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10ᵗʰ. S. I. 30, 1904.] the latter being at the time a frequent visitor. Jane Brereton, who died in 1740, struck by the incongruous combination, wrote the subjoined poem, which is entitled 'On Mr. Wash's picture, full length, between the busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope,' and, as will be seen, it must have formed the basis of the later epigram:—

W. T.

(10ᵗʰ S. i. 29).—The editorial note says, "Penrith is still pronounced Perith in the North." As a North-Countryman, I should like to point out that those letters do not in these days, and especially in the South, sufficiently represent the pronunciation. Peerith would be better. By-the-by, is Perth (pronounced very similarly in Scotland) a name of the same origin and meaning?

In the same direction it might be noted that "Peercy" is the spelling in many ancient Northern documents of the old surname Percy (e.g., "the Peercy Fee," &c.); and presumably "Peercy" would not be pronounced as we usually now pronounce Percy.

(9ᵗʰ S. xii. 487.; 10ᵗʰ S. i. 55).—For Speaker Francis Rous see also 'D.N.B.' and the Rev. Douglas Macleane's 'History of Pembroke College' (Oxford Historical Society, 1897. pp. 291-6), whereat he founded the existing Eton Scholarship. The College possesses a half-length portrait of him, in which he is represented wearing a tall wide-brimmed hat. There is another portrait at Eton of Rous in his robes as Speaker. His father Sir Anthony married, as his second wife, the mother of John Pym, the statesman.

(9ᵗʰ S. xii. 506; 10ᵗʰ S. i. 33).—A really excellent illustration and description of the above are to be found under the heading of 'On Cromlechs' on p. 64, vol. vi. of the Saturday Magazine for 14 February, 1835. It commences:—

The article concludes:–

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(10ᵗʰ S. i. 4). The error which has noticed in some copies of this work appears also in the Grenville copy in the British Museum (G. 10564), in which the clumsy alteration obtrudes itself very unpleasantly upon the eye. I do not know whether has seen this copy. {{right|{{sc|S. J. Aladrich.}}|offset=2em|| {{left|{{fine|New Southgate.}}|offset=2em}}

{{sc|Cardigan as a Surname}} (10ᵗʰ S. i. 67).—Is it a surname? On the contrary, it seems to exist only as a territorial title. If G. H. W. refers to the earldom, the pedigree is, of course, in Burke. But it only goes back to the wedding, early in the eighteenth century, of a Bruce with a Lord Cardigan of another family. {{float right|D.|offset=2em}}

{{sc|Salep or Salop}} (9ᵗʰ S. xii. 448).—The vending of "saloop," as it was more generally called, among the street-barrow men of London, is now, I think, quite an extinct calling. Its use began to be superseded by tea and coffee about the year 1831, up to which time it had supplied the humble needs of the early wayfarers in the same way that coffee does now. It was when coffee became cheaper, with all its accessory adulterations, that it began entirely to displace saloop. See Henry Mayhew's 'London Labour and the London Poor,' 1851, vol. i. p. 191 seq. The beverage was originally made from salep, the roots of Orchis mascula, a common plant of our meadows, the tubers of which, being cleaned and peeled, are lightly browned in