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BLACKMORE OF BISHOP'S NYMPTON. Can any reader supply particulars of above later than the Visitation of 1620? See Vivyan's 'Devon.' "Hugh Blackmore, baptized Bishop's Nympton, 12 November, 1690," is the last entry. Who followed 1 Any information will greatly oblige. OTJTIS.

GEORGE BORROW. Will some Borrovian enthusiast among the readers of 'N. & Q.' kindly clear up for me a few points in ' Wild Wales '? (1) Has the Father Toban so often mentioned (chap, iv., &c.) any prototype, or is he purely imaginary ? (2) Was a Sir Alured C. a field -marshal in the reign of William IV. (chap, li.) 1 ? Again, (3) what is the particle of fact in the remark that " in three cases out of four Senior Wranglers are the sons of shoe- makers " (chap. Ixxvi.) ; and (4) was the Potosi the actual nameof the lead-mine of chap, lxxx.1

I think many will join me in feeling regret that in the new "authoritative" edition of 1 Wild Wales ' notes have not been added, as in ' Lavengro ' and ' Komany Rye.' A book which should do for Sorrow's Welsh tour what Dr. Birkbeck Hill has done so admirably for the Scotch tour of Johnson and Boswell would surely make very excellent reading. I ven- ture to add a couple of questions on ' Romany Rye.' Who is the Lord Lieutenant of the song in chap. xlii. 1 Whence did Borrow get the stories of Charles I. (App. 6), the caning of the young nobleman, the hanging of the man who bit his glove at Cadiz ? R. S.

ENGLISH CONTINGENT IN THE LAST CRUSADE. In my query re Rowe of Cornwall (ante, p. 305) I have by mistake spoken of Edward, son of Henry III., as the Black Prince. Is there in existence a roll of the English con- tingent in the eighth and last Crusade 1

J. HAMBLEY ROWE.

Bradford.

WIFE OF CAPT. MORRIS, THE POET. Who was the wife of Capt. Morris, the bard 1 There is an account of him in 2 nd S. ii. 412. In Allibone's * Dictionary of English Literature ' it is said that Capt. Charles Morris married the widow of Sir William Stanhope. I have looked up the ' D.N.B.,' and cannot see under the head of Stanhope, Chester- field, or Harrington this particular widow. If you could assist me by putting me in the way of finding the desired information I should be greatly obliged. J. L. BOLTON.

5, Warwick Mansions, Kensington.

SIR JOHN FRYER, BART. Information de- sired about Sir John Fryer, Bart., Alderman of the City of London, and of Wherwell, co.

Hants. His only son John died in 1724, aged twenty-four, so that the baronetcy pro- bably became extinct. In a funeral sermon upon the latter by John Ball the father is stated to have deserved well of the country "for his indefatigable endeavours to serve it in the most dangerous times and with the greatest hazard to his person, when under his present Majesty King George liberties civil and religious and the Pro- testant succession were boldly struck at."

Who was John Ball; and John Evans, who writes a preface to the sermon 1 VICAR.

MARIAN HYMN. Can any reader tell me the name of the author of a very beautiful poem or hymn to the Blessed Virgin, the first two lines of which are as follows?

Hail ! Queen of Heaven, the ocean Star, Guide of the wanderer here below.

My impression is that the poem was penned either by Father Faber, of the Oratory, or by Mr. Aubrey de Vere. If by the latter, it would probably be found in ' May Carols.' H. BASKERVILLE.

'THE TEACHING OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES.' The Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical His- tory at Oxford, Dr. Charles Bigg, in his re- cently published commentary on the Epistles of Peter and Jude, assigns this piece to the fourth century. May I ask to be referred to some treatise in which this late date is seriously maintained 1 PRESBYTER.

BURIAL - GROUND IN PORTUGAL STREET. Will any reader kindly inform me when the above, in connexion with St. Clement Danes Church, Strand, was done away with ? Whither were the remains transferred, and what has become of the tombstones 1

H. W. SOTHERN.

J. H. GROSE : ' A VOYAGE TO THE EAST INDIES.' In the bibliography prefixed to his 'Anglo-Indian Glossary' Sir H. Yule de- scribed this book as follows : " Grose, Mr. A Voyage to the East Indies, &c. In 2 volumes: a new edition. 1772." And he added: " The first edition seems to have been pub- lished in 1766. I have never seen it." I have lately picked up a copy of what I sup- pose to be the first edition of this book. As Sir H. Yule never saw it, and it is not in the London Library Catalogue, I conclude it to be a fairly rare book. In my copy, which may be cut down, though the binding is ancient calf, the page measures 8 in. by 5 in. The title-page runs : " A Voyage to the East Indies, with Observations on Various Parts there, by John-Henry Grose. London, Printed for S. Hooper and A. Morley, at Gay's Head, near Beaufort Buildings, in the Strand.