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 32 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S. IX. JULY 9, 1921. SIB HENBY PRICE. Who was Sir Henry Price, whose daughter Henrietta Maria married Alexander Stanhope (her portrait was said to have been painted by Sir Peter Lely) ? Any information respecting him will be gratefully received. LEONARD C. PRICE. Essex Lodge, Ewell. FRENCH AND ITALIAN TRANSLATORS OF GELLERT (see ' The Rhine regarded as a French River,' 12 S. viii. 509). It may perhaps be worth while to learn the names of the French and Italian translators (with their dates) of Gellert's celebrated ' Fabeln ' and * Geistliche Lieder ' to which Michael Denis refers, as quoted by MR. W. H. DAVID. These versions in French and Italian are probably found, if not in the British Museum, in the Paris Biblio- theque Nationale and in one of the great Italian libraries accessible to students, and deserving the interest of comparative literature. H. K. PUBLIC PENANCE. In ' Select Bio- graphical Sketches from the Note-Books of a Law Reporter, by William Heath Bennet, Barrister-at-Law,' 1867, after re- lating the troubles of Mary Ann Dix, who, for defamation, was sentenced in or about 1812 to perform penance in the Church of St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, the author wrote : " This, I believe, was the last sentence of penance ever pronounced in Protestant England." The late William Andrews quoted the Rev. Mackenzie Walcott for the statement that the last case of public penance performed in this country took place in April, 1849, at Ditton Church, near Cambridge. Leicestershire and Rut- land Notes and Queries, ii. 74 (1893), instances a penance performed at the church door of Stoke Golding soon after alterations " in 184 " ; and a well-known resident in Hampshire told me, some twenty years ago, that he had seen penance performed with usual full rites, but whether there or in London I do not recollect, though I incline to the latter. The ' En- cyclopaedia Britannica' says that "public penances have long been abolished " ; whilst ' Chambers's Encyclopaedia ' states that it was inflicted publicly in a church at East Clevedon, Somersetshire, in 1882. Perhaps this last (like a recent incident that has appeared in the newspapers) was merely domestic to the local officials con- cerned, and not the sentence of any con- stituted tribunal, ecclesiastical or legal : and some correspondent may be able to give the last date when a formal sentence was actually put in force. W. B. H. AUTHORS WANTED. 1. Who wrote " It is a good and soothfast saw, Ralf -roasted never can be raw. And, having tasted stolen honey, You can't buy innocence with money " ? J. B. H. 2. Could any reader tell me where I could find the underneath lines ? I heard them from my grandmother about 60 or 70 years ago. Geo. IV. : Caroline of Brunswick, She has a pretty hand, Sir, And if you will but pay my debts I'll have her at command, Sir. Geo. III. : To pay your debts myself, my son, I should be much to blame, Sir, There's Fred and Dick and all the rest, Would ask of me the same, Sir. But Johnny Bull, who pays for all. Would pay, you need not doubt it, So do you prepare to wed And I'll speak to Pitt about it. I should be very grateful for the information. I am told it is some skit of the times. S. J. WOOD. HORSE-RIDING RECORDS. (12 S. viii. 509.) IN the days of my youth a common phrase in commending a horse was that the animal was " as good as Pentland " Adjoining the old tower of Monreith, now converted into a farmhouse, there is a field called Pentland, deriving its name from an incident in the seventeenth century. In the religious war that distracted Scotland during the latter half of that century, brothers not infrequently espoused opposite sides, which, in the case of landowning families, at least ensured that a representa- tive of the victorious party should be in a position to claim succession to the estates. Such was the case in my ancestor's family, John Maxwell, the elder son and heir to Monreith, jo.ining the Covenanters, while his younger brother, William, declared for the Government. John was engaged in the action fought at Rullion Green, in the Pentland Hills, on Nov. 28, 1666, where the Covenanters were hopelessly routed, many of them being killed as fugitives by