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the southernmost side of the old Green. See William Robins's ' Paddington, Past and Present' (? 1853), p. 51.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

ESSEX'S IRISH CAMPAIGN (10 S. xi. 69). The supposed references to this campaign in 'Much Ado,' I. i., are extremely doubtful, viz., " A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers " (1. 8), and " You had musty victual " (1. 50). As pointed out by Mr. J. C. Smith in the ex- cellent " Warwick Edition " of the play (Blackie & Son), Essex lost three-fourths of his men through sickness and desertion ; and the alleged scarcity of provisions in his army rests on an unverified reference to Camden by Chalmers in his edition of Shake- speare (1805). Elsewhere (' Henry V.,' Pro- logue to Act V., 11. 30-33) Shakespeare is complimentary in alluding to Essex.

L. R. M. STRACHAN.

Heidelberg.

Chalmers, in xiii. of his ' Supplemental Apology,' in which he treats of the chrono- logy of Shakespeare's plays, says that we learn from Camden and Moryson " that there were complaints of the badness of the provisions which the contractors furnished to the English army in Ireland " ; and he thinks there is an allusion to this in Beatrice's remark, ' Much Ado,' I. i. 51 : " You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it."

A. R. BAYLEY.

MOLIERE ON OPIUM (10 S. xi. 88). This occurs in the mock examination in Inter- mede III. of ' Le Malade Imaginaire,' and is contained in the answer :

Mihi a docto doctore

Demandatur causam et rationem quare

Opium facit dormire.

A quoi respondeo

Quia est in eo

Virtus dormitiva

Cujus est natura

Sensus assoupire. Whereat the chorus sings :

Bene, bene, bene, bene respondere ! Liquus, dignus est intrare In nostro docto corpore. Bene, bene, respondere !

E. E. STREET.

[MR. L. BEHRENS, ELS, and MR. JOHN HEBB also give the reference.]

DATE OF PLATE (10 S. x. 230, 298). COL. PARRY has not given sufficient particulars of his two pieces of plate to enable his question as to their dates to be properly answered.

In the first one it is doubtful whether the M or the F is the date-letter. In the second

it is presumably the R. But he does not state what character of type the letters are stamped in. I presume that all are Roman capitals. If so, the second may be either 1732 or 1812, the R for the latter year being rather thicker ; but the shape of the shields would mainly enable one to decide this. If COL. PARRY would send me a sealing-wax impression of the hall-marks of these two pieces of plate, I think I should be able to give him their dates. All one can say now with any certainty is that they are of silver, and that they were " assayed " in London. J. S. UDAL, F.S.A. Antigua, W.I.

POTTER'S BAR: SEVEN KINGS (10 S. xi. 89). The Seven Kings Brook, flowing from the southern extremity of Hainault Forest, possibly embalms the name of the Saxon holder of the adjacent lands Caentinc.

According to the well-known charter of anno 693, the bounds of Barking were " ab oriente writolaburna . . ab aquilone caentinces triow et hanchemstede . . ab australe flumen tamisa." Hanchemstede (Wenesteda, D) is doubtless Wanstead ; and it is difficult to escape the belief that " caentinges broc " (which ran through or by his property) was in course of time perverted into " Seven Kings Brook." EDWARD SMITH.

Seven Kings derives its name from the Seven Kings Brook, where, according to tradition, seven kings are supposed to have met during the time of the Heptarchy for a conference or for a hunt in the forest. The legend is discussed in ' Ilford Past and Present,' by G. E. Tasker ; ' A Sketch of Ancient Barking and Ilford,' by E. Tuck ; and ' East London Antiquities,' by W. Locks.

G. H. W.

' THE MILLENNIAL STAR ' ( 10 S. xi. 69, 116). This periodical is duly entered in the British Museum Catalogue under its proper name, the Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star. It began in 1840, and still appears to be " in progress." The first volume and a part of the second were published at Manchester, and afterwards at Liverpool. C. W. S.

ARABIC NUMERALS (10 S. x. 368). Edward Clodd in his little ' Story of the Alphabet ' refers to a communication of Canon Taylor to The Academy, 28 Jan., 1882, and "reprints at p. 212 a comparative table of Indian, Arabic, and European forms, the last belonging to the twelfth and four- teenth centuries. ALEX. RUSSELL.

Stromneas.