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 9". S. IV. Sept. 16, '99.] NOTES AND QUERIES. ^29 France, but gives him credit only for small prints to illustrate books and almanacs. The existence of this large print would seem to show that Chodowiecky did fine work on a larger scale than is commonly supposed, and if he engraved this print, and if Dornheim was only a myth, or a pupil who lent his name for a purpose, a more elevated position might be accorded to this remarkable artist- engraver. I have recently seen a reprint of another large engraving by Chodowiecky. Mrs. Stamer and her daughter, the Duchess de Rovigo, were both amateur artists, who collected^ for many years on the Continent rare small items in art, as well as illustrated fairy literature and folk-lore of all nations, most of which I possess, and they kept quite in touch with the artists and caricaturists of Paris in the forties, fifties, and sixties. References are made to Chodowiecky's works by De Feller as below : " Le Dictionnaire des Artistes du Baron Heinecker dans les Mis- cellaneen Artistickyn inhalts t. i. n. 131," and " Le Manuel des Amateurs de l'Art, par M. Hubert, tome lBr, page 163," which works I have not recently seen. James Hayes. Ennia. "The congeniality of great minds."— This is an aphorism so often quoted as to have become almost proverbial. Who first wrote (or said) it; or did any one write it? I cannot find it in any reference book. Edward P. Wolferstan. Christianity in Roman Britain.—What recognized Christian symbols or edifices have been hitherto discovered in Roman Britain ? E. E. Thoyts. Sulhamstead Park, Berks. Roos and Cromwell Families.—I shall be obliged if any reader of ' N. & Q.' can show me the alliance of these families, and the connexion of that of Roos with Kirton in Holland ; for on a most interesting ruin, the entrance evidently of a considerable castle (if we may judge by the moat which sur- rounded it), are, on the corbels of the external arch, two coats, the baron's apparently Roos, and the femme's Cromwell quartering Tat- tershall, representing, probably, the owner and his wife. In the groining within the build ng are several shields, and their identification may help to prove the alliance required. Unfor- tunately, all traces of metals or tinctures have disappeared, so I can only give the bearings as I find them. 1. Paly of six, a canton (erm. ?). 2. Paly of six, three roses. 3. Three water-bougets (Roos ?). 4. Two lions pass, guard, facing sinister (Littlebury ?). 5. A fesse on a label of five points. 6. A fesse erm. between three water- bougets (Meeres). If the colour were visible in the first five as it is in No. 6, I should attribute them thus : 1, Basset; 2 (?); 3, Roos ; 4, Little- bury ; 5 (?); 6, Meeres. Tradition gives this ruin to Meeres, and the adjacent part of the parish is still called "Kirton Meeres" ; and there has been found no record of a Roos ever living in, or pos- sessing an estate in, the parish, whilst they had two large seats within a few miles of it, and would hardly require a third so near them. Had not the arms of Meeres been so palpably clear on No. G shield, I could have imagined the baron's external arms to have been Meeres, and might have thought that the sculptor, by accident or ignorance, omitted the fesse between the three water-bougets, which alone marks the difference, in the absence of metals or tinctures, between Roos and Meeres. Any information as to the original owner of the ruin or of the arms thereon I shall be thankful for. Col. Moore, C.B., F.S.A. Franipton Hall, near Boston. ' For Remembrance.' — Can any corre- spondent kindly tell me in what paper or periodical this poem of Rudyard Kipling's first appeared ? Pacanus. Author of Poem Wanted.—Can any ono oblige by supplying the author of a humorous poem entitled 'The King and the Turnip,' the first two lines of which run thus ?— King Louis of France who is numbered eleven, As history tells, was an excellent king. Reply on postcard will suffice. J. B. McGovern. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. George Morland.—Can any of your readers inform me if the prints or engravings after Morland published in 1805, with William- son's name as " del.," are replicas; if so, are they valueless ? J. D. Capt. Mitschamp was born 1019, and died at Cork in 1648, leaving issue five children: Ambrose, Denny, Esther, Martha, and Anne, who, in 1660, married Dr. Jno. Vesey, Arch- bishop of Tuam, a partisan of Charles I., playing an important part in the Irish war. Muschamp seems to have executed his duties with ardour and excessive zeal, for in a letter which he wrote in 1642, now in the British Museum (pamphleted No. 24). he said, " Slaughtering the Irish was as good a sport