le adds that all was, however, nearly spoilt for him, après avoir avalé un verre d'une liqueur forte qu'on appelle oscaha, and qu'un Cavalier Anglois m'avait fort pressé de boire, comme quelque chose d'excellent pour abattre les fumées du vin. Unfortunately everything began to turn before his eyes, and he did not get better until he had been for some little time on deck, inhaling the beautiful Swedish air, to which he thinks he owed his speedy recovery.

It is clear from the context that this strong liquor was English (or at least British) and not Swedish. Could it be a misprint for oscaba, which in its turn might be supposed to reflect Mr. van Effen's mishearing of an Irishman's usqueba(ugh)? H. LOGEMAN.

University of Ghent, Belgium. ITALIAN ACTOR IN ENGLAND IN THE SEVEN·TEENTH CENTURY.-Evelyn, in his Diary, on Sept. 29, 1675, records:

I saw the Italian Scaramuccio act before the King having seen him act before in Italy, many years past. I was not averse from seeing the most excellent of that kind of folly.

Can anyone tell me the name of this Italian actor who played the part of Scaramuccio in London before the King? The most celebrated Italian actor of the time was Tiberio Fiorilli-his rôle Scaramuccio. He was born in 1608, in Naples, and died about 1694, in Paris, leaving 300,000 fr. to his son.

Does any record exist of all the Italians who put foot on our shores in the seventeenth .century? W. H.

SAMUEL AND JANE HOLDEN, BENEFACTORS OF HARVARD COLLEGE.-On June 12, 1740, the Honourable Samuel Holden, "of Rowehampton, Surrey," died. He was a wealthy London merchant, Member of Parliament, and at one time Governor of the Bank of also England. He was the acknowledged Acting leader of the English Dissenters. under the discretionary power given in his will, his wife, Jane Holden, gave four hundred pounds to Harvard College to build a chapel-the university up to that time having had no separate house of worship.

Holden Chapel is still in existence and in a fair state of repair, although long disused from its original purpose. A good deal of interest has been aroused in it lately, and a desire is expressed to know more about the Holdens. Are any other details now avail

HYDE PARK ("HIGH PARK ").-The two following extracts are taken from Sir George 'Sir Etherege's The Man of Mode,' or Fopling Flutter,' produced in 1675, and from the 1768 edition of that play published by Martin and Wotherspoon, Edinburgh: Act III, sc. iii (in the Mall) :

Young Bellair. Most people prefer High park to this place.

Harriet. It has the better reputation, but I abominate the dull diversions there. Act V, sc. ii:

Harriet. Could you neglect this awhile, and make a journey into the country?

Dorimant. To be with you I could live there and never send a thought to London.

Harriet. Whatever you say, I know all beyond Highpark's a desert to you, and that no gallantry can draw you further.

Hyde Park is, 1 presume, indicated, but was it ever popularly or alternatively known as High Park"? To take dates narrowly bracket the date of the play, Evelyn calls it Hyde Park in his diary both at the date, 11 April, 1653, where he was vexed at the imposition of a tax on horses and carriages entering the park, and again 33 years later, on 15 April, 1686, when he was present at a review of troops in that Park. E. A. G. STUART.

Melbury, Dorsetshire. Each head is inclosed in a frame of stone-colour, a mark that generally distinguishes Mrs. Beale's works." I have ascertained that the painting is not now at Melbury. The above no doubt refers to Samuel Crumleholme (or Crumlum), Master of St. Paul's School. Information as to the present location of the portrait would be welcomed.

W. H. WHITEAR.

10, Fairlawn Court, Chiswick. ELDERNEL, WHITTLESEY. -In Cooper's 'Ath. Cant.' Vol. i, p. 93, ed. 1858, it is stated that Robert Blyth, a native of Norton, Derbyshire, held the bishopric of Down and Connor in commendam. On July 11, 1525, he had a special licence from the Bishop of Ely to consecrate and dedicate the chapel of Eldernel in Whittlesey. Bishop Blythe died in 1547. Can anyone say where this chapel stood, and if there are any remains of it now? M. A.

