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 410 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.ix. NOV. 19,1021. CAPTAIN MORTON RHYS. Otherwise known as Morton Price. This author issued ; the rare ' Theatrical Trip for a Wager through Canada and the United States.' Could any reader supply details as to his place of nativity and the period in which he ! nourished ? ANETJRIN WILLIAMS. Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon. . MACKEN. I should be very much obliged ! if any reader could refer me to any pedigree i or memoranda, in print or manuscript, ! relating to this family. I am particularly j desirous of obtaining information concerning ' a certain Thomas Macken of Dublin, who ! married a Mrs. Grant (nee Lee), the widow j of Colonel Grant, in or about the year 1820. ! The said Thomas Macken is believed to have < been born about 1790, and to have died j about 1846, but I have been unable to ! verify either date. The name, it would | seem, is a very rare one, as I have not j succeeded in finding any reference to it | in any genealogical work I have consulted. | A. R. MARTIN. 1 8, Kidbrook Park Road, Blackheath. " THE HORIZON OF NEOLITHIC IMPLE- MENTS. What is meant by fixing the "hori- zon of Neolithic implements " ? The phrase is new to me ; it appears in an account of some discoveries by those supposed to understand the subject. (See Reading Mer- cury, Nov. 5.) BERKSHIRE. ROBERTS FAMILY. I should be grateful for the names of the parents and grand- parents of my great-grandfather, the Rev. Thomas Roberts, who married Anne Robin- son in 1791 and died July 25, 1829, aged 72. This clergyman, who was headmaster of Chelmsford during the period 1790-1829 j and was licenced to the cure of souls at Chignal Smealey, Essex, 1810, was ordained by the Bishop of Lincoln in the Temple Church, London, May 28, 1782. He seems j to have been a member of a family resident at Stanton Lacy and Burway, Salop, Westerley. Glos., and Sutton Chenell, Leics., in the time of the Heralds' Visitations. Their arms (per pale argent and gules, over all a lion rampant sable ; crest, an antelope's head erased) are ours by tradition and were evidently borne by my grandfather at a time when the Leicestershire branch at least could have disputed them. This latter branch, I find, from Nicholls's 'History of Leicestershire/ c. 1811, and J, H. Hill's ' History of Thorpe Langton,' c. 1867, survived as lords of the manor at Thorpe Langton till 1859, but I can get no information from the present holders. A further reference from Marshal's ' Guide ' is to Fosbrooke's ' Hist or y of Gloucester- shire,' but I have not seen this work. I have found no reference to this coat of arms and family in Fox Da vies' s ' General Armory ' nor in. Burke' s ' Landed Gentry,' so that I judge the family is no longer landed and that the arms have not been claimed for many years. I should be extremely grateful for any information your readers may be able and willing to give me. G. W. P. ROBERTS. REFERENCE WANTED. Will any reader pos- sessing a copy of Andrew Scott of Bowden^s 'Poems' (1805) inform me if the line "His turban was the doudlars plet," falls on p. 10 or p. 100 ? Can anyone lend me this edition for a few days as it is not accessible here ? Oxford. G. WATSON. AUTHOES WANTED. 1. Who wrote the poem of which the following is the first stanza : " When gay companions o'er the bowl Dispense awhile the sense of ill, When pleasure fills the maddening soul, The heart, the heart is lonely still." I first came across this in 1843. 2. Who is the author of : " If it is as you say I have altered a letter I'll change my note sot n and hope for the better. May the right use of letters as well as of men, Be guided by the tongue as well as the pen. Most devoutly I wish they may each have their due And that I may be never mistaken for U (you). This I first came across when in India in 1863. H. C. COLLIER, Colonel. 3. I am anxious to know the author of the following lines : " I like the one who faces what she must, With step triumphant, and a heart of cheer, Who fights the daily battle without fear ; Sees her hopes fail, yet keeps unfaltering trust That God is God that somehow, true and just, His plans work out for mortals." J. R. TAYLOR. 4. Who wrote the following and where can the complete poem be found ? " There is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song ; there is a remembrance of the dead t which we turn even from the charms of the " Ving -" G. M.