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 238 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vin. MARCH 19, 1021;. eye -trouble and shewed that he suffered from " hypermetropia with some degree of astigmatism." In 1679 Georg Frank edited the ' De Medicina Magnetica ' of William Maxwell, whom Morhof calls a Scotch writer. He is not in the ' D.N.B.' In an undated German catalogue of books on the History of Medicine that came to me ten years and more ago I find one of the items to be a large folio portrait of Gebrg Frank von Frankenau engraved by Johann Ulrich Kraus. It is described as " schon" and " selten" There are also smaller en- gravings by Montalegre, Sysang, and Berning- roth. EDWARD BENSLY. Much Hadham, Herts. A PROVERB ABOUT EATING CHERRIES (12 S. viii. 190). I am not the happy possessor of an original ' Ray,' but I have Bonn's 'Handbook of Proverbs' which professes to embody it. This cries out for an index of, at least, the nouns embedded in the wise-sayings, and I have not been able to discover the dicton quoted by Mr. Wright. I have, however, found (p. 347) " Eat peas with the king and cherries with the beggar " which is delightfully cryptic and may be interesting and suggestive to your corre- spondent. Le Roue de Lancy (vol. ii. p. 193) gives a sixteenth century monition : C'est folie de manger cerises avec seigneurs Car ils prennent toujour les plus meures. That is common-sense and greedy. I wonder whether some archaic code of manners allowed great men to shy their cherry-stones at inferior regalers. Books of table etiquette published a few centuries back gave very special attention to dealings with fruit-stones. ST. SWITHIN. FOUNDLINGS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CEN- TURY (12 S. viii. 191). Partly in consequence of a Parliamentary grant of 10,OOOZ. in 1755 or 6 to the Foundling Hospital, an over- whelming number of infants were sent up from all parts of the country, and the carriers made a fine harvest. Many grue- some stories are told of the way in which the unfortunate children met with their death on the road. Four years later the government withdrew the grant and the " massacre of the inno- cents " ceased. In the registers of Egham, Surrey, there are entries of a like nature, but of earlier date, namely 1745-6-7. FREDERIC TURNER. " COLLY MY Cow" (12 S. viii. 190). According to the ' New English Dictionary ' colly, a Norse word, is a term of endearment for a cow. It is recorded in Arthur B.. Evans's 'Leicestershire Words, Phrases and Proverbs' (English Dialect Society, 1881),, and the only other quotation in the ' N.E.D.' is from Tom D'Urfey's 'Pills to Purge Melancholy' (1719): "Sawney shall ne'er .- be my Colly, my Cow." L. R. M. STRACHAN. Birmingham University. The song of ' Colly my Cow ' will be found 1 in Halliwell-Phillips's 'Nursery Rhymes of England' (London, 1886), p. 86. It has twelve verses, and if your correspondent communicates with me I will send him a transcript. It recounts the sale of a cow and the various prices offered by tradesmen,. and deplores the loss to the owner. A different version from that of Halliwell-- Phillips, commencing " My Billy Aroms," is current in the nurseries of Cornwall. Two verses by way of introduction and a final' verse are added to the version given in Evans's 'Old Ballads' (London,. 1810), vol. i. p. 268. ARCHIBALD SPARKLE. EDWARD SNAPE (12 S. viii. 169). This engraving of Edward Snape, who was Sergeant farrier to the King, forms the frontispiece to his ' Treatise on Farriery,', published in 179 L- G. F. R. B. TURNER FAMILY (12 S. v. 94, 249). In regard to my queries at the above references,.. I find that the Emanuel Turner, assistant- comptroller, cashier, and committee clerk, to the Manchester Corporation from 1842 to 1859, to whom I referred, was a son of William Turner (born 1782) by his wife Ellen Wilson. He died Sept. 28, 1865, and was buried in Wilmslow Parish churchyard, having had issue, in addition to Emanuel,. sons Solomon Samuel, John (died at Brooklyn House, Ruabon, Jan. 20, 1893,. aged 82 years, and buried at Overton,. Ellesmere, Salop), William, James, and Oswald (buried at Wilmslow, 1905); and daughters Elizabeth, Jane and Ellen. The first -named William Turner was related to William Turner (born 1777, died at Mill Hill, near Blackburn, July 17, 1842) of Shrigley Park, co. Chester, and M.P. for Blackburn, who married his cousin, Jane (born 1772), daughter of William Turner, of Martholme, by his wife Jane Mitchell. I am anxious to trace the exact con- nexion between William Turner and the-