ROYAL BADGES, LIONS AND EAGLES. In '3 Henry VI,' Act ii, Sc. 1, Edward, afterwards Edward IV, is told by his brother Richard, afterwards Duke of Gloucester, in referring to the death of their father, Richard Duke of York:

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Nay, if thou be that princely eagle's bird Shew thy descent by gazing 'gainst the sun. Was an eagle the badge of Richard Plantagenet? If so, the word " gainst cannot have an antagonistic meaning, for the sun was the badge of Edward himself. His adoption of this emblem is described viously in the same scene, 11. 39 and 40. Was the badge a lion sejant with its tail between its legs another Yorkist badge referring to Lionel, Duke of Clarence? Richard Plantagenet claimed the throne as having double title thereto, derived from Lionel, Duke of Clarence, second son, and Edmund, Duke of York, fifth son of Edward III.

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RICHARD WHITTINGTON, HIS KNIGHTHOOD. -In The Great Fire of London,' by Walter G. Bell, p. 57 occurs the following passage: Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London in 1396, 1397, 1406 and again in 1409-he was never Sir Richard, despite the popular belief-.

In the Life of Sir Richard Whittington,' by Walter Besant and James Rice, in Appendix iv. chapter viii, p. 213, occurs the following passage :—

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DAVID ROSS DICKSON.--In the churchyard of St. Saviour's parish, Guernsey, there is a monument in memory of David Ross Dickson, of North Britain, who met his death while engaged in the construction of harbour works, St. Catherine's Bay, on March 14, 1848, in the 31st year of his age. What is known of this young man, and who were his parents?

JAMES SETON-ANDERSON. 39, Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex. HENRY JAMES BUCKOLL (1803-1871).—He was author of the hymns, Lord, behold us " and with Thy blessing Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing," Nos. 576 and 577 in the general edition of Hymns A. & M. They do not occur in the Historical Edition of that work. I should be glad of biographical details, and especially should like to know where he died and was buried, and if any memorial has been erected to his memory.

or boxes, the substitution for the basket of a hook or other method of attachment would be all that was necessary to adapt the apparatus.

JOHN R. MAGRATH.

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"HOG'S NORTON WHERE PIGS PLAY ON THE .ORGAN. (12. S. xi. 531).—This saying refers to the Leicestershire village of Nortonjuxta-Twycross, which was called Hog's Norton at least as early rationalistic explanations have been given. Ray, quoting the adage in his Proverbs' (1670), attributed it to the fact that a man named Piggs was once the organist of the parish church. Sir Thomas Cave, in the eighteenth century (quoted in Nichols's Leicestershire,' iv. 849) thought that

the adage might come upon this occasion: I, looking for antiquities about this church, found in a corner an old piece of a pair of organs, upon the end of every key whereof was a boar cut; the earls of Oxford (by Trussell) some time being owners of land here.

Evans, in his Leicestershire Words and Proverbs,' (1881, p. 301), thinks that the name has a mythic air, and to say that a man comes from Hog's Norton is simply equivalent to saying that he snores. But Sir Walter Scott was probably right in taking Hog's Norton to belong to the same category as Gotham and other Boeotian homes of wiseacres and noodles. In the third chapter of Woodstock' he refers to "the noodles of Hog's Norton, who trip, when the pigs play on the organ.' And in the ninth chapter of Kenilworth,' Hog's Norton is given as the birthplace of the learned Magister Erasmus Holiday, who interpreted the proverb allegorically, as having reference to "the herd of Epicurus, of which litter Horace confessed himself a porker." There does not seem to be any reason for thinking that Scott referred the saying to Hook Norton in Oxfordshire. It is probable that he heard it when he was visiting Sir George Beaumont at Coleorton Hall, in Leicestershire, where he also picked up other proverbs and phrases, of Leicestershire origin, which appear in the twentysecond and twenty-ninth chapters of The Heart of Midlothian,' and where he gathered some of the local colour of Ivanhoe.' CHARLES J. BILLSON.

33, Saint Anne's Road, Eastbourne. "TO GO THE WAY OF ALL FLESH " (12 S. xi. 530).--It looks as though the variant universae carnis for universae terrae should be found in some printed edition or MSS. of

Modern issues of the Douai translation have been

largely doctored. In a recent undated copy I find "Behold this day I am going into the way of all the earth," in the Joshua passage; while in Kings we get, "I am going the way of all flesh."

The Concordance published by the Plantin Press in 1642, and said on the title-page to be adapted to the Sixtine edition of the under Caro, Vulgate, cites, ingredior viam uni. carnis" from Joshua xxiii, 14, and, under Ingredior, ego ingredior viam uni, car." from III (I) Kings ii. 2. But under other headings these same passages are printed with the reading terrae

The Plantin Bible of 1650, following the Sixtine recognition, has terrae in both EDWARD BENSLY.

verses.

