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 i2S. VIIL , i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 315 much to assume that either book-owner was author of the poetry and prose thus utilized. | Inscriptions for lent books are in The Bookworm, 1889, &c., vol. ii. 37, 102, 348; iii. 22. W. B. H. Some years ago I came across the follow- ing. It was, if my memory serves me right, written in a very old volume. I regret now that I did not take any par- ticulars of the book. It is the only time I have seen the inscrip- tion, and it seems to me somew T hat unusual. " In sooth " said the old knight, with a grave smile, " it grates me not how long soever thou didst keep my sorrel so long as thou hadst a use for her ; but to afterward leave her in thy stable in lieu of returning her to mine was no good deed. '' W. MORRIS. The Homeland Association, Ltd., 37-38, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden. W.C. A school-book in my possession of which the owner would have been a schoolboy in, 1780 or thereabouts has the following in- < geiiuous inscription, emphasizing ownership | rather than warning borrowers : John Richardson, his hand and pen. He will be good, but God nos when. NORAH RICHARDSON. Red House, Wilton, Salisbury. May a memory even longer than that of Mr. Gideon be allowed to supply some schoolboy variants of his lines ? And if you say you cannot tell, The Lord will send you down to hell. And if you say you didn't steal it, The Lord will send you to hell to feel it. SURREY. Though lost to sight, to memory dear, Are volumes lent, which disappear, With borrowers neglectful. Oh, stay not with that band of gnomes. But send me back my cherished tomes ! Pray pray be not forgetful ! E. C. WEINHOLT. 7, Shooters Hill Road, Blackheath. "THE EMPIRE" (12 S. viii. 191, 258). Toone's 'Chronological Historian,' ii. 285, says that on the 7th of April, 1778, "on a, motion made by the Duke of Richmond, in the House of Lords, relative to the necessity of admitting the independence of America, Lord Chatham, though in a very ill state of health, rose with great energy to oppose the dismemberment of the Empire." JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. SECOND BISHOP OF CARLISLE (12 S. viii. 268). If your correspondent has access to ' The Register of the Priory of Wetherhal,' edited by the late Chancellor Prescott (London : Elliot Stock, 1897), he will find in Appendix D a number of facts and arguments on the matter. The Appendix is too long to quote, and cannot well be condensed ; but Dr. Prescott 's opinion, was that after the death of Bishop Athelwold in 1156 there was a long vacancy of the see, and that Bernard was Bishop probably from 1204 to 1214. DIEGO. BRISTOL (12 S. viii. 267.) There may be help by way of hints in the following, extract from Dr. Woodward's ' Ecclesiastical Heraldry,' pp. 105, 106 : " The Lords of Berkeley great benefactors of the Church and circa 1142 founders of the Monastery of St Augustine at Bristol used the mitre as a crest. As in many German instances it is charged with the family arms Gules, a chevron between ten crosses patees argent. . . . On the carved stalls in Bristol Cathedral the arms of the family are supported by two mermaids and surmounted by a mitre (without helmet or wreath), but the mitre is not charged with arms (see my ' Heraldry of Bristol Cathedral ' in the Herald and Genealogist, vol. iv.. p. 289)." ST. SWITHIN. OLD SONG WANTED (12 S. viii. 250, 299). I have a copy of the carol for which J. W. F. inquires, in a penny carol-book, bought long ago in Worcester : I love Jesus (repeat three times) Because He first loved me. The Jews they crucified Him. And nailed Him to a tree. Joseph begged his body. And laid it in a tomb. Down came an angel, And rolled away the stone. Mary she came weeping, To see her risen Lord. The pearly gates are open, For you to enter in. Shout, shout, the victory. The glorious work is done. The tune to which I have heard it sung was only the one set to ' We won't go home till morning.' A villager, naming his child Joseph, quoted it. " See " probably is a mistake for seek. AMY R. KINGSMILL. Bredicot. Worcester.
 * HERALDRY OF ST. AUGUSTINE'S ABBEY,