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Ferrers; secondly, Robert de Mortimer, oi Richard's Castle; thirdly, William de Stute- vill. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

MOLINE FAMILY (9 th S. vii. 448). A long communication respecting the Molines of Stoke Poges, extending from A.D. 1331 to 1429, appears in ' N. & Q.,' 1 st S. x. 444, and references to works bearing thereon are found at p. 532. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

"JUGGINS" (9 th S. vii. 247, 392). The Cheltenham * Annuaire' for 1901 gives three persons bearing this name. A Miss Juggins, now Mrs. W. Organ, was a short time ago schoolmistress at Shurdington, near Chelten- ham. P. J. F. GANTILLON.

JOWETT'S LITTLE GARDEN (9 th S. vii. 405, 512). My version of the epigram has two more lines :

A little garden little Jowett made,

And fenced it with a little palisade ;

But when this little garden made a little talk,

He changed it to a little gravel walk ;

If you would know the mind of little Jowett,

This little garden don't a little show it.

A Latin rendering runs as follows :

Exiguum hunc hortum fecit Jowettulus iste Exiguus, vallo et muniit exiguo : Exiguo hoc horto forsan Jowettulus iste Exiguus mentem prodidit exiguam.

Francis Wrangham (1769-1842), who had migrated to Trinity Hall from Magdalene at the suggestion of Jowett, was refused a Fellowship at the former house in 1794, and the "probable explanation of this rejection lay in the suspicion that he was the author " of the above epigram.

Dr. Jowett, with some assistance, appa- rently, from Dr. Crotch, circa 1790, composed the famous chimes of the University church, Great St. Mary's. A. R. BAYLEY.

St. Margaret's, Malvern.

FILLINGHAM FAMILY (9 th S. vii. 448). In the year 1885 I purchased, for eighteen pence, at a little general shop in the village of Alfreton, Derbyshire, a " Breeches " Bible in fairly good condition. It had belonged for generations to the Fillingham family of Lincolnshire, and contained a number of their genealogical memoranda. Knowing how highly I should have valued such a find if it had related to my own family, I wrote to the only person of the above name that I knew of, namely, a Rev. Mr. Fillingham, an Anglican clergyman. I gave him particulars of the Bible, and offered it to him for some very small sum though more than I gave for it. I never received any reply from Mr.

Fillingham ; and, some years later, I sold the book with many others when I removed to another part of the country. I think it was bought by a Nottingham bookseller. The above family doubtless derived their name from the village and parish of Filling- ham, in the north-west or the county of Lincoln. MR. G. FILLINGHAM would be sure to find them in the Subsidy Rolls for the parts of Lindsey, especially in the wapen- takes of Lawress, Aslacoe, Manley, and Well, at the Record Office. He should also consult there the printed calendar of Court Rolls of the Duchy of Lancaster, under the same wapentakes. Meantime, if your correspond- ent will communicate with me, I will tell him all I can remember about the entries. I myself have suffered much from the genea- logical apathy of friends and relations.

JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS. Town Hall, Cardiff.

I should advise your correspondent to con- sult the previous articles which have ap- peared in 'N. & Q.' under this head. For a long query and equally lengthy reply by the Editor, see 2 nd S. i. and 3 rd S. xi.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

A POEM ATTRIBUTED TO MILTON (9 th S. vi. 182, 238, 292 ; vii. 90, 235). We know nothing of prehistoric Greece, for what is early and authentic has been well threshed out, and all antecedents point to foreign influences. Poets combine to treat Helicon as a river, and rightly so, because we have Hylica, a lake-name in Bo3otia. It has been shown that Chaucer wrote "Helicon the dear wel"; Dante also has "Helicon must needs pour forth for me." How can this apply to a mountain? It is from Longfellow's version. Gary varies to "Now through my heart let Helicon his stream pour copious" ('Purg.,' xxix. 40); and this

ily echoes Virgil's * JEneid,' books vii. and x.,

Now, ye goddesses, open wide your Helicon and stir up the powers of song," varied to " Now open Helicon, ye goddesses, and inspire me while I sing." We are impelled to liken poetical inspiration to the action of a welling spring or powerful stream.

Ovid, ' Met.,' v. 4, is more diffuse, describing Parnassus, which is certainly the older
 * he Muses as leaving Helicon to worship at
 * oundation ; and a study of the map in

Leake's 'North Greece' shows that both form sections of one lengthy range, the south section in Bceotia obtaining local celebrity as a later rival. And while Helicon is a Greek water-name, Parnassus has no etymon n Hellenic; we trace it from Skt. purna,