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was it ever known as " the horn "? As it was horn-shaped it naturally might be.

QUIRIXUS.

OXFORD ALMANAC DESIGNERS. Any in- formation respecting J. Dixon, one of the designers, will be very welcome. Dr. J. E. Magrath, Provost of Queen's, prints in the first volume of * The Flemings in Oxford ' an appendix on the Oxford almanacs, and, as quoted by the Periodical, mentions among the designers from the beginning in 1674 to the present year one J. Dixon, who engraved the Oxford almanacs for 1793-4. Mr. Henry Frowde, of the Oxford University Press, and publisher of the Periodical, has very kindly made investigations, and writes : " Unfortunately search has yielded nothing : Dixon is not mentioned even in the new edition of Bryan's great 'Dictionary of Painters and Engravers.' 'N. & Q.' might help." RONALD DIXON.

46, Maryborough Avenue, Hull.

DOG-BITE CURE. I copy the following from an old MS. receipt book, dated 1752 :

" For the Bite of a Mad Dog. Take the leaves of Rue, picked from the Stalks and bruised. Six ounces of Garliek picked from the Stalks and bruised. Venice Treaele, or Mithridate, and the Scrapings of Pewter, of each four ounces ; boil all together over a slow fire in 2 Quarts of Strong Ale till one pint be consumed ; then keep it in a bottle close stop'd and give of it 9 Spoonfuls to a man or woman warm, seven mornings together fasting, and six to a Dog. N.B. This the Author believes will not, God willing, fail if it be taken within 9 days after the Biting of the Dog, applying some of the Ingredients from which the Liquor was strained to the bitten place. This R e was taken out of Cathorpe Church in Lincolnshire, the whole Town being bitten with a Mad Dog, all those -who took the Medicine did well, the Rest died Mad."

It would be interesting to know if the above is copied from an entry in the church registers, and if so, the date of the occurrence. CHARLES DRURY.

[Garlic was, as we know, considered, a couple of generations ago, invaluable as a remedy for the dis- temper, and, indeed, seemed to be of service.]

"L.S." Have these initials, appended to the name of a solicitor, any and what mean- ing 1 In the south choir aisle of St. Saviour's Collegiate Church, South wark, immediately to the left of the present organ console, there is a mural tablet inscribed to the memory of a parishioner thus : " William Jackson, L.S., Attorney and Solicitor." He died in 1850. Can any of your readers tell me what the initials signify? It has been suggested thatLaw Society is the explanation. But the official title till quite lately was the Incorporated -Law Society ; and, though I.L.S. has often

been used to denote the Society, I have never, known a solicitor add any initials implying membership to his name. The only legal use of L.S. is for locus sigilli. And in a copy of a deed the signature and seal would appear as "William Jackson, L.S." May not this be the explanation ? Some person may have mistaken the place of the seal for the Law Society. W. DIGBY THURNAM.

"TELL ME, MY CICELY, WHY so COY." Written within an early seventeenth-century edition of Cockeram's 'English Dictionarie ' are these lines from an old love-poem. I should be glad if some one could direct me to their source :

Tell me, my Cicely, why so coy,

Of men so much afraid ; 'Tis surely better far to die

A mother than a maid.

WM. JAGGARD.

139, Canning Street, Liverpool.

SHAKESPEARE'S WIFE. (10 th S. ii. 389.)

THE late Mr. Charles I. Elton, in his- recently published book 'William Shake- speare : his Family and Friends,' says on' p. 29, in speaking of Halliwell-Phillipps's theory that the Christian names Agnes and Ann were " sometimes convertible " :

" The names in reality appear to be quite distinct.

As early as the thirty-third of Henry VI. it

was decided that Anne and Agnes are distinct baptismal names and not convertible, so that if an, action was brought against John and his wife Agnes, and the wife's name was Anne, the variance was essential and could not be amended. Two other cases are reported by Croke. In King ?;. King, decided in the forty-second Elizabeth, the Court resolved that Agnes and Anne are several names, and that a mistake between them could not be amended after a verdict. In Griffith v. Sir Hugh Middleion, in the fifteenth year of James I., the Chief Justice said that 'Joan and Jane are both one name, but Agnes and Anne, Gillian and Julian, are different.' The suggestion may therefore be dismissed that the poet married, under the name of Anne, an Agnes Hathaway of Shottery. It would indeed have been somewhat difficult to prove that his wife was a Hathaway at all, if ife were not for the bond relating to their marriage which Sir Thomas Phillipps found at Worcester, and for the recognition by Lady Barnard (Shake- speare's granddaughter) of the Weston Hathawaya as her kinsfolk. There is, we may say, no reason- able doubt that Anne belonged to a Gloucestershire family, but whether she was remotely connected with the great Gloucestershire Hathaways is a verj? different question." And at the bottom of p. 30 he adds :