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 i2s. vii. NOV. 2o, i92o.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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In Note D. (p. 107) he adds :

kt Savigny did not adopt the Cistercian rule till A.D. 1148, when Quarr would naturally have done the same. Quarr was probably the second abbey of that order founded in England, Waverley claiming the priority with its establishment in A.D. 1128."

"Dugdale has called Quarr 'the daughter o Savigny,' this does not mean that the abbey of Quarr had any dependence on that of Savigny, to whose abbot, named Geoffrey, the founder gave the important manor of Arreton. "

The Rev. Boucher James, 'Letters His- torical and Archaeological,' i. 165, from whose pages I have been quoting, adds :

" It may be affirmed that Quarr was among the earliest of the Cistercian foundations in England."

All-eating Time has left but scanty morsels of the monastic buildings. Within the church the founder was buried in 1155, also his wife Adeliza, his sons Henry and William de Vernon (so-called from his birth- place in Normandy), who was a great favourite of Richard Cceur de Lion. It was here that the remains of the Princess Cecily, third daughter of Edward IV. and sister to the Queen of Henry VII., were buried. Sharing in the great personal beauty of her family, after her second marriage she retired to the peaceful seclusion of Standen in Arreton parish not in great wealth, where she died. JOHN L. WHITEHEAD.

Ventnor.

S. RAVEN, MINIATURE PAINTER (12 S. vii. 88). In the earlier years of the last century S. Raven was a well-known and prolific Birmingham painter of snuff-box and cigar-case lids. For a time he lived in the neighbourhood of St. Bartholomew's Church, afterwards, about 1830, removing to Stafford Street where he opened a cigar shop. He was a man of some talent but of little originality, his pictures being almost invariably copies and the choice of them depending upon the public demand of the moment. From some notes contributed to The Birmingham Weekly Post of Aug. 7, 1886, by a man who, as a youth, had been apprenticed to him, it appears that Wilkie's 'Blind Fiddler,' 'Rent Day,' 'Blindman's Buff,' 'The Cut Finger,' and ' The Village Politicians ' were great favourites, as were also Harley's ' Proposal ' and ' Congratula- tion ' which were repeated again and again. Animals, especially two bull -dogs called "Crib" and "Rosa" and a rat -killing terrier, were popular, and the works of Morland were also often copied. Among portraits the Duke of York, after Lawrence, George IV., Mrs. Q. an<? the Marchioness of

Coningham were in demand, and sometimes he painted local celebrities, as, for example,. John Baskerville the printer, a portrait of whom decorating a snuff-box lid, is at the present time in the possession of the Bir- mingham and Midland Institute. Among Raven's patrons was the Duke of Sussex for whom he painted a copy of Wilkie's ' Rent Day ' upon a cigar-case lid : he also worked for several of the Birmingham japanners among others for Jennens &. Bettridge of Constitution Hill, and for- R. & G. Bill of Summer Lane.

BENJAMIN WALKER,. Langstone, Erdington.

AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED. (12 S. vii. 371.)

1. The latter portion of this quotation will be- found in Spenser's * Faerie Queene,' book vi. canto ix., stanza xxx., and reads thus :

It is the mynd that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poo r e. The earlier partis, I should think, a paraphrase of the preceding stanzas. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

"To labour and be content with what a man hath is a sweet life."

" It is the mind that maketh good or ill, wretch or happy, rich or poor."

The first part of this quotation is from Eccle- siasticus 40, 18. 1 do not know the source of the- second part. G. H. J.

2. R. A. H.'s lines, the true form of which wil* be seen below, come in Andrew Marvell's 'ToHi s Coy Mistress,' which is included in Arber's ' Dryden Anthology,' ' The Oxford Book of Verse ' and, I presume, in some other selections. Tennyson's liking for them is worth remembering. FitzGerald wrote to Dr. Aldis Wright, on Jan. 20, 1872 :

me, some thirty years ago, or more, in talking of Marvell's ' Coy Mistress,' where it breaks in : But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
 * This reminded me that Tennyson once said to -

" ' That strikes me as sublime, I can hardly tell why.' Of course, this [partly depends on its place in the Poem."

In Tennyson's 'Life* by his son, vol. ii.. pp. 500, sq.i we are told, in some recollections by F. T. Palgrave, that

" For some poems by that writer [Marvell], then . with difficulty accessible, he had a special admira- tion : delighting to read, with a voice hardly yet to me silent, and dwelling more than once, on the magnificent hyperbole, the powerful union of pathos and humour in the lines 'To his Coy Mistress.' " The couplet which provoked the present query is among the lines which Palgrave then quotes.

EDWARD BENSLY.

[Several other correspondents thanked for supply- ing reference.]