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 10 s. xii. AUG. 14, 1909.] NOTES AND' QUERIES.

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KING'S ' CLASSICAL AND FOREIGN QUOTA- TIONS.' (See 10 S. ii. 231, 351 ; iii. 447 ; vii. 24 ; ix. 107, 284, 333 ; x. 126, 507 ; xi. 247.) Among the ' Adespota ' is No. 3053: "II fut historien, pour rester orateur. . . . Supposed to have been said of Livy."

The author is Taine, the reference * Essai sur Tite Live,' Introduction, p. 9 (Paris, 1856). The passage runs thus :

" Cette eloquence, comme une source trop pleine, ayait besoin de s'epancher. A d^faut du present, il appliqua la sienne au passe'. II se fit contemporain de la r^publique detruite, et plaida ' dans 1 antiquiW ; 1'eloquence 6tant ' pacifiee,' c'est-a-dire interdite, il fut historien pour rester orateur."

I learnt in some correspondence with the late Mr. King that he was preparing correc- tions and supplementary matter for a new edition of his book. It is to be wished that these could be published.

EDWARD BENSLY.

KEITH'S MAYFAIR MARRIAGES. Parson Keith's Chapel in Mayfair apparently has not yet had its historian. J. S. Burn in both editions of his interesting volume on the Mayfair, Mint, and Savoy Chapels ; but surely Keith's marrying house is worth more than that. The late Mr. Coleman of Tottenham had in his stock of old deeds a large mass of papers relating to this chapel, and a few of the marriage licences are before me. For example, on an oblong piece of parchment bearing a five-shilling stamp is this inscription :
 * The Fleet Registers ' provides notices of

"21st Oct., 1748. Whereas Mr. Joseph Hawksworth of Fulham and Mrs. Mary White of St. George, Hanover Square, Being desirous to enter into the state of Matrimony without the publication of Banns, Have solemnly declared that they are of the age of 21 years or upwards, and that there is no lawfull impediment by precontract, by any other marriage, by being nearly related by blood or marriage, or any other way whatsoever : that they are of no better state than they appear to be, and that they are not under the care of the Court of Chancery, I have consented that they be married at ye New Chapel in May Fair.

" Ordinary to the sd. Chapel."

Not any of these specimens are signed, and the fact that a large number were found together suggests that these licences to marry were written immediately before the actual marriage, and therefore they were not signed, or claimed by the bride- grooms. The only name of interest occur- ring in the licences before me is that of William Prujean of St. Andrew's, Holborn. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

LONDON TAVERNS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. Can any of your readers refer me to a list either printed or in MS. of the principal London taverns, eating-houses, and ordinaries in the first half of the seven- teenth century ?

ARTHUR IRWIN DASENT.

The Dutch House, Hampton-ou-Thames.

" HARKA." A Reuter's telegram from Madrid, published in The Times on 3 August, says : " The Moorish chief El Gato, at the head of a strong body of Kabyles, has left to attack the harka."

What is the meaninjg of the word harka ? I suppose it is an Arabic word, and I gather from the context that it may mean a body of rebels or insurgents. Is the word a derivative of the Arabic root harak, to move, to be agitated, whence haraka, insurrection, tumult ? According to the margin of the Revised Version, the verb is to be found in the Hebrew Bible, in Proverbs xii. 27, " The slothful man catcheth not his prey," literally " Slackness doth not start its game."

A. L. MAYHEW. 21, Norham Road, Oxford.

FLYING TURK. In the extract printed at 10 S. x. 186 Bishop John Wilkins refers to the case of a Turk in Constantinople who, according to Busbequius, could fly. Can some reader supply the chapter and verse in Busbequius' s works ? L. L. K.

V. DE Vos. 1 should feel obliged for any information concerning a painter of this name. I have a large oil. painting of the Roman Campagna with figures of peasants and animals, signed V. De Vos, 1871. The picture was bought, 1 think, at an exhibition in Brussels in 1872. I am unable to find any trace of the painter in the ordinary works of reference. I want to learn whether his paintings are known, and whether he is living or dead. L- A. W.

Dublin.

KENDALL=LYON. Where did the mar- riage of Henry Edward Kendall to Anna Maria Lyon take place, and when ? He was an architect of London and Brighton, was born about 1775, and was son of John Kendall, who married Honor Raper, of