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Did this nomenclature originate in England or Scotland ? T. N.

NAME AND COMPOSER OP SONG. Can you please give me the name of the following song and that of the composer of the same ?

When I am dead, my dearest,

Sing no sad songs for me,

Plant no roses at my head,

Nor shady cypress tree.

I haply may remember,

And haply may forget.

BOJUM.

TROTTER, CLOCKMAKER. Can any one give me information about a maker of clocks at Jedburgh named Trotter? I have lately come into possession of a clock made by him, and should like to know its approximate date. G. P. B.

Ithaca, New York.

LETTERS OF DR. EDW. YOUNG. In 'The Works of Alexander Pope,' with introduction and notes by Kev. Whitwell Elwin and Wm. John Courthope (Murray, 1889), vol. iii. p. 137, note 2, reference is made to a letter of 20 February, 1726/7, from Dr. Edward Young, the poet, to Tickell ; and in vol. vii. p. 401, note 1, to letters of 17 November, 1727, and 21 February, 1727, from Dr. Edward Young to the same. Can any one give me a clue as to where these letters (if they still exist in any form) are to be found 1

MAURICE A. CANNEY.

CIPHER. At the close of one of Sir Thos. Urquhart's tracts the following "Cyphral Distich " is found. Can any of your readers give me the solution of it ?

5. 3. 27. 38. 32. 14. 21. 8. 66. 8. 70. 39. 5. 9. 12. 18.

2. 3. 56.

5. 1. 7. 3. 2. 13. 19. 3. 25. 9. 3. 16. 6. 25. 15. 13. 6. 11. 20. 5. 1. 2. 12. 1. 20. 20. 49. 20. 20.

35.33.

4. 6. 8. 35. 5. 38. 5. 5. 18. 10. 3. 11. 32. 42. Of carping Zoil and despightful Momus, Let th innate baseness be exiled from us, Who worthily would hear or read this book ; For if upon this Cyphral Distich look

An honest skilful man, he '11 therein finde His own heart's wishes, and the Author's minde.

J. W.

Lerwick.

EAST INDIA COMPANY. Are lists of officers published between 1770 and 1820 ?

EMMA ELIZ. THOYTS. Sulhamstead, Berks.

IDA BARONY, KILKENNY. Where can I find a list of settlers in time of Cromwell ?

A. C. H.

BOOKS WITH CURIOUS TITLES. The theo- logical department of my library has been

enriched (?) by two pamphlets bearing the following titles :

A Sure | Guide | to | Hell | In Seven Sections | Containing | Directions | I. To Parents in the | Education of their Chil | dren. | II. To Youth. | III. To those whose Minds | are possessed with Envy | Malice &c. | IV. To the K. | V. To first Ministers | of State. | VI. To the Clergy. | VII. To Young La | dies. | "Out of the Eater came forth Meat. | By Belzebub. | The Second Edition. | Lon- don: | Printed for Peter Imp, near St. Pauls. No date. Demy 8vo., viii-96 pp.

Die | and be | Damned. | Or an Antidote against every Species of | Methodism ; and Enthusiasm. | Infaeliciter aegrotat, cui plus periculi a | medico quam morbo. | Seneca, j The Second Edition, | Re- vised and enlarged by the Author. | London : | Printed for S. Hooper, and A. Morley, at | Gay's- Head, near Beaufort's-Buildings, in the | Strand. MDCCLVIII. | [Price One Shilling.] Demy 8vo., 4-viii-52 pp.

It seems desirable that the authorship of these piquant polemical pamphlets should be known. RICH. WELFORD.

[The second of these pamphlets is by T. Mortimer. A copy is in the Bodleian.]

ENSTONE, OXON. What is the origin of the name ? It is Henestan in Domesday ; Eriestan, 1309, Pat. Ed. II.; Ennestane, 1272, 'Cal. Inq. ad quod damnum,' p. 220 ; Ennestan, 1291, 'Taxatio P. Nich. IV.'; Ennestane, 1240, 'Inq. Non.,' p. 139 ; Enstane, 1603 ; Einstone, 1676; Ennestone, 1176, Bull of Alex. III.; Enston, 1535, 'Val. Eccl.' of Henry VIII.; Enneston' and Ennestan' in the Rolls of Hundreds, temp. Hen. III.-Ed. I. Attention has lately been given to the name in the last 'Report of the Oxfordshire Archaeological Society,' Banbury, 1899, p. 47, where it is :

"The origin of the name [Enstone] is uncertain, both as to the first and second syllables. Some suppose the first syllable to be a Saxon surname, Ena, and the second ton, a town. Others take the second syllable to be stan, a stone. Mr. Jordan iu the ' History of Enstone' states that the name was Ennestan or Enstan in the fourteenth century, and this he derives from the Saxon Enta, of the giants,

and stan, a stone giants' stone There are several

questionable statements in this book."

Enstone is on the Glyme, of which the former name was the Enis (Plot's map). This sug- gests another origin for the name.

ED. MARSHALL.

KEY TO PICTURE. In the Painted Hall at Greenwich there is a picture by Briggs of the presentation, on the quarterdeck of H.M.S. Queen Charlotte, by King George III., of a sword to Lord Howe, after the battle of 1 June, 1794. Can any reader tell me whether a key to the persons represented exists ; and, if so, where it is to be found ?

J. MURRAY AYNSLEY.