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Donald McDonald's fine book, 'Agricultural Writers from Sir Walter of Henley to Arthur Young' (published in 1908 at the offices of The Field, Windsor House, Bream's Buildings, E.G. 4). Mr. McDonald studies his works rather than his life history, but a certain amount of biographical detail emerges, as also the fact that "'A Biographical Memoir of Samuel Hartlib,' written by Mr. Henry Dircks of Blackheath, was published in London by Russell Smith" in 1865. Apparently, however, neither the place nor date of Hartlib's death is known. H. T. Sheringham.
St. Michaels, Eynsham, Oxon.
MRS. GOBDON, NOVELIST (12 S. vi. 38, 93). Some light is thrown on the puzzling identity of this lady by the dedication of ' Castles near Kreuznach,' written by Janet Robertson, and published by Williams and Norgate, 1856: To Mrs. Gordon, author of ' King's Connell,' &c., to whom these sketches were originally, addressed, this little work, in which they are collected, is inscribed by her attached relative, the author. Miss Robertson wrote ' Affinities of Foreigners' in 1850 and ' Lights and Shades on a Traveller's Path ' in 1851. Some reader may be able to identify her. J. M. BULLOCH. 37, Bedford Square, W.C. GENERAL NICHOLSON'S BIRTHPLACE ( 12 S. x. 109.) Nicholson's father was a Dublin physi- cian of note, who at the time of his son's birth, December, 1821, lived in Moore Street, Dublin. When the father died in 1829 the widow and her children went to reside in Lisburn. It is somewhere stated that John Nicholson was born at Vergemount in the parish of Donnybrook. I am interested in old Donnybrook worthies and should be obliged for any information. - Unfortunately the Parish Register for that period has been missing for half a century. DAVID F. R. WILSON. St. Mary's, Donnybrook. EWEN : COAT OF ARMS (12 S. x. 94). MR. C. L. EWEN may be interested to know that though Herne, Essex, is appa- rently too small to appear even in the ' Post Office Guide,' it is mentioned in Sir Henry Spelman's ' Villare Anglicum,' 2nd ed., 1678, " Hern, Essex, Barnstable h[un- dred]," and in Stephen Whatley's ' Eng- land's Gazetteer,' vol. iii., 1751, " Herne, Essex, late Sir J. Tyrrel's seat, near Billeri-
- cay." The manor of Billericay had been
sold to this family by Edward VI. Mr. Ewen is advised to communicate with the vicar of Billericay with regard to Herne church and any souvenirs there may still remain of the Ewen family and arms. HENRY CURTIS. QUOTATIONS IN ' THE TATLER ' (12 S. x. 94). " Cum tacent, clamant " is from Cicero's First Speech against Catiline, 8, 2L In the line which is apparently quoted from Farnaby's ' Index Rhetoricus ' Bombalio should be Bambalio ( = Stutterer ; cf. the Greek /3a/z/3aXeti/), the name given " propter haesitantiam linguae stuporemque cordis " (Cicero, ' Phil.' iii. 6, 16) to the- M. Fulvius whose daughter was the wife of Clodius and afterwards of Mark Antony. The line seems to have been constructed by a grammarian to display words of onomatopoetic origin. Pope's couplet, offered as an English equivalent in sound in later editions of The Tatler, is taken from his Imitation of the First Satire of Horace's Second Book, lines 25, 26. EDWARD BENSLY. THOMAS EDWARDS, LL.D. (12 S. ix. 511 ; x. 16). Although I have been unable to give the place and the exact date of this person's birth, I find that he was brought from Parsons Green to Ellesborough, Bucks, to be interred. On the south side of Ellesborough churchyard is a large stone slab, upwards of two yards in length and about one in width, close to the south porch, which has on it the following inscription : Under this stone are deposited | the Remains of Thomas Edwards Esquire | of Turrick in this Parish | where he spent the last XVII years | of a studious and usefull life. | He was sincere and constant in the Profession | and Practice of Christianity | without Narrowness or Super- stition, | steadily attached to the cause of Liberty, f nor less an enemy | to Licentiousness and Fac- tion ; | in his Poetry simple, elegant, pathetic ; | in his Criticism exact, acute, temperate ; | affec- tionate to his Relations, | cordial to his Friends, [ in the general Commerce of life obliging and entertaining, j He bore a tedious and painfull distemper | with a Patience, which could only arise | from a habit of Virtue and Piety ; | and quitted this life | with the decent unconcern of one | whose hopes are firmly fixed on a better. [ He dyd on the III of lanuary MDCCLVII aged LVIII | and this stone is inscribed to his memory, I with the truest concern and gratitude, | by his two Nephews and Heirs, | Nathanael Mason and loseph Paice. | The * D.N.B.' states that both his father and grandfather were barristers. L. H. CHAMBERS. Bedford.
