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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»d s. No 53., Jak. 3. '57, 



" Khaspardo.'' — Could any of your Greenock 

 correspondents inform me who wrote Khaapardo : 

 or the Gratefid Slave, a drama. By M. JVI. S. — 

 Greenock, 1832. It is said to have been the pro- 

 duction of a very young author. R. Inglis. 



Freemasons' Lodge at York. — A charter, written 

 in Anglo-Saxon characters, is said to have been 

 granted by King Athelstan to his son Edwin, 

 autliorising him to establish and hold a lodge of 

 Freemasons at York. Will any of your corre- 

 spondents be so good as to afford me information 

 concerning the existence of such a charter? Or, 

 if (as it is suspected) it be merely a forgery, what 

 are the date and purpose of the spurious docu- 

 ment? and where may any information be ob- 

 tained concerning it ? V. 



Simon de Montfort. — If any of your numerous 

 readers would be kind enough to give me any 

 information respecting the descendants of Simon 

 de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, and also respect- 

 ing the several possessions of the Duchy of Bre- 

 tagne or Brittany, they would greatly oblige 



Charles S. S. 



University Degrees. — Oxford graduates are 

 admitted at Cambridge " ad eundem gradum," 

 and vice versa. Do Oxford and Cambridge, or 

 either of them, extend this courtesy to the mem- 

 bers of any other university in the United King- 

 dom ? A Gkaduate of Lonbon. 



Bachelor of Arts of Cambridge. — Will any of 

 your University readers kindly inform me whe- 

 ther it is allowable for a B. A. of Cambridge to 

 enter himself at Oxford as a Freshman, and com- 

 pete for honours in the regular period ? Does 

 custom or the statutes decide this ? 



B. A. (Catitab.) 



Dr. Wiseman's Lectures. — Can any of your 

 correspondents direct me to a full and exact 7'e- 

 view (the more copious the better) of Dr. (now 

 Cardinal) Wiseman's Lectures on the Principal 

 Doctrines and Practices of the Roman Church f 



A. M. B. 



" Not lost but gone before." — Where does the 

 line occur — 



" Not lost but gone before " ? 



It is a most familiar quotation, yet nobody that 1 

 have asked. Lord Brougham among others, can 

 give me the name of the author. Minimus. 



Temple. 



Broohe Pedigree. — It has been said that Sir 

 James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, is lineally de- 

 scended from Sir Robert Viner, Mayor of London, 

 who is mentioned in The Spectator, No. 462. Can 

 this pedigree be traced? Any information re- 

 specting the family of Sir J. Brooke will be ac- 

 ceptable. RESoriNUS. 



*' Les peines du depart" Sfc. — Whence is the 

 line — 



" Les peines du depart sont pour celui qui reste? " 



I think it is quoted in Chateaubriand's Memoires 

 d' Oidre-Tombe . X. H. 



Bokenham Family, co. Suffolk. — In the church 

 of St. Gregory, Norwich, is a monument to Henry 

 Bokenham, M.D. (ob. 1696), son of Reginald 

 Bokenham, Esqr., of Wortham, co, Suffolk. Arms, 

 Or, a lion ramp. gu. ; over all, on a bend, az. three 

 bezants. Crest, A lion ramp. 



The Bokenhams of Great Thornham, co. Suf- 

 folk, from whose pedigree the following is an 

 extract, bore (I believe) the same arms. 



Sir Henry Bokenham, Knt., of Great Thornham=s 



■Wiseman Bokenham ,=Grace. daughter of Paul d'Ewes, Esq., of Stow- 

 ob. 1670. I langtoft, ob. 1666. 



Walsingham Bokenham 

 (2nd son), ob. 1667. 



What connection was there between these two 

 families ? Any genealogical or other information 

 respecting the Wortham family will be acceptable. 



J. CypKiAN Rust. 



Norwich. 



W-^r 



O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. — ^^ Where is the pedi- 

 gree of O'Neill, Earl or Tyrone, to be found, in 

 print, or in manuscript ? J. G. N. 



Do Bees use Soot? — In the new edition of that 

 fascinating book. The Confessions of an English 

 Opium Eater, the writer says (in a note to p. 210.) 

 that in the wide chimneys of the cottages in the 

 " Lake district " he often used to hear the mur- 

 mur of bees, and " on inquiry," he adds, " I found 

 th it soot (chiefly from wood and peats) was useful 

 in some stage of their wax or honey manufacture." 

 Is there any foundation of fact in this — to me — 

 strange assertion ? As an old bee-keeper, I was 

 as little prepared for it on any ground of personal 

 observation, as I am bound, on other accounts, to 

 question its correctness. D. 



Gentoos. — What Is the origin of this term for 

 the Hindoos employed in early works on India ? 

 J. Emerson Tennent. 



William Collins.— Wi\Y\&m Collins, the poet and 

 the friend of Thomson, removed from Richmond, 

 on the death of the latter, to Chichester, where he 

 died and was buried. Has there been any me- 

 morial erected to him ? or is even the very spot 

 where he was interred accurately known ? I fear 

 not. Mr. John Scott made a pilgrimage to Chi- 

 chester to find out his last resting-place, but did 



