—It is by Smythe, the member for Canterbury, and was published in his Historic Fancies.
R. D. H.
House at Welling (Vol. iv., p. 502.).
—Your correspondent appears to have made a confusion between Welling in Kent and Welwyn in Herts. Of this latter place Young, the author of the Night Thoughts, was rector, and the house in which he resided is now standing.
A. W. H.
Pharetram de Tutesbit (Vol. iv., p. 316.).
—Pharetram de Tutesbit must be a quiver manufactured by a person of the name of Tutesbit. This indeed is conjecture, as I have not been able to find any allusion to the word; but it does not appear that there is any place of that name.
Flectatas sagittas may be translated arrows ready dressed, or fletched. A flecher is one who fashions and prepares arrows; hence the common use of the word as a proper name now-a-days.
H. G. R.
Preston.