"He betrayed Portsmouth, of which he was governor, to the king, and rendered him many other signal services. He married Mary, one of the daughters of Edward Nevill, vi'th Baron of Abergavenny, and had issue four daughters, and two sons, the eldest of whom, George, was an eminent commander for Charles I., and best _known as 'General Goring_,' and who, after the loss of the crown to his royal master, retired to the Continent, and served with credit as lieutenant-general to the King of Spain. He married Lettice, daughter of Richard Earl of Cork, and died abroad, S.P., in _the lifetime of his father_, who survived till 1662, and was succeeded by _his only remaining son_, Charles Lord Goring, and second Earl of Norwich, with whom, as he left no issue by his wife, daughter of ---- Leman, and widow of Sir Richard Beker, all his honours became extinct in 1672. He was unquestionably the Lord Goring noticed by Pepys as returning to England in 1660, and not the old peer his father, who, if described by any title, would have been styled 'Earl of Norwich.'" BRAYBROOKE. July 1, 1850. [Footnote 2: Let me also correct a misprint. Banks, the author of the _Dormant and Extinct Perrage_, is misprinted Burke.] * * * * * QUERIES JAMES CARKASSE'S LUCIDA INTERVALLA, AN ILLUSTRATION OF PEPYS' DIARY. I met lately with a quarto volume of poems printed at London in 1679, entitled: "_Lucida Intevalla_ containing divers miscellaneous Poems written at Finsbury and Bethlem, by the Doctor's Patient Extraordinary." On the title-page was written in an old hand the native of the "patient extraordinary" and author _James Carkasse_, and that of the "doctor" _Thomas Allen_. A little reading convinced me that the writer was a very fit subject for a lunatic asylum; but at page 5, I met with an allusion to the celebrated Mr. Pepys, which I will beg to quote:-- "Get thee behind me then, dumb devil, begone, The Lord hath eppthatha said to my tongue, Him I must praise who open'd hath my lips, Sent me from Navy, to the Ark, by Pepys; By Mr. Pepys, who hath my rival been For the Duke's[3] favour, more than years thirteen; But I excluded, he high and fortunate, This Secretary I could never mate; {88} But Clerk of th' Acts, if I'm a parson, then I shall prevail, the voice outdoes the pen; Though in a gown, this challenge I may make, And wager win, save if you can, your stake. To th' Admiral I all submit, and vail--" The book from which I extract is _cropped_, so that the last line is illegible. Can the noble editor of Pepys' _Diary_, or any of your readers, inform me who and what was this Mr. James Carkasse? W.B.R. [Footnote 3: The Duke of York, afterwards James II.] * * * * * MINOR QUERIES.