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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. VIL JUNE i, 1001.

and thus exclude daisies ; and if a ridge of a field were left unmanured when sown out, while the rest of the field was manured, the unmanured ridge could be detected by the abundance of daisies at the proper times many years after. Crows pick up maize cast down for pheasants. It passes through them undigested. I have known seeds of wild mustard lie twenty years dormant under a bank of dry earth. J. MILNE.

"Qui VIVE?" (9 th S. vii. 245, 336.) In Prof, fimile Deschanel's interesting book fourth edition, Paris, 1898, I find on p. 116 the following note on the above phrase :
 * Les Deformations de la Langue Frangaise,'

"Qui vive? transcription du latin Quis vivus? donnerait grammaticalement : 'Quivif?' Quel est le vivant qui s'apprpche ? Autrement dit : Qui va la ? La prononciatiqn a amolli la finale peut- etre par rinterniediaire de Pitalien : Chi vivo ?

It is strange that no correspondent of the French periodical has quoted the learned professor's explanation, which he evidently considers quite satisfactory. The neglect of his countrymen, however, affords me the great pleasure of bringing him and his use- ful work to the notice of your readers.

JOHN T. CURRY.

RING OF ELIZABETH (9 th S. vii. 368). One account of this states that, having been returned to Queen Elizabeth by the Countess of Nottingham on her deathbed, it descended to James I., and was given by him to Sir Thomas Warner, Governor of the West Indies. Thence it passed by inheritance into the possession of Joseph Warner, the Guy's surgeon (1717-1801), and is stated to ha've remained in the Warner family. This appears to have been a gold thumb-ring, with a heart formed of a rose diamond. The other, containing a sardonyx with a cameo of Elizabeth, was shown at the Tudor Exhibi- tion of 1890, and is said to have descended in unbroken succession from Essex's daughte to its present owner.

GEORGE C. PEACHEY.

In 1858 the ring which your correspondent inquires after was in the possession of Mr C. W. Warner. It is described as "a slight ring without any device, and has an enamellec hoop set with a pear-shaped diamond " (Pro ceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, Firs Series, vol. iv. p. 179). EDWARD PEACOCK.

ALLUSION IN WORDSWORTH (9 th S. vii. 188 232, 338). In Lysons's 'Cumberland' it i stated (p. Ixvii) that "the family of Cur wen, to which the lady addressed by Wordswortt in the lines quoted by F. C. belonged, " wen

escended from Ivo de Tailbois, who married Slgiva, daughter of Ethelred, King of Eng- and," meaning Ethelred II., who was great- reat-great-grandson of Alfred the Great, iurely this fact, generally accepted, whether xplain (as I ventured previously to point ut) the poet's reference to Alfred as the 'babe's progenitor," without the extended implication which MR. BAYNE imports into he passage, and of which it seems hardly japable. The "babe" referred to not, as MR. BAYNE states, the "grandson," but the granddaughter of the poet I may add, is till living, and regards the poet's apostrophe as directed exclusively to herself, in which sense it has always been regarded by the joet's family and connexions, of whom the writer of this happens to be one.
 * eriealogically correct or not, is sufficient to

JOHN HUTCHINSON.

PAINTED AND ENGRAVED PORTRAITS (9 th S. vii. 341). MR. MASON'S list is capable of con- siderable extension. I would mention the Allowing : J. Russell Smith's * Catalogue of Twenty Thousand Engraved Portraits,' 1883 ; the lists of portraits in several of the old magazines which the Index Society published in one or two of their Annual Reports ; the list of the portraits (and views) which appeared in the first sixty volumes of the European Magazine, publisned in the Decem- ber, 1811, number of that magazine. For portraits after Sir Joshua Reynolds there is Dr. E. Hamilton's excellent work, which is described in Graves and Cronin's fine monograph on that artist. For the chief works engraved after Gainsborough and Romney there is Mr. Home's ' Catalogue ' ; there is also Daniel's ' Cosway.' Messrs. Myers & Rodgers have issued the first part of a 'Catalogue of Engraved Portraits' which promises to be the most extensive of its kind yet published. I have found it most useful. A list of catalogues of private col- lections of pictures would be valuable. I have many such catalogues. W. ROBERTS.

COL. THOMAS COOPER (9 th S. vii. 168, 353). While not without doubt, I am inclined to think that the Thomas Cooper, alderman, who represented the city of Oxford in the Short Parliament of 1640, was the same person who afterwards became the Crom- wellian colonel. When he was appointed to a colonelcy is not recorded, nor apparently the regiment he commanded, but as Col. Thomas Cooper he was elected to the Parlia- ment of 1656 for the Irish boroughs of Down, Antrim, and Armagh, and throughout that Parliament was active on committees. In