Much Hadham, Herts.

[Mr. Thos. White thanked for reply.] THE PORTRAITURE OF KING HENRY IV OF ENGLAND (12 S. xi. 503, 523).-May I venture to doubt the suggested identification of the two half-length figures (in the canopy over the King's head in the Seal) on either side of the Blessed Virgin with King Henry III and St. John the Divine? I do not believe that St. John the Divine is ever represented with a palm. This half-figure is much more likely to be St. Thomas Canterbury. Henry IV, though he died at Westminster, was buried at Canterbury to the north of the latter's shrine. That seems to indicate a certain amount of devotion to him on the part of Henry IV. The kingly half-figure is almost certainly a saint, possibly the Emperor Henry II (972-1024), who was canonized by Eugenius III (Pope from 1145 to 1153).

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SLEEP AND THE MOON (12 S. xi. 311, 355, 397, 437, 494).-The following may be useful as a practical contribution to this subject. I have often slept in the full rays of the moon, whether in camp or in a room, and

never experienced any ill effect; but when shooting in Africa on the borders of the Kalahari Desert 46 years ago I determined to put the matter to a thorough test. I accordingly had my mattress put in full moonlight on every possible occasion. I also had one half of any game-springbok or whatever it might be hung on the moonlit side of the wagon, and the other in the shade. This was done on many occasions. I neither suffered myself, nor was any difference perceptible in the meat.

I am quite convinced that the opinion of most medical authorities competent to judge would be that it is not the moonbeams that produce the ill effects--the facial or other paralyses, etc., but the exposure, and it is the chill following on profuse perspiration, the dew, a draught, or the damp deck, that are responsible.

F. H. H. GUILLEMARD, M.D. SIR WILLIAM BEATTY, M.D. (12 S. xi. 370). On Beatty's death, 25 March, 1842, the certificate gives his age as 69. His father, James Beatty, was in the Customs at Londonderry, so possibly Beatty was born there. He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, but the grave cannot be identified. The best account of Beatty is that given by Dr. S. D. Clippingdale in the Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service, for Oct., 1915, Vol. i, No. 4.

Should the enquirer care for further information about the Beatty family I may be able to supply it.

It is believed that Beatty was descended from a common ancestor with the present Admiral Lord Beatty, but the connection is not yet proved.

H. R. POPHAM BAKER. 77, Accrington Road, Blackburn.

THE MISTLETOE BOUGH' (12 S. xi. 171, 214, 238, 273, 291, 454, 518).-SHIREMAN at the last reference writes that he saw the "" chest more than fifty years ago at Bramshill House. May I point out that the chest left Bramshill House in 1813, when, on the death of Sir Denzil Cope, his widow, who went to reside at Firgrove House, Hampshire, removed the chest to the latter place? I am quite aware there is a "chest in the gallery at Bramshill House which is sometimes shown as the one in which the bride perished. The above will show that it is not the genuine article.

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JOHN HAUTENVILLE COPE. Finchampstead Place, Berks.

RAPP JEWISH NAME (12 S. xi 512).On seeing this name, students of military history will at once call to mind the celebrated aide-de-camp, first of Desaix, then of Napoleon, Rapp was Colonel of the Memelukes of the Imperial Guard, at whose head he made his famous charge against the Russians at Austerlitz. In 1815 he commanded a Corps in Alsace. According to Bourrienne, he spoke with a pronounced German accent, and was the best German scholar on the Emperor's Staff. C. S. C. (B/C).

VAN EYCK: THE INCE BLUNDELL MADONNA (12 S. xi. 512). This picture was sold a few weeks ago to the Melbourne Art Gallery, and is still on view at the National Gallery, I think. The price is said to have been. about £30,000. F. D. H.

"AND SHALL TRELAWNY DIE?" (12 S. xi. 532). The refrain is ancient, but the poem itself was composed by the Rev. Robert S. Hawker, and both Sir Walter Scott and Lord Macaulay were deceived into the belief that it was a genuine ancient ballad (see The Vicar of Morwenstow,' by BaringGould (Methuen, 1899).

Westwood, Clitheroe.

WM. SELF WEEKS.