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Sidney's letter to his brother, and Milton's " plain
and hearty counsel " on this subject ?]
20. P. 116, 1. 2. Dr. Johnson's bitter apology for primogeniture, " that it makes but one fool in a family." [Source of quotation wanted. I cannot find it in Boswell.]
21. P. 116, 1. 29. " Now," said Nelson, when clearing for battle, " a peerage, or Westminster Abbey." [Emerson probably took this from the account of the Battle of the Nile in Southey's ' Life of Nelson.' Benjamin Haydon, however, at vol. i., p. 169 of his Autobiography, gives it as " Victory, or Westminster Abbey." Which is right ? Southey's seems to give better sense ; but is there any higher authority behind Southey ?]
22. P. 116, 1. 32. " The lawyers," said Burke, " are only birds of passage in this House of Commons," and then added, with a new figure, " they have their best bower anchor in the House of Lords." [In what speech or writing of Burke's does this occur ?]
23. P. 118, 1. 5. [In describing Oxford, Emer- son mentions] the Randolph Gallery. [What was the Randolph Gallery ? Does it still exist ?1
(Rev.) R. FLETCHER. Buckland, Faringdon, Berks.
JOHN NOWES OB NAWES became Lord of the Manor of Lee, in Romsey, co. Hants, where hejj founded a charity. His sister Anne married John Michell, son of John Michell of Preston Pluncnet, Brympton, co. Somerset, and died in her 81st year, 1720. The arms on John Nowes's tomb are vair, which seems to indicate a kinship rather with the Nowers family than with that of Noyes. Who were the parents of John and Ann* Nowes ? H. PIRIE- GORDON.
JAMES NIVEN OR NIVIE, a merchant of Aberdeen, was hanged as a Jacobite at Carlisle in 1746. His son was John Niven of Thornton, and his grandson was Sir Harry Niven, who assumed the additional name of Lumsden and was knighted 1816 and created a baronet 1821. Who were James Niven's parents and wife ? H. PiRiE-GoRDON.
20 Warwick Gardens, Kensington, W.14.
BISHOPS OF DROMORE, FIFTEENTH CEN- TURY. In the latest list of the Bishops of Dromore furnished to the Clerical Index Society for index purposes, the succession of prelates for the fifteenth century runs :
" John Volcan, 1404-1408 ; Richard Messing
1408-14 ; John [ ?], 14 1416 (res.) ; name
wanting, 1410-1419; Nicholas Wastre, 1419- 1427 ; David de Chirbury, 1427-1434 ; Thomas Scrope, 1434-1434 (res.) ; name wanting, 1434- 1440 ; Thomas Radcliffe, 1440-1489 ; George Brann, 1489-1500."
This list cannot be correct, for a William, Bishop of Dromore, occurs Aug. 18, 1491. He is supposed to be the same as William Egremond, who occurs as Bishop 1500-02.
He was Suffragan to the Archbishop of
York, and held two livings in Yorkshire;
Rectory of Kirby Underdale, 1479-89, and
Rectory of All Saints' in York City, 1489
to his death, 1500. Query : Is the " John
[. ?] 14 -1416 (res.)" the John Dro-
morens mentioned at ante, pp. 44-5 ? Can any one give any particulars of the life histories of any of these prelates ?
J. W. FAWCETT.
DE BRTJS TOMB, HARTLEPOOL. Upon what grounds other than tradition is the statement based that the large table monu- ment in St. Hilda's Churchyard at Hartle- pool was erected to the memory of a member of the De Brus family ?
A. E. OUGHTRED. Scagglethorpe, Mai ton.
HlNCKS AND FOTJLKES FAMILIES. 1 shall
be glad to obtain information about the descendants of Robert Hincks of Chester, who married Martha Cappar and died March, 1779; also about the descendants of his sister Susanna, who married October, 1739, Robert Foulkes, Esq., of Great Boughton, co. Chester. H. C. BARNARD. The Warren, Burnham, Somerset.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN : ' THE TYNESIDE OBSERVER.' I should be very glad to learn where I can procure a copy of The Tyneside Observer, published at Jarrow in 1865. which contained an article by the late William T. Stead, upon Abraham Lincoln, It is mentioned in a letter of his quoted in his daughter's life of Ivm ; but the family cannot help me, and several efforts in the North of England to find a copy of the paper have been fruitless, It was published, probably, soon after Mr. Lincoln's death, say in April or May, 1865. I would pay a good price for the paper, or a typed copy of the article. WILLIAM ABBATT.
Tarrytown, N.Y.
DERBYSHIRE DIALECT : MS. GLOSSARIES. Two unpublished glossaries of Derbyshire _ words are known to have been compiled, both about the year 1890. Mr. Walter Kirkland completed a ' Glossary of Derby- shire Words,' and invited subscriptions to enable him to publish it, but the response was so small that the work never appeared in print. I understand that later the MS. got into the hands of a bookseller. The bibliography in Dr. Wright's 'English Dialect Dictionary,' mentions a MS. ' Glos- sary of N.-W. Derbyshire Words ' by Thomas Hallam. The "latter was a good dialect scholar, and wrote a monograph on
