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lished in the English papers at the time o Rosas's death, but it would be vastly more in teresting to obtain information from person who had seen and known Rosas, and t< learn their impressions of him, from a mora as well as a social point of view.

AGENOR BOISSIER. Vandoeuvres, Canton de Geneve. Suisse.

LEWIS. I am anxious to know the name of the wife of Thomas Lewis, of Soberton Hants, whose daughter and heiress, Eliza beth, married Other Windsor, third Earl o: Plymouth (born 1707, died 1737).

KATHLEEN WARD.

Castle Ward, Downpatrick.

COATS OF ARMS. I shall be much obliged if one of your correspondents will inform me to whom the two following fifteenth-century coats belonged, viz. : (1) Three crosslets pate'e, on a chief a crescent ; (2) Two hawks supporting in their beaks a crest coronet above an eagle displayed.

A. R. BAYLEY.

St. Margaret's, Malvern.

MARIU,S D'ASSIGNY, B.D. 'D.N.B.' gives 1643 as the year of his birth. Baigent and Millard, 'Hist, of Basingstoke,' p. 687, quote his marriage licence, which was issued by the Canterbury Faculty Office 11 June, 1668, and describes him as aged twenty-seven. This would make the birth-year 1641 or there- abouts. Will the registrar, or somebody who has access to the licence records, tell me if " twenty-seven " is correct, or has *' twenty- four" been misread ? C. S. WARD.

CAPT. T. A. ANDERSON'S POEMS. I lately purchased a copy of " Poems, written chiefly in India. By T. A. Anderson, Esq., of His Majesty's 19th Regiment of Foot, and late Paymaster and Adjutant to a Corps of

Pioneers on Ceylon London: 1809." The

British Museum copy of this work contains' 156 pages, the imprint being on p. 156 ; but in my copy this last page is blank, and then come 36 pages occupied by a "Journal of the Proceedings of the Trincomale Detach- ment, commanded by Lieut.-Col. Barbut, of His Majesty's 73d Regiment, from their leaving rrincoraalc till their arrival at Candy." This journal ends on p. 192 on which also are a few errata and the imprint Can any reader of N. & Q.' tell me which is the earlier issue, the B.M. copv or mine and why the 'Journal' was "added or omitted? I may say that the 'Journal' is the 'only valuable part of the book the poems being very poor stuff. Another work of the same writer's, 'The Wanderer in

Ceylon,' published in 1817, is better, and also has an interesting appendix, containing the narrative of Sergeant Thoen, one of the few survivors of the massacre of British troops in Kandy in 1803. Of this work the British Museum Library does not possess a copy. The * Dictionary of National Bio-

fraphy ' does not mention Capt. Anderson, should be glad of any details regarding him. DONALD FERGUSON.

of 'Nova Solyma' to pose a question and furnish an answer on its strange fate? Why did Milton neglect to make known his Utopia, if such it is? Does it not seem strange that such a father should abandon such an offspring to an early grave ? May it not have been just because he felt all such dreams inadequate for the real struggle of life when, on his return from Italj T, he pre- pared to face its dangers 1 He wrote :
 * NOVA SOLYMA.' Will you allow an admirer

" To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics which never can be drawn into use will not mend our condition ; but to ordain wisely, as in this world of evil, in the midst whereof God has placed us unavoidably."

These lines, far from proving that he is not the author of *Nova Solyma,' would explain the reason why the author of such a learned work laid it literally "on the shelf," where the Rev. Walter Begley found it.

FANNY BYSE. Valentin, 23, Lausanne.

BASILICAS. The Westminster Cathedral s, I understand, a basilica. What other Dasilicas now exist outside Rome? What s the precise distinction at the present day between a basilica and an ordinary church ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

BEN JONSON'S ' EPICCENE.' In attempting bo establish the dates of the earliest editions )t this play, I have found that the Stationers' Registers record on 20 September, 1610, for John Browne and John Busby, Jun., "a booke called 'Epicoene, or the Silent Woman.' " On 28 September, 1612, Walter Burre enters by assignement from John Browne 'The uommodye of the Silent Woman.'" Gifford, n his introduction to the 'Epiccerie,' writes :

'The Companion to the Playhouse' mentions nother [edition], printed in 1609 (as does Whalley n the margin of his copy), which I have not been ble to discover ; the earliest which has fallen in my way bearing date 1612."

Betters received by me recently from the

British Museum, the Bodleian, and the

University Library, Cambridge, state that,

> tar as is known, no earlier quarto than