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Sketch, call the wife of Sir John Shorter Isabella Birkhead, when Peter Le Neve, in 1718, in his 'Pedigrees of Knights,' gives her as being "Isabella, daughter of John Burkett, of Crosstalk, in Boroughdale, Cum berlaud " ? and which of these is correct 1

LEOPOLD A. YIDLER. The Stone House, Rye.

VULGATE (10 th S. iii. 248). I do not know of any edition of the Vulgate published in England at a moderate price. I have an edition published by Gamier Freres, of Paris which bears the imprimatur of the Arch bishop of Paris, and which cost, I think, 7fr. 50 c. The type is clear and the papei fairly good, but there are more printers errors, though the edition is described on the title-page as "accuratissime emendata," than one finds in books printed in this country. This edition could, I presume, be obtained through a bookseller.

J. A. J. HOUSDEN.

PORTRAITS WHICH HAVE LED TO MARRIAGES (10 th S. iii. 287, 334, 377). See that most charming of French novels ' Mademoiselle de Malepeire, 3 by Madame Charles Reybaud. F. E. R. POLLARD-URQUHART.

'REBECCA,' A NOVEL (10 th S. iii. 128, 176, 593). MR. HUBERT SMITH writes to me :

"I am in correspondence with Mr. George B. Smart, of the Jfew Era office, High Street, Uttox- eter, Staffordshire. He has referred to the ' History of Uttoxeter.' and has found a list of several books printed by Richards, and the list finishes with the following, ' as well as a tale for a Mrs. Holebrook, of Sandoii, the name of which I cannot discover.' This may be the novel ' Rebecca ; or, the Victim of Duplicity.' Saudon, I find, is about eleven miles from Uttoxeter. 1 '

The first two volumes of this novel exist in the Bibliotheque de la Sorbonne in Paris.

E. S. DODGSON.

LINCOLN INVENTORY (10 th S. iii. 388). This -question has appeared in ' N. & Q.' on two occasions (see 8 th S. v. 27 ; viii. 38, the latter from the present querist, MR. EDWARD PEACOCK), but still remains unanswered.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

LINES ox MUG (10 th S. iii. 228, 353). Would not the " Farmers' Arms " on the curious two- handled mug in MR. RATCLIFFE'S possession have been suggested by the Brewers' Arms, seeing that the brewer is so much indebted for his beverages to the farmer ? These Brewers' Arms are Gules, on a chevron argent, between three pairs of barley garbs in saltire or, three tuns sable, hooped of the third. Strictly, the motto should be " In God is all our trust "

Possibly other drinking-cup mottoes will be of interest to readers :

Fill what you will, drink what you fill, Drink deep or taste not.

"Ben ti voglio" (Italian): "I wish thee well," the motto of Cardinal Bentivoglio.

"Nuncadbibe puropectore verba"( Horace).

"Fair cheve [i.e., well fare] good ale, it makes many folks speak as they think " (Ray).

"Drink little that ye may drink long" (Scotch).

"Once more and then," in blue and white on mugs and punchbowls.

" Aurea mediocritas" (Horace).

" Medio tutissimus ibis" (Ovid). Oh, don't the day seem limp and long When all goes right and nothing wrong.

On pottery from Allervale, South Devon- shire:

Do not hurry, Do not flurry, Nothing good is got by worry. 1676.

Many other mottoes will be found at 6 th S.

V. 155, 395. J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

BIGG, THE DINTON HERMIT (10 th S. iii. 285. 336, 376). In The Wonderful Magazine and Marvellous Chronicle, vol. i. for the year 1793, facing p. 221, is a folded portrait of the hermit (" Wilkes sculpt. Pub d by C. Johnson "). It measures 8| in. in height by

in. It is, in the accompanying letter- press, said to be taken from an original picture in the possession of Scroop Bernard, Esq., of Nether - Winchendon, Bucks. _ It should, therefore, correspond (except in size) with that described by MR. ELIOT HODGKIN (ante, p. 336). It differs from it in several details and in the proportion of the breadth to the height. Neither hand is touching the digging fork. The three bottles are appa- rently attached to his girdle. There is no pipe. By his right side are a tall hour-glass and a book.

The short account of John Bigg is appa- ently taken though not verbatim from the letter written to Browne Willis (ante, p. 285). The name of the writer of the letter, is given in The Wonderful Magazine, is Thomas rlorne ; and 22 April, 1629, is the date of 3igg's baptism, not of his birth.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

HOLLICKE OR HOLLECK, CO. MIDDLESEX 10 th S. iii. 337). At 9 th S. ix. 403 MR. BASIL SIRCH suggested that Hollicke might be lerived from holl, probably another form of ~iill, and idee, or eck, a variation of ock, and bat it might therefore signify a little hill, fortunately so many forms of the name in