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 116 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. A™. 5. IMS. The name was probably altered from the "King's" to the Queen's Bagnio in compli- ment to Queen Anne. The aoove advertise- ment continues :— " If any Persons desire to be cupp'd at their own House, he [ie., Henry Aynie] will wait on them himself, he having had the Honour to give a general Satisfaction to the Nobility in the Performance of that Art, which he has acquired to a Nicety by a long and great Practise. Note, that his Way of cupping is the very same as was us'd by the late Mr. Verdier deceas d." Verdier was cupper to Queen Anne. See fur- ther concerning London bagnios The Anti- quary, June, 1905, pp. 226-7. J. HOLDEN MAG'MlCHAEL. 6, Elgin Court. ME. HODGKIN will find in W. Kirkby's 'Evolution of Artificial Mineral Waters,' Manchester, 1902, pp. 24-5, some account of the above institution, which was founded upon an invention of Sir William Jennings, patented in 1078 (Letter Patent No. 200, Old Law Series). In 1683 an account of the in- stitution was given by Dr. S. Haworth.in ' A Description of the Duke's Bagnio and of the Mineral Bath and new Spaw thereunto belonging,' London, 8vo (B.M. 233, a. 40). E. WYNDHAM HULME. Clare, Sevenoaks. PLESHEY FORTIFICATIONS (10th S. iv. 48).— Cough's ' History and Antiquities of Pleshey' (1803), a quarto book of 195 pages, with an appendix of 112 pages and a full index, is the most important monograph on the his- toric castle of Pleshey. The book contains some fine plates and a plan of the defensive works. The bridge is shown, possessing a brick gateway at its lower side. This is not now existing, but the bridge itself is in fair condition, and I see no proof that it was not in existence in the days of the murdered Duke of Gloucester, the end of the fourteenth century. Of course, ROBINIA will find much about Pleshey in Morant and other writers on Essex, but the only recent description of the earthworks was written by me (see ' Victoria County History,' vol. i. p. 298). I. CHALKLEY GOULD. ROBINIA will find much information and some differences of opinion about the fortifi- cations at _Pleshey (or Plaisseis), both as to their prehistoric and later construction, in Morant's 'Essex,' ii. 451; Wright's 'Essex,' ii. 255 ; Salmon's ' Essex,' 226; ' Victoria History of Essex' (with plan), i. 297-9: ' Excursions in Essex,' ii. 79 ; Gough s ' Cam- den's Britannia/ ii. 133; Essex Naturalist, X. 152; Essex Arch. Soc. Trans., New Series, v. 83-6 ; Strutt's 'Chron. of England,' i. 299; and Gough's 'History of Pleshey.' S. H. Some particulars of the castle at Pleshey and its remains, as also a reference to the bridge, will be found at 7th S. x. 68, 156, 412. EVERAED HOME COLEMAN. " The entrance to the keep is from the west over a venerable brick bridge of one ofty pointed arch, probably a work of the sixteenth century" (Camden:s 'Britannia,' enlarged by Richard Gough, F.A.S., 1789, vol. ii. p. 54, c. 2). There is a beautiful de- scription of this venerable relic in Gough's introduction to the ' History and Antiquities >f Pleshey.' See also 'A Short Account of Fleshy," copies of which were to be obtained, in 1885, of Mr. George Bohannan, at the "White Horse," Pleshy (this was printed by John Dutton, Tindal Street, Chelmsford, in 1885); ' Topographical and Statistical De- scription of Essex,' by Geo. Alex. Cooke, pp. 139-40; and Dugdale's ' British Tra- veller,' 1819, vol. ii. pp. 397-8. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. CHARLEMAGNE'S ROMAN ANCESTORS (10th S. iii. 369, 432).—Perhaps the book which ASTARTE is inquiring about is 'Genealogical Tables,' by William Betham, London, 1795. Table 249 gives the ' Sicambrian, Kings, and Kings of the West Franks, from whom the Kings of France are descended.' The first is Antenor, King of the Cimmerians, A.M. 3561, B.C. 443. Table 250 gives the 'Kings of France, Merovingian, Carolinian, Cape- tingian, Velesian, Bourbonian.* Table 251 gives the 'Merovingian Kings of France." Table 252 gives ' The Ancestors of the Caro- lingian Kings of France." Table 253 gives the 'Carolingian Kings of France." Tables 254 and 255 give the ' Capetingian Kings of France.' ROBERT PIERPOINT. JULES VERNE : STAR AND CRESCENT Moon (10th S. iii. 489).—I have read (but my note is not forthcoming) that, prior to the advent of Mohammed, the Arabs had a species of Venus worship, and that the feminine emblem, the crescent, and the interlaced delta and in- verted delta forming the star, which is em- blematic of the union of the sexes, were symbols which persisted when this worship was replaced by the Mohammedan religion. FRANK REDE FOWKH. 24, Netherton Grove, Chelsea, S.W. MOON AND HAIR-CUTTING (10th S. iv. 29).— This superstition still survives in this village of Tresmeer. ALEXANDER PATRICK. Tresmeer, Egloskerry, E.S.O., Cornwall.