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NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.vu.Nov.2o, 1020.

STAFFORDSHIRE PORCELAIN. I should feel obliged if any reader could tell me what Staffordshire potter about 100 years ago used the letter M impressed in the paste, as I have a tea and coffee service with this mark (Pattern No. 4994), together with a further impressed mark like a letter A, without the horizontal line, preceded by a small semi-circle (attached), the convex side being upward.

Another Staffordshire mark I am desirous of tracing is also impressed in the paste, viz., three simple crosses, +, comparatively far apart from one another. The plate having the marks in question is rather weighty for its size. G. W. YOUNGER.

2 Meeklenburgh Square, W.C.I.

"PAR BIEN ATTENDRE." Whose family

motto is this ? Atteindre seems more likely

than attendre. The motto may be that of a

Knight of the Garter. R. S. B.

B.C. FOR "BEFORE CHRIST." When did this abbreviation first appear in the English writings ? KUMAGUSU MINAKATA.

Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

"SATURDAY TO MONDAY." This phrase has been for a considerable time part of our every-day vocabulary. I was lately reading that the " Saturday to Mondaying " habit came to have a vogue somewhere about the close of the 'seventies. Is this so ? W 7 hen and by whom was the phrase first used ?

C. P. HALE.

THOMAS FARMER BAILEY. I should be grateful for any information concerning Thomas Farmer Bailey of Hall Place, Kent (family, profession, wife, &c.). I suppose him to have died about 1876 in which year his library was sold, and that he married a Miss Addison as he impales the arms of Addison on his armorial book-stamp.

H. J. B. CLEMENTS.

Killadoon, Celbridge.

DlXON OF FURNESS FELLS, LANCS, AND

BORDER FAMILY DYCSON. Arms ; a fleur de lis, and chief ermine : recorded, except the chief, in duplicate on the sepulchral brass of Nicholas Dixon (1448) in Cheshunt Church, Herts, which he built and of which he \vas rector, 1418-48. Foss, in his 'Judges of England,' says this N. D. was "Clerk of the Pipe, and soon after became sub- treasurer of the Exchequer. His next elevation was

to the bench of that court on Jan. 26, 1423

[1 Hen. VI] "

I would ask the fraternity of ' N. & Q. ' ;

1. In what manner grant, or inheri- tance did N. D. acquire the arms, ex- hibited on his sepulchre of a date long before the * Heralds' Visitations ' ?

2. For his pedigree, as neither Foss, nor Fuller in his 'Worthies of England,' tell from whom he derived. Was he a con- nexion of the Dixons of Furness Fells, and did he, or they, descend from the noble houses of Keith or Douglas ?

3. On what authority Burke, in his 'Armoury' (Edn. 1878, tit. Dixon of Seaton Carew) ascribes to him the knightly prefix of " Sir " ?

4. For references to any work containing a print or engraving of his tomb.

D. INTERIORIS TEMPLI.

"LAVINIA"; PSEUDONYM. I have just come across a volume of verse, on various subjects, published in 1853 at Torquay. There is no author's name given, but an early and rather spirited effusion occurs, said to be by "Lavinia," and dated May, 1851. ^

The first verse reads :

The Spires and Towers of England,

Dear are those Gothic piles Of pillared Arch the high, the grand

And dim cathedral aisles.

One seems to fancy them the echo of pre- viously familiar lines, but if so, I cannot recall the source. Perhaps some ofj your readers can tell me who "Lavinia " was ?

W. S. B. H.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

1. Can any one tell me where the following lines come from ? I give them according to the best of my recollection, but I fear I am not quoting them correctly, though possibly sufficiently so for their identification.

He who dreads one move to make, Lest perchance he make mistake, And forfeit claim to pass for wise. The poem gof>s on to say that such a man will never accomplish anything.

ARTHUR A. PEARSON. Hillsborough, Petersfield, Hants.

2. Leaving the case to Time who solves all doubt, By bringing Truth her glorious daughter out.

3. While Death amid the tufted glade

Like a dun robber waits its prey.

WILLIAM GARDEN. Uttershill, Penicuik, Midlothian.

4. And chough the seas may yet divide us, The hand on either side is God's.

J. A. R.