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bark of every senseless tree engraves the tenor of his 
hapless hope. Now when he’s at Venus’ altar at his 
orisons, I’ll put me on my great carnation nose, and wrap 
me in a rowsing calf-skin suit, and come like some hob- | 
goblin, or some devil ascended from the grisly pit of hell; 
and like a scarbabe make him take his legs: I'll play the | i 
_nal grandfather of Henry Fielding the novelist, 
devil, I warrant ye.” 
We subjoin the inscription on R. Scarlet, who was 
formerly sexton of Peterborough Cathedral : 
“ You see old Scarlet’s picture stand on high, 
But at your feet there doth his body lye. 
His gravestone doth his age and death-time show, 
His office by these tokens you may know: 
Second to none for strength, and sturdie limme, 
A scarbabe mighty voice, with visage grimm ; 
He had interr’d two queens within this place ;' 
And this town’s housholders in his live’s space 
Twice over; but at length his own turn came, 
What he for others did, for him the same * 
Was done: no doubt his soul doth live for ay 
In heaven, though here his body clad in clay.” 
Upon a square freestone on the ground below: 
“TVLY 2. 1594. 
R. 8. 
Atatis 98.” 
See Bridges’s Northamptonshire, ii. 567. ] 
Fraternitas Divi Nicolai. — A fragment of En- 
glish Missal (MS.) has just come into my posses- 
sion, at the end of which is a list of the members 
of a certain society in London, about which I 
should be very glad to get some information ; the 
title runs thus: 
“ Nomina subsequuntur Fratrum et Sororum Fraterni- 
tatis Divi Nicolai nuper admissorum, viz. Ricardus Lye 
de parochia Sanctze Magne at London Bryge, et Robartus 
Smyth de paroch. Sancti Olavi in Sowthwarke, memo- 
rate fraternitatis magistrorum. Anno a natale Cristiano 
M’*cecce!xxim.” 
Then follow names of canons, priests, ‘uxores 
clerici, laici; and among others, nomina uxorum 
clericorum. J.C. J. 
[This society was the Guild or Fraternity of Clerks, 
commonly called “The Company of Parish Clerks,” in- 
corporated by Henry III., and formerly known by the 
name of the Fraternity of St. Nicholas, whose hall was 
near Little St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate, where they had seven 
almshouses for poor clerks’ widows. ‘ Unto this frater- 
nity men and women of the first quality, ecclesiastical 
and others, joined themselves; who, as they were great 
loyers of church music in general, so their beneficence 
unto parish clerks in particular is abundantly evident by 
some ancient MSS. at their common hall in Great Wood 
Street. Charles I. renewed their charter, and incorporated 
them under the name of ‘ Master, Wardens, and I’ellow- 
ship of Parish Church Clerks of London, Westminster, 
Southwark, and the fifteen out-parishes.’” — Strype’s 
Stow, book v. p, 231.) 
Sir William Herschell.—Was any portrait of 
this philosopher been published ? — if so, where ? 
W. MC. 
(Sir William Herschell’s portrait will be found in Zuro- 
pean Magazine, Jan. 1785; Philosophical Transactions, 
vol. Ixxv. pt. i.; Pictorial History of England, yol. v. 
Pp. 622.5 vol. ix. p. 703. ] 
Sir Henry Gould, Knt.— There is a portrait, 
engraved in mezzotinto by T. Hardy, published 
in 1794, of the above-named knight, aged eighty- 
five, and in his robes as one of the justices of the 
court of Common Pleas. I believe he was mater- 
and belonged to the family settled at Sharpham 
Park, Glastonbury, Somersetshire. What are the 
arms of that family ? 
I beg to ask whether there was not another 
person of the same name and family of Gould, who 
was also a justice of the court of Common Pleas? 
and in what year he died? and whether any pic- 
ture or engraved likeness of him is known to 
exist ? T. E. 
Kent. 
[Sir Henry Gould of Sharpham Park, one of the jus- 
tices of the court of Common Pleas, died March 5, 1794. 
His arms are, Azure, a lion rampant or, between three 
scrolls argent. His daughter Sarah married Edmund 
Fielding, Esq., Lieut.-General, and father of Henry Field- 
ing, novelist. The pedigree of Sir Henry Gould is given 
in Phelps’s Somersetshire, vol. i. p. 564., and an account of 
his death in the Gentleman’s Mag., vol. |xiv. pt. i. p. 283. 
There was another Sir Henry Gould, appointed Puisne 
Judge of the King’s Bench, Jan. 14, 1699, who died on 
March 26, 1710. | 
Ballad on the Death of Simon de Montfort. — 
I have several times seen quoted the two follow- 
ing lines, as the commencement of a ballad, in 
Norman French, upon the death of Simon de 
Montfort, (I quote from memory) : — 
“Ore est ocys, le fleur de pris, 
Que tant scavoit de guerre, 
Le Comte Montfort, sa dure mort, 
Moult en plorra la terre.” 
Where can I meet with the whole ballad ? 
[The original version of this ballad on the death of 
Simon de Montfort will be found in a manuscript of 
Edward II.’s time in the Harleian Collection, No. 2253, 
and is printed in the second edition of Ritson’s Ancient 
Songs and Ballads, edit. 1829, vol. i. p. 15., with a trans- 
lation by George Ellis, Esq., the ingenious editor of Spe- 
cimens of the Eurly English Poets. The lines quoted by 
J.C. are9to12. ‘The ballad thus commences: 
“ Chaunter mestoit, mon cuer le voit, 
En un dure langage, 
Tut enploraunt fust fet Je chaunt, 
De nostre duz baronage.” ] 
Cat Island. — Can you inform me as to the past 
and present condition of Guanabani, or San Sal- 
vador (S. Saviour’s), one of the Bahama Islands, 
memorable in the world’s history for the landing 
upon it of Christopher Columbus in 1492? Also 
to a history of the Bahamas, which ought to con- 
tain information on so interesting a subject ? 
Aw OccastonaL READER. 
[This island is called by the Indians Guanahani; b 
the Spaniards St. Salvador; and is known to Englis 
seamen as Cat Island (“N. & Q.,” 1S. v. 78.). We be- 
lieve the best account of the Bahamas will be found in 
