Strange echoes answer to a song of Zion,
Blasted this right hand, if I should forget thee,
Land of my fathers!"
O. T. DOBBIN.
Hull College.
The Tradescants (Vol. iii., p. 469.).
—It is to be hoped that the discovery by C. C. R. of Dr. Ducarel's note may yet lead to the obtaining further information concerning the elder Tradescant. It may go for something to prove beyond doubt that he was nearly connected with the county of Kent, which has not been proved yet. Parkinson says that "he sometimes belonged to ... Salisbury.... And then unto the Right Honorable the Lord Wotton at Canterbury in Kent." See Parkinson's Paradisus Terrestris, p. 152. (This must be the same with DR. RIMBAULT'S Lord Weston, p. 353., which should have been "Wotton.") We may therefore, in the words of Dr. Ducarel's note, "consult (with certainty of finding information concerning the Tradescants) the registers of ——apham, Kent." I should give the preference to any place near Canterbury approaching that name.
It is worth noticing that the deed of gift of John Tradescant (2) to Elias Ashmole was dated in true astrological form, being "December 16, 1657, 5 hor. 30 minutes post merid." See Ashmole's Diary, p. 36.
BLOWEN.