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Huntingdon root (1788). The mangel wurzel. Whence did it get this name ?

Ice cream (1796). A tavern-keeper in Philadel- phia is ready to supply ice creams, &c. The word occurs (1769) in ' The English Housekeeper ' (' N.E.D.'). Mrs. Alexander Hamilton is said to have told a friend that she was the first person in the U.S. for whom this dish was made, the invention being attributed to a French cook.

Inangonizer (1775). Term applied by Bernard Romans to European factors.

Iron- weed (1819). No doubt English, though the earliest * N.E.D.' citation is 1827.

Islandist for Islander (1795).

Jack-case (1797). Part 'of a house immediately under the eaves.

Japanning (1796). Used in the sense of jesting or making fun.

Joke (1833). An object thrown at in a fair.

Jubator (1800). An animal that feeds on ants. Is the name in any work on natural history ?

Kentucky bite. Apparently a term used in wrestling.

King-ball (ab. 1750). A dance which was popular among the French settlers on the Mississippi.

" Know-ye " gentry (1789). Rhode Islanders, who were unwilling to enter the Union.

Knuck (1850). Something boiled and eaten.

Liberty Pole or Tree (1766). Was the Boston one the first of its kind ?

Lob bob chair (1800). What was this ?

Lurky (1842). " Each lurky cheek." The meaning ?

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C.

Louis XVIII.'s QUEEN AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY. It is usually stated that the Queen of Louis XVIII. of France was buried in Westminster Abbey, 13 Nov., 1810. But Capt. Smyth, the author of ' ^Edes Hart- wellianse,' says that this was but a tem- porary burial, as the Queen's remains were later forwarded to Sardinia, " where I afterwards saw the coffin in the splendid crypt of Cagliari Cathedral." Is the latter statement as to the removal from West- minster Abbey generally accepted ?

CLEMENT SHORTER.

HIGH WYCOMBE VAN DYCK. In the Council Chamber of High Wycombe is a so-called Van Dyck entitled ' Philip, fourth Lord Wharton, his Wife, and their Fourth Son.' It is so poor a piece, of painting that I imagine it to be a bad copy of a Van Dyck by some very inferior painter. Where is the original ? CLEMENT SHORTER.

EDMUND, BARON DE HAROLD. Is any- thing known of this Irishman, who died in 1808 a general in the Bavarian service ? In the article on Robert Clarke (or Graine) in the ' D.N.B.' it is mentioned that De

Harold's translation of Clarke's ' Christiados y was in the possession of his nephew in 1855. Among some letters which I recently acquired are several from De Harold, including about 350 lines of his translation of the ' Christiad,' about 250 lines of his transla- tion of Massenius's ' Sarcotis, or Paradise L os t ' to one or both of which the trans- lator declares Milton to have been indebted and the fifth Book (about 500 lines) of an epic poem (in eleven books !) on the French Revolution. The author proposed pub- lishing his epic if 200 subscribers could be found ; but I am not aware that any of his essays in verse, original or translated, were ever published. The 'D.N.B.' says that Clarke's * Christiados ' was " completed in 1650 " ; De Harold says that the poem was " written by the learned Rt. Clarke (alias Greine), a native of London, and Carthusian monk, at Nieuport in Flanders, in the year 1652." WALTER JERROLD.

Hampton-on-Thames.

BULLINGDON CLUB. I shall be glad to learn when this club was founded at Oxford, who were the original members, and any other details regarding its early history.

J O.

BELCHER FAMILY AND MOTTO. William Belcher, private secretary to Bishop Pococke of Meath, married a Miss Yates in Berk- shire about 1755. I am anxious to find in what parish this marriage is recorded, and to discover any details of his ancestry. His motto was " Loyall au mort," but on the shield of a Belchier, date about 1750, I find " Loyal jusqu'a la mort." Which is right ? and if the former, what exactly does it mean ? C. F. BELCHER.

74, Argyle Road, West Baling, W.

NEIL AND NATT Gow, OR GHOW, SCOTTISH MUSICIANS. Were they pipers or fiddlers, and at what period did they live ? Were they brothers ? I have known of Neil Gow, but only found in an old manuscript music book a strathspey by Natt Gow.

(Miss) H. GALWEY.

St. Columb's Court, Londonderry.

W. H. COFFIN IN ABYSSINIA. Coffin, who accompanied Viscount Valentia on his voyage to the East (1802-6), went with Henry Salt to Abyssinia in 1810, and remained in that country till 1826, when he returned to England, charged with a mission from Sabegadis, Ras of Tigre. Dr. R. R. Madden in his ' Travels in Turkey, Egypt,. Nubia, and Palestine,' 1829, i. 330-32, writing under date 1 June, 1826, says that