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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. H. JULY 23, '98,

who are curious in such matters can see an exact reproduction of that drawing in the article in the Leisure Hour already referred to, and also of the existing house, as well as an original portrait of Johnson (of that date) from the interleaved work by Pennant.

More might be added about the garden at the back of Johnson's house (which afterwards became the playground of the Stationers' Company's school), where Johnson and Bos- well used to sit and converse together.

Round the corner, in Gough Square, is another house which Johnson occupied for some years, and where some portion, at least, of his great ' Dictionary ' was compiled. This house still exists just as it was when Johnson lived there.

Another house in Bolt Court (No. 3) has an interest of its own from its connexion with another doctor, Dr. Lettsom, a London phy- sician celebrated in his day. This house he presented to the Medical Society of London, who are still its present owners. It has a carved tablet over the doorway, intended to show in relief the healing art since the time of Isis of Sais, with a remarkable Greek inscription. It is often confounded with the house over the way which stands on the site of Johnson's old house; and strangers may be often seen peering at the tablet and trying in vain to see the great man represented there. In this house I have had rooms since 1858, and am in this respect the " oldest inhabitant " in the court.

G. PEARSON.

3, Bolt Court, Fleet Street.

GLADSTONE AS A VERSE- WRITER (9 th S. i. 481 ^ ii. 16). It is amusing to learn that the Alliance News attributes the very charming little poem 'To Dorothy,' a paraphrase of "Est mihi nonum superantis annum" (Horace, is Mr. E. V. Lucas, and the poem was first published in Mr. C. L. Graves's clever volume ' The Hawarden Horace ' (Smith, Elder & Co., 1894). RICH. C. CHRISTIE.
 * Od.,' iv. 11), to Mr. Gladstone ! The author

The verses as to the first appearance of which MR. AXON inquires are not by the deceased statesman, but by Mr. E. V. Lucas. They are an adaptation of Horace's Ode to Phyllis, and are to be found in 'The Hawarden Horace,' the playful humour of which was cordially appreciated by Mr. Gladstone him- self. ALFRED E. THISELTON.

[Other replies to the same effect have been received.]

SOURCE OF QUOTATION (9 fch S. ii. 7). These words form the first two lines of a song en

titled ' Rock me to Sleep, Mother,' which appears in vol. ii. of Boosey's 'Household Music,' issued about thirty years ago. This particular volume is devoted to what was then known as Christy Minstrel music. The song in question bears the name of D. K. O'Donnel, but the name of the author of the words does not transpire. JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

"Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight," is given as by Mrs. Akers in " The Royal School Series," No. 5, 1877.

ELIZABETH FOWLER.

The verses beginning " Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight," were written by Mrs. Elizabeth Akers Allen, an American, whose nom de plume was Florence Percy. She is still living. M. B. W.

[Many other replies are acknowledged.]

MALCOLM HAMILTON (9 th S. i. 328). The extract following is from 'Works of Sir James Ware concerning Ireland,' by Walter Harris, vol. i. p. 486 (Dublin, 1764) :

" A Native of Scotland, and Chancellor of Down, was together with Archibald Hamilton, Bishop of Killala. consecrated in St. Peter's, Drogheda, on the 29th 01 June, 1623,* and the year following was called into the Privy Council. [He also obtained a facultyt to hold in Commendam the Chancellorship of Down, and the Rectory of Davenis, or Devenish, in the diocese of Clogher, and a grant of the Mesne Profits of the Archbishoprick during the Vacancy.] He died of a raging Feaver at his House at Camus on the 25th of Aprill, 1629 and was buried the 2d of May following in the Cathedral of Cashell where there is a Monument erected to his Memory on the North side of the Choir, the inscription on which is not legible. For the Letters being cut so as to stand raised from the Plane were, together with his Arms, defaced by a Chizel in the reign of King James the lid. by some ignorant Papist, so that nothing is now to be made out but his Mitre and the Motto, which, being sunk into the Stone, could not so easily be erased. The Motto is ' Pasce Oves.' After the death of Archbishop Hamilton, this See continued almost a year vacant, and in that time was offered by the King to James Spottiswood, Bishop of Clogher, but he refused^ the translation."

On 26 Nov., 1626, Hamilton, together with the Archbishop of Armagh and ten bishops, signed a protest entitled " The Judgment of divers of the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland concerning Toleration of Religion" (Cox, ' Hist, of Ireland, Reign of Charles I.,' p. 44, published 1690). The second signature, Mai. Casellen., is Hamilton's.

Hugo or Hugh Hamilton, first baron of Glenawley, co. Fermanagh, was, according to Swedish authorities, second son of Abp.

"* Pat. 23d May, 21 Jac."

"t Cox, 2 vol. p. 39."

" t Ussh. Letters, No. 148."