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monuments appear to have been made of marble and alabaster, with kneeling figures and shields with coats of arms emblazoned on them. Many of his works must have been destroyed in the Fire of London; but I should be glad if any of your readers would tell me whether they know of monuments erected by this artist. S. COOPER SCOTT.

JOHN JENKINSON LANYON. Can any one ipply genealogical particulars of the above -probably a Cornishman born about 1780? [e was a ward of a Bulteel of Flete, or imflete, Devon, and after the death of his lardian he entered the royal navy, civil Jepartment. His subsequent career is known to his descendants. M. O. H.

PETWORTH AND THE PERCIES. At what date did Pet worth pass into possession of the Percies? H. T. B.

JOHN JOSEPH WARTON, 1834. He married, 1834, at St. George's, Hanover Square, Char- lotte Skilton. Was he a son of the Rev. John Warton, 1757-1820, of Hants? A. C. H.

ARMS OF BERNER PESS. What was the coat of arms of Sir Berner Pess, the Nor- wegian Governor of the Orkney Islands in 1312? Did the Norse Jarls 9f the Orkneys have coats of arms, or insignia which served the same purpose, and, if so, where may these be found ? W.

"IF GOD DID NOT EXIST IT WOULD BE NECESSARY TO INVENT HlM." On p. 321 pf

Lewes's ' Life of Robespierre ' there occurs in a speech of Robespierre at the Jacobin Club the passage, " If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him." Was this some- what famous passage the creation of Robes- pierre's mind, or had he appropriated it from any other source, and, if so, can any reader supply a reference to an earlier existence of the passage ? CODEX.

[See 8 th S. vii. 409, 438, 516 ; viii. 174.]

'THE LATEST DEVIL.' Can any of your correspondents give me information as to a book called 'The Latest Devil'? It was published anonymously, and is said to be written by a clergyman who has published under his own name theological works.

R. E. R.

FUNNY - BONE SUPERSTITION. My aunt (aged seventy, of a Norfolk family) ex- claimed, when a friend knocked her funny bone, "That will stop your singing!" and on my asking her meaning said, " Have you never heard the saying 'If you knock your funny bone you'll never sing again'?'" I

never had, and am curious to know how a statement so dernonstrably false can have obtained. FRANK REDE FOWKE.

24, Victoria Grove, Chelsea, S. W.

PRICKLY PEAR. Is any explanation forth- coming of the following strange fact, or are we to look upon it as a mistake on the part of the writer, or a dream of the artist, in which he had a vision of an object of which he had no conscious knowledge? The late E. A. Freeman, the historian, writing from Syracuse in 1887, says :

"The prickly pear is said to have come from America, yet the mosaics at Monreale show Abra- ham's ram caught in a thicket of it." Dean Stephens's ' Life and Letters of Freeman,' vol. ii. p. 361.

N. M. & A.

MS. SOUGHT. I am anxious to know if the following MS. occurs in any modern col- lection. It is mentioned by Humphrey Wanley in a catalogue of MSS. in the library of Sir Henry Spelman, bought by John Hard- ing and sold by auction by him 20-22 Dec., 1709 (Harl. MS. 7055, f. 232) :

"82. Gervasii Tilleburiensis Dialogus cle neces- sitatibus scaccarii. Expl. ' Valeat Rex illustris ! ' Glanvile Gallice. Statuta de Marleberge, &c. Alchemica? Chronicon breyiusculum ab A.D. 1065 usque ad A.D. 1285. Man. div."

Two Stowe MSS. of the ' Dialogus ' are said to have been collated with a " MS. optimse notse" belonging to Spelman, and I am anxious to have details as to its date, &c.

C. J.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

Where do the following lines occur ? Our apprehensions mar our days More than our sorrows do.

A. C. C.

The hearts of men, which fondly here admire Fair-seeming shows, may lift themselves up higher, And learn to love, with zealous, humble duty, The Eternal Fountain of that heavenly beauty.

Words written round the central hall of the Royal Academy. T. R. G.

Anglorum Regi scripsit schola tota Salerna : Si visincolumem, si vis te videre sanum. Curas tolle graves ; irasci crede prpfanum ; Parce mero, ccenato parum ; non sit tibi vanum Surgere post epulas, somnum fuge meridianum ; Non mictum retine, neccomprime fortiter anum.

J. E. PAGE.

Life holds no dead so beautiful As in the white cold coffin'd past.

This I may love, nor be betrayed ; The dead are faithful to the last ;

I am not spouseless, I have wed

A memory. DELTA.

It is the fair acceptance, sir, That makes the entertainment, not the cates. R. HUTCHISON.