twizzle-twigs, or jointed rush, mentioned by MR. STILWELL? The hamlet stands 700 ft. above sea-level, on the edge of the celebrated Broomhead grouse moors, where, however, logs and rushy places frequently occur.

T. WALTER HALL. TETE-A-TETE PORTRAITS IN THE TOWN AND COUNTRY MAGAZINE' (10th S. iv. 241, 342, 462, 522).—There seems to be little doubt that CAPT. HERBERT KING HALL has identified Admiral "Sternpost," for there is no evidence that any other than Harry Paulet, sixth Duke of Bolton, bore such a sobriquet. The Magazine, however, gives a different explanation of the origin of the nickname :"He called, as it is said, a council of war with his carpenter, in order to determine upon the real or imaginary state of his sternpost, and from whence he has derived the title of Admiral Sternpost.' The editor of the Tête-à-Têtes' goes on to give another obvious clue :

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"Like his predecessor in his title, he was caught in the same net by the lures of Polly Peachum. It is true he could not boast that he had the original Polly."

The reference, of course, points to Lavinia Fenton, the Polly Peachum of 'The Beggar's Opera,' who married Charles Paulet, third Duke of Bolton, the uncle of Admiral Sternpost. A comparison of this Tête-à-tête portrait with a contemporary print would probably clear away any uncertainty.

There are other blanks in my list which a person well acquainted with naval biographies would be able to fill up, such as the Valiant Commander (vol. xii. 457), the Gallant Admiral (vol. xiv. 171), the Bloomsbury Bon Vivant (vol. xvii. 401), the Gallant Sea Captain (vol. xix. 249), the Dastardly Mariner (vol. xx. 200), and Old Nauticus (vol. xx. 440). I hope that CAPT. KING HALL can spare the time to refer to these pages of the Magazine.

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

Fox Oak, Walton-on-Thames.

SCALLIONS (10th S. iv. 327, 375).-In the 'Promptorium Parvulorum,' iii. 442, under Scale, of a leddur,' quotations are given, from Palsgrave, "scale of a ladder; escheilon," and from Cotgrave, 66 a little ladder or skale, a small step or greece." W. C. B. I think that I am misrepresented at the last reference when I am made to say that Bailey in his Dictionary' (1740) gives "an ascalon" as being "a kind of small onion of Ascalon, a City of Palestine." What Bailey says, and what I said, was that "a SCALLION is a kind of small onion of Ascalon." J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

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W. R. W. CRICKET: PICTURES AND ENGRAVINGS (10th S. iv. 9, 132. 238, 496)-In Mr. Lionel Cust's History of Eton College,' Duckworth & Co., 1899, facing p. 240, is a picture described in the list of illustrations as Cricket-match at Eton. From a Fish Strainer." In the foreground are the players wearing knee-breeches and tall hats. The umpire has top boots on. It is a singlewicket game, close to the Thames. In the background is Windsor Castle.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

I have just come upon an early example, about 1790, oblong 8vo, probably an illustration from The Gentleman's Magazine or some It is entitled similar journal of the period. 'View of Harrow School,' engraved (on copper) by S. Rawle, and depicts seven boys, in knee breeches and white stockings, engaged in the game. Only one wide short wicket, of two stumps, is visible. familiar school and church form the background, and four other boys are merely looking on. WM. JAGGARD.

139, Canning Street, Liverpool.

The

HERALDS' VISITATIONS, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, 1681 (10th S. iv. 530).—Mr. W. C. Metcalfe, in the preface to his edition of the Visitations of the above county, 1564 and 1618, says: "The third and last visitation of Northamp tonshire, including Rutlandshire, is that of 1681-2, being K.I. at the College of Arms, no copy of which is known to exist elsewhere." Mr. G. W. Marshall, in The Genealogist, vol. ii. p. 265, N.S., states the same. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

THE POUND, ROCHESTER Row (10th S. iv. 288). I am afraid that it is impossible to hold out to MR. TANSLEY much hope as to a picture of the old Pound being procurable. I have no recollection of having seen one, and I think that if such had been obtainable, it would have been reproduced in Mr. J. E. Smith's Memorials of St. John the Evange list,' where one would naturally look for it; indeed, I have some faint recollection of its

1735.

