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Gavin Hamilton got Col. Rumbald's buff coat, out of which the colonel's blood could by no means be washed. Hamilton was one of those who ap- prehended Kumbald, after the Duke of Argyle's affair.

These two facts, and the passage from Shak- speare, seem to point out an old and wide- spread opinion, that the blood of a murdered man will not wash out. Cannot others of your correspon- dents further illustrate this point ? B. H. C.

Horsley Family. The arms and crest of the Horsley family are a white horse's head, with a loose rein. Now, as the sign on the banner of Hengist and Horsa was a white horse, does this close resemblance both in name and crest prove any descent of the family of the former Bishop of St. Asaph from the Saxon conquerors, or has any attempt been made to trace it ? E. E. BYNG.

Norwich Family.

" At Kettering there lives the widow of a baronet, who earns a precarious livelihood by washing and charing; she is sometimes facetiously called ' My Lady.' Her late husband's grandfather, Sir John Norwich, lost a large estate through gambling, and was afterwards pensioned by the Duke of Montague; and his son, the late Sir John, was so poor that he died in the parish workhouse, leaving nothing but the barren title to the late Sir Wil- liam Norwich, who followed the humble occupation of a sawyer ! His son, the present Sir William, emigrated some years since to America, where it is said he is doing well." Leicester Mercury.

From the Wolverhampton Chronicle of July 4, 1855.

Is the above account true ? Burke says in his Extinct Baronetage, that, the baronetical family of Norwich became extinct in the person of Sir William Norwich, who died unmarried in 1742.

C. J. DOUGLAS.

Gunstons of Stoke Newington. I should feel greatly obliged to MR. S. W. Rix, who speaks of a Gunston MS. in 2 nd S. i. 153., if he would kindly give me any information respecting the Gunstons of Stoke Newington, with their arms. Are there any portraits of that family ? G. G.

Clockmakers. At what time did the following clockmakers flourish, whose names I have met with on various elaborate and curious antique ^ocks ? Samuel Dunkerley, London; James loyce, London ; Aclander Dobson, London ; John B.llifiix ( a very curious musical chime clock), Lddon. JONES.

'The Tune that the Cow died of." Will sorm one oblige me with a reference to "that air? I am almost afraid that it has been before sough f or through the medium of " N. & Q. ;" but itjt has, I can find no information on the sub]ecw; ven hitherto in reply.

rher i s an O i(j north-country song about a

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piper and his cow, of which I have a verse or two, and which appears to have something to do with the matter ; but I hardly suppose it to be the one which is reputed to have caused the death of the animal : still, in default of anything better (? worse), perhaps some one will be kind enough to complete even it for me :

" There was a piper had a cow,

And he had nought to give her, He took his pipes an' play'd a tune ' Owre the hills amang the heather.'

" The cow was mickle pleased at this,

An' gave the piper a penny. The piper laugh'd, and play'd again ' Oh ! corn-riggs are bonny,' " &c. &c.

The cow, I believe, dies during the performance of one of the most touching melodies.

R. W. HACK.WOOD.

The Words "Reason" frc. Who was the author of

"An Attempt to explain the Words Reason, Substance, Person, Creeds, Orthodoxy. . . . By a Presbyter of the Church of England. London : W. Johnston."

Said by Watt to be published in 1757, and cer- tainly printed (or reprinted) in 1766. M.

The Readers Maxim.

" Learn to read slow, all other graces Will follow in their proper places."

To whom do we owe the above instructive maxim ? J. K.

The Doleman. We have in our town a narrow street, known as " Doleman's Lane;" and as I have no knowledge of any family bearing the name in the locality, I shall be glad to know whether it exists elsewhere, and whether the dole- man was the beggar, or the alms-giver. J. K.

Saxonicum Verbvm. I copy the following com- mencement of a letter from vol. i. epist. 141. p. 274., of Giles's edition of the Works of St. Boniface. The writer describes himself as " Ego minimus, nomine Latito." The date of the letter is uncer- tain, probably the middle of the eighth century.

" Audio de te, quod iter vis incipere, hortor, ut non de- feceris. Eja, fac quod incepisti. Memento Saxonicum vevbum : Ost deed lata dontce foreldit sigi sit hagahuem suurltit thiana. Tamen tale quid in te haud scio."

What is the Saxon proverb here quoted ? H.

Church and State. Does the following senti- ment occur in the writings of Lord Bacon, and if so, where ?

" The tendency of the union between Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State re- ligious."

GASTHOS.

" Relation of Luis Vaez de Torres." Admiral Burney, in Appendix I. to the second volume of