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 12 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vm. JAN. i, 1921. or whiting, and were only dealt with by the horse-load. November is the month for sprat fishing, and great quantities of them, boat-loads of them, are caught here every autumn. We rather think that "barons ": must be sprats, but we have no authority for this surmise, and it would appear that we shall not have any such authority, until the readers of ' N. & Q. ' pelt us with replies. ERNEST E. BAKER. The Glebe House, Weston-super-Mare. JOHN HUGHES OF LIVERPOOL, A.D. 1706. Particulars of the parentage and education of John Hughes are desired. He transcribed, "in Mason's characters," the Book of Common Prayer and Adminis- tration of the Sacraments, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, &c., at Liver- pool, 1706. WALLACE GANDY. 78 Egmont Road, Sutton, Surrey. DANIEL DEFOE IN THE PILLORY. Pope says that Daniel Defoe, author of ' Robinson Crusoe,' when put in the pillory, had his ears cut off. But I cannot verify this as a fact. Defoe stood in the pillory on July 29, 30 and 31, 1703. His offence was, I believe, that of writing against the High Church party. I should like to know precise facts of his mutilation and offence. G. B. M. WOODBURN COLLECTION. I have several drawings and pictures which have on their reverse sides notes to the effect that they came from " the Woodburn Collection." I should be pleased if any reader could give me any information concerning it. A. STANTON WHITFIELD. Bentley Moor, Walsall. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. 1. I should be glad to know the source of the quotation appended which appeared in an obituary notice in The, Times within the last twelve months. The Chief Constable of Lanca- shire is desirous of using it (with acknowledg- ments) on the memorial that is being erected to the men of the force who fell. Shall we not offer up our best and highest ? When duty calls can we forbear to give ? This be thy record where in peace thou liest ' He gave his life that England's soul should live." I should be glad to be informed if it is copy- right. ARTHUR BRIERLEY. 2. O England, in the smoking trenches dying For all the world, We hold our breath, and watch your bright flag flying, While ours is furled. These lines aresa id to have been published in a New York newspaper in February, 1915. What was the paper, and who was the author ? HARMATOPEGOS. JUpius. CRUIKSHANK AND WESTMINSTER SCHOOL. (12 S. i. 347). LOOKING back through the war volumes of query. I also have a copy of the cutting. The picture and letterpress form part of a review of '"The Devil's Walk.' By Coleridge and Southey. A New Edition, with several additional Engravings by Robert Cruikshank. Sirnpkin & Marshall." The commencement of the review, printed above the picture, is as follows : " Nearly thirty thousand copies of this jeu d 1 esprit having been already disposed of, we do not pretend to sit in judgment on its merit in the eleventh hour. It is, perhaps, all things considered, one of the riost singular poems ever penned ; having given rise to almost endless controversy respecting its- real authorship. That point is now, however, satisfactorily ascertained, and with its new illus- trations we consider it a rare morqtau. Our artist, Robert Cruikshank, seems to have entered into the spirit of the author with a real gusto, and has given us some rich specimens of his extraordinary talent. We select, by the kind permission of the Proprietor, the following characteristic sketch of" The remainder of the . review is quoted by URLLAD, subject to the following corrections, no doubt where his copy is frayed: for " very correct " read " A very correct " ; for " our hero "read " for our hero " ; for " he's well qualified " read " him well qualified." I cannot say where the cutting comes from ; the following passage printed on the- back suggests 1832 as the date: "QUERY FOR ARITHMETICIANS : If it cost a man fifty shillings to have his own windows broken by as many men at night, that being over hours, what will it cost the same individual to be cheered by an equal number of persons in the middle of the day ? If Coker cannot furnish an answer perhaps the Duke of Wellington can." Surely URLLAD wrongs the memory of a great headmaster in describing the figure of the schoolmaster in the caricature as a por- trait of Busby ; it bears no resemblance to- any of his portraits, and though Richard Busby liked his pint of claret, nothing in his character was compatible with a nose of the magnificent proportions depicted in the caricature. If URLLAD should by chance be able to identify the source of the cutting I should be grateful if he would let me know it. J. D. WHITMORE.
 * N. & Q.' I have just come across URLLAD 's