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now in the possession of the Rev. John Flower, 

 Jun., of Beccles, Suffolk ; having been purchased 

 by him, a few years ago, from the owner of the 

 bouse at Tichfield, in the front of which it had long 

 remained. That house was opposite to an inn, 

 and was, for many years, occupied by the Rev. 

 John Flower, Sen. The bust, though a little 

 damaged, is worthy of the care bestowed upon it 

 by its present possessor. Yet it can scarcely be 

 regarded, in a Suffolk garden, as the right thing 

 in the right place. S. W. Rix. 



Beccles. 



The French Tricolor (2"'' S. vi. 164.) — The 

 origin of the tricolor is an historical fact, to be found 

 in all histories of the Revolution, and had nothing 

 to do either with " the Orleans family" or " heral- 

 dry." In 1789, after the defection of the French 

 Guards, a permanent committee of electors sat at 

 sixty electoral halls, for the purpose of providing 

 arras and provisions for the people. It was de- 

 termined to raise a city guard of 40,000 men, 

 each district to contribute a battalion of 800. The 

 name of the guard was the "Parisian Militia;" 

 their colours the' blue and red of the city mixed 

 with the white of their friends — the Garde Fran- 

 qaise. This Parisian militia became the " National 

 Guard," and their colours the tricolor, from this 

 union or "fraternisation." Andrew Steinmetz. 



The circumstances which led to the adoption of 

 the tricolor by the French were as follows. On 

 the 13th July, 1789, it was decided by the newly- 

 formed National Assembly that the " cockade 

 should be of the colours of the city, viz. blue and 

 red ; " but, as there were also those of the House 

 of Orleans, white, the old colour of France was 

 added on the proposal of M. de Lafayette. "I 

 give you," said he, " a cockade which will go 

 round the world." (^Vide his Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 

 266.) 



On the I7th July, Louis XVI. was obliged to 

 quit Versailles for Paris ; and on arriving there, 

 Bailly, the mayor, on his alighting at the Hotel de 

 Ville, presented to him '■'■the new cockade of the 

 colours of the city luhich had become those of 

 France," and begged him to accept " that distin- 

 guishing symbol of Frenchmen." Whereupon the 

 king put it in his hat, and afterwards, to satisfy 

 the crowd, his majesty appeared at the window 

 with the cockade in his hat, and afterwards pro- 

 ceeded to the Tuilleries. Beli,aisa. 



Works printed by the Stephenses (2°* S. vi. 91.) 

 — Mr. W. C. Staunton will find the account he 

 wishes for in the following work, Annales de I'lm- 

 primnrie des Estienne, ou Histoire de la Famille 

 des Estienne et de ses Editions, par Arit. Aug. 

 Renouard, 2 parties, in 8vo., Paris, 1837-38. Mr. 

 Staunton is totally in error ("N. & Q.," 2"'' S. 

 vi. 158.), when he represents Dr. John Bull of 



Christ Church, Oxford, who took a double-first- 

 class in 1811, as having been sub-librarian of the 

 Bodleian and Regius Professor of Hebrew. J. M. 

 Oxford. 



Dispute between the Abbot of Glaston, Sfc. (2°* 

 S. vi. 107.)— Will Ina kindly tell the readers of 

 " N. & Q." where and how access may be had to 

 the "papers which have fallen into his hands?" 

 and how to reach " the most valuable mine from 

 which future historians, topographers, and anti- 

 quaries will be enabled to extract almost inex- 

 haustible treasures ?" W. T. Ellacombe. 



"Mmodicis, Sfc. (2°"* S. vi. 109.) —Mr. Ward 

 inquires, where is the sentence to be found which 

 was prefixed, in 1741, to the epitaph of the Knight 

 of Kerry : — 



" Iramodicis brevis est aetas, et rara senectus " ? 



It was applied by Cardano, in 1555, to King 

 Edward VI. : — 



" quilm bene dixerat ille — 

 Immodicis brevis est setas et rara senectus," — 



and, after Cardano, several other authors have 

 employed it in reference to the same person. But 

 I cannot answer Mr. Ward's question. J. G. N. 



Hymnology (2"** S. vi. 129.) — Being much in- 

 terested in the hymnology, &c., of the last cen- 

 tury, I venture to express the hope Mr. Bower 

 will continue his Notes on the subject. Is he 

 aware that in an early number of a periodical, 

 called The Excelsior, appeared some remarkably 

 interesting details respecting the well-known, yet 

 variously given hymn : 



" Jerusalem, iny happy home ! " 



tracing it, through many variations and sources, 

 back to Augustine ? 



Another correspondent lately supplied an en- 

 larged form of — 



" Come, thou fount of every blessing," 



attributing it to Lady Huntingdon ; for this it is 

 presumed he had more decided authority than 

 merely finding it in her ladyship's handwriting, as 

 the statement appears. In " N. & Q." (2°* S. vi. 

 116.), a correspondent had negatived the Rev. Mr. 

 Robinson of Cambridge as its author, to whom it 

 has usually been attributed, but did not state his 

 authority for so doing. Can Z. kindly furnish the 

 titles of any other hymns composed by the excellent 

 Countess of Huntingdon. S. M. S. 



I have been somewhat surprised at the un- 

 hesitating manner in which your correspondent Z. 

 assigns the authorship of the hymn, " Come, thou 

 fount of every blessing," to the Countess of Hunt- 

 ingdon. The fourth and fifth verses of that hymn 

 were new to me when I read them in " N. & Q." 

 But the first three verses are, in many hymn- 



