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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. vn. MAY 4, 1901.

tions. A quarto volume, partly in ink and partly in pencil, hf. bd., 2W."

We are very anxious to trace this manu- script for an American correspondent who is writing a volume on Moore's life in Ber- muda, and we think a query in your valuable paper may bring the volume to light. Messrs. Sotheran cannot now tell to whom the volume was sold, and so far our inquiries in various directions have failed to bring it to light. B. F. STEVENS & BROWN.

JOSEPH BOULMIER. Has M. Boulmier pub- lished anything since his little volume of ' Villanelles ' in 1878 ? In one of his ' Bal- lades in Blue China ' or rather in a villanelle included, as I suppose, in this volume quoted in Mr. Gleeson White's * Ballades ana Ron- deaus ' in the " Canterbury Poets," 1 887, Mr. Andrew Lang asks, not "in anger," but "in sorrow," if "the Singer" and "the Master" (that is, M. Boulmier) has " ceased to sing " or has "lost his lute." M. Boulmier's villanelle beginning

Elle avait quinze ans & peine, J'en avais dix-huit au plus,

is one of the prettiest little love songs that I am acquainted with. If the author of this

Where is the song hidden, my friends, that MacMurrough cannot find it 1 ?"

JONATHAN BOUCHIER.

AUTHORS OF BOOKS. I shall be glad to know the name of the author of a novel entitled 'Crockford,' published by Messrs. Saunders & Ottley (London, 1828) ; and that of " Whist : its History and Practice, by an Amateur," illustrated by Kenny Meadows (London, Bell, 1843). F. J.

[' Crockford's ; or, Life in the West,' is by

Deale.]

JOHN COE AND FAMILY. I have been searching ' Morant's Guide to Essex,' a very old book, in two volumes, and have found satisfaction to a certain extent, but cannot discover where John Coe died. It would be of great convenience to the remaining mem- bers of the Coe family if this was found ; and if you would kindly furnish me with as many details as possible, it would greatly assist the family in pursuing the right to that to which for some years past they have lost all clue.

J. H. SARGENT. 121, Klsley Road, Clapham Junction.

HENRY PAGETT. (See 9 th S. vi. 332.) "Henry Pagett, of Knockglass, co. Mayo, bv articles of agreement bearing date 1754 makes over

to his nephew Thomas Pagett, of Fahy, m said county, Gent., his estate of Knockglass and all his the said Henry's real estate for ever, and m case said Thomas die without male issue the lands to descend to Sarah Pagett, daughter of the said Henry, and in failure of her issue to Mary Pagett, granddaughter of the said Henry." Was this Henry Pagett second or third son of the Hon. Henry Paget and his second wife Mary Rourke or Bourke, whom he married in St. Kevin's Church, Dublin, 29 March, 1684? His eldest son was Thomas Paget, baptized 6 September, 1686.

WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.

LINES ON A SKULL. Can you or any of your readers inform me who was the author of 'Lines on [or suggested by] a Skeleton,' of which the first verse is as follows 1

Behold this ruin ! 'twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit full : This space was thought's mysterious seat, This narrow cell was life's retreat : What beauteous visions filled this spot ! What dreams of pleasure long forgot ! Nor hope nor pleasure, joy nor fear, Have left one trace or record here.

There are four other verses. I have been told that the poem referred to exists in some museum, but I arn unable to verify the state- ment. M.A.

" SNICKET." In the Sun newspaper, pub- lished in London 12 March, an anonymous writer on the Bayeux tapestry says, "Sent us up the wrong street, and down the wrong snicket, and round the wrong corner." Is the word snicket, as here used, a mere solecism ? Does it mean a short cut 1 In the ' Sailor's Word-Book,' by W. H. Smyth, one finds " Smkker-snee, a combat with knives; also, a large clasp knife." Hence snick would seem to be a synonym of snip or cut. Hal- liwell, in his ' Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words,' says, " Snicket, one that pincheth all to nought " ; but this does not fit the cutting from the Sun, unless some very narrow passage be referred to. Miss E. Dobson tells me that snicket is used in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the sense of short cut, small passage. E. S. DODGSON.

CITY CURIO COLLECTOR. I take the follow- ing from the City Press, dated 11 September, 1895 :

" The Rev. J. C. Jackson, late curate-in-charge of St. Olave, Old Jewry, whose death occurred recently at Hackney, was an ardent collector of curios. 'In a little office at Angel-court, Throg- morton-street, he had a large collection of most interesting objects,' writes a correspondent, 'and he once gave me the history of a good many ot them.