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 12 s. viii. JUNE ii, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 471 CHARLES BOWKER ASH, MINOR POET. I am most desirous of discovering the place and date of death of this poet. The extent of my information about him is given in the note under his name at ante, p. 466. RUSSELL MARKLAND. SHAKESPEARE'S SONGS.- Can any readers of ' N. & Q.' help me to complete a col- lection for children's use of old musical settings of the songs in Shakespeare's plays, such as Arne's ' Where the Bee Sucks' ? SHEILA RADICE. The Pines, West Byfleet, Surrey. FAMILY MOTTOES. What motto has been most frequently adopted in heraldry ? O. H. WHITTINGHAM. MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND THEO- PHILUS GALE. The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. Ixxxiii.; p. 318, published a letter dated Oxford, April 8, 1813, from a corre- 1 spondent who signed himself " Oxoniensis," '. in reply to an inquiry as to the descendants { of Theophilus Gale (1628-1678), and who' stated that " his life and family connexions i will be most copiously detailed in an ela- ! borate work now preparing, intituled ' A succinct and separate History of Magdalen Hall, St. Mary's Hall, and St. Alban's Hall, Oxford, with the lives of the worthies | of those Societies.' ' Both Magdalen Col- 1 lege and Bodley's Librarians, consulted in 1913, were confident that this work never saw the light of day. Who was " Oxonien- sis ; ' ? Theophilus Gale, author of ' The Court of the Gentiles,' was bom at Kings- teignton, Devon, where his father, a Prebendary of Exeter, was vicar. His grandfather was George Gale of Credit on. FRED R. GALE. Gerrards Cross. BARRACLOUGH. W T hat is the derivation of the name Barraclough and when did it first come into use ? What is its correct pro- nunciation ? I find among many English- men some uncertainty as to what is the cor- rect pronunciation of the word, and many times I am asked by my own countrymen how it should be pronounced. Any informa- tion as to its origin, &c., would be much ap- preciated. S. P. BARRACLOUGH. Madrid. [Mr. Harrison, in his ' Dictionary of the Sur- names of the United Kingdom,' deri ves this name from O.E. bcarg, a pig, -f- *cloh, a hollow, and says it means " dweller at the swine-hollow."! THE HOODED STEERSMAN.- In medi- aeval illustrations of ships the figure of the steersman is usually the only one with a hood. (Roll of St. Guthlac and ' Historic of St. Edward the Confessor,' now in the Fitz- william Museum.) Is there any reason for this ? J. Z. CHRISTY. FALKIRK BATTLE ROLL. Could any reader of ' N. & Q. ? tell me whether the Fal- kirk Battle Roll of 1297 has ever been pub- lished by any society ? I cannot find any mention of such a Roll in the British Museum, except that printed in the Reliquary. R. G. S. HEARTH TAX. In the Hearth Tax Rolls, 26 Charles II., Wm. Gates of Ponte- fract is responsible for seven hearths. Would this mean he had seven houses at Pontefract ? R. G. S. BUTTONHOLES. It will be remembered that Mr. Alexander Fairford, in ' Red- gauntlet,' used to appear in court in summer with a nosegay of flowers and in winter with a sprig of holly in his buttonhole. When did this custom (if it was a general custom) begin and how long did it last ? E. R. AUTHORS WANTED, l. Who wrote a poem con- taining the following, or similar, lines : " Heart of Christ ! O cup most golden, Brimming with salvation's wine ! Million souls have been beholden Unto Thee for life divine." I have an idea that the author was a chaplain to Oliver Cromwell ? What is the remainder of the poem, or where is it to be found ? R. M. 2. Who wrote the verses beginning : " The Lord God planted a garden " ? V.E. [Dorothy Frances Garney, in a poem entitled ' God's Garden,' included in a book of poems reviewed by Mr. Algernon Blackwood in Country Life, May 31, 1913.] 3. Whence are the following lines taken ? They appear as an unnamed quotation in a volume published 1891. " Half screened by its trees in the Sabbath's calm smile, The church of our fathers how meekly it stands ! The villagers gazed on the old hallowed pile, It was dear to their hearts, it was raised by their hands." W. B. H. REFERENCE WANTED. " The most dangerous thing in the world is ignorance in motion." I have read, somewhere, that the above words were written by Goethe. Can any reader give me chap- ter and verse ? A. R.