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copy of a set of playing-cards issued in the time of Charles II. The cards are a political satire on the Commonwealth, lithographed by E. Goldsmid, Edinburgh, from the original copy in the British Museum. They are de- scribed in the Journal of the Archaeological Association, vol. ix. p.' 149.

(Miss) M. B. FULLER. Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

WILLIAM KILLICK was admitted to West- minster School 10 January, 1815. I should be glad to ascertain particulars of his parent- age and career. G. F. R. B.

" POPPLE. "On p. 3 of the Standard for 2 August, in an article headed ' Holbein's Channel Swim,' it is stated that " the wind had by this time gone east, and was blowing fairly fresh, making quite a popple on the sea." Is " popple " found in the dictionary? Does it belong to any local dialect ; or has it been recently invented ? E. S. DODGSON.

[The 'Encyclopaedic Dictionary' cites "causing a little popple, on the flood tide" from the Field, 4 April, 1885. An instance of the verb popple is quoted from Charles Cotton, who died 1687. See also Halliwell.].

CRADLE CHIMNEY. I find in a book of bio- graphy a reference to this characteristic of an old Scottish house. What does the desig- nation mean 1 SCOTUS.

" OFTEN HAVE I SEEN."

Often have I seen

A stripling tree all foliage and all green, But not a hope of grateful soothing shade, Its empty strength in fluttering leaves displayed. Give me the solid trunk, the aged stem That bears aloft its glorious diadem ; That through long years of battle and of storm Has striven whole forests round it to reform ; That still, through lightning flash and thunder- stroke,

Retains its vital sap and heart of oak. Such gallant tree for me shall ever stand A great rock's shadow in a weary land.

The above lines were used by the late Bishop Magee in a peroration to a great speech he once made. I want to use the quotation in a little book I am preparing for press, and should like to know the source of it, and the name of the author if possible! The lines are said to be part of a tribute to a great statesman by a well-known cleric, possibly Keble. j. A. R.

DESCENDANTS OF ELIZABETHAN WORTHIES. Were any descendants, direct or collateral, left by Sir M. Frobisher (who m., 1591, dau of Lord Wentworth) by Sir Francis Drake

Sf y ' i /i, ev T marry ?) ' bv Sir Joh n Hawkins (he had a son Richard) ; by Sir F

Walsingham (who had two elder brothers) ; by Sir W. Raleigh (m. Elizabeth Throck- morton) ? Are any (direct or collateral in male line) descendants of above living ?

J. HAWKINS TAYLOR. Boscombe, Harrogate.

"QuiTE A FEW." How has this phrase come to mean (as it sometimes does) a good many ? "A good few " seems a colloquial variant. X.

QUEEN VICTORIA'S CORONATION. Who were the oldest persons present in Westminster Abbey at the Coronation in 1838 whether princes, ambassadors, peers, M.P.s, or judges ? The Archbishop of York was born in 1757. Were there any older than he ; and, if not, who approached him in age ? In what year was Lord Rolle born ? Who was the oldest M.P. present? X. M.

" CHIEN ou RAT." In " Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts of the

Emperor Napoleon, collected by Cte. A.

de Liancourt, edited by James Alexander

Manning London, T. C. Newby......l848,"

is the following (p. 21) : " Le succes d'un coup-de-main, depend absolumentdu bonheur, d'un chien, ou d'un rat." The translation appears on the opposite page : " The success of a Coup-de-main, depends more upon chance than judgment." The commas appear to be worse than unnecessary. What pro- verbial saying is involved in or alluded to in " le bonheur d'un chieu ou d'un rat " ?

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

Music IN WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL. Can it actually be true that the Archbishop of Westminster has gone the length of for- bidding any church music to be performed in the new Westminster Cathedral that was composed later than the seventeenth cen- tury ? I read a statement to this effect in several English and German newspapers, but I cannot help believing that it must be based upon some misapprehension. Will not the Archbishop of Westminster offer a word of explanation ? ALGERNON ASHTON.

JOSEPH AND AMOS COTTLE. In Knight's is stated that " Byron has hitched both the brothers into more than one stanza, while the Anti-Jacobin has coupled their names in a like ludicrous manner." Byron confuses their identity in ' English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.' Will any of your correspondents kindly give the other reference or references in Byron and the exact reference in the Anti-Jacobin? Other writers besides Knight
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