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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 181. 



of American Independence, a member of same ? 

 Is there any record of three brothers, Robert, 

 Oliver, and Francis Shearman, coming to Eng- 

 land in the army of William the Conqueror ? 



John F. Sheakman. 

 Kilkenny. 



Ti-aitors' Ford. — There is a place called 

 Traitors' Ford on the borders of Warwickshire 

 and Oxfordshire, near the source of the little river 

 Stour, about two miles from the village of Whlch- 

 ford, In the former county. What Is the origin of 

 the name ? There Is no notice of it in Dugdale's 

 Warwickshire, nor is it mentioned in the older 

 maps of the county of Warwick. The vicinity to 

 the field of Edge-Hill would lead one to suppose 

 it may be connected with some event of the period 

 of the Civil Wars. Spes, 



" Your most obedient humble Servant." — In 

 Beloe's Anecdotes of Literature, vol. ii. p. 93., 

 mention is made of a poem entitled The Historic of 

 Edward the Second, surnamed Cariiarvon. The 

 author, Sir Francis Hubert, in 1629, when closing 

 the dedication of this poem to his brother, Mr. 

 Klchard Hubert, thus remarks : 



" And so, humbly desiring the Almighty to blesse 

 you both in soiile, body, and estate, I rest not your 

 servant, according to the new, and fine, but false phrase 

 of the time, but in honest old English, your loving 

 brother and true friend for ever." 



Query, At what time, and with whom did this 

 very common and most unmeaning term In En- 

 glish correspondence have its origin ? W. W. 



Malta. 



Version of a Proverb. — What, and where to be 

 found, is the true version of " Qui facit per alium, 

 facit per se ?" P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A. 



JEIlis Walker. — Can any reader of " K & Q." 

 give any information as to Ellis Walker, who made 

 a Poetical Paraphrase of the Enchiridion of Epic- 

 tetus ? He dedicates It to " his honoured uncle, 

 Mr. Samuel Walker of York," and speaks of hav- 

 ing taken Epictetus for his companion when he 

 fled from the " present troubles in Ireland." My 

 edition is printed In London, 1716, but of what 

 edition is not mentioned; but I presume the work 

 to have been of earlier date, probably In 1690-1, 

 as indeed I find It to have been, by Inserted ad- 

 dresses to the author, of date In the latter year. 

 Any information as to the translator will oblige. 



A. B. R. 



Belmont. 



" The Northerne Castle." — Pepys, in his Diary, 

 14th September, 1667, says, "To the King's 

 playhouse, to see The Northerne Castle, which I 

 think I never did see before." Is anything known 

 of this play and its authorship ? or was it The 



Northern Lass, by Richard Brome, first published 

 In 1632? Perhaps Pepys has quoted the second 

 title of some play. J, Y. 



Prayer-JBook iii French. — Can any of your 

 readers give some satisfactory information re- 

 specting the earliest translations of the English 

 Prayer-Book Into French ? By whom, wlien, for 

 whom, were they first made ? Does any copy 

 still exist of one (which I have seen somewhere 

 alluded to) published before Dean Durel's edi- 

 tions ? By what authority have they been put 

 forth ? Is there any information to be found col- 

 lected by any writer on this subject ? O. W. J. 



'■^Navita Erythrceum" 8fc. — Running the risk 

 of being smiled at for my Ignorance, I wish to 

 have a reference to the following lines : 



" Navita Erythraeum pavidus qui navigat aquor. 

 In prorae et puppis summo resonantia pendet 

 Tintinnabula ; eo sonitu praegrandia Cete, 

 Balenas, et monstra marina a navibus arcet," 



II. T. Ellacombe. 



Edmund Burke. — Can any of your correspon- 

 dents tell me when and where he was married ? 



B. E. B. 



Plan of London. — Is there any good plan of 

 London, showing Its present extent? The answer 

 Is, None. What Is more, there never was a decent 

 plan of this vast metropolis. There Is published 

 occasionally, on a small sheet of paper, a wretched 

 and disgraceful pretence to one, bedaubed with 

 paint. Can you explain the cause of this ? Every 

 other capital In Europe has handsome plans, easy 

 to be obtained : nay more, almost every provincial 

 town, whether In this country or on the Continent, 

 possesses better engraved and more accurate plans 

 than this great capital can pretend to. Try and 

 use your influence to get this defect supplied. 



L. S. W. 



Minchin. — Could any of your Irish correspon- 

 dents give me any information with regard to the 

 sons of Col. Thomas Walcot (c. 1683), or the 

 families of Minchin and Fitzgerald, co. TIpperary, 

 he would much oblige GO. 



Leapors " Unhappy Father." — Can you tell 

 me where the scene of this play, a tragedy by 

 Mary Leapor, is laid, and the names of the dra- 

 matis personcB ? It Is to be found In the second 

 volume of Poems, by Mary Leapor, 8vo. 1751. 

 This authoress was the daughter of a gardener in 

 Northamptonshire, and the only education she 

 received consisted In being taught reading and 

 writing. She was born in 1722, and died in 1746, 

 at the early age of twenty-four. Her poetical 



