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C2«* S. X. Sept. 29. '60. 



be very acceptable. The poet's grandson, Mr. T. 

 C. Dibdin, the eminent landscape painter, knows 

 nothing of the history of his family. I have also 

 vainly referred to the ordinary biographies. 



E. J.S. 

 " The Paradise of the Soul."— Is anything 

 known of a work called the Paradise of the Soul ? 

 Two leaves of it formed the fly-leaves of a Latin 

 Prayer Book printed by Richard Grafton and 

 Edward Whitchurch in 1544. It appears to be a 

 collection of lloman Catholic Prayers. Tau. 



BioGRAPHicAii Queries. — I should be obliged 

 to any of your correspondents who would kindly 

 favour me with information relative to the fol- 

 lowing : — 



Benjamin Chandler, author of An Essay on the 

 Lord's Prayer, London, 1714. 



John Conyers, M.P., King's Counsel, died in 

 1722. 



John Cowell, author of The Snare Broken, 1677. 



John Howe, Judge of the Admiralty, circa 1670. 



Sir Francis Fortescue, Bart., of Salden. He 

 died in 1729. At what age? 



Sir Thomas Wilbraham, died 31 Oct. 1660. The 

 date of his birth wanted. 



Nathanael Lloyd, D.C.L., of All Souls', Oxford. 

 Any information. 



William Cook, M.P. for Gloucester, 1708. Date 

 of birth wanted. C. J. Hobinson. 



Swan Hopping. — In the accounts of the Vint- 

 ners' Company (Egerton MS. 1143., fol. 2.) is the 

 following entry : — 



Item, payd in the grete ffroste to 



James the under Swanj'erd for 



Uppyng of the Maister Swannes, 



iiijs. 



It. for bote hyr at the same tyme, 



L iiijd" 



Is there any earlier notice of this custom ? 



A. A. 

 Poets' Corner. " 



Lord Penrhtn : Hodges. — Could any corre- 

 spondent of " N. & Q." inform me whether Pen- 

 nant, 1st LordPenrhyn, quartered the arms of his 

 mother, the daughter of Joseph Hodges, and what 

 those arms were ? 



Was Joseph Hodges the nephew of Sir Joseph 

 Hodges, Bart. ? Both had a residence in London, 

 the former in the parish of St. Giles. Nathaniel 

 was the name of Joseph Hodges's brother. Were 

 they related to Nathaniel Hodges, the author, who 

 died in the Fleet (?) about 1686, and who was a 

 son of Dr. Wm. Hodges, dean of Hereford and 

 vicar of Kensington ? B. 



Pun. — What is the derivation of this word, 

 and the period at which it was introduced into 

 our language ? Are instances of verbal witticisms 

 to be found in English writers before the Eliza- 

 bethan era ? C. J. Robinson. 



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" Money payd for 

 cxpence for up-< 

 pyng of Swaiies 



Photographs op Elgin Marbles. — Can any 

 of your correspondents inform me whether the 

 Elgin Marbles have been photographed, . and, if 

 so, where copies can be procured ? I am told that 

 the authorities of the Museum forbid their being 

 photographed, which seems improbable. N. 



Rev. W. Richards. — In Wood's Athena Oxo- 

 niensis there is a short biographical notice of the 

 Rev. W. Richards, who, about 1690, was rector of 

 Helmdon, in Northamptonshire. Mr. Richards 

 was a Nonjuror ; and, about 1693, was residing in 

 Newcastle -on-Tyne. Can any of your readers 

 give me the date of his death ? R. Inglis.. 



" The Rich Old Bachelor." — Can you inform 

 me who is the author of a dramatic piece, having 

 the following title, The Rich Old Bachelor, a 

 Dramatic Tale in verse. Canterbury, 1824 ? 



R. Inglis. 



Dramas for Children. — Who is author of a 

 little volume entitled Dramas for Children, imi- 

 tated from the French of L. F. Jatiffret, by the 

 Editor of Tabarfs Popular Stories ? Published 

 about 1810. Query, Was Miss L. Aitken the 

 author ? R. Inglis. 



Painting at Tatton Hall, Cheshire. — I' 



observed the other day at Tatton Hall, in Cheshire, 

 a picture (unknown) of a man in plated armour, 

 with the order of the Golden Fleece round his 

 neck ; a helmet, on a table beside him, with im- 

 mense plume of feathers. On every alternate 

 plate of the armour is engraved a crescent or 

 young moon, with the letters S. I. C. between the 

 horns or points of the crescent. I shall be much 

 obliged if any of your readers can tell me what 

 these letters mean, as it may throw some light on 

 the subject of the picture. M. L. Fodder. 



White Horses for Weddings. — At a marriage 

 whfch I saw to-day, the number of white carriage- 

 horses in the various equipages was so very re- 

 markable as to fix anyone's attention. Besides 

 the wedding party, that came to church \n four 

 carriages, each drawn by a pair of light greys, 

 there were several other carriages drawn by the 

 same coloured horses. Of course, coachmen and 

 footmen drove away with the usual large white- 

 ribbon favour pinned upon the breast. The 

 symbolism of the thing is obvious enough, but 

 what I wish to learn through " N. & Q." is, whe- 

 ther this custom of the white horses for weddings 

 be an old or a new one ? D. R. 



Zinc. — What is the origin of this word ? Beck- 

 mann (from Frisch) says zinc was so called be- 

 cause the furnace calamine assumes the figure of 

 zinhen or zacken, nails or spikes. This is very 

 unsatisfactory : nevertheless, in etymology, the 

 improbable and the true are more often one and 

 the same thing than in any other branch of in- 



