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“Tf, however, the painting is considered to be anterior 
in time to the inscription on the wainscot,— and such 
really appears to be the case from the style of the wainscot, 
—then it may be connected with the possibility of the 
Court of the Marches of Wales, over which Mary presided 
in 1525, with the title of ‘Princess of Wales,’ having 
been held here, since the Council House, where the Court 
usually sat afterwards, was not built till 1530; or it may 
be the memorial of an unrecorded visit of Queen Mary to 
our town; or the residence of one of her household, or of 
some member of the Council, amongst both of whom were 
many Cambrian names, and the following: — Ap. Rice, 
Baldwyn, Basset, Bromley, Burnell, Burton, Cotton, Dod, 
Egerton, Pigot, Rocke, Sydnour, Salter, more or less 
connected with Shrewsbury; or it may have been the 
mansion of one of the many Welsh families of distinction, 
with whom Mary formed an intimacy during her resi- 
dence in the Marches; or, as the crest of the Rocke 
family still remains on the leaden water-piping, and who 
in later times are remembered to have resided therein, it 
may have been the mansion of Anthony Rocke, who was 
a servant of Queen Katherine, and a legatee in her will to 
the amount of 20/.; and-of whom the Princess Mary thus 
writes in one of her letters :— ‘For although he be not 
my servant, yet because he was my mother’s, and is an 
honest man, as I think, 1 do love him well, and would do 
him good.’ 
“Which of these guesses may be the true solution, we 
are unable at present to decide.” 
Can any of the readers of “ N. & Q.” throw any 
light upon it ? Prior Roserr or Saxor. 
BARBORS OF BARNSTAPLE. 
I shall feel greatly obliged to any reader of 
“'N. & Q.” who can and will kindly afford me in- 
formation of the Barbors of Barnstaple, North 
Devon, an Esculapian family, which produced 
three generations of physicians, all of whom prac- 
tised their faculty with distinguished reputation 
in that town. 
1. William Barbor, the first of the family of 
whom I am anxious for particulars, settled at 
Barnstaple as a physician in the seventeenth cen- 
tury, and married the heiress of Pointz, of North- 
cote in Bittadon. Vide Lysons’s Magna Bri- 
tannia. 
2. William Barbor, a son of the above, was born 
about the year 1700. He was educated at the 
Grammar School of Barnstaple during the Master- 
ship of Mr. Luck; was entered at Caius College, 
Cambridge, March 19, 1718, proceeded M.B. 
1723, M.D. 1735, and settling in his native town, 
practised there for many years. He had at least 
two sons, the elder, William, to be presently men- 
tioned, and John, a younger son, born in 1727, 
and matriculated at Caius College in 1745. 
3. William Barbor, M.B. He was the son of 
the preceding, was born at Barnstaple in or about 
1724, was for six years at the Grammar School 
under Mr. Luck, and in June, 1741, was entered 
at Caius College. He took his degree of M.B. at 
Cambridge in 1746, settled at Barnstaple as a 
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physician, and married the coheiress of Acland, of 
Fremington. His son, Arthur Acland Barbor, 
was entered at Caius in 1771, took the two de- 
grees in arts, and was elected a fellow of that 
college. 
Monuments to the memory of these physicians 
may probably exist in Barnstaple, Fremineton, or 
some of the adjacent churches. If this be the case, 
I should be grateful to any of your correspondents 
for a transcript of the inscriptions they present. 
The parochial registers of Barnstaple and Fre- 
mington would doubtless supply some information. 
I have searched Gribble’s Memorials of Barn- 
staple, 8vo., 1830, without finding any mention of 
the Barbors; and the present representative of 
the family, the possessor of the Fremington es- 
tates, courteously informs me that his papers 
throw no light on the object I have in view, the 
history of the physicians of Devon. 
W. Monk, M.D. 
Finsbury Place. 
Pinar Queries, 
Matthew Robinson.—In an unpublished auto- 
biography of Matthew Robinson, vicar of Burnis- 
ton, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, 
and founder of a charity in that parish, there is a 
large account of “ Annotations on the Bible,” 
which he composed when suffering from an incur- 
able malady. The Annotations on the New Testa- 
ment, in 2 vols. folio, are now in the possession of 
the Rev. Dr. Jackson, of the Wesleyan College, 
Richmond, who purchased them some years since 
from Mr. Brown, of Old Street. Can any reader 
help me to find the former part of the commen- 
tary? ‘The same Robinson published A Treatise 
of Faith, by a Dying Divine, 8vo. This is men- 
tioned in Thoresby’s Diary (Sept. 27, 1694) ; but 
Ihave not met with it, and shall be thankful to 
any one who can procure me a sight of it. As the 
Life, with the exception of the Appendix, is al- 
ready in type, I must add—‘“ Bis dat qui cito 
dat.” 
“ Moveor immotus.” JI have endeavoured, in 
vain, to find a confirmation of Robinson’s words : 
“So that his motto might have been that about 
the mariner’s compass —‘ Moveor immotus.’” 
Books of emblems, and treatises on the compass, 
give no help: so that, unless some of your readers 
have been more fortunate, I fear that the state- 
ment must go forth on Robinson’s sole authority. 
J. E. B. Mayor. 
Cambridge. 
Collins’s “ Ode to Evening.” —A writer in The 
Atheneum of January 5, 1856, in a review of 
Mr. Gilfillan’s edition of the Poetical Works of 
Collins and Warton, proposes to adopt some varia- 
tions in Collins’s Ode to Evening, on the authority 
