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 9*8. iv. Nov. u, "99.] NOTES AND QUERIES 401 Of the ' Records of the Western Shore' (1832) the editor says in a note :— " ' The Song of the Western Men' first appears, with the writer's acknowledgment, in this very rare little volume. It had been previously printed in the RoycU Dtroupori, Teltyraph and Plymouth Chronicle for 2 Sept., 1826, and was reprinted at the private press of Davies Gilbert, Esq., at Eastbourne ; and then within brackets, " These copies have not been seen by the present writer." Apparently mention of Mr. J. E. Bailey's papers in ' N. ife Q.' is omitted. A. R. Bayley. National Nicknames (9th S. iv. 28, 90, 212, 238, 296).—Nova Scotians are called "Blue- noses," not from the climate of the colony, but from a kind of potato called the " Blue nose " which grows well there. Large quantities were formerly sent to New England, and the wits there called Nova Scotia the " Land of the Blue noses." Many American nicknames are given in a book of travels in America by a Hungarian named Pulzsky ; it is called ' White, Black, and Red,' and was published about 1853. M. N. G. William Duff (9th S. iv. 328).—He was a miscellaneous writer, a Scotch minister, and M.A. He was born in 1732, called 18September, and ordained 8 October, 1755 ; died 23 Feb- ruary, 1815. E. J. Thomas. See Scottish Notes and Queries, vol. i. p. 163 ; ' Fasti Academic Mariscallana;,' vol. ii. p. 42 ; 'The Case of William Duff, Professor of Philosophy in the Marischal University of Aberdeen, showing the Barbarous Treatment of an Honest Family,' Lond., 1739. Duffs ' History of Scotland,' vol. i., contains his portrait. P. J. Anderson. Memorial to the Poet Campbell(9th S. iv. 304).—The note at this reference reminds mo of an event which, though not forgotten, happened in the distant past. On 3 July, 1844, when a boy, I saw the sexton filling in the grave of Thomas Campbell in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, the Rev. H. H. Milman, then Canon of Westminster, afterwards Dean of St. Paul's, himself a poet of no slight repu- tation, having read the burial service. Col. Sczyrraa, at the conclusion of the service, had sprinkled a handful of dust upon the coffin brought from the tomb of Kosciusko, a patriot to whom the poet had alluded in his ' Pleasures of Hope ':— Hope for a season bade the world farewell, And freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell. On the lozenge-shaped slab covering his re- mains Campbell is described as author of the ' Pleasures of Hope.' It is almost needless to observe that there is a fine classic statue of Campbell in Poets' Corner. In the Illustrated London Neivs at the time appeared an account of Campbell's funeral, with an illustration. John Pickford, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. Mr. Thoms's Library (9th S. iv. 307).- Mr. Thoms's library was sold at Sotheby's on 9 February, 1887, and three following days. The book which Mr. Bowditch names was lot 173 in the first day's sale. W. Roberts. St. Mary's, Westminster (9th S. iv. 329).— M. Jusserand is correct. Chaucer hired a house on Christmas Eve, 1399, in the garden belonging to St. Mary's Chapel, Westminster. The Lady Chapel, of which the foundation stone was laid on 16 May, 1220, by Henry ] II., then a boy of thirteen, lay eastward of the apse and Edward the Confessor's Chapel. It was destroyed to make room for Henry VI I.'s Chapel, also dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. In this house, probably, Chaucer died on 25 October, 1400. A. R. Bayley. Stow's 'Survey of London,' 1618, p. 896, says :— "From the entry into Totehill field, the street is called Pettie France, in which, and upon S. Hermits Hill, on the South side thereof, Cornelius Van Dun (a Brabander borne, Yeoman of the Gard to King Henry the eight, King Edward the sixt, Qucene Mary and Queene Elizabeth) built twentie houses, for poore women to dwell rent-free. And ncere hereunto was a Chappoll of Mary Magdalen now wholly ruinated." This may probably refer to the above St. Mary's. John Radcliffe. Oliver Cromwell and Music (9th S. iii. 341, 417, 491; iv. 151, 189, 276, 310).—It has naturally given me great pleasure to read that W. C. B. has been unable to adduce any of that " mass of evidence" which he said existed implicating Cromwell in the destruc- tion of organs; but he has not fairly admitted that he was wrong, and he makes one new statement which is quite inaccurate. He calls for proof that Cromwell "did his best to hinder, to remedy, and to disavow a destruc- tion wrought by those whom, in this respect at least, he did control when he pleased." These words distinctly imply that the mischief was wrought by Cromwell's soldiers. Surely W. C. B. does not imagine Cromwell was general of the Parliamentary army during the first three years of the war. I hope no contributor to 'N. & Q ' is so ignorant of elementary history. It was during the first two years of the war that the mischief was done, and there is no record of Crom well