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of Wight, in January, 1817, visiting Dublin as an actor in December of the same year. His income in 1838 was 7,312Z. ; and in 1839 6,544Z. He was drowned on board the ill-fated President on 15 March, 1841.

W. H. GRATTAN FLOOD. Enniscorthy.

[Mr. M. MacDonagh states at the end of his account of Tyrone Power in the ' D.N.B.' that he has been confused with Thomas Powell, who was born at Swansea, achieved some success in the delineation of Irish character, and assumed the name of Tyrone Power (after the death of the latter?). He adds that the real facts of the genuine Tyrone Po\ver's Irish origin were set out "by his friend J. W. Calcraft, manager of the Theatre Royal, Dublin, in the Dublin University Magazine for 1852 (vol. xl.)."]

FLEET PRISON (10 S. x. 110). Fleta, the learned lawyer who lived about the end of the reign of Edward II. and beginning of Edward III., while a prisoner in the Fleet (whence the term ' Fleta ' was given to his work) wrote a book on the Common Law of England. Possibly some account of the prison will be found there.

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

" MESCHIANZA " (10 S. x. 30, 97). There is also a very full account of this fete at pp. 23-64 of a plesantly written volume of sketches of American Colonial social history, entitled ' Through Colonial Doorways,' by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, published at Philadelphia by the J. B. Lippincott Com- pany, 1893. G. L. APPERSON.

ODE TO NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (10 S. x. 190). The cynic Diogenes, and others, scorned Dionysius for living in an obscure private station after having been tyrant of Syracuse (see Grote's ' Greece,' ix. 154). The name of Dionysius had become a byword for a fallen tyrant dragging on life in ob- scurity ; now avers Byron in his wrath that byword will be transferred to the name of Napoleon. W. T. MALLESON.

' Reader's Handbook ' quotes

Brewer's thus :

Transferred his by-word (tyrant) to thy brow. R. A. POTTS.

LONDON STATUES AND MEMORIALS (10 S. ix. 1, 102, 282, 363, 481 ; x. 122, 211). A memorial of William Blake will be found in the Tate Central Library, Brixton. It consists of a portrait, and a bas-relief of ' Death's Door,' one of Blake's illustrations to Blair's poem 'The Grave.' Blake lived at 13, Hercules Buildings, Lambeth, 1793- 1800. F. j. BURGOYNE.

FRENCH COAT OF ARMS (10 S. x. 209). The arms about which COL. RIVETT-CARNAC inquires (a chevron between two mullets in chief ; in base a sheep passant) are appa- rently those of Pierre Seguier, Chancelier de France, born 1588, died 1 672. His printed books were dispersed before 1706. See Guigard, ' Nouvol Armorial du Bibliophile/ Paris, 1890, vol. ii. p. 434. How the arms of Pierre Seguier, who left no heirs male r came to be impressed on an ' Almanach ' for 1787 is not easy to explain.

C. THOMAS-STANFORD, F.S.A.

ERASMUS WILLIAMS OF DORSET (10 S. x. 208). The curious portrait referred to is evidently a representation of the brass in Tingewick Church, Bucks. This brass is 19| in. high by 11 in. wide, and depicts a figure kneeling at an altar-tomb between the columns and emblems, &c., described by MR. BROADLEY. Beneath are the lines beginning " This does Erasmus,'' &c. The engraving is so finely done as to defy rubbing, I think a picture of this brass has been pub- lished by some brass-rubbing society.

W. BRADBROOK.

Bletchley.

"ST. FRANCIS'S MOON" (10 S. x. 189). The name-day of a St. Frances or St. Fran- cisca is on 21 August ; and according to the ' Alphabetical Calendar of Saints' Days ' in Sir Harris Nicolas' s ' Chronology of History,' the festival of St. Francis Xavier, the apostle of the Indies, is celebrated on 3 December. The same list contains the names of eight male saints of that name and one " transla- tion," but none of these festivals is kept in August. L. L. K.

INITIAL LETTERS INSTEAD OF WORDS (10 S. ix. 126, 174; x. 176). The Liverpool Diocesan Gazette for September, in reference to the Manchester Church Congress, states that a " Missionary rendez-vous will be arranged at Onward Buildings, 207, Deans - gate, Manchester," and that the following societies will make the place their head- quarters : C.M.S. ; C.E.Z.M.S. ; C. and C.C.S. ; S.A.M.S. ; B. and F.B.S. ; R.T.S. ; L.J.S. ; and Missionary Leaves Association. This is a goodly array of initials ; some of them may be tolerably plain, but others require a lot of thinking over.

In The Strand Magazine for the same month is one that runs the P.L.G. of our friend AYEAHR pretty close. It is I.D.B., which stands for " Illicit Diamond Buyer," a busi- ness well known in South Africa, I believe. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY.