. XIL OCT. 17, iocs.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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According to the * Dictionary of National here, and should greatly value information
Biography ' he was born, in all probability, about it. It does not even appear in the
near Taunton. Registers at St. Mary's and British Museum Catalogue in our Free
Wilton, Taunton, have been searched in vain. Library. JAMES HOOPER.
Those at St. James's, Taunton, do not com- Norwich.
mence until 1610. A rent-roll for the Hun- v> ? nr cm i >
dred of Hoi way in 1600 has recently turned . * OEIN ^ OD s MILL -In Drome's 'Travels,' up at a London sale, and it contains the ' ,P- 2 .^' mention is made of a hill near name of Nicholas Daniel, of Chipleigh, in ? lgg j e l wlck u where a , 'clacking noise is the parish of Nynehead, which was Sne of heard ^ suc . h as ls made by a mill, which is the places included in that hundred. cau f sed ' a * " supposed, by some current of
Perhaps the vicar of Nynehead will kindly J ater ' whlc fe creeping under Ground, falls look through his registers and see if he meets down u Pf 1 ^ Rocks, and this the Country with any fianiel in or near 1562. It would ffPJf <V a *<* Hoo f s MllL be well worth recording if Samuel Daniel Hood s Ml11 stl11 known ? should turn out to be one of Nynehead's JOHN SOUTH, LL.B., Fellow of New College, famous sons, for he did good work both as Oxford, was appointed Regius Professor of poet and historian. F. DANIEL. Greek 9 April, 1622. In 1666 (24 Sept.) he
147, Vauxhall Bridge Road, S.W. was co ii ate d to the precentorship of Salis
"PARTING OF THE WAYS."-! frequently I k UI 7 ( Le Neve, .' Fasti ') A John South wai
originator of the phrase 1
JOHN HENDERSON.
anxious to know if these were two men or
identical, and shall be grateful for informa-
, tion bearing on the point. YGREC. COURTS OP REQUESTS, WARDS, AND AUG- MENTATIONS. Where are to be found lists of GEORGE GAHAGAN left Westminster School the officials masters, treasurers, attorneys, Christmas, 1804, and matriculated at Oxford &c. of these defunct Courts ? from St. Mary's Hall 23 Nov., 1816, aged
W. D. PINK. twenty-two. I should be glad to obtain any
FRENCH QUOTATION. further particulars of his career.
"Un jour que j'etais triste le Bonheur a passe G- F. R. B.
sous ma fenetre en chantant; il m'a fait signe du p FP Wn<T\rr'Trm'i RTQTPP Artarv Wnfflna.
dmVt pf IP Tni snivi iiKjnn'i I'Ttalip " J -' BG VVOiilNGIOJN b OlbTEK. oViary VY Omng-
igt,et]elaisuivi]usqualltaLte. \ t p ^ younger sister was marr i e d on
comes this quotation, if_ it_ be a | 13 November, 1746, to the Hon. and Rev.
Robert Cholmondeley, a nephew of Horace Walpole. Can any reader inform me where the wedding took place, or, better still, oblige me with a copy of the marriage register? Mrs. Cholmondeley died in Conduit Street,
Hanover Square, on 4 April, 1811, in (accord-
quotation? T. B. B.
MAXIM. Who was the author of Sow a thought, reap an action ; Sow an action, reap a habit ; Sow a habit, reap a character ?
C. F. Y.
[Already asked at 9* S . viii. 105, Source of I in S *> the Gentleman's Magazine) 'the eighty- Maxim,' without the first clause, and with "Sow a second year of her age. This would fix the character, reap a destiny," as the third. The same date of her birth at 1729, and yet most bio- ed by W. T.] graphers of Peg Woffington would have us
rr j.i j.- believe that her father died in 1720.
nf T f A 1 B ULL."-Has the variation Considering her social position and the
of elephant for bull ever been noticed ? brim fc . f . which ^ moved (was he Clement Walker in his 'History of Indepen- not infcimate with Dr> Johnson an ' d G old- dency : the Mysterie of the Two Junto's, smith ?) it seems st e that no portrait of 1648, p. 1, says inflamed the people to the Mrg C g olmonde ley exists. According to Sir rage of battell as the Elephant is mraged at Walter Armstron ^ neither of the two Mr8 .
query is asked by W. T.]
Red<
REGINALD HAINES.
Cholmleys (sic} pinted by Reynolds is to be
identified with this lady. By the way, the
' THE DUNCES OF NORFOLK.' In the Gentle- same authority, in the list of pictures ap-
maris Magazine for 1739, p. 500, a work with pended to his stately volume on Sir Joshua,
the above title is announced in the monthly makes no mention of any portrait by him of
register of books, price Is. I have been Peg Woffington. This must surely be an
unable to find any trace of this publication oversight. A Madonna-like study of the
