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to the volume in question. On this plan i shown a large house with five gables jus north of where the Soane Museum now stands, and above it is written "Ye Lc Both well's house." Can anybody kindly saj who this nobleman was 1 ? No such titl appears in any of the usual lists of peerages existing, dormant, or extinct, so far as I am aware, nor have I succeeded in finding anj reference to him elsewhere.

ALAN STEWART. 7, New Square, Lincoln's Inn.

[Burke's * Dormant and Extinct Peerages,' 1883 gives four creations of this title, viz., Sir Johr Ramsay, 1485 ; forfeited, 1488 ; Patrick Hepburn third Lord Hales, created Earl of Bothwell, 1488 the fourth and last earl of this line being the ill fated husband of Mary, Queen of Scots ; Francii Stewart, created by James VI. in 1587, but after wards attainted ; and Archibald Douglas, created Earl of Qrmond, Lord Bothwell and Hartside, in 1651, during the lifetime of his father, the first Marquess of Douglas.]

ENGLISH CARDINALS' HATS : THEIR DESTINY When I visited the new Roman Catholic cathedral in Westminster recently, the cour- teous official who accompanied me round the church pointed out Cardinal Vaughan's hat depending high in mid-air on the left-hand side, near to, but outside, the chancel, and stated that it would hang there until in time it became dust, this being the usage with regard to all cardinals' hats, as the hat is the symbol of the rank with which they are invested. He said the hats of Cardinal Manning and Cardinal Newman had like- wise been hung in the churches that served as pro-cathedrals. Is this an English custom or universal ? WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK.

" B UMPEE. In an old newspaper dated J2 V r eadt h e folio wing paragraph : "When trie .bnglish were good Catholics they usually drank the Pope's health in a full glass after An l?"^- bon P ^ re ~ whence your bumper." All the dictionaries give the derivation from bombard." Is there any truth in the above paragraph, as a derivation 1

A. H. ARKLE.

, hl ?, ls P, e, of those conjectures which are treated by philologists with derision. The ' N E IT Drives the word conjecturally from "bump" with notion of a bumping or thumping glass.]

BUTCHER HALL SiREET.-It has been oft- times my intention to crave the aid of your friendly columns in deploring the frequen< changes from what I may call old-fashioned street nomenclature-often of great ton. graphical value- whenever occasion arise< from reconstruction of the tBSSW^S otherwise, to a modern level of loyal But other

wise uninteresting street names. I am glad to see, however, that that most progressive of all public bodies the London County Council has taken a much-wished-for turn in the other direction, the opportunity arising from the reconstruction of a large portion of that great artery of traffic the Strand, by affixing to the new thoroughfare a title more emblematic of its ancient history and associa- tions. One shudders to think what might have been had the Clerk to that great Council been other than an antiquary and a folk- lorist !

In MR. HUTCHINSON'S most interesting note on Lamb, Coleridge, and Mr. May, of the "Salutation and Cat," is a reference (10 th S. i. 62) to the "Angel" Tavern in Butcher Hall Street, Newgate. If I remember rightly, this street was some thirty years ago re- dubbed King Edward Street, or some similar loyal or patriotic name. But it has always lingered in my memory that the old name of the street was not Butcher Hall Street, but Butcher Hail Street, a name redolent of the old Newgate shambles across the way, and the blue-gowned butchers hurrying by, not of the feasting chamber where the mag- nates of the trade may have drowned their recollections of those ofttimes ghastly sights of the days gone by.

I have no means of verifying MR. HUTCHIN- SON'S statement here, hence my appeal to him or other more fortunate readers of * N. & Q.' to say whether or not my memory has been playing me false. J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.

Antigua, W.I.

REBECCA OF * IVANHOE.' (1) Who was the

riginal of Rebecca 1 (2) Does Scott anywhere

llude to the lady from whom he draws the

character? (3) He was acquainted with a


 * amily called Dickinson, which had a Jewish

connexion, and from them Scott had a

)equest after the publication of 'Ivanhoe.'

3qes he allude to this in any of his published

private papers ? DOMINIE SAMPSON.

[Must Rebecca necessarily have had an original?]

" GET A WIGGLE ON." Has this new- American expression, which I heard in May ast in New England, found lodgment here et? Its meaning, in connexion with an >rder, is " hustle !" i.e., be quick !

R. BARCLAY-ALLARDICE. Lostwithiel, Cornwall.

[We hope and think not.]

PHILLIPPS MSS. : BEATRICE BARLOW. Can ny one say where the valuable collection of etters and papers and other MSS. connected h Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire,