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NOTES AND QUERIES. no s. x. OCT. 17, UOB.

Sotheby's in June, 1899. It was lot No. 807 in the Wright Collection, and was described as follows in the catalogue :

"Theatric Tourist; being a Genuine Collection of Correct Views, with brief and authentic Accounts of all the Principal Provincial Theatres in the United Kingdom, 24 beautifully coloured plates, with the 24 original drawings of the engravings, also 66 original and unpublished drawings of other Provincial Theatres beautifully bound in 2 vols.

green morocco extra 4to, 1805. This interesting

work was discontinued after the publication of part viii. for want of public support, and the un- published drawings contained in this copy are those which were made for the subsequent numbers, but which were never issued."

The information sought is wanted for purely literary purposes.

W. J. LAWRENCE. 82, Shelbourne Road, Dublin.

FRIENDLY BROTHERS or ST. PATRICK. Can any reader supply information as to the origin of this order, or as to its history prior to 1751 ? All records before this date have been unfortunately destroyed. D. M. J. Dublin.

MEDITERRANEAN : FIRST USE OF THE NAME. In Smith's 'Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography,' under ' Internum Mare,' we read :

"The epithet ' Mediterranean' is not used in the classical writers, and was first employed for this sea by Solinus (c. 22; conf. Isid., ' Orig.,' xiii. 16). The Greeks of the present day call it the * White Sea ('A(Topt OdXaaaa), to distinguish it from the Black Sea."

I have looked through the ' Polyhistor ' of Solinus, and cannot find the word "Mediter- raneus " there ; it is certainly not in c. 22. I believe, therefore, that the ' Origines ' or ' Etymologiarum libri XX.' of St. Isidore contains at the above place the first known mention of the modern name of the sea ; and with this agrees the reference in the date.
 * N.E.D.' to the seventh century as its earliest

But I have also a query to ask on another point in the above quotation from Smith's 'Dictionary.' Whence comes the word ao-wpi ? Is it quite modern Greek ? It is certainly not to be found either in Liddell and Scott or in the lexicon of Sophocles.

W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.

QUICKS WOOD, CLOTHALL, AND THE EARL OF SALISBURY. James, sixth Earl of Salis- bury, married in 1743 Elizabeth, sister of the Rev. John Keet, Rector of Hatfield, by whom he had an only surviving son, who succeeded him at his demise. The Earl

owned the manor of Quicks Wood in Clothall parish, and there is a tradition in North Herts that he kept " a fair lady " in the great house there, much to the annoyance of his son and heir. At the death of the Earl in 1780, the "lady," it is said, was bundled out without ceremony, and the house immediately razed to the ground. The massive oaken entrance gates, apparently of Jacobean design, were acquired by a builder, who re-erected them by the side of his house in High Street, Baldock, where they still remain.

Is it possible to obtain any confirmation of this tradition ? W. B. GERISH.

Bishop's Stortford.

" APPLE- JOHN FACE." In reading some chat on old cricketers I came across one with " an Apple- John face." Country chil- dren used to be noted for apple-red cheeks, but I never knew one said to have " an Apple- John face." What is the meaning of the phrase ? THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

[See the speeches in ' 2 Henry IV.,' Act II. so. iv. > and the quotations in the 'N.E.D.,' s.v. 'Apple- John.']

OVOCA OR AVOCA ? Why does the Great Western Railway persistently advertise the beautiful Irish valley as Ovoca ? I have always understood it to be Avoca, Wexford.

BRUTUS.

ST. BARBARA'S FEATHER. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' tell me why St. Barbara, the patroness of Ferrara and Mantua, sometimes holds an ostrich or peacock's feather ? The books I have read give no explanation, and at Cologne, where the saint and her feather appear in several pictures of the earliest German school, the Catholics to whom I mentioned the symbol were quite in the dark as to its origin.

NELLIE L. PARKER.

PHILIP STUBBS, AUTHOR OF ' THE ANATOMY OF ABUSES.' Can any one give some infor- mation about the family of this Philip Stubbs ? The statements made by Wood (' Athense Oxonienses,' ed. Bliss, vol. i., cols. 645-6) would show that Philip Stubbs, John Stubbs the Puritan zealot, and Arch- deacon Philip Stubbs (of a later generation) all came of the same Norfolk family. Wood says that Philip Stubbs was " born of genteel parents, but where, one of his descendants of both his names knows not " ; a foot-note explains that this " descendant " was "Philip Stubbs, a vintner, living in the parish of St. Andrew Undershaft " (the father of