ii s. xii. AUG. 28, 1915.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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screws fixed in the two sides of the car with :
a view to propel it. The apparatus was |
very ingeniously got up, the idea being
quite original.
" As I was admiring it [he says] the Piince got up, and coming to where I stood he said : ' Well, what do you think of it ? ' 1 replied : ' 1 find the application of the screw quite a novelty, and as far as 1 can judge most efficient for propelling it if rapidly revolved. 1 object, however, to the form of the " aerostat " being round.' ' I agree with you,' said the Prince ; ' I go further, and say that what are called balloons of whatever shapo will ultimately be done away with, When a motive power light and cheap is discovered that will make a man in the air to be assimilated to a bird and not to a fish.' "
M. N.
" YOU MAY FOOL SOME OF THE PEOPLE ALL
THE TIME." I am not able to add anythng to the more recent statements about this saying in ' N. & Q. ,' but has it been noted that La Rochefoucauld has the best part of it ? " On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre," he says, " mais non pas plus fin que tous les autres " ('Reflexions morales,' 394).
Perhaps it was some one who hit on the rather happy translation of " You can fool " for " On peut etre plus fin " who also had the enterprise to extend the saying to its American limits. PEREGRINUS.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
QUEEN ELIZABETH'S FIFTH PARLIAMENT. Can any one tell me when Queen Eliza- beth's fifth Parliament, summoned to meet at Westminster 23 Nov., 1584, was dis- solved ? According to Sir Symonds D'Ewes it was dissolved on 14 Sept., 1586, but the official return gives the date as 1585. Which is the correct date ?
ARTHUR, IRWIN DASENT.
The Dutch House, Hampton-on-Thames.
MARIA RIDDELL'S ESSAY ON BURNS. An essay on Robert Burns by Maria Riddell appeared in The Dumfries Weekly Journal shortly after the poet's death. The essay is dated 7 Aug., 1 796, and has been quoted, besides elsewhere, in Dr. James Currie's ' The Works of Robert Burns,' vol i. pp. 257-64 (eighth edition, 1820).
I am anxious to see an original cop y of The Dumfries Weekly Journal containing this essay. Should any of your readers be able to tell me whsre I may satisfy my
curiosity, I should be m uch obliged. I have
consulted the British Museum and other
libraries, but without success.
HUGH S. GLADSTONE. 40, Lennox Gardens, S.W.
REYNOLDS OF AYLESFORD, 1632. The Reynolds Family Association is greatly interested in tracing the English antecedents of one Robert Reynolds, supposed to have emigrated from Aylesford, co. Kent, England, in 1632, with his wife Sarah, son Nathaniel, and four daughters, to Boston, U.S.A. He was a shoemaker, and was the father of an eminent line of New Englanders.
Can you refer me to any prominent mem- bers of the name who are interested in genealogy ? A coat of arms which has come through this patriarch is described : Azure, three foxes statant or. Crest, a fox statant or, &c.
I should be glad to learn some of the facts of this Robert's life (1580 ? to 1659) through old records which may be available in Aylesford or elsewhere : as parish and town records, probate records, &c. There is another suggestion, less well substantiated, that this emigrant in 1632 came from Suffolk, perhaps Little Belsteade, or Dedham, or Ipswich. MARION H. REYNOLDS, A.B.
14, Hollis Hall, Cambridge, Mass.
COLHOUN. There were two boys of the name of Colhoun at Eton about 1787, one of them dying of a fever there. Their father was William Colhoun of Wretham, Norfolk, a M.P. for Bedford in the Parlia- ments of 1784, 1790, and 1796. I should be glad of any further information about the tather, and also to discover the Christian names of his sons. R. A. A.-L.
WILLIAM CLAY, MERCHANT. In ' Re- cords of my Life ' John Taylor mentions William Clay as " an eminent and wealthy merchant." I shall be obliged to any one who can throw light upon the identity of this person. I can find only one individual of this name, who died in Guildf ord Street, Russell Square, on 15 Aug., 1820.
HORACE BLEACKLEY.
JOHN BOAG (1775-1863) was the compiler of the ' Imperial Lexicon.' This work, which he undertook after entering his 70th year, had an enormous sale (' D.N.B.'). He had six sons and three daughters. One of the sons was Sir Robert Boag, Mayor of Belfast. What were the names of the daughters ? Whom did they marry ?
T. C. M.
