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of Temple Bar the author refers to my life of Sir Walter Ralegh as his authority for the statement that in 1603, at the age of sixteen, the third Count de Olivares (Gaspar de Guzman) made an important speech which changed the policy of Spain towards the English succession, in the inter- est of historical accuracy I am anxious for an opportunity of recording the fact that nothing I have written bears out this reference. The speech in question, of which a summary will shortly be published in my fourth volume of Spanish State Papers of Elizabeth, was made not by the Conde-Duque, but, in trie Spanish Council of State, by his father, the second Count de Olivares, tnat arrogant ambassador who cajoled and bullied Sixtus V. into promising vast sums to aid the Armada.

MARTIN A. S. HUME.

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 may be addressed to them direct.

THE BATTLE OF THE NILE. Prof. Teza, of Padua, lately read before the Reale Accademia of that city a paper on some literary curiosities, one of which was a pamphlet of twelve pages, being a poem on the Battle of the Nile printed at Pisa in the same year. The title of the poem is "On Lord Nelson's Victory | over | the French Fleet | at | Abouquir. | An idyl | by P.P. D.D.
 * Pisa | from the new Typographical Press |

MDCCXCVIII."

Prof. Teza observes that the poet appears to be unknown, and the little book is rare. He remarks that the D.D. points to the writer being a theologian, probably an Evangelical minister. The poem begins : Come here, my Muse, come, for a moment sing Great NELSON'S deeds, which, on the lofty wing Of loudest FAME swift borne, from ev'ry breast Ecstatic joy and wonder have exprest, &c.

Can any correspondent throw light upon the poem or its author ? B. W. S.

" HORNY-HANDED SONS OF TOIL." Where

and when did this phrase, so hackneyed about 1850-70, originate?

J. A. H. MURRAY.

" RINGING -OUT." What is the exact mean- ing of this U.S. Stock Exchange term 1 I find it in clause 7 of " A Bill regulating the Sale of certain Agricultural Products, defining 4 Options ' and ' Futures,' and imposing Taxes theron and upon Dealers therein," which

refers (inter aim) to "every cancellation, clearance, settlement, acquittance, contango, backwardation, waiver, privilege, ringing- out, or other agreement or ar/angement whereby any ' options ' contract or wliereby any 'futures' contract shall be terminated otherwise than by delivery." Q. V.

" HOUSTY." Kingsley, in 'Westward Ho,' ch. xv., has :

" Lady Grenville had a great opinion of Lucy's

medical skill, and always sent for her if one of the children had a housty, i.e., aore-throat."

Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' inform us whether housty is known to be in use or to have been in use anywhere ? As yet I know nothing whatever of it as a real word. Of course, it reminds one of hoose, hoast, and other words meaning a cough.

J. A. H. MURRAY.

Oxford.

WILLIAM DODDINGTON was elected from Westminster School to Trinity College, Cam- bridge, in 1574. I shall be glad to have any particulars relating to him. G. F. R. B.

SLABS IN ST. MARGARET'S CHURCHYARD, WESTMINSTER. Arising out of the note, ante, p. 44, I would ask, Where is now the list of the gravestones made in 1881-2, under in- structions by the Rev. Dean Farrar ; and could it not be printed ? Also, Where is now the list of the gravestones made by a former clerk or sexton (I think) of St. Margaret's Church in the early part of this century ?

C. MASON.

29, Emperor's Gate, S.W.

MUSICAL. Where does " the opera tune " "Fair Dorinda, revenge," &c., occur? Is it in any operatic version of ' The Tempest ' by Dryden and Davenant and Lock ? It is referred to in a play in 1707 as a popular song. The same play mentions a dance tune ' Sir Simon the King.' What was this ; and where can it be found ? Z.

Co VERD ALE'S BIBLE OF 1535. In Harts- horne's ' Book Rarities of the University of Cambridge ' (1829), there is the following note (p. 405) on a copy of Coverdale's Bible of 1535 which is in the library of St. John's College : " Of the exceeding rarity of a perfect copy little need be said, since only the collections of the Earl of Northampton and Mrs. Smith, of Dulwich, possess one." I shall be obliged if any one will inform me who Mrs. Smith, of Dulwich, was, what her collection consisted of, and what has become of her copy of Coverdale. W. ALDIS WRIGHT.