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arg. three hunting horns purpure (? gules) Crest, full-rigged ship with sails set. " Pro- videntia." Please excuse faulty terminology.

FRED. G. ACKERLEY. Libau, Russia.

MARMONT FAMILY. I shall be much ob- liged if some readers of ' N. & Q.' can give me information about the crest and motto of the Marmont or De Marmont family. The family is descended from Marshal Victor (de) Marmont, who was famous under Napo- leon I.

There is a tradition that the first member of the family to come to England did so con- cealed in a butter-tub, in order to escape arrest in some religious persecution, and that a butter-tub was henceforward adopted as the crest. No copy of the crest can be found in the family, however, nor can it be traced in any of the well-known books of crests.

K. M. B.

TOM TAYLOR ON WHEWELL. In the early forties, after a scene between the Senior Judge of Assize and Dr. Whewell, Tom Taylor wrote a "lay," of which the following verses are all that are remembered :

Ye stoute Maister of Trinitie

A vowe to God riid inaike Ne Judge ne Sheriffs through his hack doore

Their waye to Courte sholde taike.

Come hither to me, my Porters three,

Come hither, Moonlight, to me ! Tho' he be Lorde in the Justice Hall,

I '11 be Maister of Trinitie.

Can any one inform me whether this lay was printed, and, if so, where it is to be found ] ARTHUR DEN MAN.

29, Cranley Gardens, Kensington.

CALEDONIAN COFFEE-HOUSE. Robert Bu- chanan, in 'My First Book' (Chatto, 1897), speaking of his struggling bohemian days, says (the wording may not be exact) :

"My favourite place of refreshment was the Caledonian Coffee-house in Co vent Garden, where for a few pence one could procure a meal of steam- ing hot coffee and toasted muffins muffins soaking in outter, worthy of the gods ! Then 1 would light my pipe and issue forth, glowing and oleaginous, into the lighted streets."

Is this coffee-house still in existence? and, if so, what is its address? F. E. P.

BRI DOER'S HILL. Could any of your readers give me information respecting the origin of the name of Bridger's Hill, Hants 1 Prof. Bell notes as a curious fact that Hogmer, Woolmer, and Cranraer Ponds, which are in the same neighbourhood, are named respectively from the wild boar, the

wolf (Wplvemer), and the crane, indicative of the time when the wild boar, wolf, and crane roamed in Woolmer Forest. It may be that Bridger's Hill takes its name from some ancient clan who settled there. F. P.

[Could " bridgers " be badgers ? This is possibly a wild suggestion.]

l&tglit*.

COLISEUMS OLD AND NEW.

(10 th S. ii. 485, 529; iii. 52, 116.) MR. \V. E. HARLAND-OXLEY, in the con- cluding sentence of his very interesting notice, writes, ''It would be of considerable interest if the name of the proprietor in 1845 could be put on record." As a boy I was often taken to the Colosseum, and well re- member the pleasure that these visits gave me, and I quite agree with MR. HARLAND- OXLEY that pleasure-seekers in those days were well catered for. It occurred to me that my friend Mr. Edmund William Brad- well, of 112, Great Portland Street the nephew of the Mr. William Brad well who was responsible for the whole design of the remodelled building, and himself employed thereon might afford some information which would be of value. He most obligingly furnished me with the following particulars, which may prove of interest to readers of .&Q.':-

"The purchasers of the property in 1845 were Messrs. Montague & Turner ; they were large cement merchants, and, as stated in the particulars given by MR. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY, the whole of the buildings and surroundings were entirely altered and remodelled for exhibition from the designs and plans of my uncle, Mr. W. Bradwell, and carried out by him with the assistance of my father, Mr. E. Bradwell, both known for many years for their mechanical skill in the old Jovent Garden Theatre. The general arrangements were really the pioneers of many details of the Drystal Palace, Earl's Court, and other exhibitions of the kind. Most of the work was carried out in a very permanent manner, and by the ingenious way that the promenade paths were led about through modelled classic ruins, fountains, &c., gave the impression of the place being much nore extensive than it was, especially with the Swiss scenery and chalets, and real waterfalls, fir trees, &.c. ; also the stalactite caverns were very elaborate, and, with the aid of looking-glass reflec- ,ions. added to the distances, &c.

"The large painting of 'London by Day,' which was round the walls of the centre building, was all repainted and restored by Mr. Parris. It was viewed from an tipper balcony looking down as from the summit of St. Paul's Cathedral, and was approached by a centre lift and staircase; the surrounding space at the ground floor below the picture was formed into an art gallery or saloon round the whole circle with white marble columns,