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the ' Cronica di Sanuto ' (Muratori, ' SS.Rerum Italicarum,' vol. xxii. 628-39) in the original Italian, with an English translation by Mr F. Cohen, from which latter I extract the following :

" And they did not paint his portrait m the hall of the Great Council :-but in the place where it ought to have been, you see these words : Hie est ocus Marini Faletro decapitati pro crimimbus. I must not refrain from noticing that some wished to write the following words in the place where his portrait ought to have been as aforesaid : ' Marinus Faletro Dux. Temeritas me cepit. rcena.s lui deoapitatus pro criminibus.' Others also indited a couplet, worthy of being inscribed upon his tomb : Dux Venetum jacet heic, patriam qui prodere

tentans, ,

Sceptra, decus, censum, perdidit, atque caput.

The inscription on a black tablet is still to be seen on the frieze in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio, but "Falethri," not "Faletro,' appears to be the correct reading. Faliero was executed 17 April, 1355.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

[MR. J. DORMER, MB. J. A. J. HOUSDKN, MB. E. PEACOCK, and MR. R. A. POTTS also refer to Marmo Faliero. 1

GUNCASTER (10 th S. i. 448). Guncaster bears such a similarity to some ancient forms of Godmanchester that there is little room to doubt the identity in'question. It was called Gumicastra, Gumicestre, and Gumycester. In the Cotton MS., quoted in Dugdales ' British Traveller,' are certain particulars of the customs of the manor of Godmanchester, where, it says,

" also it is ordeyned and statutyd, that if any man of the s d towne of Gumycester have two or three sons by one woman lawfully begotten, the yonnger of the s d sons shall be the ayer, according to the use and customeof borough English," &c.

So in Lewis's ' Topog. Diet.' : " The manor was first granted in fee farm to the 'Men of Gumcester.'" J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

The ' Record Interpreter,' in ' A List of the Latin Names of Places,' give Gumicastrum, Godmanchester, Hunts. Dunum is given for Doncaster, Yorks. ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Tankerton-on-Sea, Kent.

"BELLAMY'S" (10 th S. i. 169, 352). In that well - known book ' Parliament, Past and Present,' by Arnold Wright and Philip Smith (publishecfby Hutchinson & Co., but without date), POLITICIAN will find at p. 69 of vol. i. a portrait of John Bellamy, who is there described as being the "founder of the Kitchen Department of the House of Commons," it being further noted that, as proprietor of " Bellamy's Kitchen," he was intimate with

Fox, Sheridan, and the younger Pitt. Afc pp. 70, 72-5, 80, and 2G5-6 is much information concerning this well-known place. At p. 72 is reproduced much of Dickens's characteristic description from 'Sketches by Bpz.' We are told that the practice of supplying wine to members with their meals " led to lucrative transactions outside the House, and so the foundations were laid of a business which exists to this day in Westminster." The latter statement is not quite true at the present time, for the business carried on afc 38, Parliament Street, by Messrs. Bellamy, Smith & Boyes, underwent some changes, and after being thus known for many years, it became Bellamy & Smith, and now the firm is entirely extinct. A wine merchant's business is still carried on in the old offices by Messrs. Liberty & Co., but they inform me that they did not take over the business. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY. C2, The Almshouses, Rochester Row.

" HEN-HUSSEY " : " WHIP-STITCH " : " WOOD- TOTER" (10 th S. i. 449, 475). Whip-stitch in Annandale's ' Imperial Dictionary ' is ex- plained to be a tailor in contempt. The Rev. T. L. O. Davies, in his ' Supplementary English Glossary,' says it means to stitch slightly, and gives the following quotation from 'Quip for an Upstart Courtier,' by Robert Greene (1550-92) :

"In making of velvet breeches there is re- quired silke lace, cloth of golde, of silver, and such costly stuffe, to welt, guard, whip stitch, edge face and draw out."

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

GAYUS DIXON (10 th S. i. 449). Extract from Catalogue No. 40, 1904, issued by A. Russell Smith, 24, Great Windmill Street,. London, W. :

344 Dickson (D.) A Brief Exposition of the Evangel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew (imperfect at end), 2-s., Glasgow, 1647.

Was this the first " Dickson " recorded 1

RONALD DIXON. 46, Marlborough Avenue, Hull.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne. Vol. L Poems and Ballads. First Series. (Chatto & Windus.)

A COMPLETE edition of Mr. Swinburne's poetical and dramatic works has long been demanded, and the gift is at length in the way of being conceded. The opening volume consists of the h'rst series of ' Poems and Ballads,' which merits the position assigned it, inasmuch as, though preceded in dat*