"In the wide space at the junction of Old Rochester Row and Rochester Row, once stood the parish Pound-house, a carpenter's shop, and a fine old tree. The buildings-Pound Place-were removed, and the site added to the public highway in

1864-5."

It is just possible that The Illustrated London News or The Illustrated Times-the latter, I think, had then a separate existence, being afterwards absorbed by the other journaldepicted this quaint survival of the past at the time of its demolition; or, if not, perhaps it was done by The Builder. There was a model of the building and its adjuncts, made to scale, in the Westminster Industrial Exhibition held in Victoria Street in 1879, but I cannot say what became of it at the close of the exhibition. I always felt that it was a pity it was not secured by the parish authorities, and placed permanently in the Free Library in Great Smith Street. It would now, in this era of constant changes, be of much interest to Westminster residents and others. The spot at which it stood has been subjected to many changes. The huge warehouse of the Army and Navy Stores, a new fire station, and Grey Coat Gardens, consisting of many suites of flats, are all recent additions. The only piece of antiquity here is the Grey Coat Hospital, now a girls' school, and that has had one or two additions made to it during the last few years.

Westminster.

W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY.

LONDON PAROCHIAL HISTORY (10th S. iv. 288). See Thomas Allen's Hist. and Antiq. of London,' 1828, vol. iii.-SS. Anne and Agnes, p. 37, and St. John Zachary, p. 57; and James Elmiss's Topographical Dictionary,' 1831, p. 17 (SS. Anne and Agnes). "St. Anne's was known as St. Anne in-the-Willows, and later it might have been known as St. Anne in-the-Limes, from the lime - trees that flourished before the church." (See Strype's 'Stow,' Book III. p. 101). Of this church Weale, in his 'Pictorial Handbook of London' (Bohn, 1854), p. 312, says: "A square interior, similar to St. Martin's, Ludgate, and originally very symmetrical."

4. SS. Anne and Agnes united with St. John Zachary, with a description, 1814, Coney del, Skelton sculp. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

OPEN AIR PULPITS (10th S. iv. 430).-The lovely old fourteenth century "Reader's Pulpit" at Shrewsbury Abbey is often cited as an external one, but was not originally so. It was built within the refectory, and has simply been rendered an open-air pulpit by the destruction of its immediate surroundings. It stood, when erected, much as do the well-known thirteenth-century one in the refectory at Chester Cathedral and one at Tintern Abbey, and, like them, was entered from the cloisters behind. A similarly, placed pulpit, of about the same date, may be seen at Beaulieu Church, Hants.

The most perfect old open-air pulpit in this country is in the first court of Magdalen College, Oxford. It was incorporated into that building, it is recorded, by Waynflete, when he erected the present college (14731481).

There is an external pulpit (modern) at the north-west end of St. Mary's Church, Whitechapel, and one has within recent years been placed upon the north side of St. James's Church, Piccadilly, an edifice built by Wren in 1684.

At St. Dié, in France, a pulpit exists outside the cathedral, but within its cloisters. Upon the north side of St. Lo Cathedral (Normandy) there is an exterior pulpit; and at Vitré (Ille-et-Vilaine) is one of the finest up from the ground by a tall base and shaft, exterior pulpits in the world. It is carried is ornately carved, and surmounted by an exceedingly beautiful spiral canopy.

