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 292 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9" s. vi. OCT. 13,1900. I cannot endorse his statement in respect of the universality of the custom, nor am I deeply impressed regarding its religious importance, although it is still retained in the prayer books. My ever-to-be-lamented father (who died on 12 January) was sternly opposed to its retention, and his was a thoroughgoing orthodoxy indeed. I am certain that very few educated Jews in this country practise " Tashlich " to-day. Moreover, I believe the Chief Rabbi was induced to issue a strong appeal to the foreign element to abandon the annual custom of assembling on the quay near Tower Hill, as it was made the occasion of a large mustering of light-fingered gentry and "swell mobsmen," who plied their trade to advantage what time the devotees were shaking their garments, &c. The word is derived from the passage in Micah vii. 19. M. L. R. BRESLAR. LINES ON SWIFT (9th S. vi. 107, 177).—These caustic lines with three additional stanzas may be found in ' N. & Q.,' 7th S. x. 300, in an editorial note, in which they are said to be by Jonathan Smedley. Let me refer your readers as an illustration to the rather long, but witty poetical epistle in which the Dean describes his own character and writings, " occasioned by reading [as he says] the fol- lowing maxim in Rochefoucauld." This, I suppose, is the well-known passage, "Dans 1'adversite de nos meilleurs amis, nous trou- vons toujours quelque chose qui ne nous deplaist pas." The affiche on the door of St. Patrick's Cathedral was placed there in 1713, when Swift obtained the deanery—his great preferment. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. A POEM ATTRIBUTED TO MlLTON (9th S. vi 182, 238).—I remember when this poem firs! appeared the attribution to Milton was ob- jected to on the ground that he was too gooc a scholar to confound Helicon the mount with Hippocrene the spring, as the writer plainly does. As Oliver Cromwell, when he sent nis ward William Dutton to Eton appointed Andrew Marvell to be his tutor it is to be hoped that the same objectior would hold good in his case also. SHERBORNE. I am asked to explain the reference t< " ideal butterfly," which arose thus. The poe indites an epitaph of two preliminary verses containing sixteen lines, to a dead man, pos sibly his father, and in the third person Then we find an address to the reader in th first person, which I attribute to the "idea butterfly." i.e., the immortal soul —" as i pledge or his return." We must connect th mortal relics " of verse 1 with the " narrow yst" of verse 3, and also with the "more ure and noble part." It may be taken for a naterialistic explanation of the mysterious rocess defined as a resurrection by the effect fa" more than chymic heat." But what is " Baskerville " Milton 1 Are we to under- tand that some private collector has such a olume inscribed with a duplicate copy of the ntire "epitaph"? A. HALL. Highbury, N. [We intended to convey that we had cut the oem from the Athenteum, and preserved it in a opy of the Milton printed by Baskerville, the size f which commended it to us for the purpose.] STUART FAMILY (9th S. vi. 209).—The mother >f Frances Stuart, Duchess of Richmond. «mp. Charles II., was Mabell, daughter of Nicholas Burton, Esq., of Carshalton-Surrey. 3he was the third wife of Thomas Howard, irst Viscount Bindon. Frances, their only urviving child, married, first, Henry Pranell, )f Barkway, Herts ; secondly, Edward Sey- mour, Earl of Hertford; and thirdly,Ludovick stuart, Duke of Richmond and Lennox. She vas buried in Westminster Abbey, 12 October, 639. See Col. Chester's ' Westminster Abbey Registers,' vol. x. of Harleian Society pub- ications, whence the above is taken. R. C. BOSTOCK. Esme Stuart, Duke of Richmond and Len- nox (1655-72), in March, 1667, married for his third wife Frances Theresa, eldest daughter of the Hon. Walter Stewart (Stuart), M.D., son of Walter Stewart, the first Lord Blantyre. She died 15 October, 1702. Strickland's ' Queens of England,' vol. v. (which see for fuller information), says :— " The fair Stuart was very young, very vain, and Full of coquetry. She was flattered with the admira- tion of the sovereign, and amused herself with his passion as far as she could without involving herself in actual guilt." " Philip Rotier, the royal medalist, took the model of her form for the Britannia on the copper coinage," &c. JOHN RADCLIFFB. EARLY MENTION OF RIFLING (9th S. v. 516). —Sir Walter Scott, in a note to his poem on Cadyow Castle, says that at Hamilton Castle is still preserved the musket with which Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh shot the Regent Murray, and that the barrel is rifled. I forget the exact date of Murray's death, but it was before 1570. M. N. Q. IDENTIFYING JUNIUS (9th S. iv. 201 ; v. 509 ; vi. 33, 77).—Has any investigator ever con- sidered in connexion with this " malignant" the letters signed " Felton " received Novem-