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woman, at her own house, in the said villas^e of I.lan- 

 saiiit ; at either of which places the lavour of your 

 good company on that day wiJl he deemed a peculiar 

 obligation ; and whatever donation you may be pleased 

 to confer on either of us then, will he gratefully re- 

 ceived, and ehcerfully repaid whenever recjuired on a 

 similar occasion, by 



Your humble servants, 

 SiTH Kees, 

 Ann Jenkins. 



" The young man's father and mother, and also the 

 yoimg woman's father and mother, and sister Amy, 

 desire that all gilts of the above nature due to them, 

 may be returned on the same day ; and will be thank- 

 ful for all favour shown the young couple." 



E.H. 



iiltnar caunictf. 



Lord of Belton (Vol. iii., p. 56.). — AVill your cor- 

 respondent MoNKBARNS favour me witli the date 

 of the paper from which he copied the paragraph 

 quoted, and whether it was given as being then in 

 use, or as of ancient date ? 



(Jan any of your readers inform me from what 

 place the Lord of Relton derived his name ? 

 What was his proper name, and who is the present 

 representative of tlie family ? 



Is there any family of the name of Relton now 

 existing in the neighbourhood of Langholme, or 

 in Cumberland or Westmoreland ? 



F. B. Relton. 



Beatrix de Bradney. — In your " Notes and 

 Queries *■ for January 25th, 1851, p. 61., you 

 liave given Sir Henry Chauncy's Observations on 

 Wilfred Entwysel. 



Sir BertLii left a daughter named Lucy, of 

 whom Master Bradene of Northamptonshire is 

 descended. Can F. R. R., or any genealogist, in- 

 form me whether this Master Bradene is descended 

 from Simon de Bradney, one of the Kniglits of the 

 Siiiie for Somersetshire in the year 1346? In 

 Collins's Somersetshire, vol. iii. p. 92., he nientiims : 



" In St. Midiael's Chtirch, Bawdrip, under a large 

 Gothic arch lies the tftigy in armour of Sir Simon de 

 Bradney or Brrdenie. 



" The Manor of Bradnej', in Somersetshire, supposed 

 to liave ended in Beatrix de Bradney, an heiress, and 

 passed with her into other families ; tins Beatrix was 

 living in the forty sixth year of Edward HI." 



Can you inform me whom she married ? About 

 sixty-five years ago it was purchased by the late 

 •Joseph Bradney, Esq., of Ham, near Richmond ; 

 and his second son, the Reverend Joseph Bradney, 

 of Greet, near Tenbury, Shropshire, is the present 

 possessor. Julia R. Bockett. 



Southcute Lodge, near Reading. 



'■^Letters on the British Musexim." — In the year 

 1767 was published by Dodsley a work in 12mo. 



pp.92., with the above titles and at p. 85. is 

 printed "A Pastoral Dialogue," between Celia 

 and Ebroii, beginning, " As Celia rested in the 

 shade," which the author states he "found among 

 the manuscripts." I wish lo kncjw, first, who was 

 the anonymous author ()f these letters ; and, 

 serondly, in what collection of manuscripts this 

 '' Dialogue" is to be found. fi. 



Ballad Editing — The " Outlanflish Knight " 

 (Vol. iii., p. 49.). — I was exceedingly glad to seeJ\Ir. 

 F. Sheldon's "valuable contribution to our stock of 

 ballad literature" in the hands ol'Mr. Rimbault, and 

 thought the treatment it received no better than it 

 deserved. Blackwood, May, 1847, reviewed Mr. 

 Sheldon's book, and pointed out several instances 

 of his "godlathersliip : " among others, his ballad 

 of the " Outlandish Knight," which be obtained 

 fiom "a copy in the possession of a gentleman at 

 Newcastle," was condemned by the reviewer as 

 "a vamped version of the Scotch ballad of ']\Iay 

 Collean.'" It may be as the reviewer states, but 

 the question I would wish answered is one atlect- 

 ing the reviewer himself; for, if I mistake not, 

 the Southron "OutUindish Knight" is the original 

 of "May Collean" itself. I have by me a coj)y, in 

 black letter, of the " Outlandish Knight," English 

 in every respect, and as such diffijring considerably 

 from Mr. Sheldon's border edition, and from "May 

 Collean;" and, with some slight alteiations, the 

 ballad I have is yet popularly known through the 

 midland counties. If any of your corres[)ondents 

 can oblige me with a reference to the first appear- 

 ance of " May Collean," sheet or book, I shall 

 esteem it a favour. Emun. 



Birmingham. 



Latin Epigram on the Duchess of Eboli. — In 

 his cont)Over.-.y with Bowles touching the poetry 

 of Pope, Byron states that it wa.s upon the Prin- 

 cess of Eboli, mistress of Philip II. of Spain, 

 and Mangirow, the minion of Henry III. of 

 France, that the famous Latin epigram, so well 

 known to classic readers, was composed, conclud- 

 ing vk'ith the couplet : 



" Blande puer lumen quod habes concede parenti, 

 Sic tu caecus Amor, sic erlt ilia Venus." 



Can any contributor lo the " Notes and 

 QuLHiEs" suggest what authority his lordship has 

 for his statement ? Many years since, a curious 

 paragraph appeared in one of the public journals, 

 extracted apparently from an historical work, 

 specifying the extraordinary political enibroglios 

 which the one-eyed duchess occasioned, eliciting 

 from one of the statesmen of her times the com- 

 plimentary declaration, that if she had had two 

 eyes instead of only one, she would have set the 

 universe on fire. A reference to this work — I 

 fancy one of Roscoe's — wouhl be of material ser- 

 vice to an historical inquirer. C. R. H. 



