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 294 NOTES AND QUERIES, [i2s.vm. APRIL 9, 1021. - Library only possesses the second London edition of 1645. In his ' Autobiography ' Herbert claims to have printed the first edition privately in Paris. " I sent my book to be printed in Paris, at my own cost and charges, without suffering it to be -divulged to others than to such as I thought might be worthy readers of it ; though afterwards ireprinting it in England." And on the title-page of the first London edition appear the words : " Exc. Lutetiae Parisiorvm, CID IDC xxiv. | lam denuo sed auctius & emendatius recud. Londini | Per Avgvstinvm Matthaevm | CID IDC XXXIII." The first edition of 1624, if ever com- pletely printed and issued, was probably limited to a few copies. Have any survived ? HAHOLD WILLIAMS. 8 Abingdon Gardens, Kensington, W.8. SPANISH HORSEHAIR ARMOUR. Horse- hair and small tin plates are said to have foeen used as armour in ancient Spain. Can .any one throw light on this statement ? S. A. GRAY'S 'ELEGY.' Is there any valid -reason why " the even tenour of their way " should have become so" firmly established in ^current speech, when Gray wrote " the noiseless tenour of their way ? ' The ' Elegy ' is general^ recognized as -exemplifying finely polished diction, and yet in this phrase an even smoother pair of words than Gray's have obtained common usage. E. BASIL LTJPTON. 10 Humboldt Street, Cambridge, Mass. I LIVERPOOL HALF -PENNY. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' inform me of the origin of a bronze coin marked Liverpool Halfpenny. H. D. D. H. Z. H. I have three water-colours of -cathedral interiors signed with these initials one of them is dated 1879. I should be interested to know whose initials they are ..and any other particulars of the painter. C. G. N. QUEEN ELIZABETH'S STATUE, ST. DUN STAN'S-IN-THE-WEST. (See 10 S. ix. 103.) Was this statue, which was taken down frorr Ludgate soon after Aug. 4, 1760, and put up ^.at the east end of St. Dunstan's, Fleet Street Oct. 14, 1766, bought by Sir Francis Gosling <as stated Toone, ' Chr. Hist.,' ii. 116), or -given to him by the City (as stated, op. cit. 170, and at the reference above) ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED. According to the Hon. M.rs. Maxwell Scott, in The Tragedy of Fotheringay ' (new ed., 1905), t p. 156, Queen Elizabeth while in doubt whether he should or should not sign Queen Mary's eath warrant " was often heard to murmur to .erself Ant fer, aid feri ; ne feriare, feri Either ufter or strike ; not to be struck, strike." Whose rords was Queen Elizabeth quoting or mis- uoting ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. AUTHOR WANTED. Each w r ave that beats against the rock, And spends itself in empty spray, Jeems wasted, yet in time the shock Has helped to wear the cliff away. Sach little soul that loveth still, Through joy, through pain, through grief, through mirth. I'hat trusteth through all show of ill, Hath brought God's heaven nearer earth. BROWNHURST. DOUBLE FIRSTS AT OXFORD. (12 S. viii. 249.) So far as I know, there is no printed list of Dxford Double Firsts. In the absence of such the following list compiled by me from
 * he ' Oxford Historical Register ' may be of

interest. I can guarantee its accuracy, but it may possibly be incomplete, in which case some reader of ' N. & Q.' may be able to supply omissions. Up to 1854 these dis- tinctions were won in the same term, most of the subsequent ones in two different terms : M. 1808 Robert Peel (Christ Church) succeeded to Baronetcy 1830 ; Prime Minister. E. 1810 Charles Bathurst (Christ Church). John Keble (Corpus), afterwards Pro- fessor of Poetry. M. 1810 Anthony Mervin Reeve Storey (Wad- ham) (took the additional name of Maskelyne 1845), afterwards F.R.S. E. 1811 Edward Hawkins (St. John's), after- wards Provost of Oriel. Robert Vaughan Richards (Christ Church), afterwards Q.C. M. 1811 John Bull (Christ Church), afterwards Canon of Christ Church. William Hart Coleridge (Christ Church) afterwards Bishop of Barbados. M. 1812 Andrew Brandram (Oriel). Thomas Vowler Short (Christ Church), afterwards Bishop of St. Asaph. E. 1813 Granville Venables Vernon (Christ Church), afterwards M.P. East Retford and Chancellor diocese York. M. 1813 Renn Dickson Hampden (Oriel), after- wards Bishop of Hereford.