Chapter M: R--Son

_Yankee_ (Vol. vii., p. 103.).--I am afraid MR. BELL'S ingenious speculations must give way to facts. Our transatlantic brethren do _not_, either willingly or unwillingly, adopt _Yankee_ as their "collective name." _Yankee_ was, and is, a name given exclusively to the natives of the New England States, and was never therefore applied, by an American, to the people of New Amsterdam or New York. Here, in England, indeed, we are accustomed to call all Americans _Yankees_; which is about the same thing as to call all Englishmen Devonians or Lancastrians.

Y. A.

_Miniature Ring of Charles I._ (Vol. vi., p. 578.).--One of the four rings inquired for is in the possession of Mrs. Andrew Henderson, of 102. Gloucester Place, Portman Square, formerly Miss Adolphus. It came to her in the female line, through her mother's family. The unfortunate Charles I. presented it to Sir Lionel Walden, on the morning on which he lost his life. It bears (as the other one alluded to in Hulbert's _History of Salop_) a miniature likeness of the king, set in small brilliants. Inside the ring are the words, "Sic transit gloria regum." Mrs. Henderson understood the four rings to have been presented as follows:--Bishop Juxon, Sir Lionel Walden, Colonel Ashburnham, and Herbert his secretary. Which of the four is now in the possession of the Misses Pigott is not mentioned.

ANON.

_Bishop of Ossory--Cardinal's Hat_ (Vol. vii., p. 72.).--A. S. A. is quite correct, that the _hat_ is common to all prelates, and that the distinction is only in the number of the tassels to the hat-strings; but I think he is wrong in attributing the hat to _priors_. I believe it only belonged to _abbots_, who had _black_ hats and tassels; while the colour of the prelatical hats and tassels was green. (See Père Anselme's _Palais d'Honneur_, chap. xxii. and plate.)

C.

_Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter_ (Vol. vii., p. 14.).--Hugh Oldham bore for his arms, Sa. a chevron or, between three owls proper on a chief of the second, three roses gu. (See Isaacke's _Memorials of the City of Exeter_; and also Burke's _Armory_, under the name _Oldom_.) I have endeavoured to find some pedigree or particulars of his family, but as yet without success. The following Notes from what I have collected may, however, assist J. B. in his inquiries. He was of Queen's College, Cambridge, and chaplain to the Countess of Richmond (King Henry VII.'s mother), and by her interest was installed Bp. of Exeter, April 3, 1507. He was a great benefactor to Brazenose College, Oxford, and joint founder (with Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester) of Corpus Christi. He also founded and endowed a school at Manchester, for educating boys in good and useful literature. He died June 25, 1523, under sentence of excommunication, in consequence of an action at law then pending between him and the Abbot of Tavistock; but the Pope's sanction being obtained, he was buried in a chapel built expressly for the purpose, at the upper end of the south aisle of his own cathedral.

J. T--T.

"_Sic transit gloria mundi_" (Vol. vi., pp. 100. 183.).--I have lately found two additional passages, which speak of this line being used at the Pope's inauguration. The first is amongst the writings of Cornelius à Lapide:

"_Datus est mihi stimulus carnis meæ Angelus Satanæ, qui me
colaphizet._" ... "Datus est non a Diabolo sed a Deo; non quod Deus
tentationis sit auctor, sed quia diabolo tentare Paulum parato, id
permisit, idque tantum in specie et materia libidinis ad eum
humiliandum. Ita August. _de Natura et Grat._, c. 27. _Hic monitor_,
ait Hieron., Epist. 25., ad Paulum de obitu Blæsillæ, _Paulo datus est,
ad premendam superbiam, uti in curru triumphali triumphanti datur
Monitor suggerens: hominem te esse memento_. Uti et Pontifici cum
inauguratur, stupa accensa et mox extincta accinitur:

"Pater sancte sic transit gloria mundi."

_Commentaria_ in 2nd. Epist. ad Cor. cap. xii. 7.
vol. ix. p. 404.: Antwerpiæ, 1705, fol.

The second passage is merely a repetition of the above-quoted words of A Lapide, but I may as well subjoin a reference to it: Ursini _Paralipomena_, lib. ii., Meletematum, p. 315.: Norimbergæ, 1667, 12mo.

RT.

Warmington.

