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existence, if he looks at the first page of the ninth chapter in Physical Geography of the Sea, by M. F. Maury. London: Sampson ^Low, 1855. A most interesting work, not half so well known as it deserves to be, and not at all too technical and -scientific for the general reader. Maury, if I am not mistaken, now holds in the government of the United States the office of Superintendant of the Hydrographic Establishment.

HENRY KENSINGTON.

The Spirit Song (2 nd S. i. 252.) This song was written by Mrs. John Hunter, and may be found in Poems by Mrs. John Hunter. London, 1802. J. K. R. W.

Stratford Baron Baltinglass (2 nd S. i. 234.) Robert Stratford, who settled in Ireland in 1660, and who was grandfather of Baron Baltinglass, the first Earl of Aldborough, was the third son of Edward Stratford, of Nuneaton, co. Warwick, by his wife Grace, daughter of William Pargiter, of Gretworth, Esq. This Edward was the eldest son of John Stratford, of Nuneaton and Ansley, who died in. 1625 or 1626.

I shall be glad if any of your readers will kindly give me the following information, or refer me to any source from which I can derive it:

Who was the wife of John Stratford, and mother of Edward Stratford ? Also, who were the father and grandfather of John Stratford, and what were their wives' names ? I believe John Stratford to have been descended from a younger son of John Stratford, of Farmcote, co. Gloucester, of whose family some accounts are to be found in the Glou- cestershire county histories. At the Heralds' Of- fice I can find no pedigree of the Warwickshire Stratfords, tracing them further back than the Edward mentioned above. F. H.

Corbet (2 nd S. i. 253.) Sir Vincent, husband of Viscountess Corbet, was certainly not the son of Richard Corbet the bishop. Sir Vincent was the head of the principal line of Corbets of More- ton Corbet, and son of Sir Andrew, who was the son of Sir Vincent, who was the son of Sir An- drew, &c. The bishop had no traceable relation- ship to them. He was of a Surrey family, and his father, Vincent, said to have been the sou of a gar- dener at Twickenham. He certainly adopted the arms of the Shropshire Corbets ; and the frequency in his family also of the Christian name Vincent, which was almost generic in the ancient line, is curious. MONSON.

Gatton Park.

Hours for Marrying (2 nd S. i. 233.) Matri- mony, by Reynolds' Constitutions, 1322, c. 7., was to be celebrated "in the day-time, without laughter, scoff, or sport." By the Canons, c. 62., A.D. 1603, a clergyman is to marry "only between

the hours of eight and twelve in tie forenoon, to preclude any indecency or unbecoming levity." This is enforced under penalty of transportation for fourteen years by 4 Geo. IV. c. 76. sect. 28. It must be remembered that the hour of dinner at that period was usually noon.

MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.

Sir Stephen Fox (1 st S. xi. 325. 395.) Permit me by way of supplement to note a brief sketch t)f this family.

Sir Stephen Fox was the son of Mr. Wm. Fox, of Farley, in the county of Wilts, near Salisbury. His mother was the daughter of Thomas Pavey of the same county.

The family of Pavey is not quite extinct, some being still resident in the county of Wilts. Sir Stephen leaves in his will, among the legacies, " to Mr. Thomas Pavey and Mr. James Pavey, 10Z. each."

These Christian names being still preserved among the family I allude to, I think it is not an improbable conjecture that they may be lineal descendants of Sir Stephen's maternal grandfather. Sir Stephen Fox was born March 27, 1627. His father died 1652. He had an elder brother, John, who had an estate at Avebury, co. Wilts. He married about 1654 Mrs. Eliz. Whittle, dau. of Mr. W. Whittle of co. Lancaster. A grant of arms was made to him Oct. 30, 1658. A grant of arms to Dame Elizabeth, his wife, Sept. 13, 1688. Upon this subject his biographer says :

"As arms are the proper rewards of virtue and in- tegrity, it is much more to deserve them from our own actions than those of our forefathers (as this lady and her renowned husband most assuredly did), than to have them transmitted down from others, by the means of a long train of ancestors ; since this is no more than to make us shine with a borrowed light, exclusive of any lustre of our own."

His second wife was Mrs. Margaret Hope, daugh- ter of a clergyman at Grantham, in Lincolnshire. He was buried at the church built by him at Farley, his birthplace, 1713. CL. HOPPEB.

Black Hole, Calcutta (2 nd S. i. 255.)

" Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen, and others, who were suifocated in the Black Hole, Calcutta, on the 20th of June, 1750. 13y J. Z. Uol- well, 1758," pp. 56., 8vo.

The above is the title of a little tract that I sold a short time since. At the end of it F. will find a list of the names of those who survived ; the au- thor, I think, being one of them. W. GEOKGE. Bath Street, Bristol.

" Quern Dcus vult perdere prius dementat" (1 st S. i. 351. 421. 476. ; ii. 317. ; vii. 618.; viii. 73.) The unknown author mentioned by Sophocles as the originator of this proverb has not yet been pointed out, but I am enabled to supply the desi-