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 »«. s. vi. DEC. is, i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 479 pigeons and breakers of dovecots. In Fife especially are many of them, for there the number of proprietors is large. Indeed, the possessions of a Fife laird were said to be " a wee pickle land, a big pickle debt, a dpocot, and a law plea." They are like miniature peels with the tops shorn off at the slant, and they are all grey and old, but are not, as a rule, allowed to decay. J. L. ANDERSON. Edinburgh. See 9th S. iii. 113. Q. V. LlNES ATTRIBUTED TO MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS (9th S. vi. 433).—The lines attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots, supposed to have been written on leaving the shores of France, were in reality an historical forgery of De Querlon, who admitted as much to the Abbe Menier de Saint-Le"ger. CONSTANCE EUSSELL. Swallowfield, Reading. WHITGIFT'S HOSPITAL, CROYDON (9th S. vi. 341, 383, 402, 423).—I am sure MR. JONAS will allow me to explain that although Strype and other writers have asserted that Thomas Cartwright was the author or the "chief author" of the 'Admonition to Parliament' treated of by Strype, in his ' Life of Parker,' under the year 1572, Cartwright was not really the author of this work, although it represented faithfully enough his views and opinions. Brook says, in his ' Life of Cart- wright,' chap. iii. :— " Numerous mistaken writers both of former and later times have fathered the ' Admonition' on Mr. Cartwright whereas he was not the author, but Mr. John Field and Mr. Thomas Wileoeks, for which they were committed to Newgate," where, he adds, they were visited by (among others) Dr. Fulke (afterwards Master oi Pembroke College, Cambridge) and Messrs Lever and Cartwright. I may be allowed to add that Brook was an Independent minister in Staffordshire, who died in the year 1848 His ' Life of Cartwright' was, I think, his last production. He is, doubtless, a prejudicec and one-sided writer, but he is straight forward : and I confess I prefer his books to those of later writers of the same school whr are much more disingenuous than Brook. S. ARNOTT. Miss TKEFUSIS (9th S. vi. 281).—The mother of this lady was, as your correspondent cor rectly observes, a daughter of the tenth Baron St. John, of Bletsoe. She is buried in th sepulchre of the St. John family in Bletsoe Church, Beds, in a vault now closed up in the northern arm of the transept of the church. There was the following inscription on her coffin-plate: " The Honble. Ann Tre usis, Wife to Egbert Cotton Trefusis, Esq'. Died 7th March 1776, Aged 37 Years." JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. DELAGOA AND ALCOA (9th S. y. 336, 424 ; vi. 6).—I have heard a derivation which in- cludes both these. It is that Algoa was the ast port of call on the way to Goa, and Delagoa the first port of call on the voyage >ack to Europe from Goa. I am told that ,his is given in a history of the Portuguese n South Africa, but my informant cannot remember in which book he read it. It is a suspicious looking derivation ; perhaps some one may think it worth demolishing. J. V. KITTO. IJlisrrlhiuous, NOTES ON BOOKS, &o. The Oxford Book of English Verse, U50-1900. Chosen and edited by A. T. Quiller-Couch. (Oxford, Clarendon Press.) A GLANCE at the title-page will show that the com- piler of this volume has attempted a big task, and most readers will, we think, agree with us that two volumes were needed instead of this one over- bulky whole of 1,084 pages between two covers. Two-thirds of that amount was recently brought out in two volumes when the Clarendon Press published Dryden's ' Essays.' We therefore are the more surprised to find this overblown garland of similar form and appearance not divided. This grumble over, we may proceed to congratulate the Oxford scholar on his taste. Much of any modern anthology is a settled matter, thanks largely to Palgrave and others who have worked in the same field; discoveries of genius, except in the most modern, are uncommon, and the matter of propor- tion is chiefly that in which an anthologist is tried. Many have special preferences which involve undue exclusions. " Q" is free from this kind of pre- judice, and all round his collection is, for the greater part, as good as any reasonable man could wish, and more fairly representative of the choicest older poetry than any we know. We get, and expect to get, ' Lycidas,' the two bridal poems of Spenser, an excellent show of Herrick and the Elizabethans, ' Come live with me' and the Reply, ' The Scholar-Gipsy'—in fact, nearly all our favour- ites—with such rarer appearances as Randolph's ' Come, Spur, away,' Wither's ' I loved a Lass,' twenty pieces from Landor, Mr. Swinburne's ' Ave atque Vale,' three poems by that odd, but true poet George Darley, and Leigh Hunt's ' Jenny kissed me'—all very welcome, especially the last, a charming thing we knew before only in a charm- ing book which deserves to be better known and better printed, the ' Lyra Elegantiarum.' In his choice of pieces of this century our critic does not win our complete adherence. How could he omit 1 The Brook' and ' Crossing the Bar' of Tennyson, or forget Browning's ' Never the Time and Place"? There is more of W. S. Blunt than William Morris; indeed, the highest passion and grace of the latter are hardly here, to our thinking. The latest taste is fully catered for. We get something of Fitz- Gerald's 'Omar' and of Mr. Kipling and Mr