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 254 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S.VIIL MARCH 26, 1921, Richard Heber would seem to have specially provided for the necessities of book-borrowers, for (quoting from the " was unusually generous in lending his treasures," and had a saying a very excellent one, and quite becoming "Heber the magnificent," as Sir Walter Scott termed him, and who described his library the world" that "No gentleman can be without three copies of a book, ' one for
 * Dictionary of National Biography ' ) he
 * and cellar as "so superior to all others in
 * show, one for use, and one for borrowers.' "

R. Y. PICKERING. Conheath, Dumfriesshire. MB. McGovERN may care to add to his ^collection of warnings to book-lifters the following couplet which I inscribed on my bookplate many years ago : Purcifer i procul hinc libros qui surripis 1 inquam ; 13ed mihi tutanti qui legis usque places. Latin being no longer, as it ought to be, the universal language, the notice might have had more practical effect in the ver- nacular, thus .Avaunt ! ye graceless, nor purloin this tome ; Head it you're welcome ; but return it home. HERBERT MAXWELL. Monreith. Here is a bookplate which I have care- fully removed from a book in my possession the date is 1844 but there is no name written in the book, only initials, which appear to be B. H. I don't think they could possibly be B. B. You will see the wording of the verses differs slightly from that given by MR. McGovERN. I wonder what au- thority that gentleman has for his statement that Benjamin Bury was the author of the Jines. TO MY BOOK. ' Shoulds't thou be borrowed by a friend, Bight Welcome shall he be To read, to copy not to lend, But to return to me. JNot that imparted knowledge doth Diminish Learning's store ; But Books, I find, if often lent, Return to me no more. COURTEOUS READER. Bead slowly, pause frequently, think seriously, return duly, With the corners of the leaves not turned down. W. COURTHOPE FORMAN. 'Compton Down, Compton, near Winchester. In my note at this reference I had ob- served that " a collection of such literary trifles would form an interesting volume," but was not then aware that ample materials for, at least the commencement, of such a volume were enshrined in ' N. & Q.' under the title 'Inscriptions in Books' at the following references : 1 S. vi. 32 ; vii. 127, 221, 337, 488, 544 ; ix. 122 ; x. 309 ; xii. 243. I will, if I may, content myself with two additions to the warnings already contributed to these pages, one, I understand in vogiie amongst boys at Rugby, the other, more philosophical, used, I presume, by French school-boys : Small is the wren, black is the rook, Great is the sinner that steals this book, and Tel est le triste sort de tout liyre prete, Souvenb il est perdu, toujours il est gate. J. B. MCGOVERN. St. Stephen's Bectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. Scrawled, over sixty years ago, in a school-book of mine, I find the following : Steal not this book for fear of shame, For in it is the owner's name, And if you steal this book away [Here comes regardless of rime, the terrible threat of chastisement.] You will get a jolly good licking. CECIL CLARKE. ' HlNCHBRIDGE HAUNTED ' (12 S. Vlii. 211). George C apples was author of this work, and also of ' Green Hand ' and ' Two Frigates.' J- B. PLEES FAMILY (12 S. viii. 211). The place mentioned in the second paragraph of this query should be Chicacole. It is an old military station in the Northern Circars of the Presidency of Madras. FRANK PENNY. COBBOLD FAMILY (12 S. viii. 211). John Cobbold of The Cliff, Ipswich (1746-1835) married twice. By his first wife Elizabeth Wilkinson he had sixteen children. The eldest of these was the forefather of the family at Holywells. By his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Knipe of Liverpool and widow of William Clarke of Ipswich, he had seven children. The second child of the second family Charles (1793- 1859) married Anne Roe of Rose Hill, Ipswich. In 1841 he became honorary Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens at Edinburgh. His eldest son, who was in the East India Company's Service, died