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" If, however, the painting is considered to be anterior in time to the inscription on the wainscot, and such really appears to be the case from the style of the wainscot, then it may be connected with the possibility of the Court of the Marches of Wales, over which Mary presided in 1525, with the title of ' Princess of Wales,' having been held here, since the Council House, where the Court usually sat afterwards, was not built till 1530 ; or it may be the memorial of an" unrecorded visit of Queen Mary to our town ; or the residence of one of her household, or of some member of the Council, amongst both-of whom were many Cambrian names, and the following : Ap. Rice, Baldwyn, Basset, Bromley, Burnell, Burton, Cotton, Dod, Egerton, Pigot, Rocke, Sydnour, Salter, more or less connected with Shrewsbury; or it may have been the mansion of one of the many Welsh families of distinction, with whom Mary formed an intimacy during her resi- dence in the Marches ; or, as the crest of the Rocke family still remains on the leaden water-piping, and who in later times are remembered to have resided therein, it may have been the mansion of Anthony Rocke, who was a servant of Queen Katherine, and a legatee in her will to the amount of 20/. ; and of whom the Princess Mary thus writes in one of her letters : 'For although he be not my servant, yet because he was my mother's, and is an honest man, as I think, I do love him well, and would do him good.'

" Which of these guesses may be the true solution, we are unable at present to decide."

Can any of the readers of " N. & Q." throw any light upon it ? PHIOR ROBERT OF SALOP.

HARBORS or BARNSTAPJ.B.

I shall feel greatly obliged to any reader of " N. & Q." who can and will kindly afford me in- formation of the Barbors of Barnstaple, North Devon, an Esculapian family, which produced three generations of physicians, all of whom prac- tised their faculty with distinguished reputation in that town.

1. William Barbor, the first of the family of whom I am anxious for particulars, settled at Barnstaple as a physician in the seventeenth cen- tury, and married the heiress of Pointz, of North- cote in Bittadon. Vide Lysons's Magna Bri- tannia.

2. William Barbor, a son of the above, was born about the year 1700. He was educated at the Grammar School of Barnstaple durinjr the Master- ship of Mr. Luck ; was entered at Caius College, Cambridge, March 19, 1718, proceeded M.B.

1723, M.D. 1735, and settling in his native town, practised there for many years. He had at least two sons, the elder, William, to be presently men- tioned, and John, a younger son, born in 1727, and matriculated at Caius College in 1745.

3. William Barbor, M.B. He was the son of the preceding, was born at Barnstaple in or about

1724, was for six years at the Grammar School under Mr. Luck, and in June, 1741, was entered at Caius College. He took his degree of M.B. at Cambridge in 1746, settled at Barnstaple as a

physician, and married the coheiress of Acland, of Fretnington. His son, Arthur Acland Barbor, was entered at Caius in 1771, took the two de- grees in arts, and was elected a fellow of that college.

Monuments to the memory of these physicians may probably exist in Barnstaple, F remington, or some of the adjacent churches. If this be the case, I should be grateful to any of your correspondents for a transcript of the inscriptions they present. The parochial registers of Barnstaple and Fre- mington would doubtless supply some information. I have searched Gribble's Memorials of Barn- staple, 8vo., 1830, without finding any mention of the Barbors ; and the present representative of the family, the possessor of the Fremington es- tates, coiirteously informs me that his papers throw no light on the object I have in view, the history of the physicians of Devon.

W. MUSK, M.D.

Finsbury Place.

Matthew Robinson. In an unpublished auto- biography of Matthew Robinson, vicar of Burnis- ton, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and founder of a charity in that parish, there is a large account of " Annotations on the Bible," which he composed when suffering from an incur- able malady. The Annotations on the New Testa- ment, in 2 vols. folio, are now in the possession of the Rev. Dr. Jackson, of the Wesleyan College, Richmond, who purchased them some years since from Mr. Brown, of Old Street. Can any reader help me to find the former part of the commen- tary ? The same Robinson published A Treatise of Faith, by a Dying Divine, 8vo. This is men- tioned in Thoresby's Diary (Sept. 27, 1694) ; but I have not met with it, and shall be thankful to any one who can procure me a sight of it. As the Life, with the exception of the Appendix, is al- ready in type, 1 must add "Bis dat qui cito dat."

" Moveor immotus." I have endeavoured, in vain, to find a confirmation of Robinson's words : " So that his motto might have been that about the mariner's compass ' Moveor immotus.' " Books of emblems, and treatises on the compass, give no help : so that, unless some of your readers have been more fortunate, I fear that the state- ment must go forth on Robinson's sole authority.

J. E. B. MAYOR. Cambridge.

Collins' s " Ode to Evening." A writer in The Athenaeum of January 5, 1856, in a review of Mr. Gilfillan's edition of the Poetical Works of Collins and Warton, proposes to adopt some varia- tions in Collins's Ode to Evening, on the authority