her right?
(_Rotul. Original., Record Commission_, pp. 266, 277.) And how came the
Irish title of Baron Welles into the family of Knox?

Again, where can I meet with a song called the Derby Ram, very popular in
my school-boy days, but of which I recollect only one stanza,--

"The man that killed the ram, Sir,
Was up to his knees in blood;
The boy that held the bucket, Sir,
Was carried away in the flood."

I fancy it had an electioneering origin.

H. W.

_Lady Slingsby._--Among many of the plays temp. Car. II. the name of "The
Lady Slingsby" occurs in the list of performers composing the _dramatis
personae_. Who was this Lady Slingsby?

T.

_God save the Queen._--Can any correspondent state the reason of the recent
discontinuance of this brief but solemn and scriptural ejaculation, at the
close of royal proclamations, letters, &c., read during the service of the
Church?

J. H. M.

_Meaning of Steyne--Origin of Adur._--Can any of your correspondents give
the derivation of the word "Steyne," as used at Brighton, for instance? or
the origin of the name "Adur," a small river running into the sea at
Shoreham?

F.

_Col. Lilburn._--Who was the author of a book called _Lieut.-Colonel John
Lilburn tryed and cast, or his Case and Craft discovered, &c., &c._,
published by authority, 1653?

P. S. W. E.

_French Verses._--Will one of your readers kindly inform me from what
French poet the two following stanzas are taken?

"La Mort a des rigueurs a nulle autre pareilles.
On a beau la prier,
La cruelle, qu'elle est, se bouche les oreilles,
Et nous laisse crier.

"Le pauvre en sa cabane, que le chaume couvre,
Est sujet a ses lois;
Et la garde qui veille aux barrieres du Louvre
N'en defend pas les rois."

E. R. C. B.

_Our World._--I once heard a lady repeat the following pithy lines, and
shall be glad if any of your readers can tell me who is the author, and
where they first appeared,

"'Tis a very good world to live in--
To lend, and to spend, and to give in;
But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for one's own,
'Tis the very worst world that ever was known."

D. V. S.

Home, April 29.

_Porson's Imposition._--When Porson was at Cambridge, his tutor lent him a
pound to buy books, which he spent in getting drunk at a {72} tavern. The
tutor set him an imposition, which he made to consist in a dog-Greek poem,
giving an account of the affair. These were the three first