_Traditions of remote Periods through few Links_ (Vol. iv., p. 484.).--One evening, very soon after his accession, George IV. said that he had done that morning an extraordinary thing, namely given (to Lord Moira) _a garter_ which had been but once disposed of since the reign of Charles II. This, considering that men (except in royal cases) never obtain the garter when under age, and seldom till they are somewhat advanced in life, seemed surprising; but his Majesty thus explained it. Charles II. gave the garter to the Duke of Somerset in 1684; the duke died at the end of 1748, and (Frederic, Prince of Wales, being alive) his son, afterwards George III., received, a few days after, the vacant garter as an _ordinary knight_, and though he subsequently became sovereign, he always dated his rank in the Order from 1749; and when George IV. succeeded as sovereign, his own stall, which was in fact that of George III., was filled by Lord Moira. Thus it is certainly true that two knights of the garter occupied the whole period between the reigns of Charles II. and George IV. I may add on this same topic of tradition, that I had a grand-uncle born early in the reign of Queen Anne, who was intimate with Pope, Swift, and Arbuthnot, from 1730 to their respective deaths; he used to tell me anecdotes of their society, about which I was, I dare say, at the age of sixteen or seventeen, old enough to propose _Queries_, but not to make _Notes_, which I much regret. C. _Preservation of Life at Sea._--On the road between Yarmouth and Gorleston is a small obelisk or monument, with a device of a ship in a storm, a rocket with a rope attached just passing over it. The inscription on it may interest some of your readers: "In commemoration of the 12th Feb. 1808, on which DAY, directly eastward of this spot, the FIRST LIFE was saved from SHIPWRECK, by means of a rope attach'd to a shot propelled by the force of gunpowder over the stranded vessel. A method now universally adopted, and to which at least 1000 sailors of different nations owe their preservation. 1842." W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A. _Epigram_--written in consequence of Queen Elizabeth having dined on board Sir Francis Drake's ship, on his return from circumnavigating the globe: "Oh Nature! to old England still Continue these mistakes; Give us for all our _Kings_ such _Queens_, And for our _Dux_ such _Drakes_." CLERICUS (D). Queries. Minor Queries.