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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[2n'« S. VII. Mar. 19. '59. 



These particulars I gather principally from cor- 

 respondence with an American friend, and from 

 his letters I am induced to ask for information 

 upon the following subjects : — 



1. Can any of the correspondence of William 

 Coddington with his friends or relatives in Lin- 

 colnshire or elsewhere, or with Sir Henry Vane, 

 or with the early Quakers, from about 1630 to 

 1678, be met with, and where ? 



2. Is any copy known of the patent of Governor 

 of the Rhode Island colony granted to W. Cod- 

 dington in 1651 by President John Bradshaw ? 



3. What is known of the place of birth of W. 

 Coddington, or of his place of residence in Lin- 

 colnshire, previous to his emigration in 1630? 



4. Is anything ascertainable respecting his edu- 

 cation, early life, marriages, names of his wives 

 (he was three times married), his children, &c. ? 



5. Do the records of the Colonial Office, or those 

 of any other department, furnish any portion of 

 the correspondence or other documents necessarily 

 arising from the official position of John Clarke 

 as agent of the colony of Rhode Island in London, 

 from 1652 to 1662? 



6. It is supposed that Sir Henry Vane, who 

 ■was then in England, very materially assisted Mr. 

 Coddington in obtaining the patent for Rhode 

 Island from the Earl of Warwick in 1643-4. Are 

 any documents or information upon this point to 

 be found among Sir Henry's papers ? 



7. There was also a Mr. I'homas Burrwood 

 (sometimes called a M.P., but I do not find any 

 record of him in that capacity), who is said to 

 have assisted in obtaining this patent. Is any- 

 thing known about him or his agency in this busi- 

 ness ? 



Whether Wm. Coddington has a better or as 

 good a title to be considered the founder of the 

 colony of Rhode Island as Roger Williams has, 

 may be reasonably doubted ; but it is an ascer- 

 tained and generally admitted fact, that he very 

 materially assisted in forming the body of laws 

 which has been the basis of the government of 

 Rhode Island ever since 1647, whether as a 

 British colony or as a member of the great North 

 American confederated Republic. I venture to 

 suppose, therefore, that both Englishmen and 

 Americans will consider this application for infor- 

 mation respecting him as having some claim to 

 their attention. Pishey Thompson. 



Stoke Newington. 



Minav Ukuttiti. 



" The battle is fought," ^c. — Whose dying words 

 are these ? — 



« The battle is fought I The battle is fought ! But 

 the victory is not won." 



I have heard them attributed by one person to 

 a bishop, and by another to a statesman. J. C. R. 



Portrait of Let/den. — It is asked of the readers 

 of " N. & Q." whether any of them possesses, or 

 knows where there is to be found, a portrait of 

 the late Dr. John Leyden, the author of the beau- 

 tiful poem, The Scenes of Infancy, and celebrated 

 for his oriental learning ? A copy of any likeness 

 of him is much desired by a committee of gentle- 

 men of Teviotdale, who propose that a monument 

 shall be erected to his memory in his native vil- 

 lage of Denholm in Roxburghshire. J. Mn. 



Sea-shore Sand. — In A Londoner's WaJk to the 

 Land's End, p. 290., it is mentioned, " By an 

 Act passed in 1609, any one was permitted to 

 dig (sand) from the shore under high water 

 mark." Is this still the law ? or is this the custom 

 in Devon or Cornwall ? A. B. S. 



Heraldic Query. — A foreign Duke (A.) was 

 banished for political causes, and came to Eng- 

 land, where he was naturalised. He travelled to 

 Switzerland, and there married a lady of noble 

 birth (B). They had a daughter (C.) I believe 

 she was invited to return to her native country, 

 and that her rank was restored to her ; but of this 

 I am not sure. She, however, preferred to settle 

 in England, where she married an Englishman 

 (D). The issue of this marriage was a son (E.) 

 Query : had E, any right to bear the arms of A ? 



J. 



Hobhouse. — I find it stated in Dod's Peerage 

 that Lord Broughton was educated at West- 

 minster School. My impression is that Hobhouse, 

 like his friend Byron, went through Harrow, but 

 I have not been able to verify it by reference to 

 authorities at first hand. I should feel obliged if 

 any of your correspondents could settle the point. 

 And talking of public schools, I may mention a 

 want which I have often experienced. I should 

 like to see carefully prepared lists of all the men 

 of mark who have passed through our most cele- 

 brated schools, Eton, Harrow, Winchester, West- 

 minster, Rugby, Charterhouse, giving the dates 

 of their entrance and their departure. Can you 

 tell me whether there are such published lists ? 

 If not, perhaps some Etonian may favour us with 

 the Eton list, some Harrovian with the Harrow 

 one, and so on. I do not ask for a long list of 

 forcible feebles, such as may be found in the an- 

 tiquated catalogue of the Eton alumni in the 

 British Museum, which contains scarcely a name 

 that survives to the present day. I want the 

 really great names, such as Gray, Fox, Canning, 

 and Wellesley, for Eton ; Parr, Sheridan, Peel, 

 Palmerston, Aberdeen, and Byron, for Harrow. 

 It would be well also to add the name of the 

 head master for the time being. L. V. A. A. 



Arms of Hayter. — I find on a book-plate the 

 arms of a Mr. Hayter, viz. " A chevron between 

 three birds." Can any of your correspondents 



