io'" s. iv. NOV. 25.1805.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 429 was, I think, or had been, in our naval sei vice. I do not remember the plot or any o the incidents, but have a vivid memory c the names of some of the characters —amon others, the Boyard Youriwich Millolaski Fedka Chomiak, a peasant; a Zaporelska Cos sack ; and a Zemski Jariska (Russian tax co lector). Perhaps some one conversant wit Russian stories may be able to identify th book. , S. E. W. W. COLE, CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUARY.—Can an, reader tell me which of the works of William Cole, the Cambridge antiquary, contain co_piea of old Cambridgeshire (and othei wills; also where his works are to be seen I have looked in the British Museum Cata logue, but can find nothing to guide me. R. M. HEBREW TRADITIONS. — Can any of you readers give Rabbinic authority for the following traditions ?— 1. The mark of Cain was his skin becoming black. 2. The wife of Ham was a descendant o Cain, and some of his children were black. 3. The water at the poles was frozen to expedite the drying up of the Deluge. Y. N. SLAVERY.—Could you refer me to any works giving information on the follow- ing headings? 1. The relation between slavery and commerce. 2. The fact that the achievements of Greece in art were possible because slaves conducted her commerce. 3. The relation of Egypt's commercial pros- perity to slavery. RRUG. FINAL "E" IN CHAUCER.—Would Prof. Skeat, to whom all students of English are under such a vast debt of obligation, kindly expound this difficulty for me in your columns ? It may be stated thus : When did the final e, pronounced in Chaucer's day, cease to be sounded in English ' What of the final e, for example, in 'The King's Quair' ? STUDENT. SIR PHILIP JENNINGS CLERKE, BART.— According to Burke's ' Extinct Baronetcies' he was of Duddlestone, Salop, was created a baronet 26 October, 1774, and died 22 April, 1788._ I should be glad to obtain the date of his birth and the particulars of his parentage and career. G. F. R. B. BASIL MONTAGU. — This octogenarian scholar (1770-1851), who had known a good many of the most interesting people of his time, is stated in Charles Knight's 'Cyclo- psedia of Biography' to have left, amongst his hundred volumes of MSS., both a memoir of himself and his contemporaries, and a diary. Is it known in whose posses- sion these autobiographical records now are ? The account of Montagu in the ' D.N.B.'is silent about them. CYRIL. WESTLAND MARSTON.—Some years ago it was stated to me by a near relative of Dr. West l.uid Marston, the eminent dramatic poet, who died fifteen years ago, that the poet owed his descent to the same ancestor as "Sarah Hoggins," the village maiden of Bolas Magua, in Shropshire, who married the Marquis of Exeter, and was the heroine of Tennyson's ' Lord of Burleigh.' I should be greatly obliged by any information as to the accuracy of this statement. JOSEPH RODGERS. 12, St. Hilda's, Whitby. SHINGLE BERRIES. — In a letter of my grandfather W. Fowler, 30 August, 1810, he mentions to a Liverpool correspondent "about half a pint of the red shingle berries "; and on 2 January, 1811, he writes: "The shingle berries are exactly what I wanted much obliged for necklace and berries." I rather think that W. F. wanted the "berries" For a necklace for his daughter Rebecca. I iiave not found the term in any glossary or dictionary that I have consulted. What are ' shingle berries " ? J. T. F. Durham. SAMUEL WHITCHURCH, POET. — Can any •eader of 'N. «fe Q.' help me to particulars of Samuel Whitchurch, a poet who flourished, or at any rate wrote, at the beginning of the ast century ? He and one of his poems, The Battle of Instruction,1 are mentioned several times by Joseph Lancaster in letters written in 1811 and 1812. DAVID SALMON. Swansea. HUGH TREVOR.' — Who wrote ' Hugh Trevor," which appeared in the eighteenth entury, and presumably was a novel 1 Any ther particulars about it would be interest- ng. ARTHUR HOUSTON. 22, Lancaster Gate, W. ESCUTCHEON OF PRETENCE.—When was the ust mii first established in England of placing tie arms of an heiress upon an escutcheon of retence? The ancient custom was un- oubtedly to impale the arms of an heiress tith those of her husband, giving her arms ie preference by placing them on_the dexter de of the shield, and I know an instance of
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