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Similar arms are ascribed to Blin (Paris), De la Chapelle (Lyonnais), Jan de Belle- fontaine (Bretagne), and Varenard (Beau- jolais), and they are described, among other works, in Rietstap. The coronet, however, would appear to identify the arms as those of the Seguier family. There is a pedigree in Chenaye-Desbois. LEO C.

ROMAN INSCRIPTION AT BAVENO (10 S. x. 107, 193). I am much obliged to PROF. BENSLY for the further light that he has thrown upon this puzzling inscription. What- ever may have been the case in Mommsen's time, I doubt if a single word is quite legible now. The absence of the verb, to which TROPHIMVS should act as a nominative, has not been explained. Nor has the strange word DARINIDIANVS, which, in Mommsen's version, appears to be in apposition with Trophimus, while it is not stated to whose eternal memory the memorial was sacred. I hope to receive further information on these points. W. F. PRIDEATJX.

PARLIAMENTARY APPLAUSE : ITS EARLIEST USE (10 S. x. 248). Note B in Earl Russell's ed. 1865, says that in the reign of Elizabeth "Mr. Secretary Cecil stood up, and said. . . . (all the House said, Amen)." G.
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HAMPSTEAD IN SONG (10 S. x. 187). In Bickham's 'Musical Entertainer' (1733, &c. ) there is a song entitled ' The Beautys of Hampstead,' extolling the (then) " Chrystal bub'ling well."

' The Kit-Kats,' a poem by Sir Richard Blackmore, is dated 1708 :

Hampstead that, towering in superior sky, Now with Parnassus does in honour vie.

In 1722 "A serious Person of Quality" published a satire called ' Belsize House, in which he undertook to expose " the Fops and Beaux who daily frequent that Aca- demy." :-. This house perfumed with a Hampstead breeze.

John Stuart Blackie contributed to The Leisure Hour (date unnoted) a short poem beginning Bless thee, thou breezy heath and green retreat.

Dr. Gibbons, a Hampstead physician, was the Mirmillo of Garth's mock-heroic poem ' The Dispensary.'

Dr. John Armstrong, another physician, author of the once popular didactic poem 4 The Art of Preserving Health,' visited and recommended " Hampstead, courted by the western wind." His strolls on the

leath are supposed to have suggested to Johnson in his ' Vanity of Human Wishes T
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The needy traveller, serene and gay, Walks the wild heath, and sings his toils away. The last verse but three of Wordsworth's- Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg ' is as follows :

Our haughty life is crowned with darkness, Like London with its own black wreath, On which with thee, Crabbe ! forthlooking I gazed from Hampstead's breezy heath. Keats's ' Ode to a Nightingale.' 'Poem : a Welcome to Golder's Hill,' by Sarah Whiting, 21 March, 1900.

' Poem of Belsize House,' 1722. ' Miscellaneous Poetry,' by Edward Coxe, Esq., of Hampstead Heath, Middlesex, 1805 (July 9, 1898).

'Hampstead: a New Ballad.' Set by Mr. Wichello, sung by Mr. Baker. May 23, 1900. There are other sources which will possibly yield information : John Soane's ' History of Hampstead Wells,' for instance, and Mrs. "aroline White's ' Sweet Hampstead,' lately published.

I have not a copy of Cowper's poems at hand, but in ' Old and New London ' the poet is said to refer to the great lawyer,. the first Earl of Mansfield, thus :

When Murray deign'd to rove Beneath Caen Wood's sequester'd grove, They wander'd oft, when all was still, With him and Pope on Hampstead Hill. Walford's ' Old and New London ' is full of information as to the romantic beauties of Hampstead Heath.

One might also draw attention to the valu- able Transactions of the Hampstead Anti- quarian and Historical Society (Brit. Mus, Lib., 6 vols., R.Ac. 5691).

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

There was a " comic " song entitled ' Hampstead is the Place to Ruralize/ written by Watkyn Williams, sung by Miss- Annie Adams, and published in 1861 by H. D'Alcorn, 8, Rathbone Place, Oxford Street, W.

In the Banks Collection in the British Museum there are some verses annexed to a view of the old hollow elm tree at Hampstead, of the date 1653, but perhaps these could hardly be considered as " song." AYEAHR.

" STAR AND GARTER TAVERN," PALL MALL. (10 S. x. 244). I have always understood that the Carlton Club occupied the site of " The Star and Garter Tavern." In The Tatler of 2 Sept., 1903, the number in Pall Mall is given as 94. In ' Club Life of London,' by John Timbs, vol. ii. p. 211, there is an account of " The Star and Garter " and the-