extinct Earls of Sussex. This lady was mother of the first Duke of Manchester by her first husband, who was grandson of the first Earl by his first wife Catherine, daughter of Sir Wm. Spencer, and the Earl of Halifax was also grandson by his third wife Margaret, daughter of John Crouch, Esq., and widow of John Hare, Esq. HENRY W. S. TAYLOR. ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF CICERO (2nd S. x. 347.)-The work entitled "Cato Major," called by the Querist" a translation of Cicero de Senectute, in verse, printed in 1725," is styled in the title "a Poem upon the model of Tully's Essay on Old Age;" and in the Preface a" kind of Paraphrase" of that piece. Its author was, as stated in the title-page, SAMUEL CATHERALL, M.A., Fellow of Oriel College in Oxford, and Prebendary of Wells." It is a curious performance, thrown somewhat into a dramatic form, in blank verse; its matter professedly drawn from other classical sources besides Cicero. In point of execution it seems not destitute of merit, considering the strange and unpoetical nature of the undertaking. In his preface the author refers to a metrical translation of the above piece by Sir John Denham, whom he censures as falling below the spirit [and no wonder] of the Roman orator, in his English metre." Bath. 66 F. K. THE FIRST FREE SETTLER IN NEW SOUTH WALES (2nd S. viii. 294.)-The reference made above to Geo. Barrington's History of New South Wales, induces me to quote from the same curious work an allusion which, at this time of day, may be worthy of recording in your pages:-"In the course of this month," says the light-fingered historian, viz. Feb. 1791, just three years after the landing of Governor Phillip, "the first settler, James Ruse, after having been fifteen months on his ground, became desirous of giving up all claim on the public stores, as he found he could live on the produce of his farm" (p. 96.). It is afterwards said (p. 107.): "The Governor, in July (1792), pardoned Elizabeth Perry, who came over in 1790; as James Ruse, a settler, had married her, which, with her own prudent conduct, added to her husband's industry, procured this kindness from the Governor." One other reference is made to this first settler (p. 126.), where it is recorded: "Ruse, the first settler, and one Williams, having imprudently sold their farms and spent the money they produced, gained permission to begin new ones, about twenty-four miles from Paramatta, with some others who were about settling." Jos. G. When Edward VI. BLONDIN OUTDONE (2nd S. x. 406.)—One, and perhaps not the least surprising, of the feats performed by the Turk seen by Evelyn in 1657 query, at Bartholomew Fair ?) was, even at that passed through London the day before his corotime, not unprecedented. nation (19th February, 1546-7) a Spaniard descended on a rope stretched from the battlements of St. Paul's steeple and fastened to an anchor near the gate of the Deanery; " lying on the rope with his head forward, casting his arms and legs abroad, running on his breast on the rope from the battlements to the ground, as if it had been an arrow out of a bow." The same exploit was repeated on the entry of Philip and Mary into London after their marriage (19 August, 1554) at the same place, or, according to one authority," from the chapter-howse." The performer on the last occasion soon afterwards met with the too common fate of such persons, and paid with his life for his foolish temerity. The Turk had a successor as well as these his predecessors, a man having, about 1750, performed a similar feat in different places in the country, amongst them Hertford, where his " rope was stretched from the top of the tower of All Saints' Church, and brought obliquely to the ground about fourscore yards from the bottom of the tower. See Nichols's London Pageants, 8vo. 1831; Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London (Camden Society), 4to. 1852; and Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, in which latter work many other feats of rope dancers' dexterity are mentioned. W. H. HUSK. CONFESSIONS IN VERSE (2nd S. x. 108. 155. 218. 