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n aachers authorized for the county of Lan-
 * a *ter." He married a daughter of Richard

)ore, of Edmunsbury, in Suffolk. Further brmation concerning him is wanted, either \vately or through the medium of 1 N.& Q.' .e ' Dictionary of National Biography ' con- ns no reference to him. H. FISHWICK. The Heights, Rochdale.

CHALLOWE. Can any one give me the arms
 * this family ? Sarah, daughter and heir of

ohn Challowe, Esq., of Grantham, co. Lin-

oln, and widow of a Mr. Butler, married

swald Hatfeild, Esq., of Hatfeild Hall, near

Wakefield, before the middle of the eighteenth

entury. W. D. HOYLE.

13, Gray's Inn Square, W.C.

GREAT EVENTS FROM LITTLE CAUSES. ome exemplifications of this from history would prove interesting to the querist. Where do the familiar words "What great events from little causes jspringj " come from? There is something like them in Pope's 'Kape of the Lock.' A. S. P.

GENERAL WADE.

(9 th S. i. 129.)

I CANNOT help your correspondent on the literary question connected with this celebrity, but what follows will perhaps be useful. George Wade was born in 1668, land died 14 February, 1748, according to ' Chambers's Encyclopaedia,' and was buried iin Westminster Abbey on 21 March in the Hatter year. Other notices which I have iseen give the death-date 14 March. He ob- jtained his first commission in the Engineers He is famous for his part in suppressing the Scottish rebellion of 1745, as well as for his construction of the great military roads through the Highlands during his command of the royal forces in Scotland after the earlier Jacobite rising of 1715 a work of engineering commemorated in a curious couplet which, says the writer " G." (Richard Qough ?) of Appendix No. ix. to James Pettit &ndrews's 'Anecdotes,' was made by a Mr. Oanfield, who was employed in the work : lad you but seen these roads before they were
 * in 1690, and rose to the highest command.

made, f ou 'd lift up your hands and bless Marshal Wade.

' G.," being uncertain as to Canfield's nation- ility, takes occasion to observe :

"If he was a native of this island, he affords strength to the arguments already adduced, to prove that the Irish have, by no means, a right to the monopoly of bulls."

The writer of a notice of Wade in Chambers's ' Book of Days' (i. 369) attributes the couplet to an Irish ensign, and explains it as "referring in reality to the tracks which had pre- viously existed on tho same lines, and which are roads in all respects but that of being made, i.e., regularly constructed."

The monument to Wade in the nave of Westminster Abbey is a splendid work of Rou- biliac. Many notices of Wade's military opera- tions in 1745 are to be found in the fourth volume of Defoe's ' Tour through Great Britain ' ; and anecdotes are related in Chambers's 'Book of Days,' Hone's 'Year-Book' (p. 154), and Cunningham's 'Handbook of London' (art. 'Cork Street'). F. ADAMS.

106A, Albany Road, Camberwell.

' Albania, a Poem addressed to the Genius of Scotland,' is of great rarity. There is a copy in the Abbotsford Library, and I have no doubt it is the one referred to by Dr. John Leyden when he says :

"The fate of the poem of 'Albania' has been extremely unlucky. The author and the original editor are equally unknown ; and of the poem itself no copy, except that which has been used in this edition, is known to exist. It was printed at Lon- don for T. Cooper in 1737, folio." Your correspondent A SCOT will find many interesting remarks and notes on this very rare book, which was reprinted by Dr. Ley- den, in his ' Scottish Descriptive Poems, with some Illustrations of Scottish Literary An- tiquities,' Edinburgh, 1803. The following note is written on the fly-leaf of my copy of this book :

" This scarce collection by Dr. John Leyden con- tains the only reprint of ' Albania,' which was pro- bably written by a native of Aberdeen (see p. 164). Only a single copy is known of the first edition of this poem.

JAMES SINTON.

Eastfield, Musselburgh, N.B.

Years ago somewhere I read these lines : If you had seen these roads before they were made, You would lift up your hands and bless General

Wade.

Which is not improbable. Are they in Bos- well's ' Life of Johnson ' ? R. R.

Boston, Lincolnshire.

A correspondent of 'N. & Q.' (5 th S. iii. 369; iv. 55) states that General Wade's pedigree appeared in Burke's ' Landed Gentry,' fourth edition. An account of him is also given in the 'Georgian Era.' General Wade was a skilled engineer, and built the Tay Bridge. In compliment to him Dr. Friend, of West- minster, wrote a Latin inscription, which was placed upon the bridge. A copy is given in ' N. & Q.,' 3 rd S. ii. 192. On his decease, in