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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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The third son named Camber; and to him gave he all 

 Wales. The first country was called in those days Loe- 

 gria. The second, Albania. The third, Cambria." 



Is there any other historical evidence of these 

 statements, or any account of their successors ? 

 It is an interesting inquiry, and may be explained 

 by others. <L G. 



" Robin Fletcher and the Sweet Roode of 

 Chester."— Can you expound to me the mystery 

 of the following expression in Gascoigne's Glasse 

 of Government f It certainly hath a tale ap- 

 pended. 



" So so. They are as much a kynne to the Markgraue 

 as Robyn Fletcher and the sweet roode of Chester." 



G. H. K. 



Descriptive Catalogue. — Can you refer me 

 to any books or papers on the art of forming a 

 descriptive catalogue of a library ? G. II. K. 



Singer's Reprints. — I have picked up a few 

 numbers or volumes of a Series of Select English 

 Poets, printed at the "Chiswick Press," with 

 Prefaces signed S. W. S. (which I take to be the 

 late Mr. Singer). How many were published, 

 and what constitutes a complete set ? S. Wmson. 



Facetia. — Can any of your correspondents 

 say when and how the -words facetia and facetious 

 were first used as a bibliographical term to denote 

 books or prints of a certain description ? Al- 

 though the use has become more common of late 

 years, I trace it back over a century. Anon. 



Coach and Horses. — At Merrion, co. Dublin, 

 there is a " wayside hostelry," called the " Coach 

 and Horses," and on the front of the house is 

 nailed a " sign" representing a mail coach, &c, 

 &c, with a landscape in the background. It is 

 known that this sign has been up for forty years, 

 also that it has not been repainted for at least 

 thirty ; still, though exposed to the weather and 

 sea breeze (the house is not 150 yards from the 

 sen) for so long a time, it is still in remarkably 

 good preservation, though evidently beginning to 

 show symptoms of decay. As it appears to have 

 been executed by an artist far above the ordinary 

 sign-painter, and though recollected for forty 

 years may be still older, it might be worth some 

 resident's while to have it secured from farther 

 decay, and to have its history investigated. Per- 

 haps Abhba might do something in the matter. 



Ctwrm. 



Porth-yr-Aur, Carnarvon. 



Rutherford Family. — I shall feel much 

 obliged if any of your correspondents could re- 

 fer me to a pedigree of the Rutherford family. 



Alpha. 

 Pencil Whiting. — When were black-lead or 

 other such like material first used in writing ? 



S. B. 



" Gr." : "Sammlung." — Some prints in my col- 

 lection, which I purchased at Brussels, have a 

 stamp upon the back, of which I should be glad to 

 know the meaning. Within a circular line rather 

 larger than a shilling are the letters " gr," with 

 a coronet above them, and " Sammlung " below, 

 denoting from whose sammlung or collection they 

 came. N. J. A. 



Martha Gunn. — I have a portrait of Martha 

 Gunn, the Brighton Bather, engraved by W. 

 Nutter, dated June 1st, 1797, and dedicated to 

 the Prince of Wales. She is represented as 

 bathing an infant, whose countenance looks like 

 a portrait also. Will some of the correspond- 

 ents of " N. & Q." be so kind as to inform me if 

 this be the case, and if so, of whom ? Any par- 

 ticulars of Martha Gunn herself would also be 

 acceptable to N. J. A. 



Laurel Berries. — I have heard that in York- 

 shire the berries of the laurel are commonly made 

 into fruit tarts, and eaten without injury. This 

 year promises a very great supply of laurel ber- 

 ries. Any information on this subject will much 

 oblige Ireland. 



Fellowes' " Visit to the Monastery of 

 La Trappe." — In Messrs. Willis and Sotheran's 

 Catalogue of Books for April, the following entry 

 appears : — 

 "343 FELLOWES' Visit to the Monastery of La 

 Trappe, with Notes of a Tour in Le Perche, Nor- 

 mandy, BretRgne, Poitou, Anjou, &c, coloured en- 

 gravings, large PAPER, iinpl. 8vo. morocco, gilt leaves, 

 10s. 6rf. 3818. 



"'Was not the principal incentive to this Journey 

 to ascertain the fate of a Noble fanatic who left the 

 Church of his Fathers for the " Papal Diadem," but 

 being foiled, in despair buried himself in the Monastery 

 of La Trappe, the late Rev. Sir H. T .... y, Bart, of 



T . . . . C . . .11?' "—MS. NOTE. 



To whom is reference made in the foregoing ? 

 and upon what grounds ? Abhba. 



Celtic Surnames. — I shall be glad of a refer- 

 ence to any works on Gaelic and Irish surnames. 



F. S. D. 



Quakers described. — In the current number 

 of the North British Review I read the fol- 

 lowing : — 



" A writer who fortunately is not now so popular as he 

 was formerly, has said with' bitter pungency, ' The Qua- 

 kers pursue the getting of money with a grace as steady 

 as time, and an appetite as keen as death.' " 



Who is the writer thus quoted ? 



A Constant Reader. 



Hymn on Prayer. — Would some of your 

 readers inform me who wrote the Hymn on 

 Prayer, commencing — 



"Go where the morning shineth, 

 Go where the moon is blight." 



'A. R. S. 



