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2. A notice, printed, but filled up in MS., dated 3 Feb., 1651, and signed by J. Pocock and Ri. Hutchinson, recommending one Thomas Darke in the service of the Commonwealth, " under the command of Richard Hall in the Regiment of Colonel Cobbett under the Lord General Crom- well," to the " Treasurers for Maymed Soldiers," and " that he be paid 15s. for his journey from London to Hunnington in Devon, Ms place of residence." This notice bears a singularly well-executed seal, with the legend " Justice to Maymed Soldiers " surrounding the figure of a soldier with a wooden leg, but attired in Royalist rather than Covenanter costume a broad hat and short breeches fringed with lace.

I am anxious for information as to the Treasurers for Maimed Soldiers and their functions ; also as to the identity of J. Pocock and Ri. Hutchinson.

A. M. BROADLEY. The Knapp, Bradpole, Bridport.

DRYDEN'S SATIRE ' THE TRIBE OF LEVI.' Anthony Wood in his diary, under date 18 Feb., 1691, writes that Arthur Charlett that day showed him " a pamphlet newly extant, printed in double columns in half a sheet of paper in quarto, entitled ' The Tribe of Levi,' written by John Dryden." It was a satire on the clergy, a bitter thing in verse. Is it still extant ? or is anything known of it ? S.

SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS AND QUEEN'S HALL. An exhibition of ancient and modern masters was held, under the auspices of the Society of Fine Arts, at the Queen's Hall, probably during the third quarter of the last century. I am anxious to know the exact date, and where a catalogue may be seen ; also the constitution of the Society of Fine Arts. W. ROBERTS.

F. CHRISTOPHER PACK. This artist ex- hibited at the Royal Academy irregularly from 1786 to 1 840, chiefly portraits. I should very much like to know where an example or examples of his work may be seen. There are none apparently in any public collection.

W. ROBERTS.

47, Lansdowne Gardens, Clapham, S.W.

GREAT NEW STREET : EAST HARDING STREET : LITTLE NEW STREET. I should be glad to know when these streets were respectively so called. Hollar's map and later ones show the present Great New Street, but style it West Harding Street. Originally, too, Little New Street seems to

have been known as East Harding Street, and later as New Street ; while there are traces on the Sphere and Tatler office which seem to show that the present East Harding Street was previously known as Goldsmith Row. When, too, was Middle New Street first so called ? and was New Street Square originally an open space ?

R. A. AUSTEN LEIGH.

CHEESE FOR LADIES. I take the following excerpt from Jean Viollis's ' M. le Principal,' p. 70. " Vous ne prenez pas de fromage ? " asks a guest of his hostess. " ' Oh ! merci, monsieur ! ' fit avec distinction madame Le Flos, qui savait qu'une dame ne doit pas manger de fromage."

Does this privation receive countenance in England, at the present time ? I think I remember its being enforced in Mrs. Gaskell's ' Wives and Daughters,' some forty years ago. ST. S WITHIN.

HERALDIC QUERIES. 1. A widow, her father's coheiress, remarries : does the second husband place her arms on an escut- cheon of pretence, and do both husbands add her quarterings to their own ?

2. Is there any law as to colour and posi- tion of cadency marks ?

3. A man takes his wife's name and arms (differenced with a canton) in lieu of his own : are his descendants justified in drop- ping the canton and using the unaltered arms of their maternal ancestors ?

4. A family with over twenty quarterings uses two crests : what is the law as to ac- quiring one or more extra ones ?

5. Ought a chevron to be shaded under, or over, the sinister half ? It is shown either way indiscriminately.

6. Please name works going more deeply into heraldry than the most elementary books. J. B.

TELEGRAPH WIRES : THEIR EARLY LJNK- ING-UP. The question of the linking-up of telegraphic wires has recently been noticed as a novelty. Can any of the readers of ' N. & Q.' help me to fix the precise date, or indicate a contemporary record, of the following incident in the early days of tele- graphy ?

The incident happened at the residence of Mr. Samuel Gurney, 26, Prince's Gate, facing Hyde Park, and probably between 1861 and 1864. At that time the London and District Telegraph Company of which Mr. Gurney was chairman had been in- stituted for the purpose of furnishing facili- ties for telegraphing from the different