_Wake_ (Vol. vi., p. 532.).--In a Wake pedigree in my possession, the name of the wife of Sir Hugh Wake, Knight, Lord of Blisworth, who died May 4, 1315, is stated to be "Joane, daughter and co-heiress of John de Wolverton." I am unable to say now on what authority.

W. S. (Sheffield.)

Sir Hugh Wake, Lord of Deeping in Lincolnshire and Blyseworth in Northamptonshire, married Joane, daughter and co-heiress of John de Wolverton. (See Kimber and Johnson's _Baronetage_, 3 vols. 1771.)

BROCTANA.

Bury, Lancashire.

"_Words are given to man to conceal his thoughts_" (Vol. vi., p. 575.).--This saying _may_ be anterior to Dr. South's time, as the first number of _The World_, under the assumed name of Adam Fitz-Adam, Thursday, January 4, 1753, begins with the following:

"At the village of Arouche, in the province of Estremadura (says an old
Spanish author), lived Gonzales {165} de Castro, who from the age of
twelve to fifty-two years was deaf, dumb, and blind."

After relating the sudden restoration of his faculties, "Fitz-Adam" proceeds:

"But, as if the blessings of this life were only given us for
afflictions, he began in a few weeks to lose the relish of his
enjoyments, and to repine at the possession of those faculties, which
served only to discover to him the follies and disorders of his
neighbours, and to teach him that _the intent of speech was too often
to deceive_."

It may serve to probe the matter of _age_ to ask, Who was "the old Spanish author" alluded to? Also, where may be found the hexameter line--

"[Greek: hos ch' heteron men keuthei eni phresin allo de bazei.]"

equivalent to the common expression, "He says one thing and means another," and of which the maxim attribute to Goldsmith, Talleyrand, the _Morning Chronicle_, and South, seems only a stronger form?

FURVUS.

St. James's.

_Inscription on Penny of George III._ (Vol. vii., p. 65.).--"Stabit quocunque jeceris" (_it will stand in whatever way you throw it_) is the well-known motto of the Isle of Mann, and has reference to the arms of the island, which are--Gules, three armed legs argent, flexed in triangle, garnished and spurred or. I venture to conjecture that the three legs of Mann were also on the penny J. M. A. mentioned.

Some curious lines about this motto are to be found in _The Isle of Mann Guide_, by James Brotherston Laughton, B.A. (Douglas, 1850): one verse is--

"With spurs and bright cuishes, to make them look neat,
He rigg'd out the legs; then to make them complete,
He surrounded the whole with four fine Roman _feet_.
They were 'Quocunque jeceris stabit,'
A thorough-paced Roman Iamb."

The fore-mentioned work also contains a song entitled "The Copper Row," referring to the disturbances occasioned by the coinage of 1840.

THOMPSON COOPER.

Cambridge.

This is, I suppose, a Manx penny, with the reverse of _three legs_, and the motto, which is usually read "Quocunque jeceris stabit."

C.

"_Nine Tailors make a Man_" (Vol. vi., pp. 390. 563.).--I extract the following humorous account of the origin of this saying from _The British Apollo_ (12mo., reprint of 1726, vol. i. p. 236.):

"It happen'd ('tis no great matter in what year) that eight taylors,
having finish'd considerable pieces of work at a certain person of
quality's house (whose name authors have thought fit to conceal), and
receiving all the money due for the same, a virago servant maid of the
house observing them to be but slender-built animals, and in their
mathematical postures on their shop-board appearing but so many pieces
of men, resolv'd to encounter and pillage them on the road. The better
to compass her design, she procured a very terrible great
black-pudding, which (having waylaid them) she presented at the breast
of the foremost: they, mistaking this prop of life for an instrument of
death, at least a blunder-buss, readily yielded up their money; but
she, not contented with that, severely disciplin'd them with a cudgel
she carry'd in the other hand, all which they bore with a philosophical
resignation. Thus, eight not being able to deal with one woman, by
consequence could not make a man, on which account a ninth is added.
'Tis the opinion of our curious virtuosos, that this want of courage
ariseth from their immoderate eating of cucumbers, which too much
refrigerates their blood. However, to their eternal honour be it spoke,
they have been often known to encounter a sort of cannibals, to whose
assaults they are often subject, not fictitious, but real man-eaters,
and that with a lance but two inches long; nay, and although they go
arm'd no further than their middle-finger."

SIGMA.

Sunderland.

