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 9 th S. III. APRIL

8,m] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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1 elong to different conjugations, and have 3 othing whatever in common. In studying Greek we recognize a clear distinction be- t ween e and, and the phonology of English i j quite as important as that of Greek.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

EARL OF CARNWATH (8 th S. i. 163 ; 9 th S. ii. 447, 515). It seems evident from the follow- ing that Robert, the second Earl of Carnwath, did not marry Catherine Abington. Gavin, the third earl," had a charter to " Gavin, Lord I'alzall," and his wife, of the lands of Cashogill, Bromelands, &c., in co. Lanark, 18 Nov., 1644, and to " Gavin, Earl of Carnwath," the earl- dom of Carnwath, &c., 15 April, 1646. Foster, in his peerage, says he was at the battle of ^Naseby and dead before 19 Jan., 1647. Also in the Visitation of Gloucester I find that Catherine, daughter of John Abington, of Dowdeswell, co. Gloucester, was the second of the three wives of John Sheppard, of Tet- bury, in the same county.

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

'OLD ST. PAUL'S' (9 th S. iii. 186). It is a fact that this romance by William Harrison Ainsworth was first published weekly in the columns of the Sunday Times during the year 1841, where I read it for the first and only time. Ainsworth died on 3 January, 1882, and the following extract from the biographical notice in the Standard of the dence of the fact :
 * next day is, in a measure, an additional evi-

"At the sam e time these [ ' Guy Fawkes ' and ' Tower )f London'] were running through the pages of Bentley le was publishing week by week in the columns of one )f the Sunday newspapers his ' Old St. Paul's,' and is soon as this was completed, having severed lis editorial connexion with Sentley at the close )f 1841, he began in the succeeding year, in his own 'lewly established Ainsworth's Magazine, his histo- jical tale of ' The Miser's Daughter.'"

There was a report that his remuneration leas on a liberal scale ; but that I cannot onfirm. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

I 71, Brecknock Road.

CAPT. FRANCIS ABNEY-HASTINGS (9 th S. iii. >n of Sir Charles Hastings, Bart., an legitimate son of Francis, tenth Earl of Huntingdon. He was born 14 Feb., 1794, and ied 1 June, 1828, from wounds received in stion. On the decease of his brother, Sir harles Abney-Hastings, the baronetcy appa- kitly became extinct, the Abney estates assing to the Rawdon - Hastings family, hich, I presume, is now represented by the arl of Loudon. My father, who also served i the Greek War of Independence, met Capt. Ibney-Hastings at Poros in 1827, and in his
 * 67). Frank Abney-Hastings was a younger

work ' Wanderings in Greece ' speaks of him as a most distinguished officer.

BASIL A. COCHRANE. 92, George Street, Portman Square.

According to Burke, Frank (1 Francis) Abney-Hastings was the second son of Lieut.- Gen. Sir Charles Hastings, Bart., and Parnell, daughter and sole heir of Thomas Abney, of Willesley, co. Derby, his wife. Charles, the elder brother, who succeeded to the title, and the above-named Frank assumed by royal permission the surname and arms of Abney. He was born 14 Feb., 1794, and died unmarried at Zante, 1 June, 1828, of a wound received in an action with the Turks.

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

[Consult Abney.']

D.N.B.' under 'Hastings, Francis

BENEDICT ARNOLD (9 th S. iii. 69, 152). It may narrow MR. ABBATT'S inquiry to know that in his 'Fisld-Book of the Revolution' B. J. Lossing says that Arnold died in Glou- cester Place, London, on 14 June, 1801, and that Mrs. Arnold died in the same place precisely three years later. In a sketch of Arnold, elsewhere published, Lossing says : " And who knows the place of his grave 1 " Wheat- ley and Cunningham's ' London ' and Hare's 'Walks' give no assistance. There are memoirs by I. N. Arnold, by Macdonough and by Sparks, where possibly more exact location can be found. M. C. L.

'A LOVER'S COMPLAINT,' LL. 271-3 (9 th S. iii. 125). In very recent editions there seems a disposition to question the decision of former- editors as to the corruption of " Love's arms are peace," Wyndham having no note what- ever on the line. DR. SPENCE quotes lines 271-3, but we should bear in mind also the four immediately preceding. There is a mental conflict for mastery between the power of love and " precepts of stale example," " impe- diments of wealth, of filial fear, law, kindred, fame." In " coldly " of 1. 269 (by the way, misprinted "boldly" in the "Temple Edition") is found the idea which points to the correct- ness of "peace." The conflict between love and all other considerations combined is very onesided, and the voice of love is heeded to the exclusion of everything else. "How coldly these impediments stand forth ! " that is, how feebly they urge their claims ! with the result that the enfolding arms of love constitute peace, and all jarring elements are forgotten. Some have evidently understood "arms" as meaning defensive weapons "'gainst rule, 'gainst sense, 'gainst shame," others taking it to be a verb the furnishing