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fourteen miles north-west of Bishop's Nymp- t-on. HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

CROMWELLIAN FORFEITURES (9 th S. viii. 383) Probably the information required may be obtained from the under-mentioned work, a copy of which may be inspected at the Corporation Library, Guildhall :

"The report of the Commissioners to enquire into the Irish forfeitures, delivered to the House of

Commons, December 15, 1699 London, 1700."

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

No complete list of the Irish landed pro- prietors whose estates were declared to be forfeited on account of the rebellion of 1641 has ever been printed, but 'The Irish Landed Gentry when Cromwell came to Ireland,' by John O'Hart (Dublin, James Duffy & Sons, 1887), contains lists of forfeit- ing proprietors in several counties.

G. D. B.


 * YOUR FRIENDS WILL BURY YOU " (9 th S. viii.

405). This occurs in the concluding line of a verse written by me and published under my name eleven years ago :

HOW TO BE HAPPY THO' POOR !

To be contented is the only plan To bear the pinch of poverty in man : Ne'er tell a soul that you are wanting bread, All those who know it prefer to see you dead ;

Don't care one for what says Mrs. Grundy,

Who wouldn't spare a copper, e'en on Sunday. If hungry starve ; if thirsty take a draught Of that cheap wine which good old Adam quaffed ; If bedless, boardless, minus sock or shoe, Your friends will bury you, that 's all that they will do.

J. TREEVE EDGCOME. Inner Temple.

ARMS ON A MUG (9 th S. viii. 323). Mr. Withington, the well - known American genealogist, has pointed out to me that these arms are only a variation from those given in Papworth's 'Ordinary of British Armorials,' p. 949, col. 1 :

"Horn, and in chief two mullets. Or, a tree growing out of a mount in base vert, a hunting horn hanging therefrom on the dexter side sa., stringed and virolled gu ; in chief two mullets of the last. Short, Borrowstounness, Scotland."

With this hint I trust that some Scotch reader of ' N. & Q.' may be able to say to what Boness or Short family the arms on the mug belong. F. J. FURNIVALL.

AN INEDITED SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY POEM (9 th S. viii. 418, 448). I am afraid that some at least of the readers of 'N. & Q.' must think me singularly ill read in our old poets not to be aware that the poem which I sup-

posed to be unpublished was, in fact, one of Cowley's. I can only plead that it is many years now since I looked into that poet's works, though I thought I knew his writings sufficiently well to avoid so bad a blunder. It is singular that, while recognizing the poem as being in Cowley's manner, it did not occur to me to refer to his works to look for it. It is also singular that two of my friends, to whom I showed the poem, like myself, did not recognize it as Cowley's. I hope your correspondents will not deal too hardly with me for my oversight, which, however, I shall not altogether regret if it causes some of them to renew their acquaint- ance with a poet who is too much neglected nowadays. B. DOBELL.

Stanzas vi. and viii. of this poem will be found quoted more than once in the letters of John Hervey, first Earl of Bristol. He often puts quotations from Cowley into his letters, being a nephew of the poet's under- graduate friend William Hervey. See his Letter-books, vol. i. pp. 57, J95 ; vol. ii. p. 217. The earliest of these three letters was written in 1693. S. H. A. H.

MOTTO FOR DOOR OF A HOUSE (9 th S. viii. 443). Might I suggest the following as a Scottish motto to put over the door of a house 1

Be happy while y' er leevin, For y'ier a lang time deid.

ARTHUR F. G. LEVESON GOWER. The Hague.

A HOY (9 th S. iii. 365, 491 ; iv. 38, 53). There was a " Hoy" Inn in Creek Road, S.E., in 1879. Such hoys may have been acquainted with the devious ways of the smuggler ; but a respectable ship was the Leigh hoy, which sailed for Leigh, in Essex, where there was a good road for shipping and a custom-house to keep an eye on any "free-trading." There is still a tavern sign of the " Leigh Hoy " at 163, Hanley Street, Mile End Road, E. " Last Saturday night," says the London Evening Post of 25 April, 1732, " Capt. John Mears, jun., Commander of the Hurst sloop in the service of the customs of the Port of South- ampton, seized, near Christ Church, a small Hoy, Burden about nine Tons, and in her 35 Ankers of Brandy and 205 1. of Tea ; all which he carried into Southampton." Was it on account of their smuggling bent that these vessels, during the wars, were deemed worthy of the attentions of the enemy 1 Apparently it was, for a paragraph in the Whitehall Evening Post of 15 July, 1756, says : " The Report of a Margaret [sic] hoy being taken by a French Privateer is void of