_On Quotations_ (Vol. vi., p. 408.).--There can be no doubt that quotations have frequently been altered, to make them more apt to the quoter's purpose, of which I believe the following to be an instance. We frequently meet with the quotation, "Nullum numen _abest_, si sit prudentia," with a reference to Juvenal. I have not been able to find the passage in this shape, and presume it is an alteration from the address to Fortune, which occurs twice in his _Satires_, Sat. x. v. 365, 366., and Sat. xiv. v. 315, 316.:

"Nullum numen _habes_, si sit prudentia: nos te
Nos facimus, Fortuna, Deam, coeloque locamus."

The alteration is evidently not a mere verbal one, but changes entirely the meaning and allusion of the passage.

J. S. WARDEN.

_Rhymes on Places_ (Vol. v., pp. 293. 374. 500.).--In addition to the local rhymes given in your pages, I call to mind the following, not inserted in Grose. They are peculiar to the North of England:

"Rothbury for goats' milk,
And the Cheviots for mutton;
Cheswick for its cheese and bread,
And Tynemouth for a glutton."

"Harnham was headless, Bradford breadless,
And Shaftoe pick'd at the craw;
Capheaton was a wee bonny place,
But Wallington bang'd them a'."

The _craw_, in the second rhyme, alludes to the _Crasters_, anciently _Crancester_, an old family in the parish of Hartburn, who succeeded to the estates of the Shaftoe family.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

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_Coins in Foundations_ (Vol. vi., p. 270.).--I have a manuscript notice of an early example of this custom. It is in a hand of the earlier half of the seventeenth century. The Bostonians knew better, however, than to bury their "great gifts;" and all who travel the Great Northern Railway will be glad to preserve the names of the great givers, who afforded so noble a relief to the tedium of Boston station.

"_The buylding of Boston Steeple._

"_Md._ That in the yeere of o^r Lord God 1309, the steeple of Boston,
on the Monday next following Palme Sunday, was digged wt many myners
till Mydsomer; and by that time they were deeper than the bottom of the
haven by fyve fote, and there they found a ball of sande nigh a fote
thick, and that dyd lye uppon a spring of sand neere three fote thick,
and that dyd lye uppon a bed of clay, the thicknesse thereof could not
be known. And there, uppon Monday nexte after the feast of St. John
Baptist, was layd the first stone, and that stone layd Dame Margaret
Tylney, and thereuppon layd she vl. sterling. The nexte stone was layd
by S^r John Tattersall, prson of Boston, who layd down thereuppon vl.
sterling. And Richard Stevenson, merchant of the Staple, layd the third
stone, and thereuppon vl. sterling. And these were all the great guifts
that at that time were given thereunto. Remaining amongst the records
at Lincolne.

THO. TURNER."

H. T. H.

Sheffield.

_Fleshed, Meaning of_ (Vol. vi., p. 578.).--Johnson (edit. 1823) glosses _to flesh_ (from Sidney), to harden in any practice. An old author, in a passage which I have lately read, though I cannot now refer to it, talks of vice being _fleshed_ (_i.e._ ingrown) in a man.

W. BARNES.

Dorchester.

_Robert Wauchope, Archbishop of Armagh, 1543_ (Vol. vii., p. 66.).--I know of no detailed account of this prelate, and am unable to furnish any particulars in addition to those stated by A. S. A., except that "he died in a convent of Jesuits at Paris, on the 10th of November, 1551," as stated by Ware, vol. i. p. 94. of his _Works_, Dublin, 1739. I may also add the following remark, which I find in a note, by M. Le Courayer, to his French translation of Fra-Paolo Sarpi's _History of the Council of Trent_ (London, 1736), tome i. p. 221.:

"La raillerie que fait de lui Fra-Paolo, en le louant de bien courir la
poste, et qu'il a tirée de Sleidan, vient apparemment du nombre de
voyages qu'il fit en Allemagne, en France, et ailleurs, pour exécuter
différentes commissions, dont il fut chargé par les Papes."

TYRO.

Dublin.

_Flemish and Dutch Schools of Painting_ (Vol. vii., p. 65.).--Karelvan Glander, _Leven der beroemdste Schilders, Hollandsche en Vlaamsche_ (Lives of the most celebrated Dutch and Flemish Painters). This work is of the beginning of the seventeenth century. A better work is the _Levens der beroemdste Hollandsche en Vlaamsche Schilders_, by Immerzeel, published in 1836.

