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to show that the barre is an honourable bear ing. It is the bdton, or filet, placed like barre, which has been used as a token o illegitimacy. " Presque touiours les batard ont brise* les armes paternelles d'un baton o filet mis en barre ou en traverse." M. P.

It is said to be "difficult to prove a nega tive," though in Aldrich's 'Artis Logicse Compendium' the second figure is devotee to that purpose.

1. Charles Powlett, Marquess of Winchester and the first Duke of Bolton, in Wensleydale married as his second wife Mary, illegitimate daughter of Emanuel Scrope, Earl of Sunder land and Lord Scrope of Bolton, by whom he acquired the large estates in Wensleydale.

2. Thomas Orde, of the ancient Northum brian family of that name, married Jean Mary, illegitimate daughter of Charles Pow- lett, fifth Duke of Bolton, and acquired with her extensive estates in Hampshire.

The " baton sinister debruised," or, in fact, any mark of cadency, is ignored in both these cases, the arms of Lord Bolton, the present representative, being Sable, three swords in pile, points downwards, argent, pommels and hilts or; on a canton of the second, an escocheon of the field, charged with a salmon hauriant ppr. (for Orde). Motto, "Aymez loyaulteV' with reference to the chivalrous defence of Basing House by John Powlett, Marquess of Winchester. The name is spelt both Powlett and Paulet, and, as is well known, the sword is the emblem of St. Paul, as the keys are of St. Peter.

It is more correct to write Earl Waldegrave than Earl of Waldegrave.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

ANDREW WILSON (9 th S. ix. 289). Andrew Wilson was admitted a pensioner at St. John's College, Cambridge, 25 September, 1676, and in the Register of Admissions (printed 1882) is described as of Easing wood, presumably Easing wold, Yorkshire, as the son of George Wilson, deceased, as sixteen years of age, and as having been " bred at Pocklington." He was instituted vicar of Easingwold in 1685 (Gill's ' Vallis Ebor.,' 93). F. DE H. L.

DARLEY, A FORGOTTEN IRISH POET (9 th S. ix. 205). An appreciative obituary notice of George Darley appeared in the Athenaeum of 28 November, 1846. A note from his pen on ' Dante's Beatrice,' probably the last he ever wrote, was published in the previous issue of that paper. It was " written from his deathbed," being dated 18 November. Darley's reputation both as a poet and as a

critic was of a very high order, and I cannot refrain from appending the closing sentence from the notice in the Athenceum :- "Intolerant of pretension, disdainful of mercenary

"rf "J" 11 *""* at sluggishness or conce^ -he would be often referred to by the sincere a generous spirits of literature and art, as one whos love of truth was equalled by his perfect^reparluon for every task that he undertookfand whose *SraS5 was worth having-not because it was rarely gTven grounds 8 "" 86 Xt Wa8 neV6r withheld 8ave Pon gS5

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

MR. CLAYTON and others among your readers may like to read the following para- graph relating to George Darley, which I have extracted from the Rev. A G L'Estrange's 'Life of Mary Russell Mitford'' ^1870) .*

" ' Sylvia, or the May Queen,' published in '27, by Lreorge Darley. Did you ever hear of it ? I never did until the other day. Mrs. Gary has given it to me, " is exquisite something between the ' Faith- ful Shepherdess ' and ' Midsummer Night's Dream ' Would you like to see it ? The author is the son of a rich alderman of Dublin, who disinherited him jecause he would write poetry ; and now he supports himself by writing for the magazines." Vol. iii. '. 56.

have read ' Sylvia,' and think very highly f it. Darley's other works are unknown to me. EDWARD PEACOCK.

Wickentree House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

By virtue of one of his songs, at least, " It s not beautie I demande" (which deceived D algrave), Darley lives in many of our >opular anthologies, including the most ecent of them, SirMountstuart Grant-Duft's. n Mr. Miles's 'The Poets and the Poetry of he Century' he has six pages of notice nd fifteen of selections. He is remembered, oo, by his introduction to Beaumont and ^etcher's ' Works,' which, if not all that an ntroduction should be, is yet worth having.

C. C. B.

GENESIS I. 1. (9 th S. ix. 269). Literally ren- ered, and in the order of the Hebrew words, be sentence is, " In-the-beginning created "lohim the-heavens and the-earth." Before

the-heavens" is the particle ayth, which bows it to be accusative. This particle, ombined with the conjunction "and," is epeated before " the-earth," making it accu- ative. " Elohim " has no such prenx, and is ominative (or subject) to "created." A lance at a Hebrew accidence will suffice to atisfy MR. THORNTON about this.

C. S. WARD.

It is scarcely conceivable that any rabbi n his right senses could have proposed so