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that at one time upwards of a hundred unfortunate Royalists were, for a considerable period, kept prisoners within the four walls of this by no manner of means large edifice (it possesses seating accommo- dation for 450 persons). Nearly a quarter of a century ago the Historical Society of Maine, put itself in communication with the writer, with the ultimate practical result that the various portions of the ruinous memorial were let us hope permanently re-established in their original positions. Behind and above its altar slab is a reredos, also of slate, supported on either side by columns. The back space is covered by elaborately chiselled scrollwork of a kind characteristic of the period, whilst in the centre is a shield bearing the, arms of the Gorges and Cole families, and beneath, upon a label, the date 1600. Above this reredos are more columns, carrying, in their turn, a moulded segmental arch, and within the recess thus formed are exquisitely carved, in high relief, the arms, helm, and crest of Roger Budockshed, surrounded by much flowing mantling. The arms upon this tomb may be thus described : 1. Sable, three fusils in fesse between three stags' faces argent. Crest, a Saracen's or Moor's head proper (Budockshed). 2. Lozengy or and azure, a chevron gules, duly differenced with a cres- cent gold. Crest, a greyhound's head and neck couped argent, collared gules, there- on a crescent or (Gorges). 3. Gorges and Budockshed quartered. 4. Budockshed and crest. 5. Quarterly, 1 and 4, Lozengy or and azure, a chevron gules, with a crescent of the first for difference (Gorges) ; 2 and 3, Argent, a bull passant sable, coward, within a bor- dure of the second charged with twelve bezants (Cole).

The following legend was added at the time of renovation :

" Restored A.D. 1881, chiefly at the expense of the Historical Society and citizens of the State of Maine, U.S.A., in memory of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the first proprietor and governor of that province, A.D. 1635."

Then follows a list of the family buried there :

Roger Budockshed, of Budockshed, Esq., ob. 1576. Sir William Gorges, Knt., ob. 1583. Dame Winifred Gorges, ob. 1599. Tristram Gorges, of Budockshed, Esq., ob. 1607. Mrs. Elizabeth Gorges, ob. 1607.

HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.

What was the family connexion between Sir Ferdinando and the Ferdinando Gorges who, in 1680, rebuilt the house, now the vicarage, at Eye, near Leominster, Hereford-

shire? The house is remarkable for the beautiful plaster work which adorns the ceilings of the rooms. Was the Ferdinando Gorges who rebuilt it identical with the Ferdinando Gorges whose daughter, Barbara, was married to Thomas Coningsby, after- wards Earl of Coningsby (' D.N.B.,' xii. 11)?

H. C.

SOUTH SEA SCHEME (9 th S. xii. 68). In the British Museum are ninety-one volumes of papers of the South Sea Company (Add. MSS. 25,494-25,584); and in the Calendar Add. MS. 27,871 is thus described : " Original powers of attorney, transfers, and other papers relating to the South Sea Company, 1710-1720 ; with signatures and seals of the shareholders." BERNARD P. SCATTERGOOD.

In August, 1862, MR. D. M. STEVENS, of Guildford, in reply to a querist who required the names of the holders of South Sea Stock from 1711 to 1720, said that he possessed a list of nearly 20,000 holders of said stock, from which he would be pleased to furnish any information. See 3 rd S. ii. 138. Possibly this may be of assistance to MR. PILE.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

"BUT SHOULD FORTUNE FILL YOUR SAIL"

(9 th S. xii. 49). Your correspondent A. T. B.-C. will find the lines he requires in Cowper's translation of Horace, book ii. ode x. There are six verses ; the sixth reads thus :

If hindrances obstruct thy way,

Thy magnanimity display.

And let thy strength be seen ;

But ! if Fortune fill thy sail

With more than a propitious gale

Take half thy canvas in.

There is a reflection on the ode, by Cowper, of eight lines well worth reading.

W. F. NEWTON. [Many replies are acknowledged.]

" KAIMAKAM " (9 th S. xii. 27, 70). I have just received a cutting from your issue of 25 July, in which MR. C. MASON is good enough to supply the information I desired about the word Kaimakam. I have no doubt that his version is in the main correct, and I am glad to have it for purpose of reference ; but I would add (it being under- stood that I write just now without diction- aries, <fec.) that both forms Kaimakam and Kaimakan are admissible, and ask whether, in line 15 of col. 2, "Del dormire," &c., should not be Dei dormire, &c.

W. BROADFOOT.

"WELTER" (9 th S. xi. 369, 457 ; xii. 74). Your correspondent at the last reference,