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 9 th S. II. SEPT. 3, '98.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

SIR THOMAS COTTON, BART., OF COMBER- MERE, co. CHESTER. Several questions arise out of the reply under the heading 'Sir Thomas Lynch' (ante, p. 111). Where did Thomas Cotton, Esq. (afterwards Bart.), who married Philadelphia Lynch in 1689, live during the first fourteen years of his wedded life? His father, Sir Robert Cotton, Bart., who brought about that marriage, resided during that time at Dean's Yard, West- minster. Did his son Thomas also live there, or at Esher, in Surrey, where Philadelphia Lynch came from? Between 1689 and 1703, eight children were born of that marriage, namely, Thomas Salusbury Cotton, Robert Salusbury Cotton, Stephen Salusbury Cotton, John Salusbury Cotton, William Salusbury Cotton, Henry Salusbury Cotton, Philadelphia Cotton, and Hester Cotton (the mother of Dr. Johnson's Mrs. Thrale). Is it known where any of these children were baptized? Sir Thomas Cotton died in 1715 wnere is his burial recorded? Philadelphia, his widow, married Mr. Thomas King, after whose death she is said to have lived at East Hyde, in Hertfordshire. When did she die, and where was she buried? JAMES HALL.

Lindum House, Nantwich.

REV. JOHN POWELL. He was rector of Stourmouth in this county, 1669-80. He married Anne, daughter of Morgan Winne, Archdeacon of Lincoln, who fell a martyr to the royal cause in 1645. John Powell was buried in 1680, and his wife in 1674, in Stour- mouth Church. Further information required. ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Wingham, Kent.

HERBAULT, BONNET-MAKER. He seems to have been of some importance in his day. Who was he? S.

THOMAS EASTGATE. I am anxious to tran- scribe correctly an entry which appears, under the heading 'Obituary of Considerable Persons,' in the Gentleman's Magazine for November, 1788 (vol. Iviii. p. 1033). In the only copy to which I have access (copies of eighteenth-century books do not abound in -these colonies) the entry appears : " At St. Albans, aged 70, Mr. Tho. Eastgate,

formerly hosier in Gr. Russel Str "

The last word is illegible. I should be deeply obliged to any one who, having access to a more perfect copy, would be good enough to supply the necessary word.

GEORGE EASTGATE.

Perry Barr, Fairfield, near Melbourne.

[The words you cannot read are simply Cov(ent) Gar(den).]

SHAKSPEARE AND THE SEA.

(9 th S.i. 504; ii. 113.)

HAS not our good friend MR. YARDLEY for- gotten Ariel's dirge in ' The Tempest,' I. ii., " Full fathom five," &c.? Charles Lamb, in speaking of the dirge* in Webster's ' White Devil,' says :

" I never saw anything like this dirge, except the ditty which reminds Ferdinand of his drowned father in ' The Tempest.' As that is of the water, watery, so this is of the earth, earthy. Both have that intenseness of feeling which seems to resolve itself into the elements which it contemplates."

Mr. F. T. Palgrave, in the notes to his ' Golden Treasury,' quotes, and by implication fully endorses, Charles Lamb's estimate both of Webster's " land dirge " and Shakespeare's " sea dirge." Does not the couplet, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange, make us

know the brine

Salt on our lips,

as Mr. Andrew Lang says we feel when we read the 'Odyssey? It is impossible to prove these things. They must be felt.

JONATHAN BOUCHIER.

Apropos of a description of the sea in a storm, there is a study of wild weather " a good study," the author calls it in one of Ruskin's criticisms of Turner's picture of a steamer in distress, throwing up signals. To this he appends a characteristic note in which he says :

" I am rather proud of the short sentence in the ' Harbours of England ' describing a great breaker against rock : ' One moment, a flint cave the next, a marble pillar the next, a fading cloud.' But there is nothing in sea-description, detailed, like Dickens's storm at the death of Ham, in 'David Copperfield.'"

The extract from the 'Harbours of England' calls to mind a verse of Heine in which the poet describes something of the same sort, in words almost as few. On reading them I was at once reminded of Ruskin. though perhaps the parallelism between the two passages must not be subjected to too severe a scrutiny. The lines are from ' Die Heimkehre' (xiii.) :

Ein lebendes Wassergebirge

Bildet die tosende See;

Hier gahnt ein schwarzer Abgrund,

Dort tiirmt es sich weiss in die Hoh.

T. P. ARMSTRONG.

The sailors' conversation in ' Pericles ' is in the first scene of the third act. No sailors


 * "Call for the robin-redbreast," &c.