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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. VIL MAY is, 1901.

discovery, from a perusal of an essay in her 'Critical Studies,' that the famous Ouicia has not the faintest notion of the meaning of the word " condign." CRITICASTER.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers maybe addressed to them direct.

" ATTE." Is it supposed that atte in terri- torial surnames in mediaeval records is equiva- lent to de or de la; or did atte denote actual residence at the place named, and de the place of origin of the individual or his family 1 Both atte and de or de la occur in the same Patent Roll or other document, in the names of different persons. L.

POEM BY PHILIP SCARPELLI. Cardinal Bartolini in 'Gli Atti di S. Agnese' men- tions "a rather elegant poem, in five cantos," composed by Philip Scarpelli and dedicated to Pope Paul V., 1 September, 1616. Can any one say where a copy of this poem is to be seen 1 FRANCES C. WEALE.

VERSES BY LADY FALKLAND. In "The Lady Falkland : her Life from an MS. in the Imperial Archives at Lille, edited by Richard Simpson, London, 1861," it is stated on p. 39 that she wrote in verse the lives of St. Mary Magdalene, St. Agnes, and St. Elizabeth of Portugal. Were any of Lady Falkland's verses ever published, or do they exist in manuscript ? FRANCES C. WEALE.

29, Crescent Grove, Clapham Common, S. W.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY IN THE SEVEN- TEENTH CENTURY. With reference to some researches I am making into the history of a member of St. John's College, Cambridge, who was resident about 1632, 1 shall be glad if any of your readers can give me information as to the best authorities to consult on the university in general and St. John's College in particular at that period. LAICUS.

^ BOOKS ON MANNERS, DEPORTMENT, AND ETIQUETTE. I wish to make a collection of these published before 1800 (booksellers, please note). Can your correspondents give me the titles of any such ?

EDWARD HERON-ALLEN. 3, North wick Terrace, Maida Hill, N.W.

SHAKESPEARE QUERIES. Can any one help me to find the reference to two alleged facts connected with Shakspere ? (1) The supposed

faculty granted (was it to Delia Bacon ?) to open the poet's tomb. (2) The statement that Shakspere, Jonson, and others at Spenser's funeral wrote epitaphs and threw them into the grave. REGINALD HAINES. Uppingham.

REV. JOHN KNOX, 1787. I have seen it stated that the Rev. John Knox, minister of the Gospel at Slammanan, Stirlingshire, who died 1787, had stated to Lord Keith in 1779 that he was the heir of the Knoxes of Ran- furly. Can any of your readers confirm this, or say where Lord Keith's statement may be found 1 H. B.

AUTHORS WANTED. The following quota- tions occur in the lectures or essays of William Hazlitt. Who are the authors 1

1. And visions, as poetic eyes avow,

Hang on each leaf and cling to every bough.

2. Obscurity her curtain round them drew, And Siren Sloth a dull quietus sung.

3. Like strength reposing on his own right arm.

4. A sense of joy

To the bare trees and mountains bare And grass in the green fields.

5. A certain tender bloom his face o'erspread.

6. Oh memory ! shield me from the world's poor

strife, And give those scenes thine everlasting life.

7. Calm contemplation and poetic ease.

8. We perceive a softness coming over the heart of a nation, and the iron scales that fence and harden it melt and drop off.

9. Kind and affable to me had -been his conde- scension, and should be honoured with suitable regard.

10. Beauty out of favour and on crutches.

D. NICHOL SMITH.

Edinburgh.

PEWS ANNEXED TO HOUSES. Many readers of ' N. & Q.' must have seen conveyances of messuages to which a pew in the parish church is expressed to be annexed. I have seen such grants of pews from the latter part of the seventeenth century down to about 1850, and I have no doubt that the practice, during this period, of including a pew as appurtenant to a messuage was common. Is it known when the practice began, and was it earlier than the time which I have mentioned ? I should be glad to have references, or quotations from deeds, as I propose to deal with the subject in a book. Is there anything to show that every ancient messuage had its pew ? S. O. ADDY.

3, Westbourne Road, Sheffield.

'KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN.' Mr. Bartlett, in his very full ' Dictionary of Familiar