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 9* s. iv. OCT. 14, 309 NOTES AND QUERIES. ignorance of the fact that the French was itself a rendering from the English. This translation from Vinet begins : " Ah ! why should Friendship bitterly lament 1" 8. HAEVEY GEM. 2, Keble Road, Oxford. H.M.P.C.C. — What do the above letters stand for 1 They occur on a tomb to one of the Browns of Colstoun. 1652. H. M. stand for " Hoc Monumentum evidently. P. C. C. is my difficulty. J. G. WALLACE-JAMES. Haddington. [If the tomb was put up by more than one person, the unexplained words are "ponendumcuraverunt "; if by one, probably "ponendum curavit conse- cravit."] " BLEACHFIELD HORN."—In a little poem by Robert Tannahill, entitled ' Marjory Miller' (a scolding wife !), the poet says :— Loud's the sounding bleachfield horn, But her voice is ten times louder ! What is "the sounding bleachfield horn"? Does it refer to some custom now obsolete 1 Tannahill died in 1810. JONATHAN BOUCHIER. " LONK " SHEEP.—What does lonk mean as a descriptive term for a breed of sheep 1 When was it first applied to the breed now known under this name ? The earlier writers of this century on agriculture make no men- tion of any such breed. R. HEDOER WALLACE. CHURCH OF ST. AGNES.—Can any one give information concerning a church of St. Agnes which is said to have existed formerly in Jerusalem? F. C. W. "RIGHTS AND ROYALTIES OF THE SEA." — What are "the rights and royalties of the sea" as appurtenances of a manor that borders on the coast ? C. T. HEMLOCK TREE.—Is it known who gave this name to the Abies canadensis 1 The first instance I know of its use is in the 1729 edi- tion of Evelyn's 'Sylva'(II. iii. 119): "The hemlock-tree (as they call it in New-England) is a kind of Spruce. As Evelyn died in 1706, this sentence may possibly be a later addition. ROUT. J. WHITWELL. C.C.C., Oxford. COPE FAMILY.—Would any reader of' N. & Q.' kindly send me a full pedigree of Cope of Bruerne ? Burke gives only the descent from Sir Anthony Cope, the lineal descendant. Any notes on the family will be acceptable. (Miss) E. E. THOYTS. Snlhamstead Park, Berks. GRETNA GREEN MARRIAGE REGISTERS.— Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' say where the Gretna Green registers are kept, and whether they are accessible to the public ? A. R. M. [See 5lh S. vi. 508; x. 388; 7th S. iii. 89; iv. 329, 496; ix. 186; 8th S. ix. 61, 149, 389; xi. 294, 338, 511; xii. 170, 331, 411.] SIR SAMUEL SHEPHERD.—I am anxious to get into communication with some of the descendants of Sir Samuel Shepherd, at one time Solicitor - General, and later (1819-30) Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Scot- land; or of his son Henry John Shepherd (1783-1855), Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, Re- corder of Abingdon, <fec., who married a daughter of the third Earl of Rosebery. W. G. EAKiNs. Osgoode Hall, Toronto, Canada. NEWSPAPERS AND SECRET INTELLIGENCE.— Over forty years ago there was a request in 'N. & Q.' (2nd S. iii. 47) for a reference to the magazine or review containing an article ' On the Means by which the Editors of Eng- lish Newspapers have obtained the Secrets of Foreign and English Governments.' No reply was forthcoming; but is it too late to repeat the question ? ALFRED F. ROBBINS. HAWKER MSS. (9th S. iv. 168, 223.) A COMPLETE " Hawker bibliography " would not, as MR. WALLIS says, be easy to compile, but it would be a great advantage to students of " the Vicar " if it could be taken in hand. A very good beginning was made by Messrs. Boaseand Courtney in their ' Bibliotheca Cor- nubiensis' (i. 220-2, iii. 1222-3); but the list of Hawker's works was not drawn up exactly on modern lines, and it is necessarily incom- plete. In the list, for instance, of Hawker's contributions to Willis's Current Notes, a communication headed ' Churchyards' (1855, p. 31), which is in reality a note upon the poem of ' Baal-Zephpn,' printed at p. 29 of the same volume, is omitted. I am not sure that all Hawker's communications to ' N. & Q.' are included. Of 'The Poor Man and his Parish Church ' no earlier edition than that printed in ' Days and Seasons; or, Church Poetry for the Year,' J. & C. Mozley, 1857, is given. I fancy the first edition must be ex- ceedingly rare: but I have a copy of the second, printea as a separate pamphlet by Edward Nettleton, of Plymouth, in' 1843. This is dated, in accordance with Hawker's