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to the above. He is supposed to have^been
of a Northamptonshire family, and educated
at Cambridge. Can any reader give me the
dates of his birth and death, or even the cen-
tury in which he flourished t The poem is
- The Faery King,' and it has been suggested
that the author was a Sir Edmond Steward.
MEGAN.
LATIN MOTTO. In H.M.S. Defiance (tor- pedo school for instruction of men and officers in electricity, wireless telegraphy, &c.) there appear in different situations these two variants: " Scientia fiducia plenus pro vocare," "Scientia fiducia plena provocare." There are no case-accents or stops. Can any one give me a translation, parsing, or parallel of either 1
FRANCIS J. ODELL, Chaplain K.N.
H.M.S. Defiance.
CANADIAN BOAT SONG.
From the dim shieling on the misty island
Mountains divide us and a world of seas ; But still our hearts are true, our hearts are High- land,
And in our dreams we see the Hebrides. Tall are those mountains and those woods are
grand ;
But we are exiles from our fathers' land. There must be a peculiar charm about a stanza which has had a fascination for men of so diverse temperaments as Norman Macleod, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Mr. Chamberlain. But why do they quote it as above from Sir John Skelton's weakened version of the song, and not from Lord Eglinton's translation as given in Tait's Magazine for 1849, p. 366? From the lone shieling on the misty island
Mountains divide us and the waste of seas ; But still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland
And we in dreams behold the Hebrides. l<air these broad meads, these hoary woods are
grand ; But we are exiles from our fathers' land.
It is difficult to understand why Skelton should have thought it necessary to recast and by each change to spoil, these fine lines.' Where was his version printed for the first time? Is the supposed Gaelic original as mythical as the original of Macpherson's Ossian? P. J. ANDERSON.
University Library, Aberdeen.
SOMERSETSHIRE BALLAD.- Some forty years
D-n a friAnrl ,if TTT *.,>:K, J J
. - - ~~*-.^^. KJ<_I.UO j.ui"i/y years
ago a friend of my family used to repeat a
mencing " From a nate little village
'Zetshire" inrlin-.rtiwa ^t 4-1, ~ !
ballad commencing
in Zummerzetshire, indicative of the woes of one Tony Lumpkin, who came up to London to find his uncle, forgot his name, but as uncle was uncle, asked where he lived and was directed into a pawnbroker's shop
where, however, the occupant refused to
acknowledge kinship, and promptly ejected
him on hearing that he had come up because
they had " all got the maasels in Zummerzet-
shire." Can any of your readers tell me
where this ballad may be found 1
ALGERNON WARREN.
ARMS OF SCOTLAND. On 20 February, 1471, King James, with advice of his three Estates, ordained that in time coming there should be no double treasure about his arms ('Ex- tracts out of the Unprinted Books of Parlia- ment'). Did this take effect? I cannot remember ever to have met with the royal seal minus this precious charge, which was the emblem of the ancient league with France, from whose kings it was a gift to the kings of Scotland. If such a seal was sunk, it is well it did not endure, for, shorn of the beautiful tressure of lilies, the blood- red lion rampant on his field of gold would lose much of his majesty, considering how many other heraldic lions are on the prowl. WALTER M. GRAHAM EASTON.
RING OF ELIZABETH. What is known of the ring which Elizabeth gave to the Earl of Essex 1 The accepted one is of sardonyx, in the possession of the Thynne family. There was another, however, a rose diamond, claim- ing to be genuine. Who is the present pos- sessor 1 A family tradition says that the original ring was in the possession of the j Pulteney family towards the close of the eighteenth century. Can any one throw light upon this ? W. H. WINDLE.
BENJAMIN WALKER, who died in 1764, married (c. 1760) Ann Stackhouse. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and lived at Enfield. She was known in London as " Queen of Diamonds," because of her beauty j and valuable diamonds. She married her second husband, Mr. John Relph, of St. Botolph's, Aid- gate, a rich London silk merchant, about 1766. Information is sought (1) as to the family con- nexions of Benjamin Walker, of Enfield, said to be descended from William Penn ; and (2) as to the ancestors of Ann Stackhouse, whose f father was John Stackhouse, Governor of Bengal, and retired in 1739.
W. H. WINDLE.
ARBUTHNOTT. What is the derivation of this word, a parish in Kincardineshire ; and is it correctly spelt with two final ?'s or only one 1 ? The viscount of that name uses the | double letter, while the baronet's family of the same name use the single letter, both claiming to derive their name from the same lauds. In the old map by Gordon of Straloch,
