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Kennett, gentleman, who died 14 Nov., 1662. What were the arms of these Smiths ?

Replies may be sent direct.

LEONARD C. PRICE.

Ewell, Surrey.

PARCEL POST IN 1790. In ' The Adven- turers,' a farce, London, 1790, we read in Act I. sc. i. that " Jack Spavin bolted an old apple-woman into the parcel-post at Cripplegate." How is this early reference to the parcel post explained ? M.

[The earliest quotation in the 'N.E.D.'is from Household Words in 1859.]

CAROLINE AS A MASCULINE NAME. Tn the first volume of ' A Selection of Curious Articles from " The Gentleman's Magazine " ' (1811), p. 69, the name Caroline appears as the Christian name of a man.

Can any of your readers say if this was usual in 1716. and if so, where ?

GEORGE H. COURTENAY.

South town House, Kenton, near Exeter.

H. F. WALKER = ELLEN HOWARD. Wanted father's name of Ellen Howard who was living with her sister Amelia in 1833 at 36, Portland Place, W., and who married in that year, at St. James's, Picca dilly, Henry Frederick Walker of Roya Horse Guards Blue and Blyth Hall, Notts.

DOCTOR.

216, Bohemia Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea.

MANOR HOUSE c. 1300 : JAMES BELLOT OF CAEN. 1. Can any one tell me where there is a good specimen of manor hous with homestead of date c. 1300, as littl altered as possible ?

2. Can any one give me information about an Englishman, James Bellot of Caei living there about 1580 ? F. H. C.-D.

LE BLON MEZZOS IN FOUR COLOURS. I have discovered three mezzos in four colours red, blue, green, and yellow b Le Blon. As Le Blon only reproduced i three or four colours his mezzos from th greatest masters, I wish to ask what th discoveries of the last hundred year amounted to. These three large oval mezzo are very much the best of "all Le Blon works. JAS. HAYES, M.R.S.A.I.

Church Street, Ennis.

" His END WAS PEACE." This sentenc occurs so frequently in this precise form o tombstones that it may be presumed to b a quotation, and not a mere statement o fact. If it is a quotation, whence is quoted ? HARMATOPEGOS.

JUpius,

T. MARTIN POMEROY AND THE

ROMAN POMGERIUM:

POUNDBURY.

(10 S. x. 382.)

MR. MARKS raises a very interesting point, nd raises it well. I have known most of tie facts he quotes for and against my theory,
 * >ut I did not state them in my ' Governance

f London ' because I was relying more upon comparative custom than upon philo- ogical evidence. And I venture to think was right in so doing. If this point about he pomerium were the only item in ihe remains of Roman Lundinium which ent itself to comparative evidence, I should ay my case was weak. That it shares its )osition with other important items is ihe first claim I make for its correctness.

Let me take MR. MARKS' s philological argument. Why should Anglo - Saxons adopt the Latin pomarium only in places admittedly of Roman origin Dorchester and London while everywhere else they retained their own native word ceppel with its compound ceppelbearo, an orchard ? . MARKS would probably reply that the name is Norman, and not Anglo-Saxon, and came through the French pommeraie. My rejoinder would be that the place-name Pomer, Pomers, should give pause to this supposition ; and further, that the English apple has held its own against the Norman everywhere except in towns founded on ancient Roman sites. For the apple as a natural fruit known to the Teutonic and Slav peoples see Hehn, ' Wanderings of Plants and Animals,' by Stallybrass, pp. 399, 498-9.

I am not a philologist, so naturally prefer the appeal to comparative custom. Now in the case of Mile End in London and in Colchester (both Roman sites) we have evi- dence of the ancient customs connected with the pomerium being preserved by an English name (' Governance of London,' 104-6, 384). This was because the customs themselves were continued. In English London they became part of the later London polity. But the pomerium itself, the geographical area covered by it, was not continued in English London, and it therefore lost its place in the English vocabulary. English London did not preserve the pomerium of Lundinium Augusta. What has been preserved in the name of St. Martin Pomeroy is the tra- ditional sanctity belonging to the original