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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. JAN. 22, '98.

of the work, that the coat is Flemish or Dutch. Arms : A griffin segreant, holding three stalks of wheat grasped by both front claws. Crest : Issuant from a coronet a demi-griffin segreant, similarly grasping three stalks of wheat.

E. E. Glasgow.

SHAKSPEARE. Has the following fact ever been noticed before ] According to the Daily Mail (15 Nov., 1897), the Rev. G. Arbuthnot, vicar of Stratford-on-Avon, when recently preaching before the Mayor and Corporation, referred

" to the fact that Shakespeare was both baptized and buried in the church, [and] declared that he believed this was a unique distinction, none of Eng- land's other great poets or writers having thus begun and ended their earthly life in the same church."

JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

JOHNSON. Can any one give me the name of the father and mother of Elizabeth John- son, wife of Domenico Angelo (fencing master), who died in 1802 ? HAEFLETE.

ALCAICS ATTRIBUTED TO TENNYSON. What

is known as to the authorship of two alcaic stanzas, signed " T.," and beginning,

Up sprang the dawn unspeakably radiant, which appeared in the Marlburian, 20 Sept., 1871 1 It was supposed at the time that they were by the late Laureate ; and I find that the closing lines are quoted in the ' Life,' vol. ii. p. 12, as having been made in 1864 by him.

G. E. D.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE RYE HOUSE PLOT. I shall be very glad of assistance in getting together a complete list of books, articles, sermons. &c., dealing with the Rye House Plot and any biographical notices of the con- spirators therein. W. B. GERISH.

Hoddesdon, Herts.

MASTERSONS OF COUNTY WEXFORD. Can any one give me some information about this Irish family ? F. A. J.

LIST OF INSTITUTIONS TO BENEFICES. Will you kindly say where the lists of institutions to benefices for Salop, Essex, Sussex, Kent, and Middlesex are kept ?

CHARLES H. OLSEN.

Montreal.

ROMAN POTTERIES. Where in England have kilns and potteries used by the Romans been found? Was Anglo -Roman pottery ever stamped with the maker's name 1

E. E. THOYTS.

Sulhamstead, Berkshire.

GAINSBOROUGH. In Haydon's 'Life,' or 'Rogers and his Contemporaries,' or some other book, mention is made of Gainsborough staying in a country house and seeing two children from the house going down the avenue and giving alms to beggar children. He, struck by it, went and painted it. Wanted the reference to this in the books mentioned or in some other work. RAMORNIE.

CHIMNEY MONEY. A duty of two shillings for every hearth in a house was imposed temp. Charles II. When was this arbitrary tax repealed? W. ROBERTS.

Klea Avenue, Clapham, S.W.

[What you call " chimney money " is the same as the house tax called " hearth money." It was established as a means of making up the deficiency in the revenue granted after the Restoration to Charles II. It was repealed by 1 & 2 William & Mary, c. 10, but was reimposed in Scotland in Sep- tember, 1690, at the rate of Is. 2d. for every hearth. The repeal was one of the first boons conceded by William on his arrival. See Dowell's ' History of Taxation,' vol. iii. pp. 187-192.]

ANCIENT BRITISH. This term is so often used in reference to the derivation of names of places that I am anxious to know from what source the information comes. I can refer to Anglo-Saxon and Welsh vocabularies, but to nothing older. What was the language of the Ancient Britons ? IGNORAMUS.

WOODES ROGERS. He was a native of Bristol, and commanded the Duke and Duchess privateer, which sailed from Bristol 1 Aug., 1708, and made the celebrated voyage round the world during which he captured an enormous amount of treasure, and on 1 Feb., 1708/9, picked up Alexander Selkirk from off the island of Juan Fernandez. He

Sublished an account of his voyage in 1712. n his return home from the voyage he lived at No. 19, Queen Square, Bristol. He was made Governor of the Isle of Providence in 1716, where, with two men-of-war under his orders, he did good work putting down and hanging the pirates. In 1724 he, in com- mand of the Delicia, a 40-gun ship, went to Madagascar for a cargo of slaves, and had a narrow escape of being delivered into the hands of some of his old friends, the pirates of the Bahamas, who had settled there. However, he eluded their attempts, and, obtaining his cargo of slaves, discharged them at the Dutch colony of Batavia. He was made Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Bahama Islands 25 Aug., 1729. In the Gentleman's Magazine for 27 Sept., 1732, there is an item: "Came news of the death of Woodes Rogers, Esq., late Governor of Bahama