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 12 s. vin. MARCH 12, i92L] NOTES AND QUERIES. 217 ^Imagination and literary grace ; whilst for all ' the moving incidents by flood and field ' of which he had been a part, he was singularly modest and self-effacing. The hardships and privations of his earlier career told on his declining years and hastened his death. He looked forward to the end as only a change to a happier hunting- < ground." Frederick Wilson published a series of entitled 'Game in the Himalayas,' by " Mountaineer." See also ' A Summer Ramble in the Himalayas, with Sporting Adventures in the Vale of Cashmere.' Edited by "Mountaineer," London, 1860, arid Andrew Wilson's ' The Abode of Snow,' London, 1875, p. 34. HENRY F. MONTAGNIER. Champery, Valais. "H. K.," MEMBER FOR MALDON (12 S. viii. 169). Your readers may be interested to see the lines in extenso, from the poem ' Oppression,' published in 1765. They are
 * articles in The Indian Sporting Review
 * as f ollows :

"Prom H k, the veriest monster on the earth, The fell production of some baneful birth, Their ills proceed ; from him they took their date, 'The source supreme, and center of all hate. "From meanness first, this Portsmouth Yankey rose, And still to meanness, all his conduct flows ; 'This alien upstart, by obtaining friends, From T wn -ds clerk, a M Id n member ends. Would Heaven that day ! was dated in record, Which shin'd propitious, on one so abhorr'd ; 'That day, which saw how threats and gold could bribe, And heard the huzzas of a compell'd tribe : 'That horrid day, when first the scheme he laid, "I" oppress America, and cramp her trade ; Would it were mark'd ! that thousands yet unborn, Might read the story, and the vagrant scorn ;* 'That hate coequal, to their wrongs might last, .And never cease, till the H k name is lost. It will be noticed that the member for Maldon's name is printed in one case H k and in the other H k, and not H. K. ^s stated by your correspondent (BURDOCK) It seems clear that " John Huske, Esq. ; [ hephew of the late General Huske," shown in ' The Court and City Register for the year 1765 ' as one of the members for Ion, is referred to. There is an article in the * D.N.B.' on John iisko (1692 ?-1761), general and governor [of Jersey, in which it is stated that his >metime of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, a son John, who represented Maldon in the British House of Commons, and who was burned in effigy by his fellow colonists for supporting the Stamp Act. It would appear from the poem that before his election to Parliament he held a minor appointment under Charles Towns- hend (1725-1767), Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, and a firm advocate of the principle of the Stamp Act. J. W. BIRT. Oxford. JOHN BEAR, MASTER OF RIPON SCHOOL (12 S. viii. 150, 192). Hearne's error writing "John Bear" for "Henry Beare," who came up in 1718 from Westminster to Christ Church, and is duly recorded in Foster's ' Alumni Oxonienses.' FAMA. Oxford. MR. WHITMORE says that "in 1730 the Master of Ripon School was a Mr. Barker," but gives no authority for this statement. Hearne writing under Mar. 17, 172 1/2 says that " John Bear, Bach, of Arts and Student of Christ Church, who determined this Lent " was made Master " about five months agoe." There is practically little doubt that " John Bear " is a mistake for John Bar&er, who was elected to Christ Church from Westminster School in 1717, and graduated B.A. 1721/2. At any rate according to Dean Bering's 'Autobiographical Memoranda' (Surtees Soc. Pub., No. 65, p. 346) Mr. Barber "who came from Westminster School " was Master in July, 1722. This John Barber, as Captain of the School, spoke a Latin oration in College Hall at the funeral of Dr. South in July, 1716, and it was for the unlicensed publishing of this oration that Cur 11 received summary punishment at the hands of the King's Scholars. G. F. R. B. Are not John Bear and John Barker both mistakes or misprints for John Barber ? See Surtees Society Publications, vol. Ixv., p. 346 ; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Record Series, vol. xxvii. (list of school- masters opposite p. Ixxiv) : and ' Alumni Westmonasterienses ' (ed. 1852), pp. 269-70. W. A. PECK. LOSS OF THE BlRKENHEAD (12 S. viii. 161). It may lessen the hate arisen through the late war to say that when the King of Prussia heard of the shipwreck he directed the account to be read to all the regiments of his army to show them how soldiers and all men should bear themselves in patience, resignation and order in the presence of immediate death. W. DOUGLAS. 31 Sandwich Street, W.C.I.
 * J in last week's issue.
 * younger "brother, Ellis Huske (1700-1755),