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vm. OCT. 5, 1001.

Ruvigny), then travelling in Switzerland. In it the writer says that she hears from her brother that he will be in London before the end of the year, and asks him to execute some commissions for her. I cannot, how- ever, find the place named in any gazetteer. Can any one tell me where it is 1 I wish to consult the parish registers. RUVIGNY.

Galway Cottage, Chertsey.

" WHO IS THE MADMAN," &C. What " lioto

rious political scribbler " about 1816 asked, "Who is the madman who believes in the doctrine of Divine right 1 ? Who is the madman that asserts it ? " M. B.

'KiNMONT WILLIE.' The adventure re- corded in the ballad occurred in 1596 (Scott, 'Border Minstrelsy'). Has it been noticed that the breaking of Carlisle Gaol seems to have been hereditary in this branch of the Armstrong family ? On 21 May, 1606, Sir W. Selby and Sir W. Lawson wrote to the Earl of Dunbar :

" Six English Grahams and William Armstrong, son of John Armstrong of Kinmont [printed Kin- mout], one of the condemned men who broke Carlisle Castle, have been carried into Scotland." Tenth Report Hist. MSB. Com., App. IV., 255.

There are other references to this escape in other papers in the same collection (Lord Muncaster's). Q. V.

WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES. Can any one put me into communication with the living re- presentative of William Lisle Bowles, the sonneteer? L.

TRAGEDY BY WORDSWORTH.

Action is momentary, The motion of a muscle this way or that ; Suffering is long, obscure and infinite. Hazlitt says these lines occur in an un- published tragedy of Wordsworth, written when lie was young. May I ask if it has been published since, and, if so, be told the title and publisher ?

THOMAS MATHEWSON. Lerwick.

"A BUMPER OF GOOD LIQUOR," &C. Author

wanted of the following. I think, one of the seventeenth-century dramatists : A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge, or vicar, &c.

LOBUC.

REFERENCE IN 'NORTH ANGER ABBEY.' Jane Austen, m 'Northanger Abbey,' says, "The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author." Is it known

to what book she referred 1 I fancied it was 'Evelina,' but it cannot be. I do not know Fanny Burney's other novels, or Miss Edgeworth's. CCELEBS.

ENGLISH GRAMMAR. Would you kindly answer me the following questions ? In gram- mar what is the difference between a "gerun- dive infinitive " and a " strengthened gerun- dive infinitive"? Also, What is the difference between a gerundive and a participle ?

HARRY C. J. COOPER.

[You should look at Nesfield or some recognized authority on English grammar.]

SILVERSMITH'S SIGNATURE. Can any one tell me the date of an old silversmith whose signature was S. O. with a sort of trefoil over it 1 The date - letter (London) is an old English capital, which may be a K or an R. It is on a silver tankard. R. H. BIRD.

THOMAS BACON, elder brother of Lord Keeper Sir Nicholas Bacon, is said to have been located at Northaw, co. Hertford, to have married a Jane Brown, and died without issue, Is any more known of him 1 1 strongly suspect him to be the Thomas Bacon, Salter, who was M.P. for the City of London in the Parliament of 1547-52. James Bacon, a 3 r ounger brother of the Lord Keeper, Alderman of Aldersgate from 1567 until his death in 1573, and Sheriff in 1568-9, was a member of the Salters' Company. A "Thomas Bacon, esq." probably the same Thomas was party to a conveyance of premises in Shoreditch, St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, &c., in 1567 (vide ' Calendar of London and Middlesex Fines,' by Hardy and Page, p. 144). W. D. PINK.

LANGUEDOC. About what period was the daisy chosen as the badge of Languedoc? Are there any legends connected with it? In what books could I find information on the subject 1 ? MEGAN.

" YORKER " = " TICE." Webster's ' Dic- tionary' treats the latter word as that in general use, and describes a "yorker" as a " tice." It would seem correct to say that " tice " is practically unknown to our genera- tion of cricketers, and it might meet the requirements of present-day definition, and harmonize with the history of the develop- ment of bowling methods, if one classed a " tice " as a lob, or, to be more precise, an underhand yorker. It is customary to speak of a batsman who is " out " to a certain type of ball as being " yorked." Was it ever said of a player on his dismissal that the bowler