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 B* 6. vi. NW. 3, i9oo.] TtfOTES AND QUERIES. 349 unanswered query some thirty years ago (4th S. vii. 495) points to some Parliamentary provision, but it does not connect it with the Marshalsea. It is this connexion I par- ticularly wish to learn about. S. ANDREWS, L.B.C.P. Baslngstoke. COAT OF ARMS.—On a portrait of a gentle- man : in one corner " 1592. JEt. suse 38," in the other a coat of arms, very faded, but appa- rently Argent, two bars azure (or sable), in chief a lion passant of the second, langued and forelegs gules, a martlet of the third. Can the original of the portrait be identified ? AYEAHR. REV. THOMAS COCKMAN, D.D., born in Kent, educated privately and at Oxford University. He held a cure in Warwickshire and afterwards in Kent. He followed Dr. Charlotte as Master of University College, Oxford, and died before 1750. Wanted in- formation concerning himself and his family, particularly the dates and places of his birth and burial. A. EBBS. 183, The Grove, Hammersmith, W. [He was the son of the Rev. Thomas Cockman, Rector of Cowderi, Kent, and Jane Wemyss, of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields. He died 1 Feb., 1744. Con- sult Foster's 'Alumni Oxonienses,' ' Index .Eccle- iiasticus,' Uutch MS., and Rawlinson, ii. 28, iv. 163.] THE HON. WILLIAM HOME.—The above is said to have murdered Joseph Johnstone, of Hilton, at the Hirsell, in the Merse, 26 Decem- ber, 1683. He then fled to England on John- stone's horse. What became of the Hon. William Home ? CHAS F. FORSHAW, LL.D. Bradford. MAJOE BURRINGTON.—Is anything known of this gentleman, further than the mention of his name by Hume and Macaulay as being the first West-Country gentleman who joined the standard of the Prince of Orange at Exeter in 1688? He is deservedly rescued from oblivion by this circumstance, for it was certainly a courageous action, as the West- Country people had yet fresh in their memory the cruelties practised before their eyes at Monmouth's rebellion. Hume says :— ''The first person who joined the Prince [of Orange] was Major Harrington ; and he was quickly followed by the gentry of the counties of Devon and Somerset.'—'Hist, of England,' chap. Ixxi, Macaulay observes, with more particulars :— " At length on Monday, the twelfth of November, a gentleman named Burrington, who resided in the neighbourhood of Crediton, joined the Prince's standard, and his example was followed by several of his neighbours."—' Hist, of England,' chap. ix. There is not a pedigree or any mention of the family in either BurkeV 'Commoners' or 'Landed Gentry,' though I am inclined to think that it was once a well-known name ih Devonshire. There was a clergyman named Gilbert Burrington. Prebendary of Exeter, at the beginning of this century, who was pro- bably some descendant. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. ' Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. BONAPARTE BALLAD.—The following was taken down from the dictation of an old countrywoman who had spent her youth at Killowen, near Rosstrevpr, in the county of Down. She had heard it from her parents. The ballad must have been composed during Bonaparte's imprisonment on St. Helena. The version is evidently very corrupt, some of the words probably bearing a resemblance in sound only to the originals. Perhaps the whole thing was somewhat of an 'illiterate production from the first. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give the correct version, or, if ft has ever been printed, say where it can be seen t ISLE OF ST. HELENA. Bonaparte is awa f rae his warring and fighting, He is gone to the place where be canna take delight in. •. Now he may sit and tell on the scenes he has seen a, While forlorn he does mourn in the Isle of St. Helena. Lucy laments at her lover's departure, She dreams when she Bleeps and awakes broken- hearted. Not a friend to console, even those that might win her, And she mourns when she thinks on the Isle of St. Helena. The red rushing waves around the shores are washing, And the great billows heave, against the wild rocks are dashing. You may look at the moon by that great Mount Diana, With his eyes on the waves that surround St. Helena. AH you that have wealth, be ye ware of ambition, For there's sonic decree of fate may soon change your condition. Be ye steadfast in time, for what is to come you canna, You might be like Bonaparte on the Isle of St. Helena. No more in St. Claron he '11 be seen in such splen- dour Or go with his friends to the great Alexander. But the young Prince of Rome and the King.of Hamma Say they will bring their father home from the Isle of St. Helena. f_ W. H. PATTERSON, M.R.I.A. .Belfast.