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on the tail of a bird, or laid about in an ordinary way. It reminds me of the roasted

wonderful umbrella mounted on a strong bamboo cane. It had copper springs and cover of dark-brown Padua silk. That

and powdered mouse given in Derbyshire I a

for various childish ailments. Then why seems to identify Col. Cosmo Gordon with

ten crayfish? In folk-lore numbers are | the print. CONSTANCE SKELTON.

usually odd, and five, seven, or nine fish

would be more likely numbers. Can any

one locate this item of folk-lore?

THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop.

SWANS : RIGHT TO KEEP THEM. The Dyers' Company have kept swans " time out of mind," but seem to have no record of the royal licence by which they obtained the right to do so. Any early historical

ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL. I have for many mention of these swans would greatly oblige, years believed that " orthopaedic " ^ was as also references to similar permission derived from 6p06<s and TTOVS, like opOoirovs, granted to the Vintners and other public


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Children Straight : Reflections after visiting the Orthopedic Hospital. by H. Hamilton

Fyfe," in which (p. 3) is the following :- '

ITALIAN GENEALOGY. Can any one tell me of some Italian book on genealogy, to our Burke or Debrett, which give me full and authentic geriea- particulars of the principal families

straight, smdpais, a child. Here you have the main logical particulars oi the principal tamuies business of the Hospital, to make children straight.'* of the Neapolitan aristocracy up to the Is this the originally intended derivation? P res f nt da y? J f suc, h a book exists, at It appears to be contradicted to some extent ^ples or anywhere else, I should be glad by certain passages in a leaflet which accom- | to know how and where to Procure a copy, panied the pamphlet :

" Since the foundation of the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in 1838, over 300,000 crippled and deformed children and adults have been relieved or cured by

NICHOLAS BREAKSPEAR, POPE ADRIAN IV. : CAUSE OF HIS DEATH. I remember reading s ave een reeve or cure y som ewhere, in days long gone by, that this

amalgamated and called the Orthopaedic Hospital ").

Pope (the only Englishman who ever occu- Royal National | pid the papal chair) died from being choked by a fly; but unfortunately I omitted

The Orthopaedic Hospital is for the cure of making any note of reference at the time, cripples of alleges, but ^especially its aim is to and though I have since looked into most - "ble, &c. o f ^ e encyclopaedias, I have been unable

speaks of " Orthopaedic | to find any confirmation of it. Ranke's

' History ' does not go so far back (1154-9).

Can any reader kindly guide me in the object of my search? OCTOGENARIAN. [The ' D.N.B.' says he died of quinsy.]

make those children able," &c. The leaflet also surgery."

Does this mean " straight child " or " straight foot " surgery? Is not the suggested derivation from Trais an ingenious afterthought? ROBERT PIERPOINT.

St. Austins, Warrington.

[The 'N.E.D.' gives "Relating to or concerned

HARRIS, SILVER-BUCKLE MAKER. Is any list obtainable of the royal warrant-holders

with the care of deformities in children" as the under King George III., with their business meaning, and derives the word from French usage.] address or private residence? The name

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THE MACARONI MAGISTRATE. I have just purchased an old print showing a buck in a blue coat, with a huge umbrella under i M. his arm. The print bears the inscription, I Ma J est y- apparently in writing, " ri - 1 ^ - A1 - - Macaroni Magistrate."


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A later hand has

spelt out the name to " Gordon." Am I right in believing that he was Col. the Hon. Cosmo Gordon (1737-1813), who killed Col. Thomas of the Guards in Hyde Park in 1783? I notice from a chapter dealing with him in 'The Gay Gordons,' by Mr. J. M. Bulloch (pp. 159-64), that he possessed a

in Hatton Garden between 1780 and and was silver-buckle maker to his FOOTGEAR.

Col. G n, the I SMITH FAMILY OF WEST KENNETT, WILTS.

I should be very glad to receive any in- formation about the above family, whose burial-place is at Avebury, Wilts. Is their house still standing? The earliest record I am able to find is in 1623, when Richard Smith was in possession; and the earliest legible inscription on a memorial stone in the church is to Thomas Smith of West