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plural form ? It occurs in ' John Inglesant,' chap, viii., where the author thus describes Charles I. as he reviewed his troops in the morning before the battle of Edgehill :

" The church-bells were ringing for morning service as they rode along. The king was that day in a black velvet coat lined with ermine, and a steel cap covered with velvet. He rode to every brigade of horse and to all the tertias of foot, and spoke to them with great courage and cheerful- ness."

THOMAS BAYNE.

" POP GOES THE WEASEL." To what does the nursery rime refer here 1 MEDICULUS.

[S. J. A. F. made a similar inquiry at 9 th S. v. 356, but without result.]

COKE OR COOK? Which is correct? The question as to the accurate spelling of this great lawyer's name was raised so long ago as 1 st S. iv. 24, but never seems to have been satisfactorily settled. If one may rely upon so good an authority as Sir Francis Bacon, the rendering Coke is certainly a vagary. As I write, an original Bacon manuscript, dated 1614-17, lies before me, in which Sir Edward Cook is referred to upon several occasions. Again, in Bacon's ' Remaines,' 1648, 4to, p. 20, is "A Letter to Sir Edward Cook," and at p. 68 a further "Letter to Sir Edward Cook." In Norfolk, the old locality of Coke's family, the name is still pronounced Cook, which supports the contention that Coke is wrong. WILLIAM JAGGARD.

[The family of Coke, Earls of Leicester, pro- nounce their name Cook.]

'THE LOVESICK GARDENER.' Can you or any of your readers supply the words of an old song, sung, I think, in the sixties, and entitled, I also think, 'The Lovesick Gardener' 1 One verse is as follows : She's my snowdrop, my ranunculus, My gillyflower, my hyacinth, my polyanthus; She's my heartsease, my daisy, my violet, My buttercup, my tulip, or m'y mignonette. Oh ! Oh ! She s a fickle wild rose, A damask, a cabbage, or a china rose.

I should like to have the words. G. H.

COL. HEWETSON. I shall be much obliged for any information regarding this officer There is in a private house in London a por trait of him wearing a " Steinkirk " tie. ' HERBERT SOUTHAM.

PARSLOE'S HALL, ESSEX. Any particular, of this interesting old mansion, now deserted and in a sad state of decay, will oblige Report has it that the Fanshawe familv resided here, and that the hall once boastec of a fine library. G. Q. \y

THE "OLD BELL" INN, HOLBORN HILL.

(10 th S. iii. 366.)

MR. ALAN STEWART'S note seems to re- quire a reply from me, as he mentions my name, and I have taken a great interest n this building, now numbered among the ihings of the past. It is true that in my jook on ' London Signs and Inscriptions,' misled by previous writers, and unable closely itill on the front of the house, I ascribed .hem to Fowler of Islington. Some years ater namely, in the autumn of 1897, just Before the house disappeared I made many careful drawings of it. When the arms were through the kindness of the authorities of Christ's Hospital, I was allowed to examine the deeds of the property. The results of my study were printed, during 1898, in the July number of Middlesex and Hertfordshire Notes and Queries, the predecessor of The Home Counties Magazine, to which I would refer MR. STEWART. I will now merely quote or paraphrase a few sentences from my article.
 * o examine the sculptured arms which were
 * aken down I had them photographed, and,

In 1679-80 the property was first mortgaged and then sold to Ralph Gregge, whose grand- son Joseph finally parted with it, in May, 1722, to Christ's Hospital for 2,113. 15s. In this final deed of sale three messuages are referred to, that "known by the name or sign of the Bell," and one on either side of it. "All which said three messuages were for- merly one great mansion house or inn com- monly known by the name of the Bell or Blew Bell Inn." A short time probably about two years before the sale the front part of the premises had been rebuilt. This was the part facing Holborn, on which were then placed the sculptured arms, not of the Fowlers of Islington, lords of the manor of Barnsbury, who had never been connected with the house, but, as I first pointed out, of the Gregges, then owners. It seems that they were descended from the Gregge family of Bradley, Cheshire, whose arms appear in a visitation of that county, 1613, as follows : Or, three trefoils slipped, between two chevronels sable. Crest : Out of a ducal coronet or, an eagle's head and neck per pale argent and sable, holding in the beak a trefoil slipped. One of them, Ralfe Gregge, in the sixteenth century, married Anne, coheiress of Richard Starkye, of Stretton ; hence the quartering of the Starkye arms, which are Argent, a stork sable, with beak and legs gules. Sir