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seventeenth century, were named Arden anc Jocosa. The latter, in its English form oi Joyce, is borne by a baby girl of my acquaintance. The former I have never seen elsewhere as a feminine name. I shall be glad if any one can tell me from what it is derived, and what is its meaning.

HELGA.

MEMORIAL TABLETS ON HOUSES. The requirements of modern locomotion are answerable for the disappearance of the house in Upper Baker Street, close to Clarence Gate, Regent's Park, where Mrs. Siddons lived. It has been swallowed up by the excavations made for the new Baker Street aid Waterloo Railway, and with those walls the Society of Arts' memorial tablet to the famous actress has gone also.

Is the-e, I wonder, any other instance in the metropolis of an historic residence thus adorned having been razed to make room for a railway station? One is tempted to ask fur tier, What has become of this memento ? Is *t in safe custody 1 and will it be re- pla;ed ? If so, at what point of the structure nov being erected 1

Vhilst upon the subject of mural tablets,

it nay be permissible to register a hope that

inthese days of demolition often ruthless in

ciy and suburb, reverence should be shown

frr such esteemed records. Although the

.ctual walls wherein the illustrious have

jojourned may have disappeared, their site

remains. It must always be possible to

reinstate the medallions somewhere thereon,

with modified inscriptions suitable to the

change of circumstances. CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenseum Club.

GENEVIKVE COLLECTION. At 8 th S. xi. 493 mention is made of a paper on 'Thimbles,' by the late Mr. H. Syer Cuming, which appeared in vol. xxxv. of the Journal of the British Archaeological Association. In that paper he refers to some thimbles in the Genevieve Collection. Although I have hunted everywhere, I am unable to locate that collection, and should be very much obliged to any reader of 'N. & Q.' for in- formation that would enable me to trace it. HORACE BOURNE.

Lynton, Bromley Road, Catford, S.E.

"PROPALE." Was this word in common use in Scotland at the beginning of the eighteenth century ? I possess a copy of ' A Sermon at the Opening of the Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale on 27 April, 1714,' printed at Edinburgh in that year, and at p. 42 the following passage occurs : " Rather with godly Shem, to throw a mantle over their

father's nakedness, than with wicked Ham to flout at it and propale it." W. S.

" HONEST BROKER." Who was the " honest broker" who is frequently referred to in newspaper articles and the like? I cannot find him mentioned in the common diction- aries of quotations. QUERIST.

[Was it not Prince Bismarck? It is generally used in connexion with him.]

1 PROC^S DBS BOURBONS.' In a book entitled ' Les Tuileries, le Temple, le Tribunal Revolutionnaire, et la Conciergerie,' published at Paris (Lerouge, 1814), I find frequent reference to a work entitled 'Proces des Bourbons ' (2 vols. in 8vo). Is the latter work easily accessible ? RICHARD EDGCUMBE.

33, Tedworth Square, Chelsea.

BELL-RINGING ON 13 AUGUST, 1814. In the overseers' accounts of a small rural parish in Warwickshire appears the entry, under above date : "Paid for ale for the ringers by order of Mr. Edwards (Churchwarden), ll. 8s." If it possessed some national character, can any one tell me what was the occasion of this rejoicing? R. A. H.

WILLIAM STANBOROUGH. Can your readers tell me anything of William Stan borough, of Canon's Ashby and Ban bury, who died 1646- 1647, and is supposed to have been buried at Canon's Ashby Church, Northants ?

(Miss) UNA MOORE.

Holy Cross Vicarage, 24, Argyle Square, W.C.

PENNY WARES WANTED. We shall be obliged to correspondents who will help the Dictionary ' to early instances of the follow- ing : penny boat ; penny dreadful, which we lave of 1875, but in inverted commas, as if a quotation ; penny gaff, before 18o6 ; penny horrible, before 1899 (we have halfpenny hor- nble of 1890) ; penny paper, of a newspaper ^the phrase is already used by Addison in a somewhat different sense) ; penny reading, of which we have an instance of 1883, but the name is remembered in the sixties, or earlier ; penny roll, before 1848; penny steamer, before 1881 ; and penny -in- the- slot, which, I beliere, came first into vogue with machines to " try your weight," at railway stations and the ike. Our earliest instance at present is 1892, when the contrivance was well known, and Mr. Gilbert's opera * Mountebanks ' had

If you want to move the lot, Put a penny in the slot.

J. A. H. MURRAY. Oxford.