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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io< s. i. JAN. 10, 190*.
(Cam. Soc.), Lond., 1856 ; letter of Sir John
Rous, of Heuham, to Franc. Gawdy, 3 Mar.,
1627/8, Tenth Rep. Hist. Com., pt. iii. 128 ;
ditto, 5 Oct., 1628, ib. 131 ; speech of Francis
Rous in Parliament concerning religion,
26 Jan., 1628/9 (printed), Tanner, Ixxii. 305,
ccxcix. 53 ; letter of John Rous, Bodley
Librarian, to Ussher, 14 Nov., 1629, ib. Ixxi.
21 ; letter of Charles Rous, of Henham, to
Franc. Gawdy, 10 Jan., 1629/30, Tenth Rep.
Hist. Com., pt. iii. 132 ; letter of Francis
Rous to Sir John Potts, 30 Jan., 1643/4,
Tanner, Ixii. 530 ; his declaration concerning
the amount of his income from public
sources, 25 Aug., 1646, ib. lix. 499 ; letter to Sir
Henry Vane touching payment of Mr. Pym's
debts, 16 June, 1651 (printed), ib. liv. 87 ;
letter of Thomas Rous, of Sternfield, to
Franc. Gawdy, 17 Aug., 1654, Tenth Rep.
Hist. Com., pt. iii. 179 ; to Thomas Gawdy,
3 April, 1668, ib. 204 ; copy of will of Francis
Rous, Provost of Eton, 12 April, 1658, Tanner,
ccccxlvii. 1 ; difference between Thomas Rous
and his parishioners, 1668, Tenth Rep. Hist.
Com., pt. iii. 203 ; letter of Mary Rous, of
Sternfield, to William Gawdy, 8 May, 1656,
ib. 184 ; ditto, 20 July, 1658, ib. 187 ; letter of
Sir John Rous, second Baronet of Henham,
to O. Le Neve, his cousin, 1699-1704, Egerton
MSS. (Brit. Mus.) 2719, 2720 ; letter of Sir
John to R. Wright, s.a., ib. 2720 ; letter of
J. Rous to Marquess of Granby, announcing
nomination for county and declaration of
sheriff, and asking for concurrence, 6 Mar.,
1787, Twelfth Rep. Hist. Com., pt. v. 293.
Further pedigrees of the Rous family will be
found in the Brit. Mus., Add. MSS. 5524,
Harl. MSS. 155, 1103, 1177, 1449, 1484, 1520,
1560, 2109 ; arms, Harl. MSS. 1449 ; extracts
from fine rolls relating to family, Add. 5937 ;
Ambrose Rouse's evidences, Queen's Coll.,
Oxford, clii. 138 ; Francis Rouse's speeches
in Parliament, 1628, Queen's, cxxi. 406
Christ Ch. Coll., Oxf., ccccxvii. 237 ; Stowe
MSS. (Brit. Mus.) 156, f. 216 b ; in 1640
Queen's, clxxiv. 71. A pedigree of the family
is given by Suckling in his ' Hist, of Suffolk,
vol. ii. p. 366.
The Reginald Rous secondly mentioned by your correspondent was the grandfather o: the Edmund Rous he also refers to. As to the death of this Reginald, or Raynold, o Reynold Rous in 1464, it will be seen tha Suckling gives this as the date of his wife' death, and Weaver, 'F. M.,' p. 512, gives the date as 1463. W. A. COPINGER.
Kersal Cell, Manchester.
There were several importantfamiliesof this name, seated respectively at Dennington, Suffolk, Halton, Cornwall, and Rouse Lench,
Worcester. Reginald Rous was the repre-
sentative of the Dennington family in the
fifteenth century ; and Sir Thomas Rous,
who was knighted in 1603, was his lineal
descendant. They were ancestors of the
Earls of Strad broke. Full particulars of the
descent may be found in Collins's ' Peerage,'
or in the various Visitations of Suffolk.
Francis Rous, named in 1637, was the well-
known Speaker of the Barebones Parliament.
He was fourth son of Sir Anthony Rous, of
Halton, Cornwall, and died 7 Jan., 1659.
W. D. PINK.
[CANON ELLAOOMBE, Bitton Vicarage, Bristol, offers to give MB. UNDERDOWN further information.}
CHILDREN'S CAROLS AND LULLABIES (9 th S. xii. 348, 395, 511). Any one interested in this literature would do well to peruse the articles in 7 th S. ii., indexed under ' Nursery Rhymes.' W. P. COURTNEY.
QUOTATIONS (9 th S. xii. 468). Two of the quotations cited appear on the last leaf of
- he celebrated Northumberland MS. edited
jy Mr. Spedding in 1870. In place of the [uotation
Laden with grief and oppression of the heart he Northumberland MS. has
Revealing day through every cranie peepes, which is a variation of ' Lucrece' (1086). Then follow, as already noted, Asmund and Cornelia, and, slightly varied,
Multis annis jam transactis Nulla fides est in pactis, Mell in ore, verba lactis ; Fell in corde, fraus in factis.
Mr. Spedding said : " I think I am in a condition to assert that there is no trace of Bacon's penmanship in any part of the
volume." On the other hand, a New York
lady told me some years ago that, in reply,
to an inquiry, she had received a letter from
the librarian of Northumberland House in
which the opinion was expressed that the
handwriting was Bacon's. Spedding's opinion
surely should have great weight. It is to be
hoped that we shall learn more of the MS.
mentioned by MR. BURGOYNE.
CHAS. A. HERPICH. New York.
RIGHT HON. EDWARD SOUTHWELL (10 th S. i. 8). The Southwell MSS. were sold by the late Mr. Thorpe, of Bedford Street, in 1834-5, when many or the papers were purchased by the British Museum. Others are in the possession of the Royal Irish Academy. Some fell into the hands of Sir Thomas Phillipps, of Broadway, Worcester, whose library came under the hammer of Messrs. Sotheby in the