Cathedral, Vienna, an external pulpit proUpon the north wall of St. Stephen's jects.

are:

1. A view of SS. Anne and Agnes's church. 2. A drawing of the same.

3. The south prospect of the same, under which is a circular letter to attend the

Aschaffenburg the minster church-has a parapet of open stone work enclosing its circular corbel, is a pulpit yard. At one corner, carried upon a semione that thoroughly commands the ground outside,

parish church of St. Lawrence was rebuilt by him in 1763), to build the structure. Within are recesses for tombs, and niches for busts and urns. When there in October, 1903, I noted one inscribed to "Paul Whitehead, of Twickenham, ob. Dec. 30, 1774"; another to "Thomas Thomson, M.D."; and in the centre, an altar-tomb for Sarah, Baroness Le Despencer, ob. 19 Jan., 1769. Besides these, there are many memorials to the Dashwood family. This will answer some of the questions raised by E. H. M. CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

COLET ON PEACE AND WAR (10th S. v. 28). -Your printer has damaged MR. PICKFORD'S Latin sentence somewhat. I therefore restore it, and can also mention the name of the author of it: "Cùm vel iniquissimam pacem justissimo bello anteferrem." Cicero is the author; but I cannot say in which of his works the sentence is to be found. E. YARDLEY.

[Our apologies are due to MR. PICKFORD for the accident which caused the misprinting of his Latin.]

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MR. MOXHAY, LEICESTER SQUARE SHOWMAN (10th S. iii. 307, 357, 395, 474; iv. 35, 135). Referring to my former remarks under this head, I have now found an opportunity to tap the source whence my information was obtained. It is confirmatory of the extract from N. & Q' given by MR. E. H. COLEMAN, which attributed to Mr. Moxhay an attempt to acquire the Square about the year 1847. My informant states that this gentleman endeavoured to establish a right to erect a "tent" for some kind of "show'

and on payment, he thinks, of 500l. But no legal footing was to be had, so Mr. Moxhay was obliged to remove whatever structure was put up. CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenæum Club, W.

"THE RING (10th S. iv. 448).-"The Ring, in a Series of Letters, by a Young Lady, was published by Stockdale in 1783, 3 vols., 9s. It was noticed in The Monthly Review for 1784, vol. lxxi. p. 150, which observes, This is said to be the production of a very young lady." It is in the 'Bibliotheca Britannica, but I do not find the work under "Ring' in the B. M. Catalogue.

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RALPH THOMAS.

HAIR POWDERING CLOSETS (10th S. iv. 349, 417, 453).-In September, 1901, I stayed at a private boarding house in Derby which had a powder room. It is (or was) on the righthand side of the road as one enters from Leicester, and in a leading thoroughfare,

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. Edited by Dr. James A. H. Murray.-ReignReserve. (Vol. VIII.) By W. A. Craigie, M.A. (Oxford, Clarendon Press.)

vol. viii., of the New English Dictionary' appears A FURTHER instalment, being a double section of under the charge of Mr. Craigie. It consists mainly of compounds of re-, the only native words in common use being rend, rent, and rennet. Adaptations from other Teutonic languages are, we are by means of the prefix re- comprise some to the told, few. Romanic words which are not formed history of which special interest attaches. As is usually the case in separate instalments, much new light is cast on the history of words. Meanwhile the customary comparisons may be instituted. The words included number 2,818, as against 1,196 in the most ambitious of rivals, and 15,934 illustrative quotations against 1,930. Of main words, 579 are marked as obsolete, and 25 as alien or not fully naturalized. Reillume appears in the second column, with the authority of Wordsworth, Shelley, Lytton, and Symonds, but seems a poor alteration of relume, reaching from Shakespeare to Swinburne. Reimkennar, one skilled in magic rimes, is sanctioned by rein, a long narrow strip of leather, are not regarded Walter Scott alone. Customary derivations for as conclusive. Innumerable words in re- follow, some of them, like reinforcement, sanctioned by Shakespeare and Milton; others, such as reink, not too commendable. Reintegrate is found so early as 1508. Reis, a captain of a galley, is justified, as might be expected, by Hakluyt. Reister and reiter, respectively. Rejounce is a curious sixteenth and a German cavalry soldier, are used in 1577 and 1584 seventeenth century word now obsolete, without leaving much impress. Relation=narration, has a