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 474 NOTES AND QUERIES. lg-s.v1.D....15,m>. person of the day, and the notes point out such persons ° but the parrot, I sug est, must have learnt the words on shipboarrf W. C. B. The fullest notes on the passage inquired after are to be found in ‘ Hudibras’ with Dr. Gray’s annotations. vol. i. p. 65, published by C. & H. Baldwyn, Newgate Street, 1819. The “ ” would seem to refer to Puisne Baron Tom Inson, and the “ Walk, knave, walk,” to a tract _published by Edmund Gayton, pro- bably wxth a desire to banter Col. Hewson, 1659. _ J. CURTIS. Raleigh House, Bromley. Gonrnsr (9“‘ S. vi. 388).-Col. Charles God- frey, who died 23 Februar? 1714, aged sixty- sI_x years, was buried at ath. For a short biographical sketch and marriage of his two daughters see ‘ N. & Q.,’ 7” S. ii. 148 ; Sth S. v. 127, 475. Evnnaan Home COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. If H. C. B. H. will communicate with me privately I can furnish him with some in- ormatxon about Charles Godfrey and his father, and perhaps give him a clue to his descent and the locaitg of the family he belonged to. H.. VADE-WALPOLE. Stag ury, Banstead, Surrey. . La'rIN LINES (9"‘ S. vi. 410).-The lines mentioned by WHIM at this reference are quoted by Scott in ‘The Monastery] chap. xvi. have the whole poem (if poem it can be called), with its delicious disre ard of gram- mar, in one of my manuscri tqmooks, and if WHIM will communicate with me I shall be happy to copy it for him. The verses, I understand, are from a MS. of the early fourteenth century. J oN./ITILIN Boucmsa. Ropley, Alresford, Hants. Mn. Gsoaom MORLEY’S ‘SHAKBSPEARE’S Gammwoon’ (9°" S. vi. 338, 407).-For the Welsh legend of the redbreast referred to by C. C. B. see ‘N. & Q.,’ vol. vii. p. 328, or ‘Choice Notes : Folk-lore,” p. 185. ST. SWITHIN. J ULIU8 Casas (9“' S. vi. 407).-When I was a boy in the old city of Chester over thirty gears ago, there lived there two old men rothers, who were furniture removers and were named Julius and Augustus Caesar. This in a city underneath which lies one of the finest Roman cities in our land-Deva. I think Julius is dead, but I never heard of the demise of Augustus, who was a tall old man with white air and a broken nose. My late father told on |24 Dec., 1879, in the Christmas num- ber of the C/wshire Sheaf (which he edited), a story how, when he was once showing an Ame- rican farmer round Chester, the Transatlantic friend said, “ Well, sir, you ’ve satisfied me all out that yours is a genuine Roman city, but -you couldn’t just show me a real IVIDS Roman, could you 1” “Look there at that donkey-cart,” said my father. On the name- plate was “Augustus Caesar, Furniture Re- mover,” &c. The American went back to his New England home and told his friends that Chester was the oldest and strangest place he had seen on his travels, for he had seen a real Roman driving a donkey-cart in the streets where Roman feet had trod in the day when Deva was in its prime. The American farmer was Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted, of Tosonock Farm, Southside, Staten Island, and his ‘Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England ’ (London, David Bogus, 1852) lies before me and is probably a scarce book now. T. UANN Hucass, M.A. Lancaster. The Sir Julius Caesar referred to in the two paragraphs quoted by MR. W. E. WILSON is evidently one and the same person. The date 1815 in the second paragraph should palpably be 1615. Sir Julius L-aesar was with Lord Bacon throu hout his fatal illness; to him the great phiIosopher dictated his last letter, thanking the Earl of Arundel for the hospi- tality of his house, and in his arms he eventu- allly died. Sir Julius Cwsar’s name was really A elmare. On his tomb he is styled “J ulium Adelmare alias Caesarem.” He is buried in the church of St. Helen, Bishopsgate, and his altar-tomb may still be seen in the Gresham Chapel at the east end of the north or nuns’ aisle. The inscription on the upper slab is probably unique. It represents a document drawn up in strict legal phraseology, with seal below, the card of attachment with which is broken. A plate {igurin§ this in- scription will be found in Allen’s ‘ istory of London’ (1828), iii. 137. The tomb is the work of Nicholas Stone and cost 110l. Sir Julius Caesar Adelmare was born at Totten- ham in 1557, and died on 18 April, 1636. JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. AU'rHoR’s Eanoas IN ‘LOTHAlR’ (9"‘ S. vi. 407).-Dom HUNTER-BLAIR’S notice of the mis- takes made by Lord Beaconsfield reminds me of similar slips on the part of Anthony Trol- lope. In ‘Dr. Thorne’ we have a Lady Selina de Courcy, but she appears in snbse uent novels as Lady liosina. Bernard Dade is often called Bert-ram Dale in the ‘ Last Chronicle of Barset.’ In it, also, we [ind Mr.