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 58 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vn. JULY 17, 1920. Sheffield, Bristol, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Brad- ford, and Norwich ; in Wales, Cardiff ; and in Ireland, Dublin, Belfast and Cork, during the term, of office. F. A. RUSSELL. MAKES OF FATE (12 S. vii. 6). There is no suggestion in the passage from 'The Tempest,' quoted by MB. ACKERMANN, " that certain people bear ' marks ' which indicate the nature of the death they will suffer." Shakespeare here is, of course, alluding to the old and obviously true proverb, " He that is born to be hanged will never be drowned." This adage must have been familiar to the dramatist for he refers to it again twice in this same play (I. i. 53 and V. i. 217). We meet with it again in 'Two Gentlemen of Verona' (I. i. 157), where Proteus addresses Speed : Go, go, begone, to save your ship from, wreck, Which cannot perish having thee aboard, Being destined to a drier death on shore. F. A. RUSSELL. 116 Arran "Road, Catford, S.E. 6 AMBER (12 S. vi. 271, 297, 318, 339). The following extracts from the State Papers (Domestic Series) tempus, Carolus II., may possibly interest J. H. H. : " Jane Scott, a minister's widow, to the King. Petition for relief, having been instrumental in the recovery of the late King from the palsy when he was at York in the beginning of his troubles by making him. amber cakes and he promised her, if restored to his former degree, to settle a stipend upon her seven fatherless children. " Reference of the above to the Lords of the Treasury, His Majesty remembering the loyalty and good services of her late husband and com- passionated her extreme distress." It will be observed that His Majesty, in referring the matter to the Lords of the Treasury, ignores the episode of the amber Bakes. ' G. W. YOUNGER, F.C.I.S. 2, Mecklenburgh Square, W.C.I. DAMDIANS: DAVID GEORGE'S SECT (12S vi. 227, 257 ; vii. 37). The painting showr to de Blainville in 1707 is now part of th( Oeffentliche Kimstsammlung in the Base Museum, numbered 561, Room 13, in th 1910 Catalogue. It is said to have belongec to Joris's family, and to have been at one time in the castle at Binningen. When Joris's corpse was publicly burnt in 1559 and the property he had left confiscated the Town Council of Basel, the picture wa seized and kept in the Rathaus till 1714 ^vhen it was handed over to the public Ar Collection. The portrait was formerly upposed to be the work of Diirer's pupil leinrich Aldegrever (1502 c. 1565), but 3ode and Scheibler ascribe it to Jan van corel (1495-1562), and it has been cata- ogued under his name. There is a copy n the Rijks Museum at* Amsterdam. EDWARD BENSLY. CALVERLEY'S (CHARLES STUART) PARODIES sic] (12 S. vi. 335). Presumably MR. HAUL- CAIN'S query is intended to refer to the ix charades not parodies. If I am right in. ,his assumption the answers a,re : (1) pier- glass; (2) target; (3) outlaw; (4) drugget; 5) marrowbones ; (6) coalscuttle (see my, etter in 12 S.' ii. 215). WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. GRANDFATHER CLOCK : BATE WANTED* 12 S. vi. 251, 298, 320; vii. 19). The- 'ol lowing is a list of Cirencester clock- nakers, with approximate dates taken from, early directories, poll books, &c. : George Green, 1751. John Jefferis, 1751 John Coates ^ W. and F. Coates V1791, 1802, 1812 William Coates J James Bath, 1812 Richard Haviland, 1820 j Wm. Pike, 1830 Wm. Stevens, 1791, 1802, 1812 J. F. Skipton, 1820. SYDNEY S. HARRISON. Public Library, Cheltenham. RICHARD, BP. OF Ross (12 S. vii. 6). Li- the list of the Bishops of Scotland down to the Reformation which was compiled by the late Bp. Dowclen of Edinburgh there is no mention of any occupant of the see of Ross named Richard. The surname of the John who was Bishop in 1420 is given as Bullock ; that of Henry appointed in 1460, being Cockburne. Thomas Urquhart occupied the see between these two. C. J. TOTTENHAM. Diocesan Library, Liverpool. HURBECS (12 S. vi. 271, 341 ; vii. 17). I do not think there is any affinity between " hurebec " and the German Heuschrecke as suggested by L. G. R. Though Littre does not give any hint as to the word's derivation it seems to be a compound of hure, which in Cotgrave has the meaning of " the head of a savage beast," and bee, a beak, in allusion to a caterpillar's ugly proboscis. The deriva- tion of caterpillar seems to confirm this viz, O.F. chatepelouse or catepeloue, " a hairy cat." N. W. HILL.