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some arboricultural reader of " N. & Q." favour 

 me with farther information on the subject ? D. 



Baron vox Westerholt. — I shall feel much 

 obliged if some correspondent of " N. & Q.," 

 having access to any work containing the heraldic 

 insignia of Dutch families, will inform me what 

 ■were the armorial bearings of the late Baron von 

 Westerholt, who, about the beginning of the pre- 

 sent century, was a good deal mixed up with re- 

 volutionary politics, and, I think, went to the 

 United States ? Perhaps our constant aud wel- 

 come contributor, J. II. van Lexnep, could an- 

 swer my question ? S. 



Hampton Cocbt Bridge. — Permit me to in- 

 quire relative to the bridge from Hampton Court 

 across the Thames to East Molesey. 1 have seen 

 two engravings of the subject. One which is very 

 rare has four towers in the centre, and very elabo- 

 rate wooden railings, and has underwritten, "Vue 

 du Pont sur la Tamise a Hampton Court," as well 

 as in English. It is represented with seven 

 arches. The other plate is that of a much more 

 simple structure, and there are ten arches. The 

 former is represented in the London Magazine, 

 vol. xxiii. for March, 1754, p. 128. ; and I beg to 

 know, supposing them to be two different edifices, 

 the date when each was erected. A. A. 



Mobe's Dramas. — Tsvo of the Sacred Dramas 

 of Hannah More, Daniel in the Lions Den, and 

 Moses in the Bulrushes, were altered for the stage 

 by a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Don- 

 caster, and performed in that town in 1793. (I 

 think by Tate Wilkinson's company.) What was 

 the name of the gentleman who adapted these 

 dramas for public representation ? X. 



Rodney and Repp el. — 



" What means that thunder in the sky serene, 

 Those bursts of cannon, with the pause between? 

 Hail to the welcome music that I hear, 

 That sweetest music to an English ear [ 

 The grateful sounds proclaim insidious Spain 

 Humbled by Rodney's thunder on the main. 

 Sweet are the notes ! but not, alas, to all — 

 There are whose hearts the lofty sounds appall — 

 The notes, as hated as their parting knell, 

 Strike the mock-patriots like the midnight bell. 



" That burst again ! and let the peal go round — 

 In Richmond's ear it has a dying sound ; 

 Hull Rockingham himself cries out, till hoarse, 

 In haste to Ay, ' A kingdom for a horse ! ' 

 8/teIburne starts back at every cannon's roar, 

 Not Friestly's batten' ever shocked him more; 

 The patriots all in sulky silence fret, 

 Turn pale, and sicken, at the word Gazette. 



"Thanks to thee, Rodney — for, although too brave, 

 You shunned no slwre, you feared no angry wave; 

 Not tamely waiting for approaclting light. 

 You fought it handsomely that very night," &c. 



I forget the rest. The comparison between 

 Rodney and Keppel is continued, to the great dis- 

 advantage of the latter. 



I have the above in MS., in the country, but 

 never saw them in print. They are remarkable 

 as appearing at a time when political satire worth 

 reading was almost entirely engrossed by the 

 Whigs. Who can have been the author ? 



The fight referred to was, I suppose, that be- 

 tween Rodney and Langara, Jan. 16, 1780. 



In the above-mentioned action, six sail of the 

 line, including the admiral's ship, were taken from 

 the Spaniards. (Annual Register.) W. D. 



" Rock or Ages," etc. — Can any of your 

 readers give me any information about the accom- 

 panying Latin version of " Rock of Ages ? " Is it 

 a translation of Toplady's hymn? or did Toplady 

 translate from this ? — 



" Jesu, pro me perforatus, 

 Condar intra Tuuni latus ; 

 Tu per Iympkani profluentem 

 Tu per sanguinem tepenteui 

 In peccata mi redunda, 

 Tolle culpam, sordes munda. 



" Nil in mauu mecum fero, 

 Sed me versus crucem gero ; 

 Vestimenta nudus oro ; 

 Opem debilis imploro; 

 Fontem Christi quajro immundas, 

 Nisi laves, moribundus. 



" Donee vita hos artus regit, 

 Quando nox sepulchro tegit, 

 Mortuo3 cum stare jubes 

 Sedens judex inter nubes, 

 Jesu, pro me perforatus 

 Condar inter Tuum latus." 



May I also ask those of your readers who have 

 any good hymns for Confirmation, Harvest, Em- 

 berdays, Club Sermons, Missionary Sermons, Bap- 

 tisms, Marriages, School-feasts, and such like 

 occasions, to be kind enough to send me copies for 

 an hymn-book I am compiling, in union with 

 many other clergymen, for use in church. 



H. W. Baker. 



Monkland Vicarage, Leominster. 



Archer. — Can any correspondent state where 

 the will of Edward Archer, whose monument 

 (1603) is still in the church of Ofiington, Berks, 

 is to be found ? Also the maiden name of his 

 wife ? Her arms were .... a chevron . . . (no 

 tinctures.) 



I should also be glad to learn where a certain 

 Rev. Edward Archer of "Hinton" died, and 

 where his will is to be found? He lived circa 

 1660-80, and was preferred to the above living at 

 the Restoration. Q. 



Arms, whose ? — H. S. R. has a book in his 

 possession having impressed on the sides the 

 shields mentioned below. Can any reader of " N. 

 & Q." inform him who bore these arms ? Both 

 shields are ducally crowned : that on the front 

 of the book has an eagle displayed, or, impaling 

 an eagle displayed ducally crowned, or ; that on 



