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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. xn. DEC. n, 1909.

SIR FRANCIS BLAKE DELAY AL, K.B. (10 S. xii. 349). There is some reference to this gentleman " of the fine old Norman Dela- vals, the rake and humourist of about a century ago " in an article, ' Electioneer- ing,' in The Quarterly Review, vol. cii., July-October, 1857. An anecdote is related of Sir Francis, when standing for Andover, and a voter, who refused money, wine, place, flattery, &c. Eventually the candidate discovered that the voter desired above all things to see a fire-eater ; whereupon Del aval journeyed to London, and returned with one Angelo in a postchaise. The mountebank

" executed all his genius fire poured from his mouth, and nostrils, fire which melted that iron nature, and sent it cheerfully to the poll for Delaval."

Again, after one of his contests his attorney sent him in the following bill : " To being thrown out of the window of ' The George Inn,' Andover ; to my leg being thereby broken ; to surgeon's bill, and loss of time and business all in the service of Sir Francis Delaval, 500."

H. G. ARCHER.

' LE LIVRE -- AND CASANOVA (10 S. xii. 389). I have carefully looked through the ten volumes of Le Livre, to which I was a subscriber from the first number to the last, and find that the only papers omitted by MR. EDGCUMBE are contained in the numbers for October and November, 1889, which are a continuation of Octave Uzanne's ' Casanova Inedit,' headed ' Les Lettres du Comte de Kcenig.' In the number for June, 1882, is a portrait of Casanova at the age of sixty-three, accompanied by a note stating that it is copied from a rare engrav- ing of which the only known proof is found in a copy of the ' Isocam&ron,' 4 vols., 8vo, Prague, n.d., then in the possession of the learned Venetian, Cavaliere Federico Stefani W. F. PRIDEAUX.

FLYING ACROSS~THE LAKE OF PERUGIA (10 S. xii. 288). Italian saints are great thaumaturgists. There is a modern repre sentation of a flying monk in the church of S. Lorenzo in Naples. So, at least, Th Trede says in ' Das Heidentum in der romischen Kirche ? (Zweiter Teil, 1890 p. 124). This miracle-worker is St. Giuseppe di Copertino. His spiritual ecstasies affectec his body, which on countless occasions flew through the air. Such marvellous power was imparted to him as a reward for the sanctity which he had reached through asceticism. I. M. S.

JACOB COLE (10 S. xii. 129, 218, 251, 418). I can add a little to the information given y Mr. FREDERIC BOASE respecting Jacob ^ole. In 1866 and 1867 the firm was Cole & Williamson, who carried on their business as hatters at 5, Upper Charles Street, West- minster. I cannot trace them further.

If MR. BOASE could tell me whether Jacob- Cole was the author of the Broderers* song commencing

Come give us your plain-dealing fellows, tie would very much oblige me.

CHRISTOPHER HOLFORD.

"STRIPPING cows" (10 S. xii. 409). In my ' Glossary of Words used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham, N.W. Lincolnshire,' " stroppings " and " streakings " are given, but not " strip - pings," for at the time the second edition was issued I had not heard that form of the word. In more recent times I have come across it, but only once or twice. If a third edition is published in my lifetime, I shall find a place for it. The meaning- is the last milk which comes from a cow's udder before it is quite empty.

EDWARD PEACOCK.

When cows are " going dry " they require to be milked in a peculiar way. What that way is the quotations in the editorial note explain. Cows in this condition are com- monly called " stroppers " in the Midlands.

C. C. B.

A " stripping " cow or " stripper " is a cow that is giving milk, but, as she had calved a considerable time since, the milk is diminished in quantity. Soon after calving she is called a new milch cow, and when she ceases to give milk a dry cow.

J. T.

FIG TREES IN LONDON (10 S. xi. 107 r 178 ; xii. 293, 336, 396). In a garden rented by the proprietor of an Italian cafe at the rear of No. 23, Aldgate, and used by him as an al fresco annexe for his business, there was until lately a fine fig tree which fruited abundantly, but the figs had not ripened within living memory. This land: was originally part of the Priory of Christ Church, and in the immediate past part of the site of Aldgate Ward School, from the authorities of which the cafe-keeper rented it. This garden is now built over, and forms- the site of the Sir John Cass Foundation School, Duke Street, opened this year. An interesting account of the Priory was