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If it has been in existence so recently it ought to be forthcoming. The patent has, of course, only an antiquarian value, as the lands were forfeited owing to the part taken by the then owner in the rebellion of 1641. In the proclamation of the Lords Justices dated 8 February, 1641 (O.S ), one of the names on the long list of the proscribed is "Rory MacBrian Oge Magennis, late of Edentecullagh," and a reward of 4,001. offered for his head, if brought in before 25 March following (3001. for killing and not bringing in the head). THOMAS FITZPATRICK.

KNOLLYS ROAD, STREATHAM I should like to know the origin of the name given to this road. I have asked a member of the Knollys family, but he cannot inform me.

A. N. Q.

HODGES FAMILY. Can any of your readers tell me the maiden name of Ann, wife of James Hodges, of Masulipatam, and mother of Lady William Murray 1 A monument in Bath Abbey to James Hodges gives the date of her death 11 November, 1823, and her arms Sa., a chev. engr. between three lions pass, guard, arg. To what family do these arms belong 1 E. H. FELLOWES.

The Cloisters, Windsor Castle.

AUTHORS WANTED. Who are the author and the publisher of a poem commencing A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a shell ? Also-

The bud on the bough, The song of the bird ?

J. B.

DESCENDANTS OP SIR WILLIAM DE LA POLE, DIED 1329. This Sir William had three sons : Sir Richard (chief butler to the king, 1327-38), Sir William (father to the first Earl of Suffolk), and John. Sir Richard had two sons and three daughters : William, 1316-66 (the father of John, who married Joan Cob- ham), John, Joan (who married Ralph Basset, of Weldon, Northamptonshire), Elizabeth (a nun), and Margaret. Is anything known of the descendants, if any, of Sir Richard's brother John and of Sir Richard's children 1

RONALD DIXON.

46, Marlborough Avenue, Hull.

PINS AND PINCUSHIONS. Can any one give roe the names of some books that would contain the history of pins and pincushions ? Is there any national collection of pin- cushions ; and, if so, where is iU I should be glad of any information on this subject. (Miss) ELEANOR D. LONGMAN.

18, Thurloe Square, S.W.

MICHAEL BRUCE AND BURNS. (9 th S. vii. 466 ; viii. 70, 148, 312, 388, 527 j

ix. 95.)

THE following extract from * Literary Coincidences ; and other Papers,' by W. A. Houston, pp. 44, 45 (Glasgow, Morison Brothers, 1892), will serve to dispel the notion ! or the idea that
 * hat Burns was indebted to Michael Bruce

The best-laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley.

Mr. Clouston says :

"Blair's 'Grave' seems to have been a great avourite with Burns, since he quotes frequently rom it in his Commonplace Book, and in one in- itance he has imitated that author, where he says, n his * Address to a Mouse ' :

The best-laid schemes o' mice and men

Gang aft a-gley. Blair has :

The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame

Die fast away.

Here Burns has improved upon Blair, for it is more correct to say that men's objects often miscarry "ban that they ' die fast away. "

In December, 1901, Mr. Henry Grey Graham, author of 'The Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century,' issued his volume entitled 'Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century ' (London, A. & C. Black). This work deals, inter alia, with Michael Bruce and John Logan, but in some points it is not quite accurate. For instance : Bruce was born in 1746 and died in 1767, aged twenty one years and three months. Mr. Graham says "he was but twenty years old"; and at another place, "only twenty- one years old." Logan was born in 1748 and died in London in 1788, aged forty ; but Mr. Graham states that he died " at the age of fifty-one." Minor inaccuracies also occur, such as " Kinneswood " (for Kinnesswood) ; "Mr. Thomas Main " (for Mair) ; "Dr. John Brown " (this John Brown had not the degree of D.D.) : " 4th of July, 1767," instead of 6th, for the date of Bruce's death. He is called "a delicate, ill -fed lad," and is described as "a lad" when he "wrote his touching ' Elegy ' " in the spring before he died. Logan, on the other hand, is termed "a clever, uncouth young man of nineteen" when he visited Kinnesswood. Mr. Graham repeats the usual apocryphal stories regarding 'a leathern-covered quarto" and the "singed fowls," but he is mistaken in his reference to Logan's 4 Poems,' issued in 1781. He avers that " in this volume eleven of the seventeen pieces in Bruce's * Poems ' (1770) were inserted