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 430 NOTES 'AND QUERIES. [ 12 s.ix. NOV. 26,1921. JOHN EVELYN : REFERENCE FOB Two j SAYINGS REQUIRED. Two remarks are as- 1 cribed by Dr. Wheatley to John Evelyn, | which I have not been able to verify in his ! Diary or correspondence. 1. Samuel Pepys used to entertain dis- j tinguished guests at his house in York Build- ! ings, and Evelyn is said to have expressed the strongest regret when it was necessary to discontinue these evenings on account of j the infirmities of the host. 2. Evelyn is said to have used the words | " Paradisian Clapham." If any correspondent would kindly give me contemporary references, either privately or in the columns of ' N. & Q.,' I should be much obliged. PHILIP NORMAN. 45, Evelyn Gardens, S.W.7. REV. JOHN MAUDE, M.A. I shall be glad to revive an old query by asking for information as to the career of this later- seventeenth-century divine. All I know of him at present is that he was vicar of Walthamstow, Essex, 1689-90, and rector of St. Anne and St. Agnes with St. John Zachary, London, 1690-96. He died in April of the latter year and was buried in the church. His will, of which I have an abstract, is entered in the Consistory Court ! Register, Redman, fol. 81. He may have! been distantly related to Archbishop Tillot- ' son, though no mention of the fact occurs in Birch's ' Life.' WM. McMuRRAY. THOMAS HOLLAND OF AMESBURY. In The Gentleman's Magazine of 1789 amongst other epitaphs is this, from Ambresbury (Amesbury) church, Wilts : In memory of the Rev. Thomas Holland, who was for half-a-century Minister of this parish, a small living, yet he never solicited for a greater, nor improved to his own advantage his marvellous talents in applying the powers of nature to the useful purposes of life, the most curious and complete engine, which the world now enjoys, for raising water, being invented by him. He departed the llth day of May in the year of our Lord 1730, aged 84 years. It would appear from Foster's * Alumni ' that he was at Queen's College, Oxford, 1666-1670, and for a time at Netherhaven, Wilts, where he married Grace Gunter. ' Can any of your readers say where any! account is to be found of him or his | "most curious and complete engine"? I have searched in vain, but there may be; some eighteenth-century history or periodi- ; cal of engineering or some old local history that might give some informa- tion. The Avon runs close by the village ; could he have harnessed it to something like a turbine ? EDITH E. WILDE. Milesdown, Winchester. THE " WOE WATERS " OF WHARRAM-LE- STREET. A New York correspondent has asked me to find out if this year the " Woe Waters " have run at Wharram-le-Street. He writes that the last time these " ran " was coincident with Good Friday falling on Lady Day as it has happened this year : When Our Lord falls in Our Lady's lap, England shall meet with great mishap ; a saying confirmed, in his opinion, by the political events of the year. N. Y. AZINCOURT : COLLECTION OF RELICS. In the well-known French encyclopaedia, Larousse, it is stated that in 1816 a number of relics were dug up on the field of battle of Azincourt and taken to London, where a " musee d' Azincourt " was formed. Does this museum still exist in London, and, if so, where is it to be found ? Or are the relics now part of some other collection ? H. W T ILBERFORCE-BELL. 21, Park Crescent, Oxford. JOHN PATRICK EDEN. He was rector of Sedgefield, 1864-85, and father of the first Bishop of Wakefield. Particulars con- cerning him are required. HAYDN T. GILES. 11, Ravensbourne Terrace, South Shields. " BUCKHEEN." I should be glad to know the origin and precise meaning of this term, which I have heard applied to swaggering young " sons of the soil " in Ireland, and especially by Army officers. Is it an Erse or Celtic word and of ancient usage ? I do not find it in the ' English Slang Dic- tionary.' D. K. T. MISQUOTATION OF SHAKESPEARE. There is a destiny that shapes our ends Bough -hew them how we may (will ?). The inquiry is trivial, but I should be glad to know whether Mark Twain was first responsible for this misquotation (and where, or who) ? A. K. C. THE PALACE OF PLACENTIA. What was this palace ? I have seen it marked on a copy of an old map of London, on the south bank of the Thames below Southwark. C. G. N.