"The following portion of a Prayer, evidently alluding to his troubles, occurs in one of the volumes bearing date Dec. 31, 1779: 'A thousand years, most adored Creator, are in thy Sight as one Day. So contract in my Sight my Calamities! The Year of Sorrow and Care, of Poverty and Disgrace, of Disappointment and wrong, is now passing on to join the Eternal. Now, O Lord! let, I beseech thee, my Afflictions and Prayers be remembered; my Faults and Follies be forgotten.' 'O! Thou who art the Fountain of Happiness, give me better Submission to thy Decrees, better Disposition to correct my flattering Hopes, better Courage to bear up under my State of Oppression,'" &c. Can any of the reader of "N. & Q." tell me who possesses this? I should very much like to know. H. T. BOBART. Ashby-de-la-Zouch. _Tilly, an Officer of the Courts at Westminster._--What office did one Tilly hold in one of the Courts at Westminster, circa 8 William III.? Was he Warden of the Fleet? What were his connexions by birth and by marriage? Was he dispossessed? and if so, why? J. K. _Mr. Gye._--Who was Mr. Guye, or Gye, who had chambers in the Temple circa 8 Wm. III.? J. K. _Three Fleurs-de-Lys._--Some of your heraldic contributors may perhaps be able to say whether there is any instance of an English coat of arms with three fleurs-de-lys in a line (horizontal), in the upper part of the shield? Such are said to occur in coats of arms of French origin, as in that of the celebrated Du Guesclin, and perhaps in English coats in the form of a _triangle_. But query whether, in any instance, in a horizontal line? DEVONIENSIS. _The Commons of Ireland previous to the Union in 1801._--I have understood there was a work which contained either the memoirs or sketches of the political characters of all the members of the last "Commons of Ireland;" and I have heard it was written by a Rev. Dr. Scott of, I believe, Trinity College, Dublin. Can any reader of "N. & Q." inform me if there be such a work? and if there be a biographical account of the author to be met with? C. H. D. "_All Holyday at Peckham._"--Can any of your correspondents inform me what is the origin of the phrase "All holyday at Peckham?"[3] R. W. B. [Footnote 3: [Probably some of our correspondents may know the _origin_ of this phrase; and as many of them, perhaps, are not acquainted with its meaning among the slang literati, we may as well enlighten them with a quotation from the _Lexicon Balatronicum et Macaronicum_ of Master Jon Bee: "_Peckham_, going to dinner. 'All holiday at _Peckham_,' no appetite. _Peckish_, hungry."--ED.]] _Arthur de Vere._--What was the after history of Arthur (Philipson) de Vere, son of John, Earl of Oxford, and hero of Sir Walter Scott's novel {36} _Anne of Geierstein?_ Was Sir Walter Scott justified in saying, "the manners and beauty of Anne of Geierstein attracted as much admiration at the English Court as formerly in the Swiss Chalet?"