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some contributors favouring the derivation from the palle of the Medici, and others attributing them to the gold pieces or purses of St. Nicholas. PIIOF. BUTLKR'S appeal for conclusive evidence seems to have failed. Perhaps our present contributor may be more successful.]

WILLIAM CARROLL. Lately I picked up on a bookstall an octavo volume, lettered on the back " Carroll against Locke." This inscrip- tion may be accounted for by reference to the second of two publications which the volume contains, viz., "A Dissertation upon the Tenth Chapter of the Fourth Book of Mr. Locke's Essay, &c. By William Carroll. 1706." Prefixed, however, to this in the volume is " An Antidote against Infidelity. In Answer to a Book, Intituled, Second Thoughts con- cerning Human Soul, &c. By a Prebyter [sic] of the Church of England. 1702." This is in reply to William Coward, who is gene- rally thought to have been influenced by Locke's writings. I ask two questions : (1) Are these two works by the same author ? (2) Who was this William Carroll 1

V.H.LLJ.C.LV.

[Halkett and Laing state that 'An Antidote against Infidelity' is by Matthew Hole.]

WILLESDEN FAMILIES. Can any one give recent generations or names of living repre- sentatives of the Franklin, Twyford, Nicoll, Pitt, Paine, or other families of this parish 1 Persons of these names appear as holding the principal farms there at the time of the award of the common lands (1816), and the names have been traced back through the registers and probate courts for many genera- tions. Any other particulars suitable for a history of the parish will be valued by

FRED. HITCHIN-KEMP, F.R.Hist.S.

6, Beechfield Road, Catford, 8.E.

WILLESDEN: THE PLACE NAME. What is the origin of this place-name? It seems formerly to have been spelt Willisdon, and also, in Latin, Vilsedonum (see Thos. Wright's Monasteries,' Camden Soc., 1893).
 * Letters relating to the Suppression of the

H. W. UNDERDOWN.

MADAME PARISOT. I have a fine and very dramatic portrait in oils of Madame Parisot, a celebrated ballet-dancer at the Opera. It is the work of John James Masquerier, a portrait painter of French parentage, born in England in 1778, who is also responsible or paintings of Miss Mellon (the Duchess of St. Albans) and Miss O'Neil (Lady Becher) both in the collection of Lady Burdett-Coutts Emma, Lady Hamilton, and others. The picture, which has been finely engraved in stipple by Charles Turner, is 50 in. by 40 in.,

and shows her dancing in ballet costume and holding a wreath of flowers above her head. Is anything further ascertainable about the portrait or about the dancer, whose features are also preserved in a picture by A. W. Devis, engraved by John Raphael Smith ?

E. E. LEGGATT. 62, Cheapside, E.G.

CATHERINE OF BRAGANZA. I found at Wroughton House, Wilts, the following lines, written in a green parchment-covered note- book, containing Rider's 'British Merlin,' with Almanac for 1715 :

Here's a helth to Kate Our sovereigns mate Of the royal house of Lisbon But y e divel take hide And y Bishope beside That ever made her bone of his bone. Are these verses known? The subject of them is obvious. In the note-book is written, "Oliver Calley his book 1721." Oliver Calley, of Burderop, Wilts, married Isabella, daughter of Robert Codrington, of Codrington and Didmarton, Gloucestershire, born 1682.

R. H. C. Chichester.

AMERICAN PRAYER-BOOK. Is there any book conveniently showing (in parallel columns, or some such arrangement) the alterations introduced in the Book of Common Prayer by "the Protestant Epis- copal Church in the United States of America," and the dates of such alterations ?

Q. V.

BALANCES OR SCALES. Can any of your readers tell me where a pair of scales- balances, bilanx of English make, of so early a date as the latter half of the fourteenth or the first half of the fifteenth century, may be seen, or refer me to any illustration delineating its construction in any book or MS. of that date, or pictures of it in use 1

3. A. K.

ARMS OF CUMBRIA. Did the most ancient arms of Cumbria consist of six mullets or stars ] I have seen a statement to this effect, but cannot recall the authority, and shall be glad to have information on the point.

D. M. R.

"ALLEN." What is the meaning of the word "Allen" used as a motto by Louis II., Duke of Bourbon, who died in 1410? Accord- ing to Moreri, this word, in letters of gold upon a silver shield, was to be seen in an oratory belonging to the chapel of the Chateau of Moulins in Bourbonnais, and also in the Bourbon chapel in the Louvre at