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mer or bis works ? I have consulted several com- 

 petent authorities, but, as yet, to little purpose. 

 The line appears to me to be an hexameter verse 

 with the spondee wanting. In its present state it 

 certainly is neither sense nor Latin. 



G. DE Chaville. 

 P.S. The statue came originally from Italy, and 

 ■was lately in the collection of Col. Waugb, of 

 Branksea Island and Castle. 



Dean Swiff s Weekly Rhyme. — The Dean, in a 

 letter to Dr. Thomas Sheridan (Swift's Works, 

 xviii. .370., edit. 1824), dated Sept. 12, 1735, says, 



" Here is a very ingenious observation upon the days 

 of the week, and in rhyme, worth your observation, and 

 very proper for the information of boys and girls, that 

 they may not forget to reckon thera : — 

 Sunday 's a pun day : Thursday 's a cursed day : 



Monday 's a dun day : Friday 's a dry day : 



Tuesday 's a news day ; Saturday 's the latter day." 



Wednesday 's a friend's day : 



Can any of your ingenious correspondents elu- 

 cidate the Dean's diurnal versification ? J. Y. 



Motto on CromwelVs Cannon. — Is there any 

 authority for the statement that Cromwell had 

 some cannon cast with the "legend" — " O Lord 

 open thou our mouths, and they shall speak forth 

 thy praise" ? Este. 



Herbert Family. — In the early part of the last 

 century there were three brothers of the name of 

 Herbert, respectively christened Dennis, Natha- 

 niel, and (I believe) Vincent. They were in 

 some way related to the Earls of Pembroke, whose 

 arms they bore, viz. per pale az. and gu. three 

 lions rampart ar. Dennis and Nathaniel took to 

 the stage ; in consequence of which their other 

 brother, Vincent (?), would not acknowledge them, 

 and they were lost sight of by the family. They 

 were afterwards discovered acting at the theatre 

 at Lynn, co. Norfolk, by Lord Herbert, who hap- 

 pened to be in the boxes, and who shook his cane 

 at them, saying : " You young dogs, we never 

 knew where you were." This Lord Herbert was 

 said to be their cousin. 



Can any of your readers tell meiy— 1. AVhat 

 Lord Herbert is here spoken of? 2. From which 

 Earl of Pembroke were the two brothers Dennis 

 and Nathaniel descended ? 



If none can answer the above questions, per- 

 haps somebody will be able to tell me how I 

 should be most likely to be able to obtain inform- 

 ation on this subject. I can find no mention of 

 their names in the Parish Registers at Lynn. 



Three Mullets. 



De Miseria Curatorum. — Who is the author of 

 a short Lntin epistle in black-letter, entitled De 

 Miseria Curutomni f I purchased it from the 

 valuable stock of Mr. O'Daly, the well-known 

 bookseller of Angleseft Street, Dublin. E). L. A. 



Morland's Pictures. — I have been told that 

 Morland painted eight pictures of the same size, 

 and forming a set, on the sports of children. 

 "Blind Man's Buff," "The Little Soldiers," "The 

 Little Mariners," "Bathing," and "Birdsnesting" 

 were the subjects of some. Is it known where 

 these paintings are ? and have they ever been en- 

 graved ? Stylites. 



Biast. — In Kent when a temporary bed is made 

 up on a floor of shawls, &c. in which to place a 

 baby, or when the hop-pickers make a sort of 

 nest of straw to sleep upon, it is called a biast or 

 hyast. What is the derivation of the word ? 



A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



Hatton of Long Stanton. — Who now represents 

 the family of Hatton of Long Stanton, Cambridge- 

 shire ? Constant Keadek. 



Hebrew Pentateuch. — When and where was the 

 following edition printed, and is it at all common ? 

 It consists of fols. 162., is printed in double co- 

 lumns, with points, and has a commentary at the 

 top and foot of the page, and notes in the margin 

 in the Rabbinical Hebrew character. Exodus be- 

 gins on fol. .35., but the heading, n^CNID "IDD, 

 occurs on the verso of that folio ; and a similar 

 error occurs on the verso of fol. 70., on which 

 Leviticus commences. The title-page is bordered 

 with Joshua i. 8. and Psalm cxix. 18. 



Joseph Rix. 



St. Neot's.' 



Jubilee Medal. — Can you inform me what num- 

 ber of medals were struck " in honour and to the 

 memory of Shakspeare " on the occasion of the 

 jubilee at Stratford in September, 1769 ? 



Charles Wylie. 



Everbrocken Is anything known of Ever- 



brocken, a painter of fruit and flowers, not named 

 in Bryan's Dictionary f Vebna. 



Merrion Graveyard, near Dublin. — Where can 

 I learn any particulars respecting the old grave- 

 yard at Merrion in the county of Dublin ? If 

 consecrated, by whom ? and when ? Interments 

 take place from time to time, and there are several 

 tombstones. There is one of some interest, erected 

 by order of the Earl of Harrington, Commander of 

 the Forces in Ireland, to the memory of a large 

 number of soldiers (chiefly volunteers from the 

 South Mayo Militia into the 18th regiment), who 

 were lost on the night of the 19th of November, 

 1807, (when the "Prince of Wales "packet and the 

 "Rochdale" transport from Dublin were wrecked at 

 Dunleary), and whose bodies, having been washed 

 on the neighbouring shore, were buried in this 

 place. Others were buried at the same time in 

 the churchyard of Monkstown, where a similar 

 stone was erected. Abhba. 