433.) - The Newry Saddler's patibulary death-chant, tempore Mr. Justice Fielding, who flourished more than a century ago, had probably been the sessional apotheosis of Jack Sheppard and of Jonathan Wild; or of those yet earlier heroes, Dick (not Archbishop) Turpin, and Claude Duval. There were ready rhymers in those days; keeping in hand a regular supply of natal, nuptial, and threnodial poetry, fitted, mutatis mutandis, for every occasion. Catnachian Calliope! "At seventeen I took a wife, And lov'd her dearly as I did my life; And to maintain her both fine and gay, Dukes, Lords, and Earls I made to pay." Alas! hoc fonte derivata clades. OLD MEM. MARCHIONESS OF NORTHAMPTON (2nd S. x. 386.) The lady spoken of by Guillim as the daughter of the Lord de Wolfo of Swesia, is described by Dugdale in his Baronage (vol. ii. p. 382.) as "Helen, daughter of Wolfangus Suavenburgh, born in Sweden." She was the third wife of William Parr, Marquis of Northampton, who died without issue in 1571. After his death, she was married to Sir Thomas Gorge, of Longford, in com. Wilts, Knight, and having many children by him, died in April, 1635. P. S. C. • CURIOUS REMAINS IN NORWICH (2nd S. x. 446.) -MR. D'AVENEY does not seem aware that the subject of these jars or urns was discussed in previous numbers of "N. & Q." three years after the discovery of them in the church of St. Peter's Mancroft, which happened in November, 1851. In "N. & Q." (1st S. x. 386.) appeared an interesting communication from a frequent correspondent, MR. EDWARD PEACOCK, describing a similar jar discovered under the now destroyed choir screen of Fountains Abbey, which contained a considerable quantity of what resembled burnt wood. MR. PEACOCK gave also an interesting extract from the Illustrated News, stating that such jars had been found imbedded in the base of a screen in the nave of the same Abbey. They were laid on their sides, with their mouths protruding from the wall, like the guns of a ship. This led me to send a short account, which appeared a fortnight after, at page 434. mentioning the discovery at Norwich, describing one of the jars in my possession, and giving my opinion, grounded on the fact, other such jars having been found with human bones or ashes in them, that these urns were intended to receive the ashes of the heart, or some other human remains. Other communications followed, which will be found in vol. x. p. 516., and in 1st S. vol. xi. at pp. 75. 152. 233. 275. and 315., including two more from the present writer. Perhaps when he has read all these, MR. D'AVENEY may think that the question has been pretty well discussed, if not settled. I can only say that I have seen no reason since to change my own opinion. F. C. H. PARAPHERNALIA (2nd S. x. 438. 482.) - Unless there were some special precedent to the contrary, I should say that a woman's bed did not strictly belong to the catalogue of her paraphernalia. Before she is married, and whilst she is under her father's roof, the bed she sleeps in is his, as being part of the furniture of his house; and when a man marries her, he takes her to his bed. If ever the bed exclusively belonged to her, it would have been in those remote times, when it consisted of only a pallet, or mat, or rug, which, on rising, she could fold up and carry away with her. Since the historical period, beds have not been made to fit particular individuals, as suits of clothes are; but are of sufficiently ample dimensions, wherein to allow the tallest to sprawl, as well as the smallest. And when we go and visit our friends, though we take with us our portmanteau of wearing apparel, we do not take our beds. We make use of our friends' beds for the time being, and when we leave, those beds are at the service of other friends. When an heiress marries, she may take her goods and chattels to her husband; amongst which may be her bed; but this would not bring it within the strict meaning of the word paraphernalia, any more than her piano-forte or her lap-dog. P. HUTCHINSON. HOPPESTERES (2nd S. x. 227.)—The A.-S. dictionaries give, "hoppestere, a female dancer," but I confess that one cannot make out any meaning from the line of Chaucer with this signification of the word. Nor does the suggestion of hoppesteres signifying St. Elmo's fires, make it much clearer. But what I chiefly want to know is, what is T. Q. C.'s authority for the word composants? In Mather's Remarkable Providences (J. Russell Smith's ed.), p. 63., they are called corpusants. 'They beheld three corpusants, as mariners call them, on the yards." I have met with the word composants in Taylor's work on New Zealand in the account of As I can find the Will-o'-the-Wisps there. neither word in any dictionary, I wish to know which is right-corpu or compo-sants. former at least would have an obvious etymology. E. G. R. 66 The PITCHERS' EARS (2nd S. x. 346.) MR. J. G. NICHOLS Speaks of the Oxford mugs having "two ears or spouts." MR. P. S. CAREY (2nd S. x. 475.) correctly says that "the ears of these mugs w Poets' Wit and Humour. Selected by W. H. 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