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well and of Grindleton. He says, in a letter
published in Whitaker's ' Craven,' the
original of which is at present in my care :
" My 2 chapels are in the Alpes of the West Riding, and 1 have just now calculated it y* I have rid over the alpine mountains to attend and perforate Divine Service at Grindleton Chapel above 3,000 miles put all together ; and the whole yearly stipends put in one sum amount not above 60 pounds."
His weary rides over the alpine mountains would give him time to think of the Roman road in the near neighbourhood.
Am I right in identifying the author of the above-named volume with my equestrian predecessor ? Some of your contributors may know more of the Rev. R. Rauthmel. FRED. G. ACKERLEY.
Gridleton Vicarage, Clitheroe, Lanes.
' CANTUS HIBERNICI.' Some eight years ago I purchased for a couple of shillings a volume entitled " Cantus Hibernici, Auctore Thoma Moore, Latine Redditi. Editio Nova. A Nicholao Lee Torre, Coll. Nov. apud Oxoniam, olim Socio. Leamington : Thomas Knibb. 1856." The volume, which is dedi- cated to the Marquess of Lansdowne, con- tains some 41 Latin renderings of Moore's
- Irish Melodies,' and has an appendix of
seven other Latin versions of the ' Melodies,' culled " by permission of the author," from the * Anthologia Oxoniensis,' the ' Arundines Cami,' and the ' Sabrinae Corolla ' ; the initials appended to each translation being R. R. W. L., G. B., W. B. J., and B. H. K. Can any possessor of the ' Arundines Cami ' or the ' Sabrinae Corolla ' tell me whom those initails represent ? Perhaps MB. PICK- FORD can oblige me. I may add that the versions are idiomatically and literally correct. J. B. McGovERN.
St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.
" UNBYCHID." Twenty-seven years being a very long time in the history of etymological research, I may be excused for asking if anything further has come to light with regard to the above word, since the publica- tion of Prof. Skeat's edition of Chaucer's
- Man of Lawe's Tale,' &c., by the Clarendon
Press. I refer to the notes on " bicched bones," 4 Pardonere's Tale,' C. 656. " Un- bychid " occurs in ' The Towneley Plays ' (E.E.T.S.), 291-356, and is there glossed " disorderly (?)." H. P. L.
HENRY STEPHEN KEMBLE. How many descendants of this actor, the nephew of Mrs. Siddons, went on the stage ? I know of his daughter Agnes, who married Thomas Cooper, and became the mother of Mr.
Frank Kemble Cooper and Mr. Cooper
Cliffe. But the late Miss Alice Barnett
of the Savoy also claimed descent from this
Kemble. Was it through a daughter or a
son ? J. M. BULLOCH.
118, Pall Mall, S.W.
' LONDON AND NEIGHBOURHOOD,' 1750. A pamphlet so named, and described as an
- Essay on Summer Entertainments in the
Neighbourhood of London,' occurred in the Comerford sale, lot 2261. It is catalogued as "unique," but this presumably refers to the fact that the copy was extra-illustrated. I have failed to trace another copy at the B.M. or in the catalogues of other topo- graphical libraries. References or further information will be welcome.
ALECK ABRAHAMS. 39, Hillmarton Road, N.
- SEA- VOYAGE OP ALOYSIUS.' A book
with some such title is referred to in a German herbal published in 1546. Can any reader identify it ? L. L. K.
ROMNEY'S ANCESTRY. George Romney, of Colby, Appleby (grandfather of the artist), left Colby in the Civil War, and went to Lancaster, and later to Dalton-in-Furness. He was sixty when he married, and the marriage cannot be found at Dalton, St. Lawrence's, Appleby, or Carlisle. Where was he married ? and what was his father's name ? Had Mary Abbott, of Kirkland, Romney's wife, relations called Collinson and Betham ? Where is Kirkland ? Was Ann Simpson, of Sladebank, Romney's mother, related to the Simpsons of Torrisholme, near Morecambe, and how ? Where is Sladebank ? And was her grandfather, Thomas Park, of Millwood, near Furnesa Abbey, High Constable of Furness 1642-7, related to Sir James Parke, afterwards Lord Wensleydale ?
I shall be greatly obliged for any help. (Mrs.) L. BENNETT.
6, Arthur Street East, B.C.
ISLE OF MAN AND THE COUNTESS OF DERBY. Will some reader inform me where I can find particulars of the surrender of the Isle of Man by the Countess of Derby to the Parliamentary forces in 1651 ?
D. MURRAY.
Union Club, Trafalgar Square, S.W.
DONCASTER: IMAGE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN. It is believed that in one of the religious houses at Doncaster there was in former days a statue of the Blessed Virgin, deemed to be miraculous, which at some
