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Sutton Scotney, near Winchester both places upon an old road leading North from Winchester. It would be interesting to learn of any others associated with such remains, with a view to determining the derivation of the word. I seem to re- member coming across the name somewhere else in connexion with an archaeological find. O. G. S. CRAWFORD.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

It is too late ! It never is too late

Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

Cato learned Greek at eighty ; Sophocles, &c.

A. G.

The pomp and prodigality of [power ?]. I am aware of " the pomp of power " in Gray's ' Elegy.' Lucis.

BOOTH OF RAME, CORNWALL. At 9 S. ix. 65 an account is given of Nathaniel Booth of Mottram St. Andrew, co. Chester (1660- 1745), and of a Nathaniel Booth who was Constable of Batley in 1653, the name Nathaniel remaining in this family for two more generations.

I should be glad of information about another Nathaniel Booth, who married Joanna Edwards at Rame, Cornwall, in 1692. He, too, had a son Nathaniel, born at Rame in 1699, and a grandson, also Nathaniel, born there in 1725. Who was this Nathaniel Booth ? Family tradition says that he was a relative of the then Lord Delamere of the Cheshire family, that is. This is incidentally supported by the fact that this family did at that date by intermarriage become connected with Cornwall, and represented a Cornish borough or boroughs in Parliament. Further, the Rame family was fairly well-to-do, the son having divided 12,0001. among his daughters as marriage portions. There are, too, no wills of the name of Booth in Cornwall before 1800, other than those of this Rame family, and only one in Devon, and that about 1599. The will of the first Nathaniel is not, how- ever, at either Bodmin or Exeter.

E. J. BALL.

" SHALGHAM-ZAI," ANGLO-INDIAN TERM. Can any reader inform me as to the origin of the curious term " Shalgham-zai," applied in India, more or less in fun, to the natives of Cashmere ? Shalgham means a turnip ; therefore the name is equivalent to " Son of a turnip," and is obviously modelled on the patronymic names of certain border tribes, such as the Yusuf-zai, for instance, " sons of Joseph."

I shall be glad to know whether this term is merely based upon a real or supposed partiality of the people of Cashmere for the vegetable, or whether it is part of some- legend, or refers to some fact of history.

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

PRINCE EUGENE'S LONDON STATUE. There was formerly in Carlton House- Gardens a statue of Prince Eugene of Savoy,, the famous general who, in conjunction with Marlborough, gained some of the most decisive victories over the French which had been achieved since the days of Cressy and Agincourt. Of the statue I have been unable to discover any account other than that it was by Kent,- and that there are two- drawings of it in the Grace Collection (Port- folio XI. No. 78). Is anything known as to whether it still exists ? and if so, where ? J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

HENRY BARNEWELL, PREBENDARY OF ROCHESTER. Henry Barnewell, sometime chaplain to Archbishop Bancroft, graduated at Oxford (from Pembroke College, Cam- bridge) B.A. 1584, B.D. 1611 ; was ordained deacon (Peterborough) 1587, and priest (Rochester) 1588 ; and became Vicar of Aylesford in 1593, Rector of Ridley in 1605, and Prebendary of the fourth stall in Rochester Cathedral in 1613. He married Anne, daughter of Thomas Willoughby, Dean of Rochester, and widow of Edward Manning of St. Mary Cray, who survived him. In his will, dated 26 March, 1617 (Rochester wills, probate not entered), in which he directs burial in Rochester Cathe- dral, and leaves money to the preacher and the poor at his funeral and the poor of Ayles- ford, he mentions his wife ; his cousin George Barnewell (executor) ; his brother Christopher and his children ; his sister, wife of Richard Cooper, and her children ; and Anne, widow of his brother Thomas, and her children. Is anything more known of Henry Barnewell or his family ?

FRANCIS P. MARCHANT.

Streatham Common.

SNAKES : CRAYFISH AND ONIONS. In Country Life often appear interesting bits, of folk-lore. In the issue for 17 October a correspondent replies to an inquiry as to how to get rid of snakes infesting a house. He says the best way to get rid of them is to plant wormwood in various places, or " take ten river crayfish, and pound them up with a few onions." About the applica- tion of the mixture he says nothing whether it is to be put on the tail, like salt