H. v. L.

_Furmety or Frumenty_ (Vol. vi., p. 604.).--ERICA asks if _furmety_ can claim descent from the once popular dish plum-porridge, mentioned in the _Tatler_ and _Spectator_.

Though not a direct answer, the following quotation from Washington Irving's _Sketch Book_ will show that it was in request at the season when _plum-pudding_ abounds, notwithstanding the orthodoxy of its use on Mid-Lent Sunday. In his account of the Christmas festivities at Bracebridge Hall, speaking of the supper on Christmas Eve, he says:

"The table was abundantly spread with substantial fare, but the Squire
made his supper of _frumenty_, a dish made of wheat cakes boiled in
milk, with rich spices, _being a standing dish in old times for
Christmas Eve_."

W. H. COTTON.

_Etymology of Pearl_ (Vol. vi., p. 578.; Vol. vii., p. 18.).--SIR EMERSON TENNENT inquires as to the antiquity of the word _pearl_ in the English language. _Pærl_ occurs in Anglo-Saxon (Bosworth in v.), and corresponding forms are found in the Scandinavian languages, as well as in the Welsh and Irish. The old German form of the word is _berille_. Richardson in v. quotes an instance of the adjective _pearled_ from Gower, who belongs to the fourteenth century. The use of _union_ for _pearl_, cited by SIR E. TENNENT from Burton, is a learned application of the word, and never was popular in our language.

I may add that Muratori inserts the word _perla_ in the _Italian Glossary_, in his 33rd Dissertation on Italian Mediæval Antiquities. He believes the origin of the word to be Teutonic, but throws no light on the subject. It appears from Halliwell's _Arch. and Prov. Dictionary_, that white spots in the eyes were anciently called _pearls_. McCulloch, _Commercial Dictionary_ in v., particularly speaks of the pear-shaped form of the pearl; and, on the whole, the supposition that _perula_ is equivalent to _pear-ling_, seems the most probable.

L.

_Folkestone_ (Vol. vi., p. 507.).--Various etymologies have been given with a view of arriving at the right one for this town. I have to inform you that the places of that part of Kent where Folkeston, so properly spelt on the seal of the ancient priory, is situated, receive their etymologies from local or geological distinctions. Folkeston forms no exception to the general rule. The soil consists of a most beautiful yellow sand, such as the {167} Romans distinguished by the word _Fulvus_. This the Saxons contracted into Fulk, which word has become a family prenomen, as in Fulke-Greville, Fulk-Brooke; in other terms, the yellow Greville or yellow Brook; and Folkeston is nothing more than the yellow town, so called from the nature of the soil on which it is built.

S.

_The Curfew Bell_ (Vol. vi., p. 53.).--

"During the last 700 years, the curfew bell has been regularly tolled
in the town of Sandwich: but now it is said it is to be discontinued,
in consequence of the corporation funds being at so low an ebb as not
to allow of the payment of the paltry sum of some 4l. or 5l. per
annum."--_Kentish Observer._

ANON.

_Confirmation Superstition_ (Vol. vi., p. 601.).--It is singular, that though the office is called "the laying on of _hands_," the rubric says, "the bishop shall lay his _hand_ on the head of every one severally." When was the [Greek: epithesis cheirôn] (Heb. vi. 2.) changed into an [Greek: epithesis cheiros]?

A. A. D.

_Degree of B.C.L._ (Vol. vii., p. 38.).--On Feb. 25, 1851, a statute was passed at Oxford, by Convocation, which requires that the candidate for the degree of B.C.L. should have passed his examination for the degree of B.A., and attended one course of lectures with the Regius Professor of Civil Law. In the case of particular colleges, twenty terms must have been kept: by members of other colleges, twenty-four terms must have been completed. The examination is upon the four books, or any part of them, of the _Institutes of Justinian_, or works which serve to illustrate them in the science of civil law, of which six months' notice is previously given by the Regius Professor.

At Cambridge, a B.A. of four years' standing can be admitted LL.B. The candidate must have passed the previous examination; attended the lectures of the professor for three terms; be examined; and after four years' standing, and residence of three terms, keep his act.

MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.

_Robert Heron_ (Vol. vi., p. 389.).--The literary career of this individual in London is selected by D'Israeli as an illustration of his _Calamities of Authors_. Some farther particulars of him, in an editorial capacity, will be found in _Fraser's Magazine_, vol. xx. p. 747.

WILLIAM BATES.

Birmingham.

