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 9"> S. IV. DEC. 16, '99.] 499 NOTES AND QUERIES. out if any ship of that name was in the list of the navies of any of the republics of South America or the United States. R. B. B. "MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB." — Are the authorship and date of first publication of these favourite verses known ? CHARLES WELSH. Boston, U.S. [They go back to 1780 at leant.] MRS. HODGES.—Who was Mrs. Hodges, a beautiful woman who lived at 53, Lower Brook Street, in 1789? She was afterwards the mistress of Mr. Walkier, a well-known banker at Brussels. W. ROBERTS. CHILD'S BOOK. — Some lines have been handed down in my family by oral tradition. Can any one tell me the name of the child's book containing them 1— Mamma, why mayn't I when 1 dine Eat ham and goose and drink port wine, And why mayn't I as well as you Eat pudding, soup, and mutton too ? Because, my dear, it is not right To spoil the youthful appetite. JANE QUILTER. " MARQUEE."—At what date was this word adopted by English people ? I do not find it in the Stanford ' Dictionary of Anglicized Words and Phrases.' The following extract from Festing's 'Frere and his Friends' is dated June, 1774: "They enter'd it by a Vestibule, which open'd into the Marquee (I think is the Military name for it), which was of a circular form." W. P. COURTNEY. Reform Club. COINS IN FOUNDATION STONES.—I should feel much obliged if you would tell me the origin of the placing of coins in a founda- tion stone—i.e., if it is only to mark the date, or for some other reason. I should also like to know when the custom first obtained. H. B. C. STEVENSON FAMILY.—I seek for parentage, ancestry, dates of birth and death, and place of burial, of Robert Stevenson, of Morton Hall, Chiswick, in 1795, and of Binfield Place, Berkshire. I am told he was at one time English Consul at Smyrna. He married, 2 December, 1775, Mary Frances (born 18 October, 1749), daughter of Capt. Charles Cockburn, of Brentford, by Margaret his wife, daughter of Thomas Holford by Mary his wife, daughter of Jonathan Towns- end, of Brentford, who, 19 December, 1741, married, as her second husband, John Stephenson, of Brentford, M.P., who is given in ' Burke's Landed Gentry' as father of Robert Stevenson. Mrs. Robert Stevenson married secondly. 24 September, 1818, Sir William Herne. She had by her first husband two sons and three daughters ; the younger son, John Stevenson, married Elizabeth, daughter of John Newcombe, of Star Cross, Devonshire. See Misc. Gen. et Her., vol. iii.. new series, pp. 255-6, for Holford and Townsend, and vol. ii., second series, p. 90, for Newcombe. REGINALD STEWART BODDINGTON. Constitutional Club, Northumberland Avenue. COMPANIONS OF CORTES. — Can any one give the address of correspondents who could supply me with plates of the following cavaliers who accompanied Cortes to Mexico: Francisco de Morla, Alonzo de Avila, Diego do Ordaz, Pedro de Alvarado, Francisco de Lujo, Christobal de Olid, Gonzalo de San- doval, Velazquez de Leon? Where could a copy in English of Bernal Diaz's history of the conquest be obtained ? Could you inform me of the dates and places of birth and death of these cavaliers ? Also a plate and the name and date of birth and death of Cortes. GARKETT DILLON. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.— And helped his party for his country's weal The pains of office and its joys to feel. Nor made he e'er of priestly pomp a rod To drive the creature trembling from his God. T. Their time a moment, and a point their space. Where Rivers, Vaughan, and Grey lay shorter by the head. H. T. B. OLIVER CROMWELL AND MUSIC. (9th S. iii. 341, 417, 491; iv. 151, 189, 276, 310, 401.) MR. DAVEY is in too great a hurry. I never said that the evidence could, or could not, be produced by me. Never- theless, here is some of it. If I had leisure and opportunity it might easily be extended ; but I am fixed in the coun- try, with access to no books other than my own small collection. MR. DAVEY'S limit of the first two years of the war is impossible. Moreover, he admits the case of Peterborough, where the destruction was done under Crom- well's supervision. In some of the cases indicated below the damage is charged upon the " Parliamentary " or " Cromwellian " soldiers. I cannot find that Cromwell took any steps to rescind the Parliamentary orders of 1644 and 1652, yet he ruled the House with a rod of iron—or with a file of soldiers—when