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 470 NOTES AND QUERIES. ,, s s. ix. DEC. 10. 102!. VICARS OF CREDITON, DEVON. Biographi- cal information is sought of any of the following, who were vicars of Crediton between the dates shown : 1. Thomas Ley (1689-1721). 2. Robert Ham (1721-1731). 3. John Carwithen (1731-1742). 4. John Stacy (1742-1759). 5. Samuel Hart (1759-1793). 6. John Rudall (1793-1835). T. CANN HUGHES, F.S.A. Lancaster. THE REV. JOHN CARTWRIGHT, rector of Winwick, Co. Northampton, 1688-1693, the eldest son of Thomas Cartwright, Bishop of Chester, is said to have gone " beyond the seas." Where did he go to, and did he ever return to this country ? G. F. R. B. R. C. MUNDELL was admitted to West- minster School Oct. 2, 1809. I should be grateful for any information about his par- entage and career. G. F. R. B. GEORGE BASEVI, ARCHITECT. When and whom did he marry ? The ' D.N.B.,' vol. iii., p. 354, does not allude to his marriage. G. F. R. B. " HOP-SCOTCH " : DERIVATION OF WORD. Is the derivation of the name of the children's game hop-scotch as given in the dictionaries, viz., " hop " and " scotch," the lines marked or scotched on the ground ? We have a dialect word " scutch," and " scooter " and others of the same lot. May not the sense of " hop-scotch " be first the hop and then the second action, skidding or " scutching " the disc across the line, thus combining two verbs and not a verb and a noun on the analogy of " catch- penny," &c. ? ALEX. MACDONALD. BUSKIN : BEFERENCE SOUGHT. In one of his works, Buskin expresses the following sentiment : "It is better to save up enough money to buy one good picture by a good artist, than to buy many reproductions." I shall be grateful for the reference to this. H. F. E. Southport. WORDS OP SONGS WANTED. Could anyone give me the words of two old songs, ' The Cork Leg ' and ' The Steam Arm ' ? The chorus of both is " Too-rol-too-rul-rool," &c. I have inquired of the music trade with- out success. H. B. AUTHORS WANTED. 1. In a speech delivered at the recent Armistice Day Dinner organized by the English-Speaking Union, the American Am- bassador quoted two pieces of verse. I have been unable to find the author of either one. Can some correspondent enlighten me ? They ran as follows (I quote from the newspaper reports) : " My enemy came nigh And I Stared fiercely in his face, My lips went writhing back in a grimace, And stern I watched him with a narrow eye. Then, as I turned away, my enemy, That bitter heart and savage, said to me : ' Some day, when this is past, When all the arrows that we have are cast, We may ask one another why we hate, And fail to find a story to relate. It may seem to us then a mystery That we could hate each other.' Thus said he And did not turn away, Waiting to hear what I might have to say. But I fled quickly, fearing if I stayed I might have kissed him as I would a maid." 2. " What to thee is shadow, to Him is day, And the evil He knoweth ; And not in a blind and aimless way The spirit goeth." P. W. 3. Can any reader tell me where the following comes from ? " Oh cast that shadow from thy brow, My dark-eyed love, and smile awhile. Has Leila's song no music now ? Is there no charm in Leila's smile ? " It sounds Byronic from ' The Giaour ' but I cannot find it there. H. W. MOORE. 4. " Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran." G. L. C. [" Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time, with a gift of tears ; Grief, with a glass that ran. . . ." This is the beginning of the second Chorus in Swinburne's ' Atalanta in Calydon.'] VERLAINE AT STICKNEY. (12 S. ix. 429.) THERE is a letter dated April 10, 1875, from the poet to M. Edmond Lepelletier in the latter's Life of Verlaine (p. 343 of the English translation), a portion of which runs as follows : Here I am a professor. . . in an English village. There is no one around me who can speak a word of French. ... I teach French, Latin. . . and drawing. I am sufficiently accomplished for these three labours. And teach in English. . . what English I but during the eight days I have been here I have improved. Family life. Mr. Andrews is a young man
 * ' scutchers " = skates, with " scoot,"