_Shakspeare's "Twelfth Night"_ (Vol. vii., p. 51.).--If the term "case," as applied to apparel, requires any further elucidation, it may be found in the "Certaine opening and drawing Distiches," prefixed to Coryat's _Crudities_, 4to., 1611. And the engraved title, which the verses are intended to explain, places before the eye, in a most unmistakeable form, the articles which compose a man's "case."

F. S. Q.

_Catcalls_ (Vol. vi., pp. 460. 559.).--For a long and humorous dissertation upon this instrument, I beg to refer your sceptical correspondent M. M. E. to page 130. of a scarce and amusing little work, entitled _A Taste of the Town, or a Guide to all Publick Diversions, &c._; London, printed and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1731, 12mo. The passages are not unworthy of transcription; but, I fear, would be too long for insertion in your columns.

WILLIAM BATES.

Birmingham.

"_Plurima, pauca, nihil_," (Vol. vi., p. 511.; Vol. vii., p. 96.).--The following couplet will be found in Jo. Burch. Menckenii _De Charlataneria Eruditorum Declamationes_, page 181. of the edit. Amst. 1727. The lines are there given as a specimen of "versus quos Galli vocant _rapportez_:"

"Vir simplex, fortasse bonus, sed Pastor ineptus,
Vult, tentat, peragit, plurima, pauca, nihil."

N. B.

I have met with the following metrical proverb, which may afford satisfaction to your correspondent, which dates certainly before 1604:

"Modus retinendorum amicorum.

Temporibus nostris quicunque placere laborat,
Det, capiat, quærat, plurima, pauca, nihil."

Also this:

"Plurima des, perpauca petas, nil accipe: si nil
Accipias, et pauca petas, et plurima dones,
Gratus eris populo, te mille sequentur amici.
Si nihilum trades, citò eris privatus amico:
Plurima si quæres, multam patiêre repulsam:
Si multa accipias, populus te dicet avarum.
Nil cape, pauca petas, des plurima, habebis amicos."

W. C. H.

_Ben Jonson's adopted Sons_ (Vol. v., pp. 537. 588.).--I had made some Notes on this subject, but have never seen stated that their number was limited to _twelve_. I have got _ten_ on _my_ list, but am unable at present to give my authorities; but I can assure your INQUIRER, at p. 537., that their names are _honestly_ come by:

"Thomas Randolph, Richard Brome, William Cartwright, Sir Henry
Morrison, James Howell, Joseph Rutter, Robert Herrick, Lord Falkland,
Sir John Suckling, Shackerly Marmion."

S. WMSON.

_Mistletoe_ (Vol. vi., p. 589.).--Mistletoe grows on _one oak_ in Hackwood Park, near Basingstoke, where it is extremely plentiful on hawthorns.

J. P. O.

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Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

The Camden Society has, after a long silence, just issued a volume, _The Camden Miscellany, Volume the Second_, which from the variety and interest of its contents, cannot but be acceptable to all the members. These contents are, I. _Account of the Expenses of John of Brabant, and Henry and Thomas of Lancaster, 1292-93._--II. _Household Account of the Princess Elizabeth, 1551-52._--III. _The Bequeste and Suite of a True-hearted Englishman, written by William Cholmeley, 1553._--IV. _Discovery of the Jesuits' College at Clerkenwell in March, 1627-28._--V. _Trelawny Papers._--VI. _Autobiography of William Taswell, D. D._ This, which is the first book for the year 1852-53, will be immediately followed by a volume of _Verney Papers_, editing by Mr. Bruce; and this probably by _The Domesday of St. Paul's_, editing by Archdeacon Hale, or _The Correspondence of Lady Brilliana Harley_, editing by the Rev. T. T. Lewis. Early in the ensuing Camden year, which commences on the 1st of May, two volumes of considerable interest may be looked for, namely, _The Roll of the Household Expenses of Richard Swinfield, Bishop of Hereford, in the years 1289-90, with illustrations from other and coeval Documents_ by the Rev. John Webb; and _Regulæ Inclusarum, The Ancren Rewle, A Treatise on the Rules and Duties of Monastic Life, addressed to a Society of Anchorites by Simon of Ghent_, a work valuable for philology, for it is written in the semi-Saxon dialect of the thirteenth century, and curious for its illustration of ancient manners. It will be accompanied by a translation by the Rev. James Morton, the editor.

