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 9lh S. IV. July 1, '99.] 9 NOTES AND QUERIES. cutting off the second I, while we double it in idyllic, as we do in metallic and libellous. Fulfil, fulfilling is not a case in point, but it shows the English dislike for a final double I in a dissyllable, even when the accent is on the last syllable. M. R. [Tennyson, as a matter of fact, wavered a great deal between the two spellings " idyl" and " idyll," and it seems possible that a desire to distinguish his English pictures of country life and the later Arthurian cycle led to the adoption of the variant Spellings. Analogy is a dangerous guide; why not follow the usual English spelling of to-day, viz., " idyll "=tiSv\iovl It can hardly be said to be wrong, even if in America " idyl" is usual.] Sir Edward Barnes.—Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' tell me the full name of the wife of Sir Edward Barnes, Governor of Ceylon, 1824-311 The ' D.N.B.' does not even men- tion that he was married. Donald Ferguson. 5, Bedford Place, Croydon. ' Life of Edward II.'—I have in my library a small thin volume entitled "The Life of Edward II. with the Fates of Grave- stone and the Spencers, a Poem in Three Cantos Done from a Manuscript. London. Printed for Tho. Harbin at the Bible and Anchor in the New Exchange in the Strand. 1721." In the preface the manuscript is attributed, by way of conjecture, to a Richard Hobert, and the date of it is conjectured to be "about a hundred years ago," i. e., reckon- ing from 1721, the date of this volume. Can any one give me more certain information about the author of this work, which seems to me considerably above mediocrity ? C. Lawrence Ford. [It is by Sir Francis Hubert, died 1629, for par- ticulars concerning whom see Mr. Gordon Goodwin's memoir in 'D.N.B.'] Dr. Thomas Sanderson, Archdeacon of Rochester.—In his ' Annals of the English Bible,' 1862, p. 480, Mr. Christopher Ander- son has, among the list of persons who trans- lated the present version, "Dr. Thomas Sanderson, of Balliol College, Oxford (?), Archdeacon of Rochester in 1606." I should like to have further particulars regarding him, and also any information which may help to discover his ancestors, and, if he left any, his descendants. Chas. H. Crouch. Nightingale Lane, Wanstead. Taverner.—I am desirous of ascertaining the name of the grandfather of Capt. Samuel Taverner. The captain was born at Romford in Essex, July, 1621, and he died at Dover, 4 August, 1696. He was the son of Samuel Taverner, who was buried at Romford, 28 October, 1641. During the Commonwealth he was Governor of Deal Castle, and he com- manded a troop of horse under Cromwell. His arms on his tombstone at Dover are a bend lozengy, in the sinister chief point a torteau. Family history states that Tie was descended from Richard Taverner, A.M., of Brisley, Norfolk. A. Abridged Motto on Sundial. — In the walled garden of the public grounds of Brockwell Park at Heme Hill I recently copied the following Latin inscription, which is dated 1775, on a sundial: " So: Doc' Ho: In D." Can any one oblige me with the full wording of the inscription, which I have copied verbatim ?. I do not find it in Mrs. Gatty's book on sundials (third edition). Busticus in Urbe. [Is it " Sol (or Solarium) docet horas in diem " ?] Marriages of Persons already married to Each Other.—Notices of these occur in parish registers during the seventeenth cen- tury, and perhaps earlier ; e.g., in those of St. George the Martyr, Queen Square, Middlesex, is, under 11 December, 1799, that of "John Richardson and Penelope Richardson, for- merly Lucas, both of this parish, they having already been married to each other." At St. James's, Piccadilly, under 27 April, 1802, is the marriage of " The R' Hon. William Edwards, Lord Kensing- ton, and R' Hon. Dorothy Edwards, Lady Ken- sington, formerly Dorothy 1 homas, they having been already married to each other. Lie. Cant. Wit- nesses, Robert Baxter, Furnivals Inn. Samuel Pride. N.B. The former marriage was on 2 Dec. 1797. [Signed] R. B." [presumably Robert Baxter above named, who possibly was the family lawyer]. These second marriages seem to throw- doubt on the validity of the first ones, which if not valid would render tho parties guilty of perjury. Has the subject ever been fully discussed 1 A list of such would be valuable, and might be made by each correspondent furnishing such entries as he came across. G. E. C. Andrew Brewer was elected M.P. for Southwark to the Parliament of Richard Cromwell in January, 1659, but died not long after his election, and before April of the same year. Any information respecting him will oblige. His son Andrew matri- culated at Lincoln College, Oxford, in May, 1661, aged fifteen, and entered the Middle Temple in 1665. W. D. Pink. Author of Quotation Wanted.— Our apprehensions mar our days More than our sorrows do. A Lincolnshire Priest.