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have an idea that this list was published as a Parliamentary Paper ; but it may have been in some book that I saw it.

D. J. Q'DONOGHUE.

[There is an annual return of Civil List Pensions laid before Parliament, and always noticed in the newspapers at the time of its appearance. By a comparison of the various annual lists a complete list might probably be arrived at, except as re- gards persons whose deaths are not recorded in obituaries.]

THE FAIRY CUCUMBER. Is there any fairy tale in which the Fairy Cucumber appears 1

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GOLDSMITH'S TRAVELS. It is a common- place that the course and extent of these are not very clearly known, and that Goldsmith's own references are not always to be trusted. The accounts, however, given by his bio- graphers all seem to concur in not taking him further into Italy than the northern part of the peninsula. But if the couplet Or onward where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door

be taken (as it usually is) to refer to personal

experience, surely the next

Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies, A weary waste expanding to the skies

would point to the poet's having been in the neighbourhood of Rome. Is there any reason for absolutely rejecting this 1

W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.

JOHN MATHEWS. I read 4 th S. iii. 183, under the signature P. P., of a pedigree of the Eures "carefully drawn by John Mathews." I should like to know who was John Mathews ; when he lived ; whether he printed and pub- lished his work. If so, where is it to be ob- tained ? F. H. E.

SOCIETY OP DILETTANTI, FOUNDED IN LON- DON, 1734. An old coloured print in my possession (T. HUDSON PINXIT . i. FABER FECIT) represents a meeting of this society seven gentlemen in wigs and dress of about that period. On the floor of the picture is a folded paper, like a letter, directed "John Blashford, Esqre., at Bontcombe, in the Isle of Wight. Free Wat Wms Winn, Walter Williams." I shall be glad to know who is the present owner of the picture from which the print was taken, and, if possible, the names of the members whose portraits appear in it. GEO. E. CRISP.

MADAME SARCIENNE. Who was this lady ? Romney painted two portraits of her, both

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address is given as No. 5, Cork Street, and she is described by Romney as " an Italian lady." I am anxious to know something about her, particularly the dates of her birth anrl death. W. ROBERTS.

Carlton Villa, Klea Avenue, Clapham.

ROBERT TWIST was elected from West- minster School to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1599. Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' ' give me further information of his career 1

G. F. R. B.

FRANCIS SHIERS AND JOHN ROGERS were elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, from Westminster School in 1600. I should be glad to have any particulars about them.

G. F. R. B.

QUOTATION IN 'THE BROOKES OF BRIDLE- MERE.' On p. 76 of the ninth edition of Why te-Mel ville's ' The Brookes of Bridlemere ' occurs the following sentence : " ' Mother,' says a great writer, who has lately gone from among us, 'is the name for God with little children.'" Who is the "great writer" re- ferred to ? JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

BLUE CASSOCKS. Can any of your readers tell me if there is truth in the statement that choristers of churches dedicated under the invocation of the B.V.M. usually wear blue cassocks ? F. B.

Torquay.

"To GREEN." Keats has been censured for introducing the verb "to green" into the language^ In this he was, of course, j innocent. The verb had been used long before his time. Dr. Johnson gives " to green," and quotes Thomson ; but the verb, I feel certain, is much older than ' The Seasons.' I believe I have seen it in Elizabethan authors. Am 1 right in thinking that it is a very old verb : and is anything known of its earliest use in J the language 1 THOMAS AULD.

[The ' H.E.D.' will soon settle the question.]

THOMAS ASKE. John Aske, last of Aughton, co. York, who married Christian, daughter oil Sir Thomas Fairfax, had a son Richard, of the Middle Temple, London. But had he othei sons? as I find a Capt. Thomas Aske (wife's name Susanna), who died at Thurles, co Tipperary, will dated 26 September, 1660! proved 1661, who had brothers Richard anc Nathaniel Aske. WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.

Dundrum, co. Down.

WHITE MSS. AND SANDERSON FAMILY.- The late Mr. Edward Arthur White, F.S.A.

for Sir John Leicester, in 1786. Her London had a large collection of manuscript