_The Architectural, Archæological, and Historic Society for the County, City, and Neighbourhood of Chester_, has just published the Second Part of its Journal, in which objects of local interest are made available for much instructive information; and to accomplish which the conductors have, and as we think wisely, preferred a great number of apt illustrations, executed without any pretence to artistic skill, to a _few_ expensive and highly-finished engravings.

Our Dutch neighbours seem to enjoy as much as ourselves the humour of Charles Dickens. Not only is _Bleak House_ regularly translated as it appears, but in a bookseller's circular which has just reached us, we see announced translations of the _Sketches by Boz_, and of a _Selection from Household Words_.

There is much tact required in writing for children, and no small share of this is exhibited in a _History of France for Children_, which Viscount Cranborne has just compiled for the use of his nieces. The principal events are brought forward in succession, and related in a plain, unaffected style, well calculated for youthful readers.

BOOKS RECEIVED.--_Joan of Arc, by Lord Mahon_, the new number of Murray's _Railway Library_, is a reprint, from the noble author's _Historical Essays_, of his careful summary of Joan's extraordinary history.--_Cyclopædia Bibliographica, a Library Manual of Theological and General Literature_, the fifth part of Mr. Darling's most useful guide for authors, preachers, students, and literary men.--_Synodalia, a Journal of Convocation_, Nos. 1. to 4.; four parts of a monthly periodical, instituted not so much for the purpose of securing immediately synodical action in the Church, as with the view of preparing the public mind for its reception.--_Ferdinand I. and Maximilian II. of Austria, or a view of the Religion and Political State of Germany after the Reformation._ An able and instructive essay by Professor Von Ranke, well translated for _Longman's Traveller's Library_ by Sir A. and Lady Duff Gordon.--_Kidd's Own Journal for January, 1853_. The new number of a journal which deserves the notice of all lovers of natural history and keepers of pets.--_Remains of Pagan Saxondom, principally from Tumuli in England_, by J. Y. Akerman; Part III., containing _Beads, Crystal Ball, and Bulla_ from Breach Down, and _Glass Vase_ from Cuddesden, drawn of their original size and coloured.

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HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF QUEENS OF ENGLAND, by HANNAH LAWRANCE. Vol. II.

INGRAM'S SAXON CHRONICLE. 4to. London, 1823.

NEWMAN'S FERNS. Large Edition.

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J. F. (Halifax). _How can a letter be addressed to this Correspondent?_

J. O., _who inquired respecting_ Johanna Southcote. _How can we forward a letter to him?_

MOUSEY. _A cat is called_ Grimalkin, _or more properly_ Gray Malkin, _from the name of a Fiend supposed to assume the shape of a cat. Shakspeare, in his_ Macbeth, _makes the First Witch exclaim_,

"I come, Graymalkin."

E. J. G. _We must refer our Correspondent to the critical commentators on the passage: Lowth or Wintle, for instance._

INQUISITOR, _who writes respecting_ Rotten Row, _is referred to our_ 1st Vol., p. 441.; 2nd Vol., p. 235.; _and our_ 5th Vol., pp. 40. 160.

F. R. D. (Dublin). _The arms on the impression of the seal forwarded by our Correspondent are obviously German, from the helmet, the style of lambrequin, and more particularly from the charges or bearings of which the coat is composed. It is probably of the date assigned to it by_ F. R. D.

SHAW'S STAFFORD MSS. _We have a note for our Correspondent on this subject_, N. C. L. _Where shall it be sent?_

O. G. _Will our Correspondent kindly favour us with the notices of Dr. Deacon contained in Townshend's_ Common-Place Book, _for the benefit of another member of the literary brotherhood, who, we know, has been for some time past making collections for a Life of that remarkable Nonjuring bishop?_

REPLIES TO PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENTS _next week_.

AN ANXIOUS INQUIRER _should state more precisely what branch of Photography he intends to pursue. Professor Hunt's_ Manual of Photography, _of which the Third Edition has just been published, is the fullest which has yet appeared in this country. He will obtain Lists of Prices of Lenses, Cameras, &c. from any of the Photographic Houses whose Advertisements appear in our columns._

PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. _All communications respecting this Society should be addressed to the Honorary Secretary, "Roger Fenton, Esq., 2. Albert Terrace, Albert Road, Regent's Park."_

_Errata._--No. 171. p. 136. col. 2. line 48. for "with" read "in;" and p. 137. col. 1. l. 18. for "remark" read "mask."

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