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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Henry Purcell) are given as those of the composer, though I have not found them in any other collection of Purcell's music :

When Night her purple vail had softly spread And busie men assembled with the dead, When all was hush'd but Zephire's gentle breath Which cools the Aire, perfuming all the earth ; With silken wings thro' murmuring forests flyes Spreading the sweets which from the Woodbine

rise,

With hasty steps and a wild [mild ?] thoughtf ull aire Heedless of danger, guided by dispair The lovely Damon strives in thickest shades to

mix On whom all Graces do and all desires would fix.

Under a mossy oake he thus begun

Which bending seem'd to listen as he sung :

" Ah Silvia, ah unkind, ah cruell faire

To him so gentle, to me too severe,

Sweeter then the flow'ry Spring

Then the dews which bees do bring

From opening budds with carefull wing

Which when I strive to taste, like them you sting.

Great God of Love, to thee I cry,

Ah pitty, pitty, for I dye. While Silvia to a monster yeilds her every joy." His trembling lips stopt here, nor cou'd he more, But like a shipwreck thrown upon the shore Dashed with his tears all o'er extended lay Then starting up and with a mien that shew'd Disdainfull joy, he smiling thus pursu'd :

"Dispair, thou bane to my heart,

For ever we '11 part,

Begone, tormenting care,

Her beast let her have, I '11 ne'er be a slave to a barbarous faire."

W. BARCLAY SQUIRE.

SCHOOL IN SCOTLAND. I shall be much obliged to any correspondent who will tell me in what town of Scotland was, at the beginning of the last century, " Mr. Andrew's School, Drummond Street," of which I have a book-plate. JULIAN MARSHALL.

Fox. On a document relating to an Ex- chequer annuity, date 1705, I observe the name of Charles Fox, who is described as " Paymaster of Her Majesty's Forces abroad," and in one of 1706 he is called "late Pay- master." Will any one kindly tell me if this was the son of Sir Stephen Fox (and half- brother of the first Lord Holland), who, according to the 'Dictionary of National Biography,' was named after his godfather, Charles II., and died childless in September, 1713, being buried at Farley ?

PHILIP NORMAN.

45, Evelyn Gardens, South Kensington.

' CASTE ' : PROTOTYPES OF THE CHARACTERS. In my schoolboy days in Dublin a charming actress named Miss Emily Sanders was engaged in the Queen's Theatre, under Mr. Henry Webb, and in 1857 married Sir

W. H. Don, Bart. Sir William, after his marriage, retired from the (I think) 3rd Dragoon Guards, and became a successful actor. May it be surmised that Sir W. H. Don and his wife, nee Sanders, were the pro- totypes of the Hon. George D'Alroy and his wife, ne'e Eccles, the hero and heroine in Robertson's ' Caste ' ? ' Caste ' was first pro- duced in the old Prince of Wales's Theatre off Tottenham Court Road, and recently re- vived, with great success, by Messrs. Harri- son and Maude in " the little theatre in the Haymarket." HENRY GERALD HOPE.

119, Elms Road, Clapham, S.W.

M'QUILLANS OF DUNLUCE. Could any one give me, or tell me where I could fina, the coat of arms and crest of the M'Quillans of Dunluce, co. Antrim? I have access to Edmondson's 'Heraldry,' Burke's 'Peerage,' ' Landed Gentry,' ' Family Crests of Great Britain and Ireland,' &c., but I have not succeeded in finding either the coat of arms or crest. B. L. M'QuiLLAN.

PEPYS AND SANDERSON FAMILIES. On 14 June, 1642, were married, by licence, at St. Dunstan's, Stepney, " Richard Pepis of St. Bartholomews neare the Royall Exchange, Upholder, and Anne Saunderson, daughter of Robert Saunderson, of the Citty of London, Innholder"; while on 6 April, 1766, at St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, a marriage was solem- nized between Richard Pepys, widower, and Mary Sanderson, spinster, both of the parish of St. Helen's. I should be obliged for any information in respect of their ancestors and descendants. Particulars, no matter how small, would be very thankfully received, and duly acknowledged.

CHAS. H. CROUCH. Nightingale Lane, Wanstead.

ENGLISHMEN BURIED ABROAD. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' tell me of any book containing descriptions and illustrations of the graves of distinguished Englishmen buried abroad ? I refer to such instances as Keats and Shelley at Rome, Smollett at Leg- horn, and Landor at Florence, and not to persons of merely official or diplomatic importance in their day. CHARLES HIATT.

A NOMINAL BURDEN. The Crown Prince of Portugal has no fewer than sixteen Christian names. Did ever anybody have more ? His Royal Highness is Louis Philippe Marie Charles Atnelio Ferdinand Victor Manuel Antoine Laurent Miguel Raphael Gabriel Gonzague Xavier Francis. Well was it for him that circumstances defended his infant days from the inquiries of the Church