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408 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. NOV. is, IMS. the readers of the ' Life of Nelson ' would not be displeased to see them tilled up with a Monody on his Death, written while the event was yet recent, and commonly attributed to a gentleman high in office, and distinguished no less by his public services than his tranncendant abilities. " To the ' Life ' itself ' Ulm and Trafalgar ' appears to form no unapt accompaniment. In both, the dying hero is seen with the same reverential ad- miration and love :— in both, the same exalted use is made of the glory which he bequeathed to his country." Then follows, under the title of 'Ulm and Trafalgar,' a poem of 122 lines in riming decasyllabic couplets. The author's name is not given, although an extract of eight lines is placed on the title-page of each volume. Who was the author ? Has the poem been published separately, or elsewhere ? At the conclusion of the letterpress of the same second vo]ume there are also printed the following lines, in the original Greek, and without accents :— rot /jLtv 8ai/jLovts fieri, Atos fityaXov Sia «rOoi, tiri.)(6ovtoi, </.rAr<.Ms- ()vr)T(av avopwnav. In a later edition the following English version (quoted in The Guardian for 18 Oct.) is substituted :— Haunting the earth, the guardians of mankind. Whose is this translation ? and when was it first substituted for the original Greek? G. B. F. _ " SKERRICK."—In the course of an examina- tion regarding the sanitary condition of his dwelling, a Lincolnshire man exclaimed that " there wasn't a skerrick of nuisance about the house." The word " skerrick " does not appear in Mr. Peacock's 'Glossary of Lincoln- shire Words,' and is not of very frequent utterance at the present time, and 1 should therefore be grateful for any information concerning it. A. R. C. ["Skirrick, sb., a particle, morsel, scrap, atom. Also used fig. Cf. scuddick, acurrick, sb., sherrick. In use Wm., Yks., Stf., Not., Lin., Nhp., Not., and in forms skerrig, skirrick, ttktrrack." See ' Eng. Dial. Diet.'] BOWES OF ELFOBD.—I am desirous of obtain- ing some information respecting the above family. In lrt S. x. 348 a correspondent seems to imply that they were descendants of Sir Jerome Bowes, the ambassador to Russia, who died 1616, for he says, "His [Sir Jerome's] family settled at Elford (co. Stafford) and Humberstone"; and at 5th S. vii. 418 the Boweses of Elford are spoken of as collateral descendants of Sir Jerome Bowes, "who claimed descent from the ancient stock of Bowes of Streatlam." In Harl. Soc. vol. i. p. 29 (Sir) Jerome Bowes is given as the second son of John Bowes of Hackney, and the grandson of John Bowes, "a sixth brother of the House of Bowes of ," and your correspondent at the first of the above references implies that the blank- should be filled in with "Streatlam, and thinks it probable that Sir Jerome was a descendant or John Bowes, Speaker of the House of Commons 14 Henry VI. (A.D. 1436). Mackenzie and Ross, however, in 'Views of County of Durham,' p. 174, give an account of Gibside and its contents, amongst which was a portrait of Sir Martin Bowes, Lord Mayor of London 1545, who is described as a descendant of Bowes of York, Speaker of the House of Commons. If both these statements are correct they tend to show that the Boweses of Elford and Boweses of York both springfrom the Boweses of Streatlam. I can, however, find no evi- dence that they do. I shall be grateful to any of your readers who can inform me where I shall find («) proof of the descent of Sir Jerome Bowes from the Boweses of Streatlam ; (6) of the descent of either Sir Jerome or Sir Martin from John Bowes, the Speaker; (c) of the descent of the Boweses of Elford or of their namesakes of York from the Boweses of Streatlam ; and (d) the lineage of the Boweses of Elford, the last male representative of which was George Bowes, whose only daughter, Mary, married Craven Howard, grandson of the first Earl of Berkshire, and great-grandson of the first Earl of Suffolk. The Boweses of Elford do not appear to have kept Humberstone long in the family, for Nichols's 'History of the County of Leicester,' vol. iii. p. 273, records that Richard Bowes, son of Sir John Bowes of Elford, married Margaret, eldest daughter (and co-heiress with her sister Elizabeth) or Henry Keble of Humberstone, who died 1571, and that Sir Edward King, second husband of Elizabeth, sold his wife's part of the manor of Humberstone to her sister Margaret, wife of Richard Bowes, whose son, John Bowes of Elford, who married Anne, daughter of Robert Burdett of Bramcote, co. Warwick, sold Huraberstone to Sir Henry Hastings, who died 1629, his son Henry inheriting. FRANCIS H. RELTOX. 9, Broughton Road, Thornton Heath. " WHEN IN DOUBT—DON'T." — In an article on 'The Ethics of Falsehood and Murder, in The Morning Post of 19 August, Mr. Andrew Lang wrote: "The only rule or morals is ' when in doubt—don't.'" Froro whom was he quoting ? The doctrine is old