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as successor to Casaubon in keeping the king's library. The ' Epulum Parasiticum ' was originally issued in Paris in 1601, and there were several subsequent editions. Richard Heber had at least two copies of the book, and both of them were of the edition issued in 1665. These two copies were sold at Sotheby's on the tenth day of the great Heber Sale (Monday, 21 April, 1834). Potter bought the first copy (lot 2380) for sixpence, and Longman bought the second copy (lot 2381) for a shilling. The Leyden edition of 1672 has been cata- logued during recent years at twenty-eight shillings. The fact that the book as men- tioned in the pencilled note is not alluded to in Fournier or in the ' Dictionnaire Bibliographique ' proves, of course, nothing as to its rarity or otherwise. Rigault edited several editions of the classics.

A. L. HUMPHREYS. 187, Piccadilly, W.

This is mainly a collection of the satires against Peter Montmaur. See Bayle's ' Diet.,' s.v. Montmaur, note B ; and Sal- lengre, ' Histoire de Pierre de Montmaur ' (La Haye, 1715, 2 vols., 12mo), at pp. cix- cxx of the preface. J. F. R.

Godalming.

SWIMMING BATH : WILLIAM KEMP (10 S. x. 89, 138). I have written to the Clerk of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, who promises to turn up the lease under which an estate in Old Street, St. Luke's, was let to William Kemp, a jeweller, who transformed a pond previously known as the " Perilous Pond " into " the Peerless Pool." The will of this enterprising citizen was proved in 1755 (P.C.C. 339 Glazier), and mentions at some length his Pleasure Bath, Cold Bath, and Peerless Pool, with Gardens, three messuages and fishpond, and other ground enclosed by a brick wall. All this, held under lease from the President of the said hospital, he left in trust to pay 801. per annum to his widow from the profits, with remainder to his children. The executors of the will were the testator's widow Sarah, his sons Philemon and Nathaniel Kemp, and his son-in-law George Roadley. The site of the baths is to be traced in street-names still in use near Old Street, viz., Peerless Street, Cold Bath Square, Bath Street, and Great Bath Street.

I should be glad to know what became of the family, and whether this William Kemp(e) was akin to the Kemp(e)s who for 250 years were tenants of land at Hendon held of St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

Daniel Kempe, Provost of the Moneyer& at the Mint, who was of the Hendon family,. left 100Z. to St. Luke's Orphan Asylum by his will, 1795.

FRED. HITCHIN-KEMP. 6, Beechfield Road, Catford.

[Much on the history of Peerless Pool will, a* noted ante, p. 140, be found at 9 S. iv. 128, 197,

"ENTENTE CORDIALE " (10 S. viii. 168 ;. ix. 194, 338, 418, 472 ; x. 37). In Mac- phail's Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal for November, 1859, is an article entitled ' The Entente Cordiale of France and England/ We are now rejoicing in the " moral in- vasion " the writer of the article hopes for : "A moral invasion would be more acceptable than physical demonstrations ; we would rather see Englishmen and Frenchmen loving than fearing each other. Hence the satisfaction we share with others in hearing that the Rev. Dr. Emerton, the Principal of the Hanwell College, Middlesex, has again come into the field with open purse, and proposed to give fifty guineas each for the best essays that can be written on the means of promot- ing a permanent alliance between the two greatest countries in the world. One of them is to be written by a Frenchman, and the other by a Briton T and we shall not be sorry to find that the palm of superior merit is ultimately awarded to a Cale- donian. Dr. Emerton, it may not be unknown, gave one hundred guineas as the premium on an essay on the moral results of the Great Exhibition of 1851. The prize was carried off by the Rev. Mr, Whisk."

JOHN C. FBANCIS.

ST. MARTHA (10 S. x. 108). If ST. SWITHIN consults the Isabella Breviary, preserved in the Library of the British Museum, he- can see for himself therein a representation of St. Martha, holding a ladle, and with a bunch of domestic keys attached to her waist. As the accomplished Mrs. Jameson correctly remarks, this is a very usual way of representing this saint.

Other early illustrations give her symbols which refer to an incident during her thirty years as a recluse. In these she is shown variously as vanquishing a dragon with a crucifix, or binding it captive with her girdle. The tradition is to be found recorded in the Rev. S. Baring-Gould's ' Lives of the- Saints ' (July volume, 1874). Tarascort was afterwards founded on the spot, and took St. Martha as its patron.

HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.

According to the ' Archaologisches Wor- terbuch ' of Miiller and Mothes, St. Martha, as patron saint of domesticity, is often, represented with a wooden kitchen-spoon.