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This lady was a daughter and co-heir with her sisters of William Willington of Barcbeston, co. Warwick. Her husba,nd Sir Edward Greville died "on the day before Christmas Day in the 1559th year of our salvation," and is buried at Weston- on-Avon. Their son, was the notorious Ludovic (or Lewis) who built Mount Greville, Milcote, fell into serious debt, and com- mitted an appalling crime to rid himself of its consequences. The story is told by Dugdale. Greville was tried " but stood mute, and so having judgment to be prest suffered death accordingly " on the 14th of Nov. 31 Elizabeth. A. C. C.

THE ORIGINAL WAR OFFICE : SECRE- TARIES OF STATE FOR WAR AND FOR THE -COLONIES (12 S. vii. 310, 354). SIR WIL- LOUGHBY MAYCOCJC is incorrect in his assertion that " the Office of Secretary of State for War was crep.ted in 1856 after the Crimean Wer, the duties down to that time having been performed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies." The position is clearly explained in Ockerby's revision of Haydn's 'Book of Dignities ' (third edition, 1894), pp. 221-2. In 1768 a third Secretary of State was appointed, who was styled Secretary of State for the Colonies, but the office was abolished in. 1782, when the Colonies and Ireland were placed in charge of the Home Secretary as distinct from the Foreign Secretary. In 1794, a Secretary- ship of State for War was created, to which Department seven years later the duties connected with the Colonies were trans- ferred, the Minister then becoming styled Secretary of State for War andjthe Colonies. But in 1854 another Secretaryship of State the fourth was set up, and the duties of the War and Colonial departments were separated, as they have continued to be until now. 'ALFRED BOBBINS.

FRENCH SONGS WANTED; 'O RICHARD

O MOM ROT ! ' (12 S. vii. 270, 297). J. C. W

in framing his query mentioned a historic association of one of the two French songf for the text of which lie was asking, but die not note the far more significant association of the other. No reader of Carlyle's ' Frencl Revolution ' is likely ever to forget th< thrilling chapter, 'O 'Richard, O my King (book vii, chap. ii.\ describing the scene at Versailles on the night of Oct.* 1, when a a great royal festivity and the band striking up 'O Richard, O mon Roi, 1'univers t'aban donne (O Richard, O myJKing, the world i?

all forsaking thee) there was a delirious-- utburst of loyalty, which directly led to- he revolutionaries seizing Louis XVI. and Vlarie Antoinette a very few days later,, and carrying them to Paris on their yet unforeseen way to the guillotine.

ALFRED ROBBINS.


 * 'THAT " AND " WHICH " (12 S, vii. 351)..

In the passage quoted from Hosea, "they shall finde none iniquitie in mee that were sinne," "that " limits "iniquitie," meaning, niquity of such a kind as would be sin. If
 * ' which " is read, with a stop after "mee,"

t would refer to the complex notio-n of the- ^xistence of sin in me, an interpretation. Dref erred by the Speaker's Commentary, [n general, "that " limits, "which" adds a new point: e.g., "this is the book that vou wanted, which I have brought you." But very often euphony decides, e.g.,- "Spare thou them, O God, which confess- their faults : restore thou them that are penitent." Abbott's 'Shakespearian

Grammar ' has several paragraphs on the- point, which is also treated (rather comi-

a,lly) by Lord Chesterfield, and (facetiously) by Steele. G. G. L.

Messrs. Fowler in ' The King's English ' 1908), p. 80 say :

" The few limitations on ' that ' and ' who ^about which every one is agreed all point to 'that' as- the defining relative, 'who' and 'which 'as the- n-defining.

"That " in the text quoted above seem* more euphonious than "which."

A. R. BAYLEY.

EPITAPH ; AUTHOR WANTED (12 S. vii. 290,- 338). The epitaph alluded to by MR. ARCHIBALD SPARKE at the second reference was, I believe, written by the late James* Albery for himself, and ran ;

He played beneath the moon ;

He slept beneath the sun ;.. He lived a life of going-to-do^

And died with nothing done-.

I see nothing in common between this and the- epitaph whose author was required at the first reference.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

BELVOIR CASTLE TAPESTRIES (12 S. vii. 370). In 1528 Charles V. ordered that all makers of tapestries should (in Brussels and the Low Countries) mark their weavings, and this practice was followed in other countries especially in France where- "tapissiers" had established themselves*