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e, he married again "Lady Honora Grey, daughter of Lord Grey de Wilton;" but I scarce think this Lady Anne Grey could have been the maid of honour to the princess. The number of Greys of different stocks and branches at that period, are beyond counting or distinguishing from each other, and yet the fall of a queen's maid of honour should be {608} easily traceable. Isabella Markham, one of the six ladies, married Sir John Harington himself. On referring to Lodge's _Illustrations_, I find the Lord John Grey one of those noblemen appointed to attend Queen Elizabeth on her _entree_ from Hatfield to London on her accession, so that his daughter may well have been one of her maids of honour; yet from comparison of dates I think she can scarce have been the wife of Henry Denny. A. B. R. Belmont. _Sir John Fleming_ (Vol. vii., p. 356.).--If CARET can obtain access to the pedigree of the Flemings of Rydal Hall, Westmoreland, I anticipate he will find that this Sir John was the third son of Sir Michael le Fleming, who came over at the instance of Baldwin, Earl of Flanders, to assist King William in his conquest of England. I may add that the Rydal family, honoured with a baronetcy, Oct. 4, 1704, bear for their arms--"Gules, a fret argent." T. HUGHES. Chester. _Life_ (Vol. vii., p. 429.).--Campbell, in his lines entitled _A Dream_, writes: "Hast thou felt, poor self-deceiver! Life's career so void of pain, As to wish its fitful fever New begun again?" Though everybody knows the line-- "After life's fitful fever he sleeps well"-- I think Campbell might have acknowledged his adoption of the words by marking them, and might have improved his own lines (with all deference be it said) if he had written-- "Hast thou felt, poor self-deceiver! _Thy_ career so void of pain, As to wish 'life's fitful fever' New begun again?" F. JAMES. "I would not live my days over again if I could command them by a wish, for the snares of life are greater than the fears of death." (Penn's father, the Admiral.) Penn himself said, that if he had to live his life over again, he could serve God, his neighbour, and himself better than he had done. Considering the history of the father and son's respective lives (and of those I before alluded to), though the latter's remarks may appear presumptuous, which showed the most _wisdom_ is an open question. Does not H. C. K.'s professional exper
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