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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vn. DEC. *, 1920.

FRANCIS BURN. I shall be grateful for 'particulars concerning Chief Baron Francis Burn living about 1780. Who were his parents and whom did he marry ? Living in the country I have no means of consulting the usual books of reference.

H. C. BARNARD. Yatton, Somerset.

' QUARTERS OF THE ARMY IN IRELAND.' Can any one say where a copy of this (annual) book, printed in Dublin, for the year 1737, can be seen ? It is mentioned in Dalton's last volume, but is not to be found in the British Museum, where, however, are some later years of it.

W. R. WILLIAMS.

ARMORIAL BEARINGS UPON TOMBS. What is the earliest known tomb emblazoned with arms, either with, or without cadency marks ? A. E. OUGHTRED.

Scagglethorpe, Malton.

GOLD BOWL GIFT OF GEORGE I. Is there any publication containing the account of a gold bowl given by King George I. to Mr. George Lambe of Lambe House, Rye, Sussex ? E. C. WIENHOLT.

7 Shooters Hill Road, Blackheath, S.E.3.

WILLIAM SANDERSON. I have a portrait of William Sanderson, aged 68, engraved though not signed, by William Faithorne. Can any one tell me if he was a medical man of about the Charles II. period ? Any bio- graphical notes would be useful.

D. A. H. MOSES.

78 Kensington Park Road, Netting Hill, W.ll.

AMBLESIDE (WESTMORLAND) : INCUM- BENTS OF. Can any reader give me a list of these? T. KNOTT.

THOMAS FULLER : REFERENCE WANTED. The following quotation is attributed to T. Fuller by J. Croston in ' On Foot through the Peak,' 1862. Will any kind reader tell me in which of Fuller's books it appears ? If in the ' Worthies ' it has escaped me.

" Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof ; especially seeing England presents thee witn so many observables." PRESCOTT Row.

The Homeland Association,

37 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden.

MATTHEW ARNOLD : REFERENCE WANTED. In ' Culture and Anarchy,' Matthew Arnold said that the Greek notion of felicity as expressed in the words of a great French moralist was :

C est le bonheur des hommes quand ils pensent juste." Name of this French writer and refer- ence are desired. F. R. CAVE.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

1. It is the endurance of blank interval, The patient suffering where no action is, That proves our nature. Many are who act, But O, how few en'dme ! F. H. C.

2. Mourir n'est pas finir, c'est le matin supreme. Non ! je ne donne pas a la mort ceux que

j'aime ! Je les garde. F. H. C.

3. Call us not weeds, we are flowers of the sea, For lovely and bright and gay tinted are we, And quite independent of sunshine or showers. Then call us not weeds, we are ocean's gay

flowers. ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon.

4. Can any reader say where the following occurs ? :

Search the spheres from pole to pole. You'll find self-interest rules the whole.

HAROLD E. ANTHONY.

5. Within the garden of my lonely heart

A little flower grew, A blossom fair you planted there It was my love for you.

You found the garden of my heart

That none but you might see : Where now there grows another rose,

It is your love for me. E. F. S. D.

[See Notices to Correspondents at p. 460.]

Hepltas*

"SET THE ASSIZE WEEKLY." (12 S. vii. 409.)

THE "assize " of bread was the fixing by public authority of the price at which bread was to be sold. So foreign to our modern ideas, under- the influence of Free Trade teaching, is any official interference with the price at which a tradesman shall sell his goods, that we regard the Govern- ment control of prices during the late War as a most unusual measure due to the exceptional conditions then prevailing, and forget that during mediaeval times, and long afterwards, the regulation of the prices of necessary commodities universally prevailed in this country, and that the laws then in existence against forestalling, engrossing and regrating were still further restrictive of the traders' power of dealing with his goods as he pleased and were especially directed against "making a corner " in any commodity.

Thorold Rogers ('Six Centuries of Work and Wages ') says :

"At an early period*, so early that the statute is reputed to " be the earliest after the Great