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precious volume, and do not retain memory of its title, date, or publisher. Perhaps some kind fellow-contributor to 4 N. <fc Q.' might be able to help me to trace it in the British Museum Library. Among its contents was a stirring appeal to patriotic spirit, a lyric the theme of which was liberty national freedom. The song supposes Jupiter en- throned "on Olympus on high," surrounded by his traditional court of gods and goddesses, desirous of conferring a gift upon his daughter Venus. He presents her with a ball, a sphere our terrestrial globe, in fact- and expa- tiates upon the geographical advantages with which he has endowed each of the respective localities indicated. I can recall two stanzas only. They run :

Miss, pleased with the present, reviewed the globe round,

To see what each climate was worth ; Like a diamond the whole with an atmosphere bound

And she variously planted the earth : With silver, gold, jewels, she India endowed ;

France and Spain she taught vineyards to rear ; What suited each clime on each clime she bestowed,

And FREEDOM she found flourished here [Britain]. Four cardinal virtues she left in this isle

As guardians to cherish the root ; The blossoms of Liberty 'gan then to smile,

And Englishmen fed on the fruit. Thus fed and thus bred from a bounty so rare

Oh, preserve it as free as 'twas given ! W r e will while we 've breath nay, we '11 grasp it in death,

Then return it untainted to heaven !

This peroration recalls the conclusion of the grand anthem of the United States of America, 'The Star-spangled Banner.' I seek to retrieve the remaining stanzas, but I also desire, and almost as eagerly, a reference to the volume in which the ballad originally appeared. GNOMON.

Temple.

DISSINGTON FAMILY. I shall be glad of any information with reference to a family of Dissington or Dissingtons circa end of the eighteenth century. Three sons Joseph, Samuel, and James were in the army in Holland, James being in the 7th Light Dragoons. Is there a town named Elden in Holland, or does this mean Elderia in Meck- lenburg-Schwerin, North Germany 1 The 7th, or Queen's, Dragoons were in Flanders in 1746, and were in Germany in 17G3.

HERBERT SOUTHAM.

Shrew-sKiry.

WILLIAM NOYE. In the ' D.N.B.,' vol. xli. p. 254, William Noye, the Attorney-General to Charles I., is stated to have married Sara, daughter of Humphry Yorke, of Phillack,

26 November, 1606. In the 'Visitation of Cornwall, 1620,' Harleian Soc. Publication, in the pedigree of Noye the William Noy who married Sara Yorke is shown as the brother of Edward Noye. A foot-note describes this Edward as the father of William Noye, the Attorney-General, and refers to Harl. MS. 1079, fo. 113 b, in support. Which statement is erroneous ? Did the uncle William Noye at the age of forty -two marry Sara Yorke, oet. seventeen, or was his famous nephew the husband of this Phillack lady 1 I have read the previous notes in 'N. & Q.' on the subject. From these I infer that the Visita- tion pedigree as given by William Noye in 1620 is wrong. J. HAMBLEY ROWE, M.B.

TAPESTRIES OF HENRY VII. Students of decorative art may be interested in the following extracts from Exchequer Accounts (Queen's Remembrancer), Bundle 415, No. 7 :

" 1502, June 20. Thre peces Tapistry of the store of Olifernus, viij peces of Tapistry of the Sege of Jerusalem, v peces of paled verdurs, xij peces ver- durs of hawking and huntyng." No. 83.*

"1503, June 14. Seven peces of the story of

ladyes Item twelf peces of the passion of oure

lord Item foure peces of the passion of our Lord.

Item six peces of verdoris with our Armes

Item a riche pece of Aras of the trinitie and thas-

sumpcion of our lady Item a pece of tapstry

of Nabugodonosour Item nyene peces of vyne-

yerdes." No. 58.

" 1503, June 27. We woll and charge you that ye content and pay vnto Cornelius Vandestrete our Arras maker for the mendyng of nyne peces verdurs of vynyardes. Item oon pece Arras of saint George. Item oon pece Arras of the Trinitee and of Thassumpcion of our Lady. Item xviij redde Roses and xviij portentes to be sette in ix peces verdurs." No. 77. Do any of these tapestries still exist 1

ROBT. J. WHITWELL.

Oxford.

FORLONG.

"Rivers of Life, or Sources and Streams of the Faiths of Man in All Lands ; showing the Evolu- tions of Faiths from the rudest symbolisms to the latest spiritual developments. By Major-General J. G. R. Forlong, F.R.G.S., F.R.S.E., M.A.I., A.I.C.E., F.R.H.S., F.R.A. Societies, &c. With Maps, Illustrations, and separate Chart of Faith Streams. Bernard Quaritch, London, 1883." Two quartos, llf in. by 10 in., xli-548, vi-622.

I have searched in vain for any account of the life or death of this author in the ' Encyc. Brit.,' 'D.N.B.,' Lippincott's, and others without a trace. Surely something should be known of the writer of so wonderful a book. In his preface lie said he had been collecting facts for his work in all quarters of the globe

from the beginning of the file of each year.
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