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to " Herbert " Hotel and Tavern, 1863; this was altered to "Coal Hole' 3 Tavern, 1868, which was altered to "Occidental " Tavern in 1874. This building fell down 1887.

FREDERIC BOASE. 21, Boscobel Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea.

With reference to "The Coal Hole," and the mock court which used to be held there, presided over by the famous Chief Baron Nicholson, the following anecdote may interest some who, like myself, are old enough to remember the place and the persons referred to. I was in the Court of Exchequer one day at Westminster while a case was being tried before Lord Chief Baron Pollock, of dignified and withal humorous memory, when Baron Nicholson was called as a witness. Directly the pseudo-Baron stepped into the box, Pollock half rose from his seat, and said, with a dignified bow, "The Court is very glad to welcome you here, brother Nicholson." imagine the roar

W. E. BROWNING.

of laughter that ensued.

Inner Temple.

BANKES OF CORFE CASTLE (10 th S. v. 289, 372). See 'The Story of Corfe Castle,' by the Right Hon. George Bankes, M.P. (1853), p. 310 :

" The Lord of the Manor was Lord-Lieutenant of the Island of Purbeck, an hereditary office scarce enjoyed by any private person in the kingdom ; he was also Admiral of the island, and Governor of Brownsea Castle. He had power (until the pass- ing of the Militia Act of 1757) to raise and muster a militia. Corfe Castle (long a royal Castle) anciently enjoyed great privileges, and was exempt from any services in the county."

The Manor of Wimborne Borough is parcel of Kingston Lacy, and the property of Mr. Bankes ; see Hutchins, 'Dorset,' iii. 235.

A. R. BAYLEY.

I cannot answer B. W.'s query in any detail, but it may interest him to know as I learn from Mrs. Bankes, widow of the late W. R. Bankes that the Lord High Admiral- ship of the Isle of Purbeck and Lay Bishopric of Wimborne are hereditary offices in con- nexion with the owner of Corfe Castle the former having many privileges, such as rights of wreckage along the coast (on property and some miles out), salutes, and other com- plimentary things ; the latter in connexion with tithes, tfcc. The mayoralty of Corfe Castle lapsed some years ago, the late W. R. Bankes being the last Mayor. The old silver mace is at Kingston Lacy, dating from about

The whole history is most interesting, and Kingston Lacy, the residence of the Bankes

family, unique in its collection of treasures, books, and pictures. Hie ET UBIQUE.

THE GUNNINGS OF CASTLE COOTE (10 th S. v. 323, 374). In Castlepollard Church, parish of Rathgraffe, diocese of Meath, there is a marble tablet with the following inscrip- tion :

''Near this Place lies interred Miss Catherine Gunning eldest daughter | to Barnaby Gunning of Hollyvvell in | the County of Roscommon Esqre. and of | Mrs. Anne Gunning alias Stauntou | Good nature and sweet disposition | as well as beauty were the ornaments | of her infant years | These were soon joyn'd by Judgment and Discretion | Religion and Patience adorning | her many virtues conducted her to | a blissful state of Immortality | from her afflicted Parents and | sorrowful friends in the nineteenth | year of her age on the fifteenth day | of November 1751.

Here underlies too sad a truth Discretion innocence and youth Death veil thy face thy cruel dart Has virtue pierced thro' beauty's heart."

F. E. R. POLL ARD-URQUH ART. Castle Pollard, Westmeath.

THE BABINGTON CONSPIRACY (10 th S. v. 190, 354). There is a slight mistake in MR. ABRAHAMS'S reply. Mr. Wey man's 'The House of the Wolf ' first appeared as a serial, not in The Graphic, but in one of the early volumes of The English Illustrated Magazine. G. L. APPERSON.

Wimbledon.

CAPT. WILLIAM WADE (10 th S. v. 327). An article in a local newspaper was my authority for stating that Capt. Wade was on a second occasion a candidate for the office of M.C. at Bath. B. W. T.

"REBOUND," VERB (10 th S. y. 345). I do not see any difficulty in accepting the expla- nation in the 'N.E.D.' of the meaning and etymology of this word as it occurs in the 'Alliterative Poems/ B. 422. The meaning which 'N.E.D.' gives, namely, "to bound or leap, esp. in return or response to some force or stimulus," supplies a perfectly satisfactory sense to the whole line, and is supported by the other quotations, one of which is from a poem written quite early in the fifteenth century. There is no difficulty about the form rebounde : it is a preterite form of rebound; compare bilde, pret. of bildan, to build, and bende, pret. of benden, to bend.

I do not think that any one will be inclined to give up this very satisfactory, I might almost say obvious, explanation for that which is proposed by DR. SMYTHE PALMER. He suggests that the word rebounde in this passage is the past tense of a verb *reboun, a compound of a French re- and an English