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aid it was to go on the left-side wrist for a left-side tooth, and on the right-side-wrist for a right-side tooth, then it would draw the pain. My word ! I had an arm with it ! But it did not do the tooth any good at all."

About the year 1865, or rather earlier, a nurse at Bottesford, in North Lincolnshire, proposed to put the outer layers of an onion cooked in the kitchen fire on the great toe of one of her charges, such an onion, worn thimblewise on that member, being good for toothache. While she was seeking the remedy higher authorities intervened and carried ofl the patient, who is therefore unable to testify by personal experience to the merits of the onion-cure. JULIAN E. O. W. PEACOCK.

" EGGLER." When at Oxford lately learned that this expression is used by villagers to denote middlemen who collect eggs and other farm produce for market. Although it appears to refer to the eggs, it may be related to haggler or higgler.

FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. Streatham Common.

[See'KD.D.'a.v.]

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

MOZART CONCERTO. Permettez - moi de vous demander un renseignement au sujet d'un Concerto de Mozart que je me rappelle avoir vu dans le catalogue d'une ancienne maison d'edition anglaise. Je crois, sans pouvoir I'affirraer, que c'etait dans celui de la maison Longman & Brodrip a Londres. Voici 1'indication : " Rondo for a Concerto for Pianoforte A major (Mozart). N 386 of the catalogue of Kochel. Composed in Vienna, 19 Oct., 1782."

Serait-il possible de savoir si ce morceau peut encore etre retrouve en Angleterre ? Je serai bien reconnaissant du moindre ren- seignement. CTE. DE ST. Foix. .31, Rue Pierre Charron, Paris.

JENNY CAMERON OF LOCHIEL. The anony- mous but well-informed reviewer of Strutt's 'Dictionary of Engravers,' whose notice appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1786, gives some interesting details regarding Purcell, alias Corbutt, a Dublin engraver, long employed by Hanbury the printseller. A female head, we are told, titled * Jenny Cameron/ and inscribed "Purcell fecit," is

in reality taken from a portrait of Mrs. Woffington by Latham.

As no copy of this print is to be found in the British Museum, I should be glad to hear from any collector who happens to possess one. All trace of Latham's portrait of Peg Woffington is now lost. The paint- ing in the Royal Dublin Society ascribed to Latham for the past forty years turns out to be a copy, in a different colour scheme, of John Lewis's portrait of the actress, painted in Dublin in April, 1753, several years after Latham's decease. As this fact is now made public for the first time, I may say that the original portrait (which I recently had the privilege of examining) is both signed and dated. A further proof of its authenticity comes readily to hand in the rare mezzotint by Jackson, scraped after the picture with slight variations, and ascribed to "Jn. Lewis." W. J. LAWRENCE.

54, Shelbourne Road, Dublin.

" GALAPINE." "Captaine" Lazarus Haward in 1647 published *The Charges Issuing forth of the Crown Revenue of England, and Dominion of Wales. With the severall Officers of His Majesties Courts, Customes.

Housholds, Houses with their severall

Fees and Allowances [Jec.]. 1 In the kitchen of the royal household were (among others) :

s. d. Six Groomes : Fee a peice, "2L 13*. 4d. ...16

Eight Children : Fee a peice, 40* 16

Galapines : Apparell for them of the Hall

Kitchin, and of the privy Kitchen ... 50 Surveyor of the Dresser : Fee '2:2 1 3

What were Galapines ? Q. V.

COUNT TALLARD, FRENCH PRISONER OP WAR. Can any of your readers enlighten me as to the burial-place (together with epi- taph, if such exists or existed) in France of Count Tallard, b. 1652, d. 30 March, 1728? He was taken prisoner by the English at the battle of Blenheim, 1704, and kept as a prisoner on parole at Nottingham down to 1711. The house wherein he lived, in the then aristocratic quarter, is yet pointed out. I am collecting the scattered references to the count while an exile in England for a monograph on the subject, and shall be thankful for any assistance.

A. STAPLETON.

244, Radford Road, Nottingham.

BENJAMIN BLAKE : XORMAN : OLDMIXON. About the year 1682 Benjamin Blake, a younger though aged brother of the great admiral, was preparing in Bridgwater to emi- grate to South Carolina, and had resident in iis house a daughter and her husband, his son-