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promises with the vague " native name " ; while the ' Century ' boldly asserts that it is " Cingalese " (sic). Now, whence have these dictionaries obtained this wonderful name for the Ceylon outrigger canoe (which globe - trotters will persist in calling " a catamaran ") 1 I know of no such name in Sinhalese. Perhaps MR. JAS. PLATT, Jun., will be able to solve the mystery.

DONALD FERGUSON. Croydon.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. Did Wren use any stone other than Portland in the con- struction of St. Paul's ? There is a tradition at Burford that the Upton or Kit's Quarries furnished "much of the stone for Wren's rebuilding of St. Paul's Cathedral and of the City churches after the Great Fire of Lon- don " (see Mr. Harper's 'Oxford, Gloucester, and Milford Haven Iload,' 1905, pp. 266-9). Wren undoubtedly used a quantity of Burford stone in his repairs at Westminster Abbey, but I want to know whether any of this stone was used by him at St. Paul's. G. F. 11. B.

"IN ANTIENT DAYS, WHEN DAME ELIZA

REIGN'D." I wish to obtain a copy of a printed sheet or pamphlet published between 1650 and 1750, composed of about thirty- eight lines, commencing "In antient days, when Dame Eliza reign'd." It was printed by J. Davis, bears the name of George Sim- mons, has a picture in a scroll at the head, and is dedicated to framework knitters.

S. W. KELSEY. 45, Southampton Buildings, W.C.

CHILD EXECUTED FOR WITCHCRAFT. Mr. E. Haviland Burke, M.P., writing in Tlte Saturday Review of 8 April, says :

" Little more than a hundred and fifty years ago, a respectable farmer's wife and her little nine years old daughter were publicly hanged at Huntingdon for invoking storms for the destruction of her neighbours' crops."

If this be correct, what were the names, date, and precise circumstances 1 A. F. 11.

GOSNOLD PORTRAIT. Can any of your readers inform me of the existence of a portrait of Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold, who sailed in 1602 in the ship Concord from Fal- mouth, England, on a voyage of discovery to the New World 1

GEO. H. TRIPP, Librarian.

Free Public Library, New Bedford, Mass.

CALDWELL FAMILY. 1. The Rev. James Caldwell, of Elizabeth, New Jersey (1734-81), called "the Fighting Parson of the Revolu- tion," was descended from a French Huguenot family who were driven to Scotland after the

Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. What was the original French name 1 An ancient letter says that their " Coat of Arms in the

House of Ciaird in Scotland was the Roe

Buck, a star, and three waves of the sea."

2. It is said that their Scottish home was named, from a famous well, the " Cold Well Estate," and that this was probably the origin of the name Caldwell. Where was the estate? C. T. E.

Princeton, N. J.

JOHN HAZLITT AND SAMUEL SHARWOOD.- The striking likeness of Joseph Lancaster in the National Portrait Gallery is painted by John Hazlitt, and "presented by his [Lan- caster's] personal friend, Samuel Sharwood, Esq." Is anything known of either 1 ? Both may be Americans, as Lancaster left England for the United States at the age of forty, and the man represented in the picture is possibly over forty. DAVID SALMON.

Swansea.

" WHO PAYS THE PIPER CALLS THE TUNE."

What is the original text of this quotation, and whence does it come 1 Has it an equiva- lent in other languages, ancient or modern I

F. G. A.

[MR. A. C. MOUNSEY at 6 th S. ix. 248, in a query on " England must pay the piper," called an old prophecy circa 1650, mentioned that in French "Payer les violons" has long been used in the sense of paying the expense of something of which others have all the profit or pleasure. This refer- ence, though not quite what F. G. A. wants, may interest him, and also be of service to Dr. Murray, as the 'N.E.D.' under 'Pay' refers to 'Piper, which will not appear for some little time. We take the opportunity to congratulate Dr. Murray upon the handsome gift of the Goldsmiths' Com- pany towards the expense of the 'N.E.D.,' and hope that some of the other City Companies may be stimulated to follow so good a lead.]

JOB HEATH. Perhaps some ^experts _ in genealogical research can supply information respecting the family of the Job Heaths. The earliest record that has yet been found of this name is that of Jobe Heathe, of Chedulton in Staffs, whose will was proved at Lichfield in 1623. Between this date and 1695 there are proofs existing of two or three more persons of this name, evidently in the succession of father arid son, but of whose births or baptisms, marriages, and deaths no records have yet been discovered. Warwickshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire are the counties whence may have originated this plebeian branch of the great Heath " tree." In one or more of these traces should be found of this uncommon name. After 1711, when one of these Job