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NOTES AND QUERIES. no s. x. JULY 25, im

The references given in the reply at 7 S. iv. 415 are incorrect, so far as they apply to 6 S. ix., the references given for this volume referring, in fact, to 7 S. ii.

UBLLAD.

T. L. PEACOCK : " SKYLIGHT " AND "TWILIGHT " (10 S. x. 9). These words are expressive of the " no heeltap " school of hospitality which prevailed at Headlong Hall, and at the other country mansions where Peacock's novels take us. Mr. Head- long would not allow his guests to see " sky- light " through an emptied glass, or " twi- light " through a half -emptied glass " car de bien boire oncques ne fust faitard."

R. L. MOBETON.

Surely "No Skylight! No Twilight!" is merely equivalent to " No Daylight ! " HABMATOPEGOS.

May I suggest that the words " No Sky- light ! No Twilight ! " are intended to mean that Bacchanalian orgies should not take place in daylight, whether full or twilight, but at night, with drawn curtains and arti- ficial light ? UBLLAD.

VEBNON OF HODNET (10 S. ix. 168, 491). The names of the husband of Frances Vernon (seventh child of John Vernon in the list given at the latter reference) should read Sir Anthony Sherley, and not Sir Arthur Shirley. He was the well-known traveller and diplomatist. (He was inter alia the last ambassador from the German Emperor to Morocco till within the last few years.) The marriage was an unhappy one, and there was no issue of it.

The then existing branches of the Shirley family were distinguished from each other by the various spellings of the name. The main branch (Warwickshire and Derby) used Shirley ; while Sherley was the spelling of the Wiston (Sussex) family, and Shurley that of the one of Isfield (also in Sussex).

As to the question whether John Vernon was a knight or not, he is certainly so de- scribed by so good an authority as the late Mr. Evelyn Philip Shirley, both in the Stemmata Shirleiana ' and in ' The Sherley Brothers ' (published for the Roxburghe Club, 1848). C. S. HABBIS.

JOHN ZEPHANIAH HOLWELL (10 S. ix. 370, 455, 518). Holwell took command of Fort William, Calcutta, on Drake's desertion of the citadel. He survived the horrors of the " Black Hole " ; but MB. MONTAGUE

EDWABDS is not quite correct in stating n his query that a monument was erected
 * o Holwell in 1902 on the site of the tragedy.

3n the restoration of the settlement to the English, Holwell with others erected a monument near the fort, upon the face of which were inscribed particulars of the event and the names of the victims of the N"awab's cruelty Holwell' s name being included. This monument disappeared many years ago ; but Lord Cur z on during his Viceroyalty erected, at his own expense, a replica (or nearly so) of it, which again records the name of Holwell and those of his fellow-sufferers. There is a fine con- temporary oil painting here, in the Victoria Hall collection, of Holwell engaged in inspect- ing the erection of the original monument.

The story of Holwell and his heroism at the time of the siege of Calcutta may be fo.und in. Mr. H. E. A. Cotton's 'Calcutta Old and New,' the Rev. W. K. Firminger's handbook on Calcutta, and the earlier parts of Bengal : Past and Present, the magazine of the Calcutta Historical Society.

WlLMOT COBFIELD.

Calcutta.

"PBOMETHEAN" (10 S. x. 10, 54). Did the Drury Lane lamplighter of 1812 carry one of the articles ? It will be remembered that James Smith's inimitable parody of Crabbe's style opens :

'Tis sweet to view, from half -past five to six, Our long wax-candles, with short cotton wicks,

Touch'd by the lamplighter's Promethean art, Start into light, and make the lighter start.

But it is more likely that this is only a

poetical allusion to the son of lapetus.

R. L. MOBETON.

NUBSEBY RIME (10 S. ix. 408, 478 ; x, 38). The lines of Monk Lewis may be re- membered. I think that allusion has not been made to them in this discussion. I may, however, have overlooked them. The worms they crept in, and the worms they crept

out ; And wriggled his eyeballs and temples about.

E. YABDLEY.
 * Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogene.

RUSHLIGHTS (10 S. x. 27). These are still specially made in small quantities for plumbers, who use them in their business, several of them being tied together to- make a torch. Prof. V. B. Lewes, of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, told me he had great difficulty in obtaining speci- mens for one of his lectures on chemistry. I asked a friend of mine, the last of a family