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Charles Edward Horn set it and sang it, anc since then it has been a popular song. (Se Fitz-Gerald, 1898.) JAMES WATSON.
 * Stories of Famous Songs,' by S. J. Adai

Folkestone.

'Cherry Ripe' is surely not "much late in date than Charles II." Herrick's song o that name may be found in Mr. Quillei Couch's * Oxford Book of English Verse.'

C. W. B.

So far as the index to Wheatley's ' Pepys indicates, there is no entry connecting Ne] G vrynne with 'Cherry Ripe.' The extrac given by MR, SCAEGILL (23 Jan., 1666/7 apparently) does not seem exact. There is no reason, of course, why some one shoulc not have set Herrick's words to music at tha time. U. V. W.

BOOKSELLER'S MOTTO (10 th S. v. 208). Ii a little Italian book that I have, "La Storia <ii un Moscone. Raccoato di F. D. Guerrazzi Torino, 1858," the following stands as motto to Part I. :

"Enrico Day atampatore prese per insegna fanciullo, il quale destava il fratel suo dormente, e in atto di additargli il sole gli diceva ; Arise fo) at u day /"

On referring to 'The History of Sign- boards,' by John Camden Hotten, third edition, 1866 (the earliest in the Bodleian), p. 474, I read:

"John Day, another publisher of the time of Queen Elizabeth, had a sort of pun, or charade, on his name in the sign of the * Resurrection,' his device representing a man waking a sleeper, with the words, ' Arise, for it is day. 1 "

This, however, can scarcely be the English source of the Italian author.

A. D. JONES.

Oxford.

In the writings of the several authorities on John Day I can find nothing to justify the point raised by PATRICK that Day's device and motto, " Arise, for it is Day," is a parody on Ezekiel vii. 10. Most writers, including Ames and the author of the article in the * Dictionary of National Biography,' regard his device simply as a pun on his name ; but W. Roberts, in his work on 'Printers' Marks' (1893), says: "His best-

says ,

known device has a do'ublo meaning : "first it is a pun on his name, and secondly an allusion to the dawn of the Protestant religion." Such punning allusions to the printer's name were quite common among the devices of the early typographers, two notable instances being Grafton's device of a tun with a grafted fruit tree growing through it, and that of Nicholas Eve, which

gives a picture of the presentation of the forbidden fruit. GEORGE A. STEPHEN.

Bishopsgate Institute, E.G.

Day's motto does not appear to bear any intentional allusion to Ezekiel vii. 10. It is apparently a purely humorous conceit of his own. His sign was, however, the " Resur- rection," an allusion to his name; and in at least one instance he published his own portrait as a colophon, representing him, whip in hand, in a room over the City entrance of Aldersgate where his boys slept. The sun has just risen, and, accompanying his words with a flourish of the whip, he facetiously bids them "Arise! for it is Day." A note made some years ago is somewhat obscure, but I think this colophon will be found among the Bagford title-pages.

J. HOLDEN MAcMlCHAEL.

The name of Day rather lends itself to punning mottoes. The Rev. J. J. Day, who, thirty years ago, was vicar of one of the Gateshead parishes, adorned his letter-paper with the rising sun and this motto : "And the evening and the morning were the first day." Not to be behindhand, his spiritual bead, Archdeacon Prest, rector of Gates- head, adopted the motto of the Carmichaels and other families : " Toujours Prest." A local wit issued some doggerel rimes on the subject, the burden of which was that the archdeacon's ancestry was the older, because, while there was no day till the Creation, D rest had always existed.

RICHD. WELFORD. Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE (10 th S. v. 188). Fellow -Commoners certainly existed at his college during the eighteenth century, or Horace Walpole was one. No complete ist of them has ever been published that I know of, but such a list would be interesting.

R. A. A. L.

John, Marquess of Blandford, the only son of the great Duke of Marlborough, was certainly entered at this college as a noble- man, and died within its walls of smallpox in 1702-3, at the age of seventeen. His large marble tomb, having on it a long Latin

inscription, may

be seen in one of the

chantries on the south side of the chapel.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

It was not until 1814 that admission to King's was rigidly confined to members of the foundation. Up to that time there was a small body of Fellow-Commoners, among whom were Francis Walsingham and Horaca