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 9'" S.X. JULY 26, 1902.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers maybe addressed to them direct.

REFERENCES WANTED.!. A wily abbot. "He was not like that insolent Abbot that did cast off his humility with his cowle, and being asked by his brethren why he was then so proud that was formerly such an humble monk, made answer, that in his monachisme, when he went so low and stooping, he was searching for the keyes of the Abbey ; but now having found them, he did hold up his head to ease himself." Who was the wily abbot ? >

2. The torpedo, or cramp fish. Arcanas hyemes et caeca papavera ponti, Abdo sinu et celerem frigida vincla necem.

3. General ruin and decay.

Jam ruet etbustum, titulisque in marmore sectus, tumulis autem morientibus ipse, Occumbes etiani : sic mors tibi tertia restat.

4. A saw, the original of Bunyan's "He that is down need fear no fall."

Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat. [Alain de Lille, lib. Parab. c. 2.]

5. A seventeenth- century hymn on hell : "Ex quo poli " is probably not the real begin- ning of it :

Ex quo poli sunt perfecti

Audet numero complecti

Stellas cceli, stillas roris,

Undas aquei fluoris,

Guttas imbris pluvialis,

Floccos velleris nivalis,

Quot sunt vere novo flores,

Quot odores, quot colores,

Quot vinacios autumnus,

Poma legit et vertumnus,

Quot jam grana tulit a?stas,

Frondes hyemis tempestas,

Totus orbis an i mantes,

Aer atomos volantes,

Pilos ferae, pecus villos.

Vertex hominum capillos ;

Adde Httoris arenas,

Adde graminis verbenas,

Tot myriades annorum,

Quot momenta sseculorum ;

Heus, adhuc seternitatis

Portus fugit a damnatis.

Sternum, aaternum ! Quanta hsec duratio, quanta ! Quam speranda bonis, quamque tremenda malis !

I know several parallels and close resem- blances to 2, 3, and 5 ; but I am in search of exact verifications. Smallest favours in that department would be most thankfully received. (Miss) L. I. GUINEY.

12, Walton Street, Oxford.

THOMAS HODGSKIN. I should be very pleased to receive information about the life

of Thomas Hodgskin (1791 ?-l 860 ?), author of an 'Essay on Naval Discipline' j(1813), ' Labour defended against the Claims of Capital ' (1824), ' Popular Political Economy ' (1828), and ' Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted '(1832), and successively a leader-writer in the Morning Chronicle and Economist. Are any friends and relations, close or distant, of his still living ?

ELIE HALEVY, Docteur-es-Lettres. Paris.

"I SHALL PASS THROUGH THIS WORLD."

Can any one tell me the author of the follow- ing sentiment?

" I shall pass through this world but once, there- fore any good deed I can do, any kindness I can show to any human being, let me not defer, nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."

J. M. WAITE.

Blundellsands.

[At 8 th S. xi. 118 C. stated that Mr. Moody had informed him that he obtained this motto from a member of the Massachusetts Legislature who was then (1897) dead.]

BEASLEY, BEESLEY, BESLEY, BESLEIGH. Perhaps some one of your readers who bears this surname may be able to give me some information as to its derivation and the locality in which it originated. If not, I should be grateful frr any guidance as to how I may furnish myself with such infor- mation. THEO. ETHELBERT BEASLEY.

Bulbourne, Tring.

CAPT. MORRIS'S WIFE. I should much like to get the poet Capt. Morris's marriage cer- tificate and the lineage of his wife, but have no idea where to look, as his marriage was prior to the records of Somerset House. Capt. Morris was my husband's great-grand- father, and married the widow of Sir William Stanhope. Had she any previous family 1

J. L. BOLTON.

5, Warwick Mansions, Kensington.

[MR. J. RADCLIFFE stated at 9 th S. viii. 533 that the lady's maiden name was Anne Hussey Delaval, daughter of Francis Blake Delaval, of Seaton Delaval. 1

SPEARING. I should be grateful for any information concerning Capt. Spearing, who was present at the capture of the Manillas, and died in India, on board the Bristol, in 1783. He married Ann Ashdown. Can any of the family give me the name of his father 1

F. V.

CHAIRMANSHIP OF GOVERNING BODIES OF ENGLISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS. I should be much obliged for information as to the prevailing practice in English public schools with re- gard to the conduct of meetings of the