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 12 s. ix. OCT. 29, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 355 me by supplying information. Are there J any pamphlets printed which deal with the Whittenburys ? Is Queen Hoo Hall ] still in existence and are there any details published with regard to it ? What is the Whittenbury crest and where may a copy be obtained or seen ? The only description I hav.e is that it con- j tains a gate, supposed to be the gates ; of Wiirtemberg, a laurel-wreath surrounds j it, and that the motto is " Nil Admirari." ! Any particulars of the crest or coat of arms j of this family will be greatly appreciated. RONALD D. WHITTENBUBY-KAYE. Newchurch Rectory, Culcheth, nr. Warrington. GEORGE SETON, STH EARL or WINTON. Mary, Countess Cowper, in her Diary under date March 19, 1716, says : My Lord Winton had sawed an iron bar with the spring of his Watch very near in two, in order to make his escape ; but it was found out. He received Sentence of Death, but behaved himself in a manner to persuade a world of people that he was a natural Fool or mad, though his natural character is that of a stubborn, illiterate, ill-bred Brute. He has eight Wives. These are very sweeping assertions, and I should be pleased to learn whether there is any other evidence extant to support them. The Earl died unmarried, but it is known that he had a child by an Edin- burgh lady. Who were the " eight wives " ? JAMES SETON-ANDERSON. EPIGRAM ON THE WALCHEBEN EXPEDITION. Wanted, the author or first appearance in print of the following well-known lines : " Great Chatham with his sabre drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham." The jest refers, of course, to the dispute between the naval and military commanders during the unfortunate Walcheren Expedition of 1809. I cannot find it in any of the dictionaries of quotations. The first line is given, surely incorrectly, in a recent number of The Spectator as : " Lord Chatham, with his sword drawn." E. W. H. P. [This has been discussed at 1 S. xi. 52 ; 48. v. 174, 497, 606; vi. 84, 144, 244; vii. 18. Several versions are given, but the best appears to be that given by H. P. D. at the last reference, which ' reproduce : " The controversy with regard to the correct version is, I think, set at rest by the following ' tract from a letter addressed by Lord Palmer- si on to his sister, the Hon. Miss Temple, dated Feb. 27, 1810 (Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer's ' Life of Viscount Palmerston,' 1870, i. 117) : ' Did you see the following epigram the other day in the Chronicle ? If you did not 'tis a pity you should miss it and I send it to you ; it is by Jekyll : - Lord Chatham with his sword undrawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, eager to get at 'em Stood waiting but for what ? Lord Chatham.' It will be observed that Lord Palmerston states positively that the epigram is by Jekyll." It may be worth mentioning that Jekyll has a place in the ' D.N.B.'] AUTHOR WANTED. I should be glad to know the author of a little poem, called, I believe, ' Shipwreck.' It begins : " A stormy sea at the dawn of day, A torrent of foam and spray, And patches of white sea foam that lay, High on the fields inland." J TAVERN SIGNS : " THE FIVE ALLS." (12 S. ix. 145.) IN the interesting list of signs of London coffee-houses and inns now appearing in the columns of ' N. & Q.' " The Five Alls " does not find a place. It is to be found at Oxford, at Gosport, and in Wiltshire at the towns of Chippenham and Marlborough. The characters of the quintette are not invariable, but the usual group is that of the King, " 1 rule all"; the Soldier, "I fight for all"; the Ecclesiastic, "I pray for all"; the Barrister, "I plead for all"; and the Farmer, " I pay for all." In their ' History of Signboards,' Larwood and Hotten speak of this sign as being " old and still common." They give an illustration " from an old print by Kay " in which the place of the King is taken by his Satanic Majesty, who says, " I take all." But these authors treat the original sign as " The Four Alls " and regard the lawyer as a later addition. This limitation of the group to four members seems to have found favour in France. At Rouen, 10 or 12 years ago, there was displayed, in the window of a printing office in the Rue Ganterie, a sheet almanac for 1820. This Calendrier Royal had as a heading a portrayal of " Les quatre verites du siecle d'a present." The four characters and their utterances were as follow : Le Pretre : Je prie Dieu pour vous trois. Le Soldat : Je vous garde tous trois. Le Paysan : Je vous nourris tous trois. Le Procureur : Je vous gruge tous trois. It is observable that even in this limited