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Susan ' remained in the bills until the latter part of May, and, after being withdrawn, was restored. The bill for 27 June contained the pieces witnessed by Mary Lamb a week or two later, including that which she inaccu- rately styled ' Mary of Buttermere.' As the performers during the evening included the incomparable Grimaldi and that remark- able man Belzoni, afterwards famous as a traveller, it is more comprehensible that Charles Lamb and Miss Rickman laughed than that Southey and Rickman slept. Perhaps they had paid too much attention to the " white or red foreign unadulterated wine," which was supplied at Is. a pint to patrons of the house.

E. RlMBAULT DlBDIN.

" P. P., CLERK OF THE PARISH " (10 th S. i. 88). There is a full account of him, with many extracts, including one from Carlyle, in a book of reference which is not sufficiently used, Wheeler's ' Noted Names of Fiction ' (Bohn, 1870), p. 299. Pope introduces him in ' Martinus Scriblerus.' W. C. B.

The work to which Carlyle refers is ' Memoirs of P. P., Clerk of this Parish.' It is given at length in Elwin and Courthop.e's edition of Pope (x. 435-44). It is one of the ' Martiuus Scriblerus ' publications, and there is little doubt that it was written by Pope, with some small assistance from Gay. That its purpose was to ridicule Burnet's 'History of my Own Times' is confirmed by Pope's denial of the fact in the Prolegomena to the ' Dunciad ' (op. cit., iv. 64).

DAVID SALMON.

[Replies also from MR. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL, MR. D. B. MOSELEY, and W. T.]

SNOWBALL (9 th S. x. 307, 453). MR. SNOW- BALL will find much information by perusing the registers of Ryton and Whickham. These are printed and published.

H. C. SURTEES.

ST. BRIDGET'S BOWER (10 th S. i. 27, 70). Samuel Pegge, writing about 1735, states :

"But as to St. Bridget's Bower,! have enquired of the aged Dr. Brett and Mr. Bull, and cannot learn that there is any one remarkable hill in this county so called ; and I incline to believe that the large and long ridge of hills that passes east and west the whole length of the county above Boxley, Hollingbourne, &c., is meant by this expression." R. J. FYNMORE.

EPITAPH ON SIR JOHN SEYMOUR (10 th S. i. 87). Probably " peripatetite " is meant for peripatetici ; then the inscription is probably this : " Age peripatetici, dum intuearis cineres defuncti, mortis en sacellus brevi fortassis tuse." F. P.

INSCRIPTION ON STATUE OF JAMES II. (10 th S. i. 67). I am glad to learn from the query contributed by R. S. that this statue has at last been set up again in London. Its original position in Whitehall Gardens was a little out of the way, and it was carried thence in 1896 to a site in the garden fronting Gwydyr House, Whitehall. In the Coronation year it was apparently displaced in order to make room for a stand from which to view the procession. The question of its ultimate fate has since been discussed several times in the press.

The following copy of the inscription on the pedestal was taken by me in October, 1888 :

JACOBVS SECVNDVS

DEI GRATIA

ANGLIC SCOTLE

FRANCIS ET

HIBERNI.E

REX

FIDEI DEFENSOR ANNO MDCLXXXVI.

JOHN T. PAGE.

The inscription has evidently been shorn of its greater part, and the last word altered. It is given in full in 'Magnse Britannise Notitia ; or, the Present State of Great Britain,' by John Chamberlayne, 1723, p. 258. The statue then had a pedestal of marble. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

FRENCH MINIATURE PAINTER (10 th S. i. 86). Madame Vigee Le Brun, the celebrated French portrait painter, whose exquisite por- trait of Madame Recamier is well known, was born in Paris in 1756. Her great speciality being portraits, she is doubtless the painter required. MATILDA POLLARD.

Belle Vue, Bengeo.

I fancy that the reference is to Madame Lebrun, previously Mile. Vigee, of whom an account will be found in Bouillet's 'Diet, d'flistoire et de Geographic.'

EDWARD LATHAM.

A reference to Bryan's ' Dictionary of Painters and Engravers' (G. Bell & Sons, 1899) yields the following French painters of the eighteenth or the first half of the nine- teenth century whose names begin with Vig : E. L. Vigee, known as Vigee Le Brun ; Louis Vigee, her father ; J. L. H. Viger ; Jean Vignaud ; E. de Vigne ; F. de Vigne ; P. R. Vigneron ; and H. F. J. de Vignon.

E. RlMBAULT DlBDIN.

ASH : PLACE-NAME (9 th S. xii. 106, 211, 291, 373 ; 10 th S. i. 72, 113). I may point out that in Devonshire alone at the time of Domesday