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township in Cumberland and another in Northumberland which may have been the source of Unthank and Onthank families. In this he follows Lower (' Patronymica Britannica'). . . ST. SWITHIN.

CLERGY IN WIGS (10 S. viii. 149, 214 ; ix. 497). In T. P.'s Weekly of 19 June, 1908, review of ' One City and Many Men,' Sir Algernon West states

" that in the early days of Her Majesty's reign peers drove down to the House of Lords in full dress, with their orders and ribbons, and bishops wore episcopal wigs, Bishop Blomfield, who died in 1857, being the last to do so."

At the reference in ' N. & Q.' last given Lady Dorothy Nevill says that " Bishops Bagot and Blomfield had been the first to lay aside " their wigs.

R. J. FYNMORE. Sandgate.

Is Lady Dorothy right ? J. T. quotes her on "Bishop Monk" as wearing his wig in 1848. Mr. Monk, M.P., told me his father was the last bishop to wear the wig, but named a date in the reign of William IV. D.

AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. ix. 328, 393, 455). The march for 'I'm Ninety-Five ' was written by Mr. Miller, bandmaster of the 1st battalion Rifle Brigade, at Malta in 1842. It was used on the line of march in the Kaffir war of 1846 and 1851, and at Fort Beaufort in 1852 was adopted as the regimental quick- step, which before was the march from ' Der Freischutyz.' H.M. Queen Victoria approved of it in 1856, and fourteen years later it was adopted by the 95th Foot.

H. A. ST. J. M. (late Rifle Brigade).

The four lines at 10 S. ix. 488, beginning Non ego me methodo astringam serviliter ulla, are, as was suggested, by Cowley. The reference is * Plantarum ' lib. i. 29. Hybleae in the second line of the quotation shoulc be Hyblaeae. The phrase " generandi gloria mellis " is borrowed from 1. 205 of the fourth Georgic. In the English translation of Cowley' s ' Six Books df Plants,' by N. Tate, Mrs. A. Behn, and others, the present passage is thus rendered by J. O. : , My self to slavish Method I '11 not tye,

But, like the Bee, where-e'er I please, will flie ; ' Where I the glorious hopes of Honey see, Or the free Wing of Fancy carries me.

EDWARD BENSLY. University College, Aberystwyth.

VICTORIAN COIN (10 S. ix. 209, 497). It would be interesting to know whether the Deputy-Master of the Mint was called to account for omitting the usual F.D. from the coinage, thereby obtruding his own. private views as a Roman Catholic in his- capacity of public official. J. T. F.

Durham.

This coin appears to be a 50-cent. piece- of Canada. It is very common, and down to the year 1901 there had been struck 1,408,036 pieces. The first year of issue- was 1870. Of late years it has been manu- factured at Heat on' s Mint, Birmingham (for the Government), and then a small H appears on the reverse die under the ribbon, which joins the two maple branches.

ARTHUR W. WATERS.

Leamington Spa.

CARICATURE : * ONCE I WAS ALIVE ' 10 S. ix. 427). Mr. Dobell, of Charing Cross- [load, has a copy of this, upon which ha& Deen written in pencil, " Mr. Baskerville." This name can, I think, be made out of the- .etters forming the monogram.

G. THORN-DRURY.

MURDER AT WINNATS (10 S. ix. 449). Rhodes's ' Peak Scenery,' 1824, says of the- victims, " They were strangers in the coun- try, and circumstances induced the sup- position that they were on a matrimonial excursion to the north." This writer, however, regards the whole story as apocry- phal. Croston's ' On Foot through the- Peak,' 1868, says :

"Who the victims were, and whence they came,.

has never been satisfactorily established Peak

Forest, distant about three miles from the scene of the murder, was extra-parochial at the period, and was used as a Gretna Green."

The fullest reference to this event is pro- bably to be found in ' Tales and Traditions of the High Peak,' by William Wood (no date, but published 1862), where 'Allan and Clara ; or, the Murder in the Winnats,' occupies twenty-four octavo pages. From this the following summary is taken : in April, 1758, the two fugitives appeared at " The Royal Oak Inn," Stoney Middleton, and left the next morning on horseback, asking the way to Castleton, en route for Peak Forest, here stated as eight miles distant. The murder took place in a barn, into which the victims had been forced, and booty, 200Z. in money, with other valua- ables was secured by the five murderers, four of whom afterwards died by accident or suicide, the fifth making a confession