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This poem is printed on p. 25 et seq. in
4 Australian Poets, 1788-1888,' edited by
Douglas B. W. Sladen, and published in
1888 by Griffith, Farran & Co. Prefixed to
the poem is a note explaining the incorrect
attribution of it to A. Lindsay Gordon, and
further stating that
" its real authorship is well known among students of Australian literature ; and though the author wishes his name not to appear again, the poem is given as finally revised by him for ' Australian Ballads and Rhymes.' "
L. A. W,
Dublin.
- A Voice from the Bush ' will be found
in The Temple Bar Magazine, No. 150, for May, 1873 (vol. xxxviii.'p. 186). R. B. Upton.
The poem * A Voice from the Bush ' was written by Mr. Douglas B. W. Sladen, though it has been printed among Adam Lindsay Oordon's poems. In 1888 it appeared in a corrected form, revised by the author, in the " Canterbury Poets " series, * Australian Ballads and Rhymes,' London, Walter Scott, pp. 1-5. The Table of Contents in that volume attributes the authorship to Mr. Sladen, who, though the editor of the collection, had not chosen to reveal himself.
W. SCOTT.
[In the fourth edition of * Australian Ballads and Rhymes,' edited by Mr. Sladen, the authority cited in the Contents for the poem is Temple Bar. In ' A Century of Australian Song,' also edited by Mr. Sladen and published by Walter Scott, the poem is entered in the Contents as " Anonymous, South Australia," and the South Australian Register is given as the authority.
MR. PERCY ADDLESHAW, S. J. A. F., J. H. K., OLD SARUM, and C. L. S. also thanked for replies.]
JEREMY SMITH, 1666 (US. iii. 70). In the 4 Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, June, 1660,' is a grant to Jeremiah Smith of the office of Keeper of Battles Walk, Windsor Forest. This Walk does not appear in Norden's map of the Forest. I have not at hand the works of either Hughes or Menzies on the Forest ; they might give some in- formation. FREDERIC TURNER.
CHERTSEY CARTULARIES (US. iii. 70). G. A. K. will find that neither the Lansdowne MSS. 434-5 at the B.M. nor the "Ex- chequer Leiger" at the P.R.O. have been printed. Here is a good opportunity for one of those people who have a difficulty in dis- posing of their millions to do, or cause to be done, some useful and interesting work. At the beginning of Lansdowne MS. 435 is a
portion of a fourteenth-century survey of
Egham undertaken by John de Rutherwyk,
Abbot of Chertsey ; it is a portion of a com-
plete survey of the possessions of the abbey.
This fragment I hope to publish myself
before long. FREDERIC TURNER.
Egham.
SIR JOHN CHANDOS (US. iii. 25). In ' Le Prince Noir Po6me du Herault d'Armes Chandos,' edited by Francisque-Michel, London and Paris, 1883, is a note, p. 304, which says that Sir John Chandos,
" son of Sir Edward Chandos, in the words of Du Guesclin * the most illustrious knight in the world,' served in the campaigns of 1339, was present at Crecy, Poitiers, Najera, and fell at the bridge of
Lussac, 31 December, 1369 He was one of the
founders of the Garter, and his plate is still remaining in the stall he formerly occupied in St George's Chapel."
There is the following foot-note t
"See Luce's Froissart, t. iv. p. 91. 324, and p. 322 ; and t. v. p. 28, 381. In Rymer's * Fojdera,' vol. iii. p. 343, is a deed of gift of two parts of the manor of Kirkeld in Lindsay to Sir John Chandos, for his good service at the Battle of Poitiers.
" There is a paper by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick in the Archceologia, vol. xv. pp. 484-495, and a more valuable one by Benjamin Fillon (Londres et Fontenay, 1856, 8vo. magno, 35 pages), which is illustrated by the signature and handwriting of Chandos, the signet of the Black Prince and James Audley, the seals of John de Creswell, Hugh de Calviley, Hugh and Geffrey Worresley, Robert Knolles and Thomas Percy, whose signature is given as that of John de Harpeden.
" At the beginning of this century, the name of Chandos was recalled on the occasion of a law suit, which made a great noise and gave rise to Sir Egerton Brydges's papers (1822 fol.), and 'Chandos Family' (30 pages, 4to, no title. Reprinted from the ' introduction to Sudeley Castle *) ; to George Frederick Beltz's ' Chandos Peerage Case ' (London, 1834, 8vo) ; and to ' A Letter in a statement relative to the Barony of Chandos,' in the * Synopsis of the Peerage of England,' by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, London, 1841, pp. 14, 12mo."
The stall plate of Sir John Chandos appears on plate iv. in ' The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter, 1348-1485,' by W. H. St. John Hope, 1901. It is
" now in the twenty-first stall, on the south side of the quire. A cut-out plate, in admirable preserva- tion, representing the shield of arms, gold a pile aides, with silver helm, garnished gold, and covered by a red mantling with gold branches on the slittered ends and lined ermine. The crest, which rises directly from the helm without any torse, is a man's head silver icith sable hair and beard and a fillet vert. On a gilt scroll attached to the lower margin is inscribed
- Mons' . John . Chandos : primer fondeur
(Inscription in old English.) "
