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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. x. DEC. 20, 1902.

of Peter Bevill, son of John of Killgrath. That being so, Sir Nicholas would be by the first wife, named by MR. PINK Joan, daughter of James Walker.

, JOHN RADCLIFFE.

LADY WHITMORE (9 th S. x. 268, 318, 395, 450). I have to thank the proprietors of the Hyde Park Fine-Art Gallery, 30, St. George's Place, S.W., for their courtesy in showing me the ' Lady Whitmore ' which they described in ' N. A Q.' at the last reference. It is not the ' Lady Whitmore ' about which I have been inquiring, but the " Miss Brooks " of De Grammont's ' Memoirs,' whom COL. PRIDEAUX has already brought before us, and who is the ' Lady Whitmore ' of Hampton Court. I was, however, greatly interested to find that the ' Sir George Whitmore ' by Cornelis Janssens, which has lately been through their hands, is a replica of one which is in the collection where Zurbaran's ' Lady Whitmore ' is. It has been suggested to me that Lady Whitmore, as the wife of a well- known loyalist, may have been one of the Cavalier exiles who gathered round Cotting- ton and Digby at Madrid, after the execution of Charles I., and may have been painted by Zurbaran at that time. Can any one who is acquainted with the Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding tell me if there is any evidence to support this theory ? I know that Sir George Whitmore was long imprisoned in the Tower, and that after his release he continued to live on at Balmes House, Hackney ; but I do not know the fate of the Whitmores of Apley after the fall of the monarchy. Did the connexion of the Acton family with the Continent begin as early as this ? Z.

THE NATIONAL ANTHEM (9 th S. ix. 206). I have lately met with the following :

"La marquise de Crqui raconte dans ses M6moires que, lorsque Louis XI V. venait visiter la niaison de baint-Cjrr, lea jeunes pensionnaires, au moment ou il entrait dans la chapelle. chantaient & 1'unisson une sorte de motet, dont les paroles etaient de la superieure directrice de la maison et dont le fameux Lulli avait fait la musique. Les paroles etaient celles-ci :

Grand Dieu, gauvez le roi ! Grand Dieu, vengez le roi !

Vive le roi !

Qu'a jamais glorieux,

Louis victorieux,

Voie ses ennemis

Toujours soumis.

Grand Dieu, sauvez le roi !

Et maintenant voici, dit-pn, comment ce chant

passa le detroit : le compositeur allemand Haendel,

qui etait inaitre de la musique du roi d'Angleterre

Georges I cr, setrouvant un jouraSaint-Cyr, entendit

exeeuter ce motet ; il demanda a eh transcrire les

paroles et la musique. De retour a Londres, il I'offrit au roi, comme e"tant, dit-on, de sa composi- tion ; le chant fut tres gout6 et peu a peu devint populaire. Telle serait 1'origine du ' God save the king' ou 'queen,' chant national anglais."

On reference to the ' Souvenirs de la Mar- quise de Crequy' (1842) I there find sub- stantially the same statement, and a reference is also given to La Mode of 23 July, 1831. I see that in the correspondence on this question in the 8 th Series of ' N. & Q.' allu- sion was made as to a possible German origin for the tune, but I do not see any reference to its having been made in France. Is ^there any foundation for the Marquise de Crequy's assertion, which seems a very circumstantial one 1 At all events, the resemblance of the words is striking, unless of course it can be proved that they are a translation from the English, or is it merely a coincidence ?

EDWARD LATHAM.

61, Friends' Road, East Croydon.

[At the reference given in the heading a Jacobite origin was suggested, and a note stated that the matter was discussed at great length in 8 th S. x., xi., and xii.]

EOUBILIAC'S BUST OF POPE (9 th S. x. 408, 471). Roubiliac's terra-cotta bust of Pope was lent to the bicentenary exhibition at Twickenham by John Murray II., father of the present head of the famous publishing firm. This was in 1888, a few years before Mr. Murray's death ; and I should imagine that the bust is now in possession of his son and successor.

D. OSWALD HUNTER- BLAIR, O.S.B.

Oxford.

MONUMENT TO GENERAL CURETON (9 th S. x. 227, 291, 398). The following graphic account of the death of this gallant officer at Ramnagar, shortly before the battle of Chilianwallah in 1849, is extracted from 'Decisive Battles of India,' by Col. G. B. Malleson, and may merit insertion :

" Burning with indignation at the very idea of the enemy carrying off a trophy in the very first action of the campaign, Colonel Havelock, com- manding the 14th Light Dragoons, demanded and obtained permission to drive the enemy back. The 14th, accompanied by the 5th Native Light Cavalry, charged, then, upon the advancing Sikhs with so much fury that they rolled them back in disorder. Hoping then to recover the gun, the 14th pursued their advantage, and dashed forward to the ground on which it lay. But here not only did the heavy sand tell on the horses, but they came within range of the batteries on the right bank. Under cover of this fire, too, the Sikli infantry rallied and returned to the charge. In the fight that followed Havelock was slain. Cureton, who had witnessed the charge, galloping down to withdraw the 14th from the unequal contest, was shot through the heart. The cavalry