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was made at 9 th S. xi. 85 ; xii. 185. Their son Halley Benson Millikin (born circa 1750 ?) must have received his first Christian name in consequence of an early acquaint- ance (if not blood relationship) existing between the respective families.

EUGENE F AIRFIELD Me PIKE. Chicago, U.S.

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 sent to them direct.

PLUNDERED PICTURES. In one of the admirable "Murrays," which seldom nod, though sometimes, as in the case of the charges of what was the dearest hotel in the world, they become out of date by reason of change, I find a paragraph which is worth a query. It is in the handbook which includes Lyons. The account of that provincial museum needs some alteration. There are at least four pictures of great literary interest which are not named, probably because the writer of the handbook despised the nine- teenth century. The lives of George Sand and of Madame de Stae'l are conspicuously illustrated by two of them ; the Romantic movement by a third ; and the Napoleonic story by a fourth. Moreover, the frescoes of Puvis de Chavannes now need notice.

The query is called for by an allusion to the "Lyons Perugino" as having been " presented to the city of Lyons in 1815, by Pius VII." Is not this one of the hundred pictures, mostly Peruginos, which were "comman- deered " from the city of Perugia and its inhabitants by the French revolutionary forces? Is it not the case that when the Duke of Wellington marched the High- landers into the Louvre to see that the Pope got back his pictures, which Louis XVIII. was most unwilling to give him, there were only two Peruginos there 1 I always heard that the excellent taste which dictated the robbery at Perugia of exactly the right things was at that time in advance of the taste manifested in Paris by the art authori- ties. The result was that, of all the admirable pictures by Perugino captured, only two were thought good enough for the Louvre, and all the others had been scattered to the pro- vinces. The Duke of Wellington had trouble enough over getting back the pictures in the Louvre, without bothering to repeat the process in every provincial museum. The Pope did not send back the two to

Perugia, of which they had been the glory, but retained them in the Vatican, where they are still. Did he add insult to injury by giving to France the others which he did not retain for his own glory ? How were they his to give? D.

TARLETON, THE SIGN OF "THE TABOR," AND ST. RENNET'S CHURCH. In ' Twelfth Night,' III. i., we have :

Viola. Save thee, friend, and thy music : dost thou live by thy tabor ?

Cloicn. No, sir, I live by the church.

Viola. Art thou a churchman ?

Clown. No such matter, sir : I do live by the church ; for I live at my house, and my house doth stand by the church.

In Act V. i. 42, the Clown says: "The bells of Saint Bennet, sir, may put you in mind."

Malone stated that "The Tabor" was the sign of an eating-house kept by Tarleton, the celebrated clown or fool of the theatre before Shakespeare's time. Boswell said that Malone was mistaken, and that the sign of Tarleton's house was "The Saba," meaning the Queen of Sheba. See Boswell's ' Malone's Variorum,' 1821.

In a recent pamphlet it is stated that Malone was right ; that Tarleton's house was at " The Sign of the Tabor " ; and that, moreover, it was next to St. Bennet's Church in Gracechurch or Gracious Street. If this is true the two passages quoted would seem to be most interesting topical allusions, and tend to fix a much earlier date for the play than is usually assigned it. What are the facts, so far as can be ascertained 1 Was it " The Tabor " t And was there a St. Bennet's Church in Gracious Street ? QUIRINUS.

New York.

MARRIAGE SERVICE. What is the origin of ' The Form of Solemnization of Matri- mony' in the Book of Common Prayer? Who was the author of the service as it now stands ? If it is a translation, from what Roman office is it translated? There is no corresponding office now existing in the Roman liturgy. B.

BRIDGES, A WINCHESTER COMMONER. In 1833 William Thomas Bridges, only son of Capt. Philip Henry Bridges, R.N., entered Winchester College as a Scholar. His record is as follows : C.C.C., Oxon., B.A. 1843, M.A. 184G, D.C.L. 1856; barrister, Middle Temple, 1847 ; Acting Att.-Gen. at Hongkong, 1854-7;

m., 1856, Frances Gertrude, widow of

Carrow, and d. of Broderip ; d. 30 Sept.,

1894. Names to fill in the above blanks will be welcomed ; but the purpose of this query