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the match-making designs in her own favour of a lady no longer young, and how the quarry escaped by leaving her on board a friend's yacht and steaming away in his own. What was the title of the book ?

T. S. B.

CAVALIER AND KOUNDHEAD FAMILIES OF CARMARTHEN AND GLAMORGAN. Is there any record of the Cavalier and Roundhead families of Carmarthen and Glamorgan ? The Shewens and the Mansels both took part in the Civil War. Is it recorded on which side these families fought 1 T. M.-S.

" IN MATTERS OF COMMERCE THE FAULT OF

THE DUTCH." As an old subscriber to ' N. & Q.,' may I ask you to obtain for me a correct reference to the source of the frequently quoted words : In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is asking too little and taking too much ?

I have searched the poetry of the anti-Jaco- bins, but cannot find it there, and strangely, although the quotation is well known, there is no mention of it in any of the dictionaries of quotations. E. ERSKINE SCOTT.

[At 4 th S. i. 438 the full correspondence between Canning and Sir Charles Bagot, in which the verses were first given very interesting it is is printed. See also 4" S. i. 267, 302, 427.]

CHARLES J. MATHEWS. I am anxious to ascertain the dates of his appearances between 1837 and 1845 at the Olympic, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, and Haymar- ket theatres, in the following pieces : ' Deaf Lover,' ' Bold Stroke for a Wife, ' Lying made Easy,' ' Day Well Spent,' ' Duel,' ' Wolf and the Lamb,' ' Perfection,' ' Too Late for Din- ner,' 'Free and Easy,' Millamour in 'Know Your Own Mind,' and ' Three and the Deuce.' Will correspondents of ' N. & Q.' kindly help me? R. WALTERS.

WHITSUN FARTHINGS. In a churchwardens' book at Upton Snodsbury, Worcester, occur the following entries :

s. d.

1797, June 12th. Wisson farthings ... 10

1798, June 12th. Pd. for Wisson farthings 6

1799, Pd. for Wisson farthings 10

The payment would thus seem to have varied in amount. What was the basis of it 1 Was it invariably made to the cathedral 1

H. KINGSFORD. Stoulton Vicarage.

"THE LION AND THE UNICORN FIGHTING FOR THE CROWN." What are the origin and signification (if any) of this well - known rime ? There was, indeed, once upon a time a battle fought at Flodden Field ; but it is

many a long day since that chaste but super- cilious beast, the unicorn, has permitted him- self to be chased round the town by a mere English lion (or leopard). A. R. BAYLEY.

BELL INSCRIPTION. I should like to com- mend to the notice of your correspondents the inscription on the tenor bell at Bitterley, Salop, which runs as follows :

+ IESV LESEIGNE SEYNT ANNE PERLE

ORDYNAVNCE ALEISSTURYE

QVEDIV ASOILE PVRSAGAVNT MERCY

" To Jesus the Lord and St. Anne by the ordinance of Alice Sturye, whom God absolve by His great mercy." GAVNT is for GRAVNT, i.e., grand. The bell belongs to a class familiar to campanists, the stops between the words being heads of Edward III. and Philippa. Thus we are precluded from attributing it to a date earlier than 1330. But I believe Norman - French monumental inscriptions were only in use from 1290 to 1320 or there- abouts ; and, on the other hand, it is pro- bable that the founder of this bell was not the original owner of these stamps. There seems to be some difficulty in tracing the name of Alice Sturye or Stury, but a recent corre- spondent of the Shrewsbury Chronicle states that there were two Alice Sturys in the early part of the fourteenth century : one the wife of Sir William Stury, Knt., about 1318 ; the other, of SodylJt, wife of Richard Stury, 1332. The Herald and Genealogist mentions an Alice Stury, of Lapford, Devon, said to be the daughter of Sir John Blount, Knt., who was living in 1413 (vol. vi. p. 14). This lady, if her connexion with Salop could be traced, would suit best with the probable date of the bell. I should be most grateful if any of your readers could throw more light on the subject. H. B. WALTERS.

VISITING CARDS IN ITALY.

" The visiting cards in Italy are commonly orna- mented with emblems and monuments : I received cards at Verona on which was an engraving of the amphitheatre ; the Venetians have on theirs the bridge of the Rialto, the front of St. Mark, the

columns of the Piazzetta, &c." "Historical

Travels in Italy by M. Valery. translated by

C. E. Clifton Paris, Baudry's European Library,

1852," p. 145, note 2, bk. vi. ch. ii. Is this custom entirely obsolete ? The date of Valery's travelling and living in Italy appears, according to the preface, to have been about 1825 to 1835.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

CORNISH MOTTO: "ONE AND ALL." So long ago as September, 1851, the question was asked (1 st S. iv. 174), "Can you tell me when the Cornish motto ' One and all ' was