever of President John Richardson Herbert of Nevis. The evidence is conclusive that such was not the case.

Until comparatively recent years I had never heard of the Herberts of Nevis, although I had, for! a considerable time previously, been investigating the ancestry of various families, including that of thfr Herberts of Wales, with the object of, per- haps, at some future time, w*riting an account of that family's early descents. On th