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birth and death of this early Methodist. All the 

 notes that I have of him is, that he was one of the 

 early preachers at the Tabernacle and Lorimer's 

 Hall. By his various tracts it would appear that 

 he was of considerable note. In the year 1742, 

 he published a small Hymn Book, which reached 

 the fourth edition. Daniel Sedgwick. 



Sun Street, City. 



Motto for a Village School. — An appro- 

 priate one in English will oblige a 



Countey Rector. 



Benjamin Loveling, of Lincoln College, Ox- 

 ford, BA. 21st April, 1694, and of Clare Hall, 

 Cambridge, M.A. 1697, was vicar of Banbury, 

 which benefice he resigned in or before 1717. He 

 was subsequently vicar of Lambourn, in Berkshire. 

 We desire to know the date of his death, and 

 whether he was the Mr. Loveling, author of Latin 

 and English Poems, London, 4to., 1738. 



C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Sylvester, etc — The Rev. J. Eastwood 

 would be most thankful for information on the 

 following points, for a work almost ready to go to 

 press : — 



Who was Edward Sylvester of the Tower of 

 London, Esq., who conveyed certain lands at 

 Womersley, in Yorkshire, April 21, 1693 ? There 

 was a John Silvester, smith to the Tower of Lon- 

 don, who died in 1722, aged seventy; and his heir 

 was the Rev. Edward Silvester, who would be 

 only two years old at the date of the conveyance 

 referred to, for he died in 1727, aged thirty-six 

 years ? Had Sir William Cotton of Oxenheath, 

 co. Kent, a son named John, who received a grant 

 of chantry lands from Edw. VI., " in considera- 

 tion of his good and faithful service heretofore 

 done to our late noble father" ? Was he the same 

 as John Cotton, who, with sixty-three other gen- 

 tlemen, was knighted by Queen Marv, 2nd Oct. 

 1553? 



Sir Peter Carew. — Did John Vowel alias 

 Hooker write another work upon the life of Sir 

 Peter Carew ? As I have seen another MS. en- 

 titled, " A Branch of S r Peter Carew his Life 

 extracted out of a Discourse written by John 

 Hooker, Gent, in An° 1575." This diners from 

 that published by Maclean (London, 8vo. 1857). 

 By way of example take the speech of Sir Henry 

 Sidney uttered at the interment : — 



" For as Sir Henry Sidney,' the Lord Deputy, when he 

 saw his corpse put into the grave, said: ' Here lieth now 

 in his la*t rest a most worthy and noble gentle knight, 

 whose faith to his prince wag never j-et stained, his truth 

 to his country never spotted, and his valiantness in ser- 

 vice never doubted— a better subject the prince never 



had.*" — Maclean. 



" When y° body was put in y« ground, S r Henry Syd- 

 ney, I/' Deputy, who had knowne him from his childhood, 



w" 1 eyes full of teares uttered these speeches : ' There 

 lyeth now in his last rest a most noble and honourable 

 K\ whose fayth to his prince was never yet stained, his 

 troth to his cuntry never spotted, his valour never 

 daunted,— a liberal!, a just, and religious gentleman.'" — 

 MS. 



Abracadabra. 

 The Word " Quarter." — In the witches' song 

 from Ben Jonson's Masque of Quens (a.d. 1609) 

 occur the following lines : — 



" I have been all day looking after 

 A raven feeding upon a quarter." 



"Quarter," in this connexion, is, I presume, 

 equivalent to field or cultivated enclosure ? 



If this is the true meaning, it explains a local 

 termination which is rather obscure. For ex- 

 ample, Swintonquarter (in Berwickshire), on this 

 supposition, means the farm or fields belonging to 

 the estate of Swinton. 



Used as a local termination, is it known in other 

 parts of the kingdom ? a. 



Charles Kirkham, created M.A. at Cambridge, 

 1689, was author of Philanglus and Astrea, or the 

 Loyal Poem Stamford (privately printed), fol., 

 1712. He occurs about 1724, as living at Fin- 

 shed in Northamptonshire, being the owner of the 

 site of the priory there. We hope to be furnished 

 with other particulars respecting him, and the 

 date of his death. C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



The Mosrc of "The Twa Corbies."*— Those 

 of your readers who love our old national poetry 

 will doubtless be acquainted with this fine old 

 ballad, which is to be found in Sir Walter Scott's 

 Border Minstrelsy, vol. ii. p. 359. 



The object of my present Query is to discover 

 if the music to which it is sung is to be found in 

 any collection of Scottish airs ? 



Recently, when on an angling excursion to Lid- 

 desdale (the locality whence Scott obtained so 

 many of the ballads he has preserved in the Min- 

 strelsy), I enjoyed for one night the hospitality of 

 a worthy store farmer, who entertained me with 

 a kindness which showed that the far-famed hos- 

 pitality of Liddesdale had in no way degenerated 

 from that exercised of yore by honest Dandy 

 Dinmont of Charlieshope. During the course of 

 the evening my host enlivened the absorption of 

 our "toddy" by singing the above-mentioned 

 ballad to an air at once so wild and pathetic, and 

 so well suited to the exquisite pathos of the words, 

 that I took the first opportunity of noting it 

 down. He had picked it up, he informed me, in 

 his childhood from the farm servants, among whom 

 the old ballads were formerly much more sung 

 than now. 



As I think this is an air of much greater beauty 

 than many of the Scottish tunes to be found in 



* The Two Ravens. 



