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pen of Canon Greenwell, of Durham), ending with a pedigree. There may be a good dea of confusion in other accounts of the descen dants of Waldef, but none is traceable in Dr. Green well's narrative. What MR. ROSE really wants is the descent of the Lascelles family from Duncan, who married Christiana, daughter of Waldeve, who was a son oi Gospatric of Bolton, the bastard. This infor- mation the Gospatric records do not afford. RICHARD WELFORD. JSTewcastle-upon-Tyne.

SHAKESPEARE'S GRAVE (10 th S. i. 288, 331, 352, 416, 478 ; ii. 195). Conceding all that is claimed for the authenticity of the mural monument, may I make an attempt to recall the discussion to the original question? What is the evidence that the slab bearing the lines "Good friend," &c., covers the grave of Shakspere 1

ISAAC HULL PLATT.

The Players, New York.

REGIMENTS ENGAGED AT BOOMPLATZ (10 th S. ii. 148, 251). MAJOR MITCHELL will find information also in Theal's 'History of South Africa,' vol. iv. (1834-54), in Cope's ' History of the Rifle Brigade,' and in the Blue-book ' Natal/ 3 May, 1849.

G. C. MOORE SMITH.

University College, Sheffield.

SWIFT'S GOLD SNUFF-BOX (10 th S. ii. 249). I should recommend your subscriber to try the Irish Union Magazine for April, 1845, also Wild's * Closing Scenes of Dean Swift's Life,' where he will find several particulars of the snuff-box in question. See also 1 st S. v. 275, 330. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

^DESECRATED FONTS (10 th S. i. 488 ; ii. 112, 170, 253). There is a misprint in my reply on p. 254. Great Stainton should be Great Staughton. As the former place is referred to in another reply, this correction is necessary. ANDREW OLIVER.

t GREENWICH FAIR (10 th S. ii. 227). See the Universal Songster,' vol. i. p. 313, 'Pretty Polly of Deptford.' J. F. FRY.

Upton, Didcot.

WAGGONER'S WELLS (10 th S. ii. 129, 214). I am much obliged for the replies as to the derivation of this word. Is there any evidence to connect Bishop Walkelin with the ponds ?

On referring to Warren's excellent ' Illus- trated Guide to Winchester' (1902), pp. 15 and 19, I see it is mentioned that when the bishop was rebuilding the Cathedral in 1079 he obtained timber from the wood of Hane- pinges, on the road to Alresford. Did he go

to these wells to obtain a water supply for the buildings and construct reservoirs there which are now known as Waggoner's Wells 1 H. W. UNDERDOWN.

" RAVISON ": " SCRIVELLOES " (10 th S. ii. 227). Scrivelloes are tusks under a certain weight, some say fourteen, others twenty pounds. The term is of interest, because its etymology has not yet been traced. It occurs in old travellers, e.g., Atkins, ' Voyage to Guinea,' 1735, where the orthography is screvelios. Rees's 'Cyclopaedia,' 1819, has the curious spelling crevelles. French authors write escarballes, escarbelles, and escarbeilles, but the French lexicographers are, equally with the English, at fault as to its origin. I suspect it to be Portuguese, but cannot find it in any Portuguese book. It is one of the words which the editors of the ' N.E.D.' will have to solve. JAS. PLATT, Jun.

" Ravison spot " is half-boiled linseed oil. Webster's 'International Dictionary' quotes R. F. Burton for scrivello, as follows : " The elephants used to destroy many of us on account of our hunting them for their ivories and scrivellos."

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.

Baltimore House, Bradford.

"A SHOULDER OF MUTTON BROUGHT HOME

FROM FRANCE" (10 th S. ii. 48, 158, 236). The extravagant idea conveyed by the fourth stanza of the doggerel reproduced in the interesting communication of the REV. J. W. EBSWORTH has survived to our (at least to my) own time say it was remembered for a cen- tury and three-quarters. Among your civic readers there must be surviving some few ancient residents in the one square mile who can remember in the late thirties or early forties of the last century a corkcutter's shop occupying the ground floor of business pre- mises on the north side of Eastcheap. In the shop window, among other trophies display- ing the manual wonders that can be achieved with cork for the material, in an oblong glass case, about 2 ft. by ] J ft., was exhi- bited a model, cut in cork, of the Monument on Fish Street Hill carried away on the shoulder of a running man, with a police- man (bearing a truncheon in his right hand,, and clad in the chimneypot beaver and swallowtails of the period) in hot pursuit. As a boy I often paused to gaze through the shop window at this interesting exhibit. The reminiscence is revived by the line This man with the Monument would run away, but at Aldgate Watch they did him stay.

My preceptors explained to me that this was