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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. MAY 14, '98.

come back to see them by moonlight he would, I think, have been doomed to dis- appointment. I have heard that Millais was saved by a visit to Knole from endorsing the error, and, preferring pale truth to brilliant fallacy, shifted the action of his picture a few lines lower down. KILLIGREW.

I can remember once having contemplated, in the days of my youth, painting a picture which was to reproduce the charming scene so vividly suggested by Keats's poem. As a necessary preliminary I thought it well to notice the effect of moonbeams pouring through the stained windows of the parish church, and was disappointed to find that all its brilliant hues were reduced to neutral tints. Keats is in this point not true to nature. A. SMYTHE PALMER.

South Woodford.

COINS (9 th S. i. 268). The coins are probably the copper farthings of Charles I., described by James Simon as follows :

" King Charles I. soon after his accession granted a patent to Frances, duchess dowager of Richmond and Lennox, and to Sir Francis Crane, knight, for the term of seventeen years, empowering tnem to strike copper farthings, and by proclamation ordered that they should equally pass in England and Ireland. They are very small and thin, and have on one side two sceptres in saltire through a crown and this inscription, CAROL vs D.G. MAG. BBI.; reverse, the crowned harp and FRAN. ET HIB. REX. They weigh about six grains, and have a woolpack, a bell, or a flower-de-luce, mint -marks. "'Essay towards Historical Account of Irish Coins,' 1749.

HORACE W. MONCKTON. The two inscriptions should be taken in the reverse order, and some of the points omitted : CARO. D.G. MAG. BRI. FRA. ET HIB. REX (" Carolus Dei gratia Magnse Britannia?, Franciae et Hibernise Rex "). The style would apply equally to Charles I. or Charles II.; perhaps more naturally the former, as the name stands alone. Possibly Charles I. may have struck some such light coins during the Great Rebellion, when Oxford was his head- quarters. W. E. B.

WEIGHT OF BOOKS (9 th S. i. 284). H. T., whose idea is that to object to a heavy book savours of effeminacy, reminds me of the correspondents who object to details, and to information put in an artistic instead of an inartistic manner, as being too puerile for great minds. I some time ago (8 th S. xii. 382) objected to Black- burn's heavy book, and if travelling should certainly give preference to a light one. As a specimen of a beautifully light book I can refer to ' Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush,' by

Ian Maclaren, sixth edition, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 27, Paternoster Row, 1895.

RALPH THOMAS.

POEM AND AUTHOR WANTED (9 th S. i. 229). By a curious coincidence, on the very day MR. DALLAS GLOVER'S inquiry appeared con- cerning the poem whence the two lines quoted by him were taken, the poem itself was printed in the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle (19 March). The correspondent who had forwarded the lines to that periodical had made a cutting of them from a newspaper some years ago, but had no knowledge of the author or their origin other than was contained in an intro- ductory comment to the poem, which ran as follows :

"Some sixty years ago the following poem [' Lines on a Skeleton '] appeared in the London Morning Chronicle. Every effort was made to dis- cover the author, even to the offering of fifty guineas. All that ever transpired was that the poem, written in a fair clerkly hand, was found near a skeleton of remarkable symmetry of form in the museum of the Royal College 01 Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn, London, and that the curator of the museum sent them to the Morning Chronicle"

C. P. HALE.

BISHOP MORTON : THEOPHILUS EATON (9 th S. i. 267). As Bishop Morton died unmarried at the age of ninety-six, the wife of Theophilus Eaton was not his daughter. As a matter of fact, she was the daughter of George Lloyd, Morton's predecessor in the see of Chester. Her first nusband was not David Yale, the Chancellor of the diocese of Chester, but his son Thomas. Mrs. (Ann) Eaton was alive in 1640, as in that year her mother (Bishop Lloyd's widow) bequeathed her twenty shillings in her will, which was proved at Chester, 8 January, 1648/9. Mrs. Lloyd was the daughter of George Wilkinson, of Norwich. I do not know the name of the first wife of Governor Eaton. F. SANDERS.

Hoylake Vicarage, Cheshire.

If your correspondent will turn to the articles in ' N. & Q.' on the ' Eaton Family,' he will find much information on the sub- ject of his inquiries, namely, the marriage of Theophilus Eaton to his first wife, her burial, and the baptism of her only child; also the baptism of his two children by his second wife. See 8 th S. vi. 422; vii. 114 157, 275; viii. 397. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

NOTES ON THE WAVERLEY NOVELS (9 th S. i. 183). I should like to have a confirmation correction) of MR. BOUCHIER'S sugges- tion that Scott's "maddow" (' Kenil worth,' chap, ix.) is madder. I am doubtful about it