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F. H. Burney, published by Goulding and d'Al- 

 inaine, 20. Soho Square. E. B. R. 



Traditions of Remote Periods, Sec. (Vol. v., p. 77.). 

 — It is a well-known fact that the proud Duke of 

 Somerset, and Prince George, his successor as a 

 Kniglit of the Garter, occu[)ied the space between 

 1684 and 1820. The anecdote, however, rehited 

 of George IV. by your intelligent correspondent 

 C. cannot be correct, because the blue ribbon was 

 conferred upon Lord Moira bi/ the Prince Begeiit 

 in June, 1812, who advanced him in 1816 to the 

 Marquisate of Hastings, and George III. did not 

 die tdl 1820. The story, therefore, must belong to 

 the period of the Regency, and not to the com- 

 mencement of the reign of George IV. 



Bbatbrooke. 



Audley End. 



There is some error in the statement of C. 

 George IV. succeeded to the throne 29th January, 

 1820, and the vacancy in the Order of the Garter 

 occasioned by his accession he gave to the Mar- 

 quess of Buckingham, who was elected 12th June 

 that year. The Earl of Moira was elected and 

 invested in 1812, upon the vacancy created by the 

 death of William, fifth Duke of Devonshire, and 

 was the third knight made during the Regency. 

 (See Beltz's Succession of the Knights, pp. ccxi. 

 and cc.xiv.) Lord Moira never occupied the stall 

 of George IV., which before his accession was that 

 of Prince of Wales. 



At the time of the death of the Duke of Somer- 

 set, in 1748, there were several vacancies; and on 

 the 22d June, 1749, George Prince of Brunswick, 

 afterwards King George III., was elected in the 

 room of John Earl Powlett, and John Earl Gran- 

 ville was elected in the room of the Duke of 

 Somerset. (See Beltz, cciii.) G. 



Heraldical MSS. of Sir Henry St. George 

 Garter (Vol. v., p. 59.). — M— n, in " N. & Q." of 

 the 17th ultimo, wishes to know what became of 

 these valuable MSS. I understand that, just 

 before the auction atEnmoi-e Castle in 1831, these 

 MSS. passed into the possession of the late Sir 

 Matthew Tierney, Bart., by private contract, or 

 some arrangement of the kind. And most likely 

 they now are in the possession of his brother, Sir 

 Edward Tierney, Bart., who for a long period 

 was the confidential friend, as well as the land 

 and law agent of the fourth Earl of Egmont : in 

 any case, he is the only person who can give M — n 

 the information he requires respecting them : and, 

 if written to on the subject, I have no doubt will 

 communicate all he knows about him. E. A. G. 



Richmond. 



Dr. John Ash (Vol. v., p. 12.). — I am able to 

 afford your correspondent F. Russell but little 

 information respecting Dr. John Ash ; but that is 

 authentic, being taken from an entry in his own 



handwriting in the Admission Book of Trinity 

 College. It is to the following effect : 



" Ego Joannes Ash, Fil Joseph! Ash, gen. (generosi) 

 de Coventria in Com. Warwick : natus ibidem annos 

 circiter 16' admissus smn com. infer, ordinis (commer- 

 salis inferioiis onlii.is) sub tutamine magistri Geering 

 4° Die Martii, 1739 ^0." 



There is no other John Ash admitted between 

 1737 and 1764 ; therefore it may be presumed 

 this is the same person. T. W. 



Trin. Coll. Oxon. f 



p.S. — I find by the corrected list of Oxford 

 graduates, just published, that Dr. Ash took his 

 de^rreesofB-A. Oct. 21, 1743; M.A. Oct, 17, 1746; 

 B.M. Dec, 6, 1750; D.M. July 3, 1754. 



Inveni Portum (Vol. v., p. 64.). — The words 

 "Inveni portum" remind me of Byron's answer 

 to a friend, who claimed his congratulations upon 

 receiving a valuable iippointment ; "for," said he, 

 "I may now say with truth, 'Portum inveni.'" 

 " I am verv glad to hear it," replied Byron, " for 

 you have finished many bottles of mine." Note. 



Goldsmith (Vol. v., p. 63.). — Thanks to your 

 sensible correspondent A. E. B. ! A true poet 

 alw.ays puts the right word in the right place, and 

 A. n B.'s good taste assured him of Goldsmith's 

 propriety. 



We have it upon record, that Burke asked 

 Goldsmith what he meant by the word " slow," in 

 the first line of his Traveller — 



'« Remote, unfriended, inelancholy, slow." 



"Do you mean, Dr. Goldsmith, tardiness of 

 locomotion f" "Yes," said Goldsniith. "No!" 

 said Johnson, " you mean no such thing, Sir. You 

 mean vacuity of action." 



A true poet ever puts the right word in the right 

 place. A. E. B. has put the argument rightly, and 

 it is to be regretted that he has been obliged to do 

 so. To alter a word of Goldsmith's, is to gild 

 refined gold. James Cornish. 



Lords Marchers (Vol. v., p. 30.). — See His- 

 torical Account of the Principality of Wales, by Sir 

 J. 13odridge, Kt. — Discourse against the Juris- 

 diction of the King's Bench over Wales ; printed 

 among Hargrave's Law Tracts. The author was 

 Charles Pratt, Esq., afterwards Lord Chancellor 

 Camden : see Hargr. Jurisc. Exerc, vol. ii. p. 301. 

 — Coke, 4 Inst. 244. — Coke's Entries, 549. — 

 Harl MSS. 141. 1220. contain copies of ^ Treatise 

 of Lordships Marchers in Wales. H. S. M. 



Foreign Ambassadors (Vol. iv., p. 442.). — The 

 information solicited in p. 442. has, in some de- 

 gree, been subsequently given at page 477. ; but, I 

 believe, much more distinctly in the Gentleman's 

 Magazine for November and December, 1840, so 

 far, at least, as embracing the French ambassadors 

 to the English court from the fourteenth to the 



