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Gravel Lane." Both father and son are noted for the memorable election contests with Sir Francis Burdett in 1802 and 1806, said to aave cost Sir Francis over 100,000^.

W. D. PINK.

3igh, Lincolnshire. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH BlRDS. Will

ie reader of ' N. & Q.' be so kind as to form me if the following be an exact tran- ipt, verbatim et literatim, of the fanciful le-page to a folio tract of four sheets which

appeared in 1849 1 " British Birds, [sic] Compiled by W. P. Cocks.

February 1849. Cornwall, a. found in the County.

b. found in Falmouth and neighbourhood, [sic]

from 1844 to 1849. Falmouth. W. P. Cocks."

I cannot recollect the resting-place of the copy handled by me. The list is merely nominal, arid almost wholly worthless. I want the title for a bibliography of British

birds. W. BUSKIN-BUTTERFIELD.

St. Leonards.

SPECIES OF FISH, &c. I should very much like to know what books are considered the standard for the determination of species of Cephalopoda, fishes, Myriapoda, and Crustacea. E. B. L.

Chemulpo, Korea.

PUDDLE DOCK. In the parish registers of Turvey, co. Bedford, is this entry : " William Skevington, senior, of Puddle Dock, bur. 1 Oct. 1687." Where is this Puddle Dock? Inquiries in the neighbourhood have failed to elicit any information. I know of places of the name in Kent and Norfolk, but think this must be much nearer, probably in the direction of Puddle Hill, co. Northampton. THOS. WM. SKEVINGTON.

Wood Rhydding, Ilkley.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

large-acred men,

Lords of fat Evesham and of Lincoln fen. Quoted, without reference, by Horace Smith, ' Tin Trumpet,' 1870, p. 150. W. C. B.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

LIBRARIAN.

[Asked 8 th S. vii. 209, 339, but unanswered.] Christus, si non Deus, lion bonus.

G. H. J.

When in retreat Fox lays his thunder by, And Wit and Taste their mingled charms supply When Siddons, born to melt and freeze the heart, Performs at home her more endearing part.

S. I see no restive leaflet quiver,

No glancing rays that meet and part.' The very beat of the broad river Is even as a silent heart.

BERNARD BUTLER,

"FOR TIME IMMEMORIAL." (9 th S. i. 246.)

THIS expression, sometimes slightly varied, with kindred ones, cannot but have been generally familiar from Queen Anne's time on for upwards of a century. Witness the following quotations :

" Posterity yet unborn shall pursue his Memory with Execrations, having, for immemorial Time, fix'd a Necessity of Contribution, in discharge of those heavy Debts. "Mrs. Manley, 'Secret Memoirs' (1709, &c.), vol. iv. p. 209 (ed. 1736).

" Terms which, for Time immemorial, have been in Fashion in the Place of my Nativity." Anon., 'Mr. Ginglicutt's Treatise of Scolding' (1731), p. 10.

"The beavers having been in possession of it before for time immemorial." Anon., 'The Im- postors Detected' (1760), vol. ii. p. 103.

"A country belonging to a people who were in possession for time immemorial." Goldsmith, ' Citizen of the World' (1762), xvii. IT 4." That government which has subsisted for time imme- morial." Ibid., xlii. H 3.

"Her death put an end to the monarchy in Egypt, which had flourished there for immemorial ages." Id., 'Roman History' (1769), vol. ii. p. 94 (ed. 1786).

"A mile beyond this oak stands another, which has, for time immemorial, been known by the name of Judith." William Cowper. ' Letter,' Sept. 13, 1788.

"Our archives have been carefully preserved

for time out of mind." Edward Du Bois, 'A Piece of Family Biography ' (1799), vol. i. p. 146.

"The birds of prey had, undisturbed, built

their nests and fixed tneir kingdom there for ages immemorial." Elizabeth Helme, ' St. Margaret's Cave '(1801), vol. i. p. 4.

" Whose blood has purled melodiously through

silver and golden pipes of exquisite art and taste for time immemorial." James Gilchrist, 'Reason the True Arbiter of Language ' (1814), p. 106.

Jethro Tull, in his ' Horse-hoeing Husbandry ' (1731-39), p. 84, note * (ed. 1822), has for time out of mind, and, in p. 243, for time imme- morial, which is found also in William Godwin's 'Enquirer' (1797), p. 265. I have not the books at hand.

Mrs. Manley, though, by implying pro- leptic remembrance, she perpetrates a first- class bull, is cited above as showing that the phrase she uses must have been current among her contemporaries.

And here may as well be illustrated the elliptical form of from time immemorial or for time immemorial:

"This deformity it had been the custom, time

immemorial, to look upon as the greatest ornament of the human visage. 'Goldsmith, 'Bee' (1759), Introduction, IT 11.

"The gout has been, time immemorial, a

clerical disorder here." Id., 'Citizen,' &c. (ut ante), Ivin. 1 2. Also in ci. IT 4, and ex. IF 7.