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NOTES AND QUERIES.

bridge, is a gravestone which has on it th following inscription ; --

tin Memory of Emily,

the beloved and only Daughter

of James Todd of Chesterton

and Granddaughter of the late*

Rev. Nathan Todd

of Tuddenham,

near Mildenhall, Suffolk,

who died April 8, 1855,

aged 23.

Who was Nathan Todd ? I should be glad t have particulars as to his parentage, schoo college, wife, and descendants. Perhaps on of your correspondents would kindly help me

H. W.

COL. ROBERT SCOTT. Can any one kindl tell me where information can be obtainec about Col. Robert Scott, who was buried in St. Mary's, Lambeth, in 1631 ? His epitaph states that he was descended from the Laird of Bawerie, and that he invented the leathe guns used by Gustavus Adolphus.

H. W. L. HIKE, Lieut.-Col. 24, Haymarket, S.W.

GENERAL BENEDICT ARNOLD. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' tell me where Genera Benedict Arnold, of the Continental (Ame rican) army, is buried, and where I can fine any details concerning his death ? M. W

HYDE. How were the Hydes of Berkshire related to the Earl of Clarendon? As a young man the latter stayed at Hyde Hall, near Pangbourne, with his relatives, and there lis first wife died suddenly. M. T.

ARMS or SLANE. I should be glad to know f any ; if not, those of co. Meath.
 * he arms, crest, and motto of Slane, co. Meath,

RICHARD HEMMING.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Together lie her prayer-book and her paint, At once to improve the sinner and the saint. Quoted from "a very witty author" by Steele, in he seventy-ninth Spectator. I should have thought hat the "very witty author" was Pope; but I cannot find the couplet in Pope. If it is by Pope, t must be in one of his early poems, as Steele's paper is dated 31 May, 1711, at which time Pope was twenty-three.

[As if some] sweet engaging Grace Put on some clothes to come abroad,

And took a waiter's place. >uoted in 'The Monastery,' chap. xxix. Qy. Prior's? Vhere the bees keep up their tiresome whine round

the resinous firs on the hill. She was not fair nor young. At eventide There was no friend to sorrow by her side. The time of sickness had been long and dread, For strangers tended, wishing she were dead. JONATHAN BOUCHIER.

"HARRY.CAR&Y."

(8 th S. xl 427, 475 ; xii. 70;) 1 THINK I can now give the niost authentic account which has ever been printed concerning the Yarmouth trolly- carts, called " harry-carries." The late Mr Henry Harrod, F.S.A. (1817-71), contributed to the Proceedings of the Norfolk and Nor- wich Archaeological Society (vol. iv., 1855, pp. 239-66) some 'Notes on Records of the Corporation of Great Yarmouth,' from which I quote the following :

"The 'Book of Entries' enables me to fix the date of their invention, and to restore to them their ancient name. In an ordinance of Henry VII., as to the curing and conveying of herring, it is stated: 'That when before this time, during the time of fishing, there was wont to resort to this town great numbers of porters, to carry herring, which porters brought the same herring into the barse houses of the inhabitants, not only to the great ease of the same inhabitants, but also to the safeguard of the houses, rows, and swills of the town, Till now of late divers of the same inhabitants have devised carts, called Harry-carries, and the owners of the same, being called Harry Carmen, set such boys and girls to go with the same carts, which can neither guide the same carts, neither can yet remove such things wherwith the same carts are loaden, no, not a swill, not only to the great decay of the said houses, rows, and swills. Where- For be it ordained, that from henceforth every harry - carry man, keeping a harry-carry to get. money by the same, shall keep to go with the same one liable man, which can both order his horse and the harry- carry, and also is hable to lift the end of a swill

and appoint any man to go with the same contrary jefore, shall forfett for every time so offending
 * o the meaning of this ordinance, and proved as

vjs. viiirf. to the town's use.'"

It follows, says Mr. Harrod, from this entry, which appears from the handwriting to have >een made at the time stated in the body of early in the reign of Henry VII., and were originally called harry-carries. There are requent subsequent ordinances for the re- gulation of these harry-carries, and numerous omplaints against their drivers for damaging he streets, houses, rows, and trees.
 * he ordinances, that these carts were devised

It would seem that Nail was in error in onnecting the name of these carts with the word hurry, for it appears tolerably certain Tom the above that they were called harry - arries after King Henry VII., in whose time icy were invented. Barse houses is doubt- ess a misreading for barfe houses, the local erm for the covered sheds where the first tage in curing herrings takes place. A swill