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 270 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. VIIL APRIL 2, 1921. quotation is merely the Latin translation of Plutarch's anecdote ' (Apophthegm. Lacon. incert. xiii.). Xylander's Translation of the passage is beginning of his ' Adversus Dialogistam Liber,' has : ' Lacon quidam ad lusciniam ; vox es, praeterea nihil,' This confirms Mr. King's view."] AUTHOR or POEM WANTED. Can anyone tell me who was the author of a poem entitled ' The Centenary of the Bells, St. Mary's, Wareham, Dorsetshire,' which appeared anonymously in All the Year Round* May 9, 1885, vol. xxxvi., n.s., p. 178 ? R. M. AUTHOR WANTED. I am desirous of finding the author of the following lines : Croon of surf on the shore, Song of birds in the glade, Dance and flutter of painted wings To the drowsy murmur of hidden springs, And a clear sharp note that echoing rings From the kiss of stone and blade. H. P. BARWOOD. 83 Ermine Road, Lewisham, S.E.13. RICHARD III. WILLIAM HERBERT EARL OF HUNTINGDON. (12 S. viii. 169, 215, 257.) THERE seems no reason to doubt that a marriage between William Herbert, Earl of Huntingdon, and Katharine Plantagenet, illegitimate daughter of Richard III., took place. Sir William Dugdale, in the second volume of his ' Baronage ' (1676), states that on the last day of February, 1483--4, the said Earl entered into covenants with the King to take Dame Katharine Plantagenet, his daughter, to wife, before the Feast of St. Michael next following, and to make her a jointure in lands of 200Z. per annum, the King undertaking to settle lands and lord- ships of 1000 marks per annum upon them and their heirs male ; whereof 600 marks per annun were to be in possession and after the decease of Thomas, Lord Stanley 400 marks per annum more. Also that in the meantime they were to receive from the King 400 marks per annum out of the lord- ships of Newport, Brecknock, and Hay, in Wales ; the King further promising to be at the whole charge of the wedding. Dugdale adds : " Whether this Marriage took effect or not, I cannot say : for sure it is that she died in her tender years." In one of the Patent Rolls of Mar. 3, 483-4 there is recorded a "Grant bo the king's kinsman, William Earl of Huntyngdon, and Dame Katharine Plantagenet of in annuity of 400 marks yearly from Michaelmas ast during the life of Thomas, lord Stanley, from he issues of the lordships of Newport, Brekenok, ,nd Hay in Wales.' 1 Gal. Pat. Rolls. In another Patent dated Mar. 8, 1484-5, here is record of a "Grant to the king's kinsman, William, earl of Huntingdon, and Katharine his wife of an annuity )f 1521. IQs. IQd. from the issues of the king's posses- ions in the counties of Caermerden and Cardigan and of the king's lordship of Haverford West in South Wales until they shall have of the king's grant to themselves and the heirs of their bodies, ordships, manors, lands and other possessions to he same value." Cal. Pat. Rolls. I have seen no further mention in the State Papers of this Katharine Plantagenet, who, it may be noticed, is described in one of the above grants as wife of William, Earl of Huntingdon, and it is doubtless correct, as stated by Dugdale, that she died young. There is a matter connected with William Herbert, Earl of Huntingdon, which may be considered of sufficient interest to be here worth noting, a few preliminary remarks being necessary. This William succeeded as second Earl of Pembroke, of the first Herbert creation, on the execution of his father, William Herbert, the first Earl, on July 27, 1469, during the Wars of the Roses. Nearly three years before his father's death, he, being then the eldest son and heir, married Mary Wydville, daughter of Richard Wydville, Earl Rivers, and sister to Elizabeth, Queen- Consort of Edward IV., the marriage, as recorded in the 'Annals' of William Worcester, a contemporary writer, taking place at Windsor, in September, 1466. By Mary Wydville, this William, second Earl of Pembroke (afterwards Earl of Huntingdon), had an only daughter, Eliza- beth, who, in the inquisition post mortem of her uncle Richard Wydville, third Earl Rivers, dated Aug. 4, 7 Hen. VII. (1492), is described as being then 16 years old and more, and in another inquisition, of Nov. 20, 23 Hen. VII. (1507), made subsequent to the death of her uncle Sir Walter Herbert, her father's brother, she is entered as then 30 years old and upwards. She married Sir Charles Somerset, an illegitimate son of the Duke of Somerset, which Sir Charles was afterwards created Earl of Worcester and was ancestor of the Dukes of Beaufort.
 * vox tu es, et nihil praeterea.' Lipsius, at the