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The children bring round dolls, posies, and a horn. The dolls are brought by the girls, and the posies (which generally take the form of a Latin cross) by the smaller boys. The bigger boys come with a horn and ask if you would like to hear it. Boys without the horn are formidable enough, and they are invariably excused the performance. Of course the quest is the nimble penny ; but what about the origin of the custom ? Perhaps some of your correspondents can throw light upon that. H. T. JENKINS. S. Monica, Ilfracombe.

PORT ARTHUR. What is the origin of the name Port Arthur] How comes it that, almost alone of the Far Eastern places of which we now daily read, this place is in- variably called by an apparently English name 1 By what name is it known to the Chinese and Japanese ? KAPPA.

[Port Arthur is named from Capt. Arthur, who commanded one of H.M. ships when the coast line of the Liao-tung peninsula was being surveyed. See 9 th S. i. 367, 398, 437; ii. 78, 111.]

WORM. Can any of your readers inform me what disease was in the seventeenth cen- tury known as " the worm " ] I do not think it can be " the worms " in our use of the phrase. It is always used in the singular. Some one, supposed to be Lord Balcarres, writes to Sir Arthur Forbes, 14 June, 1653 : "I am tormented with the worm" (Firth, 'Scotland and the Commonwealth,' p. 145). Baillie writes :

" What shall I doe with the worme, it hes im- prisoned me? If the Parliament would put on

him the penaltie of my worme, I think it would quickly temper his very uncivill pen."' Letters,' iii. 454.

I have also seen the phrase used in a passage of a letter given in Thurloe's 'State Papers,' though I cannot give the reference. It seems quite a common phrase of the time, though I notice that Dr. Firth is puzzled by it and puts a [1] after it. Is it the gout 1

J. WILLCOCK.

" PAINTED AND POPPED." In a work attributed to Milton, recently published, and which I think there is little or no reason to doubt came from his pen, the above phrase is used in describing the appearance of over- dressed, frivolous ladies, of which apparently the author highly disapproved. What is the meaning of the word " popped," and what can be its derivation 1 Ben Jonson I believe uses it also. MELVILLE.

Melville Castle, Midlothian.

[Popped= nicely dressed, Halliwell. Unknown derivation, ' Eng. Dial. Diet.']

LIEUT. -CoL. WILLIAM CROSS, C.B. To what family of Cross did Lieut.-Col. William Cross, C.B., who served in the 36th Regiment from 1802 to 1824, belong ? Where can I find details connected with his life ? B. T.

BUILDING CUSTOMS AND FOLK-LORE. I should be grateful for any information with regard to old customs and folk-lore connected with building houses and cottages. Do the racial divergencies in various partsof England account for the different types of cottage to be found therein 1 References to any books relating to cottage architecture would be very acceptable. P. H. DITCHFIELD.

Barkham Rectory, Wokingham, Berks.

"JENION'S INTACK." On an old map of Cheshire, printed by William Darton & Son, 58, Holborn Hill, London, but in what year I know not, though evidently it must have been before railways were in operation, I find " Jenions Intack " marked thereon. The situation is near the junction of the road leading from Ashton Heys to Weaverham, east by north about thirteen miles from the city of Chester, and about two miles south from Kingsley, on the western side of the road leading thence to Delamere Forest. In late county maps of Chester, published by G. W. Bacon & Co. and George Philip & Son (of Bartholomew's 'New Reduced Survey,' sheet 12), I see no mention of "Jenions Intack"; perhaps it was only a temporary construction. My foreparents, named Janion, lived in the neighbourhood of the " intack," or intake, for many years, their abodes being at Aston, Bradley, Bradley Orchard, Newton, and Kingsley, all to the north of Delamere Forest. Can any of your readers oblige me with information about the said intake? CHARLES JANION.

Registrar-General's Office, Wellington, N.Z.

'THE CHILDREN OF THE CHAPEL.' Can any reader tell me where I could see or buy an anonymous pamphlet entitled 'The Children of the Chapel Stript and Whipt' (1576), or suggest the author f C. C. STOPES.

WOLVERHAMPTON PULPIT. The current (April) number of the Antiquary contains a picture and brief description of the pulpit in St. Peter's Collegiate Church at Wolver- hampton, contributed by Miss Barr Brown. She writes : " Only one other pulpit of its kind exists in England." Where is this 1 T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

Lancaster.

GILBERT. Thomas Gilbert was admitted to Westminster School, 26 January, 1778,