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bark of every senseless tree engraves the tenor of his hapless hope. Now when he's at Venus' altar at his orisons, I'll put me on my great carnation nose, and wrap me in a rowsing calf-skin suit, and come like some hob- goblin, or some devil ascended from the grisly pit of hell; and like a scarbabe make him take his legs : I'll play the devil, I warrant ye."

We subjoin the inscription on R. Scarlet, who was formerly sexton of Peterborough Cathedral :

" You see old Scarlet's picture stand on high, But at your feet there doth his body lye. His gravestone doth his age and death-time show, Second to none for strength, and sturdie limme, A scarbabe mighty voice, with visage grimm ; He had interr'd two queens within this place; 1 And this town's housnolders in his Hve's space Twice over ; but at length his own turn came, What he for others did, for him the same Was done : no doubt his soul doth live for ay In heaven, though here his body clad in clay."
 * His office by these tokens you may know :

Upon a square freestone on the ground below :

" IVLY 2. 1594.

K. S. ^Etatis 98."

See Bridges's Northamptonshire, ii. 5G7.]

Fraternitas Divi Nicolai. A fragment of En- glish Missal (MS.) has just come into my posses- sion, at the end of which is a list of the members of a certain society in London, about which I should be very glad to get some information ; the title runs thus :

" Nomina subsequuntur Fratrum et Sororum Fraterni- tatis Divi Nicolai nuper admissorum, viz. Ricardus Lye de parochia Sanctae Magna; at London Brj'ge, et Robartus Smyth de paroch. Sancti Olavi in Sowthwarke, memo- ratse fraternitatis magistrorum. Anno a natale Cristiano M 10 ccccc d xxm."

Then follow names of canons, priests, 'uxores clerici, laici ; and among others, nomina uxorum clericorum. J. C. J.

[This society was the Guild or Fraternity of Clerks, commonly called " The Company of Parish "Clerks," in- corporated by Henry III., and formerly known by the name of the Fraternity of St. Nicholas, whose hall was near Little St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, where they had seven almshouses for poor clerks' widows. " Unto "this frater- nity men and women of the first quality, ecclesiastical and others, joined themselves; who, as they were great lovers of church music in general, so their beneficence unto-parish clerks in particular is abundantly evident by some ancient MSS. at their common hall in Great Wood Street. Charles I. renewed their charter, and incorporated them under the name of ' Master, Wardens, and Fellow- ship of Parish Church Clerks of London, Westminster, Southwark, and the fifteen out-parishes.' " Strype's Stow, book v. p. 231.]

Sir William Herschell. Has any portrait of this philosopher been published ? if so, where ?

W. M'C.

[Sir William Herschell's portrait will be found in Euro- pean Magazine, Jan. 1785; Philosophical Transactions, vol. Ixxv. pt. i. ; Pictorial History of England, vol. v. p. G22.; vol. ix. p. 703.]

Sir Henry Gould, Knt. There is a portrait, engraved in mezzotinto by T. Hardy, published in 1794, of the above-named knight, aged eighty- five, and in his robes as one of the justices of the court of Common Pleas. I believe he was mater- nal grandfather of Henry Fielding the novelist, and belonged to the family settled at Sharpham Park, Glastonbury, Somersetshire. What are the arms of that family ?

I beg to ask whether there was not another person of the same name and family of Gould, who was also a justice of the court of Common Pleas? and in what year he died ? and whether any pic- ture or engraved likeness of him is known to exist ? T. E.

Kent.

[Sir Henry Gould of Sharpham Park, one of the jus- tices of the court of Common Pleas, died March 5, 1794. His arms are, Azure, a lion rampant or, between three scrolls argent. His daughter Sarah married Edmund Fielding, Esq.,Lieut.-General, and father of Henry Field- ing, novelist. The pedigree of Sir Henry Gould is given in Phelps's Somersetshire, vol. i. p. 564., and an account of his death in the Gentleman's Mag., vol. Ixiv. pt. i. p. 283. There was another Sir Henry Gould, appointed Puisne Judge of the King's Bench, "Jan. 14, 1699, who died on March 26, 1710-1

Ballad on the Death of Simon de Montfort. I have several times seen quoted the two follow- ing lines, as the commencement of a ballad, in Norman French, upon the death of Simon de Montfort, (I quote from memory) : " Ore est ocys, le fleur de pris,

Que tant scavoit de guerre, Le Comte Montfort, sa dure m'ort,

Moult en plorra la terre." Where can I meet with the whole ballad ?

J. C.

[The original version of this ballad on the death of Simon de Montfort will be found in a manuscript of Edward II.'s time in the Harleian Collection, No. 2253, and is printed in the second edition of Ritson's Ancient Songs and Ballads, edit. 1829, vol. i. p. 15., with a trans- lation by George Ellis, Esq., the ingenious editor of Spe- cimens of the Early English Poets. The lines quoted by J. C. are 9 to 12. The ballad thus commences : " Chaunter mestoit, mon cuer le voit,

En un dure langage, Tut enploraunt fust fet le chaunt, De nostre duz baronage."]

Cat Island. Can you inform me as to thp past and present condition of Guanahani, or San Sal- vador (S. Saviour's), one of the Bahama Islands, memorable in the world's history for the landing upon it of Christopher Columbus in 1492 ? Also to a history of the Bahamas, which ought to con- tain information on so interesting a subject ?

AN OCCASIONAL READER.

[This island is called by the Indians Guanahani ; by the Spaniards St. Salvador; and is known to English seamen as Cat Island (" N. & Q.," 1" S. v. 78.). We be- lieve the best account of the Bahamas will be found m