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 i2-s.ix.Aua.27.iD2i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 161 LONDON, AUGUST 27. 1921. CONTENTS. No. 176. NOTES : A Journey to Scotland in 1730, 161 Glass- painters of York : Thompson, 163 A Lightfoot Branch, 165 A Letter of William Hayley, 167 Strolling Flayers of the Eighteenth Century A "Quasi-Folk-Rhyme, 168 QUERIES : Moorish Battle-axe as Crest William Hersee, 168 The Pillow Club Theodore Goidon, Composer Maj.-Uen. J. G. R. Forlong Milk, Butter and Cheese Streets " Cheese Monday " " A Jew's Eye full of Buttermilk " Duke of Monmouth : Burial-place, 169 Heraldic Query Trewthe Family Anger, Aungier, Angier The R^v. Charles Ashton Evans Charles II., " Coffin-faced " Theodore Price Beadon Valentine Green Rebecca Godsalve Punch and Judy Author Wanted, 170. REPLIES : Captain Jones Kinds of Bread, 171 Charles Dickens in Cap and Gown Nautical Song, 172 The Gror.t Rain A Translation of Khan Khan Sir Thomas Miller cf Chichester, 173 London Clubs : Bibliography -" Shuffle-wing " or " Shovel-wing " Shakespeare's Songs Samuel Matthews, 174 School Magazine! Willow Pattern China Epitaph in Benson Church, Oxfordshire Anderson Family, Baronets of Broughton The Royal Route to Weymout'h John Wilson, Bookseller Tne Sentry at Pompeii, 175 Vicars of Thirsk American Edition, Grav's ' Elegy ' Campbell Shield of Am: s Signs r.sel in Place of Signature, 170 " Burnt his Boats " Rice Proverbial Sayings Leif Ericson " Sweet Lavender " Oak SnulT-box from Foundation Pile, of London Bridge Runnymede, 177 De Brus Tomb at Harilepocl Epigrammatists Edward Corbould baptism of Infant on its Mother's Coffin Arms on Seal Handshaking Autaor's Wanted, 178 References Wanted, 179 NOTES ON BOOKS : The Ninth Volume of the Waljole Society ' English for the English ' * Readings in English Social History.' OBITUARY -George Dames Burtchaell. A JOURNEY TO SCOTLAND IN 1730. RICHARD YATES, the writer of the following letter, was the son of John Yates of Newby, Co. Westmorland. Born Sept. 14, 1701, he was educated at Bampton School in his nalive county and matriculated at Queen's r..ll(-(>, Oxford, July 5, 1716. He took his B.A. degree Feb. 13, 1721/2, arid his M.A. 1730. In 1723 he was appointed Head M.istcr of Appleby Grammar School, a post which he held for 58 years until his death on Dec. 31, 1781. The present Provost of Queen's College, Dr. Magrath, who has kindly furnished me with some interesting fads from the College records, informs me that during his long tenure of office at Apploby School, Richard Yates sent up to his old College at Oxford quite half the members of the foundation at the time. A tablet to his memory in St. Lawrence's Church, Appleby, bears the following epitaph, composed by his friend, Archdeacon William Paley, then vicar of the church and author of ' Evidences of Christianity ' : To preserve the Remembrance of a long valuable life Spent in the most useful of all Employments This marble is inscribed with the name of Richard Yates, M.A. 58 years Master of the Grammar School in this town whom an accurate knowledge of Roman Literature A just & most harmonius elocution unwearied diligence and a serious attention to the moral and religious Improvement of his pupils eminently qualified for the important Station which he held. He died December the 31st A.D. 1781 and in the Eighty first year of his age. I am indebted to Mr. H. A. Counsell, the present Head Master of Appleby Grammar School, for kindly supplying me with the copy of this inscription. Richard Yates never took Holy Orders, though he appears to have been appointed a Surrogate for the Diocese of Carlisle. He married a Miss Hartley, of Kirkby Stephen, by whom he had two daughters, both sub- sequently married. Though the identity of the writer of this letter is beyond question, the MS. in my possession is apparently a more or less con- temporary copy of the original, and unfor- tunately contains several misreadings on the part of the somewhat incompetent tran- scriber. Some of these can be corrected with tolerable certainty, but here and there this has not been possible, though the general sense can usually be gathered. I have several letters of a later date written by Richard Yates to his first cousin, and my great -great -grandfather, Richard Button Yates, for many years Rector of Solihull, Co. Warwick. Richard Sutton Yates entered Queen's College in 1730 at the age of 18, and from a certain similarity in the writing of the MS. to other specimens in my possession, I think it possible that my ancestor was the copyist, though this cannot be stated as a fact. The letter appears to be addressed to a friend at Queen's College, but his name does not appear thereon. From certain passages in the epistle, one may guess him to have