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DEAN COOKES wafe a King's scholar at Westminster School in 1740, when he was aged fourteen. He was a native of West- minster, and his father's Christian name was Edward. Can any correspondent of

information concerning him ?
 * N. & Q.' kindly furnish me with further

G. F. R. B.

grateful for further information as to an opuscule in my library bearing this title, and with the imprint " Norimbergae, Anno M.DC.LXV." It bears the stamp of the Bibliotheca Heberiana, and a pencil note, possibly in Heber's MS. : " As rare as it is curious not mentioned in Fournier or
 * EPTJLTJM PARASITICUM.' I shall be

further notes in a French handwriting.
 * Dictionnaire Bibliographique.' " There are

A. FORBES SIEVEKING. 12, Seymour Street, W.

ACCESSION AND CORONATION COINS AND MEDALS. I have recently been given a set of coins which I am told were issued in 1902 in connexion with King Edward's accession, namely, 51., 21., II., and 10s. in gold ; 5s., 2s. Qd., 2s., Is., Qd., d., 3d., 2d., and Id. in silver ; and Id., $d., and %d. in copper.

1. Were these the only coins issued in connexion with the King's accession ?

2. Were any medals struck, and, if so, what medals, in connexion with the King's accession?

3. Were there any (i.; coins or (ii.) medals issued or struck, and, if so, what coins or medals, at the time of Queen Victoria's (a) Jubilee or (b) Diamond Jubilee ?

BARRULE.

ZOFFANY. I am anxious to discover if there are any portraits of Zoffany (the artist who painted David Garrick many times), if so, where they can be seen ; also if he ever painted a portrait of himself.

(Mrs.) E. SELWYN.

[The National Portrait Gallery contains a por- trait painted by himself in 1761. The ' D.N.B.' states that St. Peter in the altarpiece of ' The Last Supper' which Zoffany presented to St. George's Church, Old Brentford, is a likeness of himself.]

DANZIG : ITS SIEGE IN 1813. Where can I find a good account, either in English or French, of the siege of Danzig in 1813 ?

T. F. D.

H. HOPPER, MODELLER. I shall be glad if any one can tell me if this man was of any note, as I have two plaster busts with the following on the back : " H. Hopper. London. October, 1814." These busts

stand about two feet high, are very well done, and represent the Duke of Wellington and Lord Hill.

HERBERT SOUTHAM. Innellari, Shrewsbury.

JUpius.

THE NATIONAL FLAG. (10 S. ix. 502 ; x. 72.)

MR. ST. JOHN HOPE'S interesting reprint of his article on the Union Flag has just been handed to me. Having, by many- efforts, .'* pegged away " for years at this subject, contributing, amongst other things, articles to The Genealogical Magazine and later a chapter in ' The Art of Heraldry,' by Mr. Fox-Davies, I should much value the admission into your columns of a few remarks, confining myself entirely to the consideration of the relative proportions of the various charges borne upon our flag.

Ever since 1801 certain details connected with the flag have been the subject of repeated and adverse criticisms, and these are sure to continue, so long as some at least of these details remain unaltered. MR. ST. JOHN HOPE, after quoting PROF. SKEAT and Mr. Green, F.S.A., offers us a decidedly clever and most ingenious alter- native verbal blazon to that given by the College authorities in the Order in Council. The long-criticized phrase " the latter fimbriated of the second " is neatly dealt with by MR. HOPE'S word " dimidiated." Nevertheless, since the Crown leaves to the College of Heralds the duty of officially arranging all details, such as verbally blazoning, illustrating, and registering all grants, in its own fashion, I cannot but think that the " official description " should be deemed good enough, without further demur. In the case under discussion the authorities of the College appended a sketch (avowedly a rough sketch) to their verbal blazon of the Flag, and this sketch (now virtually effaced, but replaced by a clearer drawing) might well suffice to explain the limited way in which the term " fimbriated" was intended to be employed in connexion with the St. Patrick's saltire. Yet, be this as it may, the whole difficulty has arisen not out of the official blazon at all, but out of the action of some person or persons no longer traceable, who seem to have supplied the Admiralty as the body to whom was delegated the power of seeing