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existence, if he looks at the first page of the ninth 
chapter in Physical Geography of the Sea, by 
M. F. Maury. London: Sampson (Low, 1859. 
A most interesting work, not half so well known 
as it deserves to be, and not at all too technical 
and scientific for the general reader. Maury, if 
T am not mistaken, now holds in the government 
of the United States the office of Superintendant 
of the Hydrographic Establishment. 
Henry Kensineron. 
The Spirit Song (2°78. i. 252.) — This song 
was written by Mrs. John Hunter, and may be 
found in Poems by Mrs. John Hunter. London, 
1802. J.K. R. W. 
Stratford Baron Baltinglass (2"° S. i. 234.) — 
Robert Stratford, who settled in Ireland in 1660, 
and who was grandfather of Baron Baltinglass, 
the first Earl of Aldborough, was the third son of 
Edward Stratford, of Nuneaton, co. Warwick, by 
his wife Grace, daughter of William Pargiter, of 
Gretworth, Esq. This Edward was the eldest 
son of John Stratford, of Nuneaton and Ansley, 
who died in i625 or 1626. 
I shall be glad if any of your readers will 
kindly give me the following information, or refer 
me to any source from which I can derive it: — 
Who was the wife of John Stratford, and mother 
of Edward Stratford? Also, who were the father 
and grandfather of John Stratford, and what were 
their wives’ names? I believe John Stratford to 
have been descended from a younger son of John 
Stratford, of Farmcote, co. Gloucester, of whose 
family some accounts are to be found in the Glou- 
cestershire county histories. At the Heralds’ Of- 
fice I can find no pedigree of the Warwickshire 
Stratfords, tracing them further back than the 
Edward mentioned above. bs I 
Corbet (2° §. i. 253.) — Sir Vincent, husband 
of Viscountess Corbet, was certainly not the son 
of Richard Corbet the bishop. Sir Vincent was 
the head of the principal line of Corbets of More- 
ton Corbet, and son of Sir Andrew, who was the 
son of Sir Vincent, who was the son of Sir An- 
drew, &c. The bishop had no traceable relation- 
ship to them. He was of a Surrey family, and his 
father, Vincent, said to have been the son of a gar- 
dener at Twickenham. He certainly adopted the 
arms of the Shropshire Corbets; and the frequency 
in his family also of the Christian name Vincent, 
which was almost generic in the ancient line, is 
curious. Monson. 
Gatton Park. 
Hours for Marrying (2 S. i. 233.) — Matri- 
mony, by Reynolds’ Constitutions, 1522, ¢. 7., was 
to be celebrated “in the day-time, without 
laughter, scoff, or sport.” By the Canons, c. 62., 
A.D. 1603, a clergyman is to marry “ only between 
the hours of eight and twelve in the forenoon, to 
preclude any indecency or unbecoming levity.” 
This is enforced under penalty of transportation 
for fourteen years by 4 Geo. IV. c. 76. sect. 28. 
It must be remembered that the hour of dinner 
at that period was usually noon. 
Mackenzie Watcort, M.A. 
Sir Stephen Fox (1% §. xi. 325. 395.) — Permit 
me by way of supplement to note a brief sketch 
of this family. 
Sir Stephen Fox was the son of Mr. Wm. Fox, 
of Farley, in the county of Wilts, near Salisbury. 
His mother was the daughter of Thomas Pavey of 
the same county. 
The family of Pavey is not quite extinct, some 
being still resident in the county of Wilts. Sir 
Stephen leaves in his will, among the legacies, 
“to Mr. Thomas Pavey and Mr. James Pavey, 
102. each,” 
These Christian names being still preserved 
among the family I allude to, I think it is not an 
improbable conjecture that they may be lineal 
descendants of Sir Stephen’s maternal grandfather. 
Sir Stephen Fox was born March 27, 1627. His 
father died 1652. He had an elder brother, 
Jobn, who had an estate at Avebury, co. Wilts. 
He married about 1654 Mrs. Eliz. Whittle, dau. 
of Mr. W. Whittle of co. Lancaster. A grant of 
arms was made to him Oct. 30, 1658. A grant of 
arms to Dame Elizabeth, his wife, Sept. 13, 1688. 
Upon this subject his biographer says : 
“As arms are the proper rewards of virtue and in- 
tegrity, it is much more to deserve them from our own 
actions than those of our forefathers (as this lady and her 
renowned husband most assuredly did), than to have them 
transmitted down from others, by the means of a long 
train of ancestors; since this is no more than to make us 
shine with a borrowed light, exclusive of any lustre of 
our own.” 
His second wife was Mrs. Margaret Hope, daugh- 
ter of a clergyman at Grantham, in Lincolnshire. 
He was buried at the church built by him at 
Farley, his birthplace, 1713. Cx. Hopper. 
Black Hole, Calcutta (2"° §. i. 255.) — 
“Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English 
Gentlemen, and others, who were suffocated in the Black 
Hole, Calcutta, on the 20th of June, 1756. By J. Z. Hol- 
well, 1758,” pp. 56., 8yo. 
The above is the title of a little tract that I sold a 
short time since. At the end of it F. will find a 
list of the names of those who survived ; the au- 
thor, I think, being one of them. |W. George. 
Bath Street, Bristol. 
“ Quem Deus vult perdere prius dementat” (1* 8. 
i. 851. 421. 476.3 il. 317.5 vii. 618.5; viii. 73.) — 
The unknown author mentioned by Sophocles as 
the originator of this proverb has not yet been 
pointed out, but I am enabled to supply the desi- 
