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labelled ' South Grove, Highgate,' and ' North Hill, Highgate.' Neither was cor- rect, as almost every inhabitant knew ; but unfortunately strangers do not, and the perpetuation of the error in the copy filed in the Newspaper Room of the British Museum is a misfortune.

JOSEPH COLYER MARRIOTT.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

POONAH PAINTING. I want information about this. I can remember that there was something so called in vogue about 1856, but have quite forgotten what it was. I find the following references :

1821, Exanrinf.r, p. 272 : "To Ladies. The Poonah taught in a superior style, Ladies instructed in the above Elegant Art, together with a variety of Fashionable and Ornamental Works."

1829, 'The Young Lady's Book,' 469: "A piece of tracing-paper, of a peculiar manufacture, which is sold at the stationers' shops as Poonah-paper."

1840, Thackeray, 'Paris Sketch-Book' (1869), 153: "" What are called ' mezzotints,' pencil drawings, 'poonah-paintings,' and what not.

1861, Sala, 'Twice Round the Clock,' 179: "An eight-day clock, two pairs of silver grape-scissors, a poonah-painted screen, a papier-mache workbox, an assortment of variegated floss-silk."

1889, Anthonrf* Photographic Bulletin, II. 48 : "If the plate be a large one, it may be applied by using a strong hog-hair or poonah' brush charged with vermillion."

After all this, the word does not, so far as I see, occur in any dictionary, and is even -entirely missed by 'The' Encyclopedia Britannica ' and The Times Supplement. What were poonah painting and poonah paper ? What is a poonah brush ? Speedy information is desired.

J. A. H. MURRAY. Oxford.

' POP GOES THE WEASEL.' I should be glad of any information as to the origin, history, and date of this phrase, as applied to a dance or otherwise. I can distinctly remember seeing, some time in .the fifties, in a provincial musicseller's catalogue, the advertisement " The new country dance ' -PP goes the Weasel,' introduced by Her Majesty Queen Victoria ; the new [some term I forget] ' La Napoleonienne,' intro- duced by her Imperial Majesty the Empress Eugenie." This was, I think, about the nd of 1854 or in 1855, but the tune was already by that time whistled or yelled

about the streets, and it was the august patronage ascribed to it that fixed the advertisement in my mind. Was the phrase introduced with the dance, or had it any previous history ? Has any one a dated copy of the original dance music ? I shall be thank- ful for prompt answers, or indications where they can be seen in print.

J. A. H. MURRAY.

[Much has appeared in ' N. & Q/ on the song, which was printed in full at 10 S. iv. 209 by Mil. ADAIB FITZ-GERALD. L. L. K. printed in the same number some verses alluding to the Queen's patron- age of the dance. See also 10 S. iii. 491 ; iv. 5-t. ]

ADDISON AND COL. PHILIP DORMER. In Addison's ' Campaign,' published 14 Dec., 1704, are the following lines (309-14) :

O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate.

And not the wonders of thy youth relate !

How can I see the gay, the brave, the young,

Fall in the cloud of war, and lie unsung !

In joys of conquest he resigns his breath,

And, filled with England's glory, smiles in death. In the London Daily Courant, 21 Aug., 1704, is the following notice :

"We have received a list of the English officers

killed and wounded in the battle of Blenheim

Of the Guards, Col. Philip Dormer, killed." What were Addison's relations with Dormer ? Of all the English officers who fell at Blen- heim, why should Col. Dormer alone be mentioned in ' The Campaign ' ?

At 3 S. xii. 206 appears an inquiry con- cerning the history of Dormer's "youthful deeds." I cannot find that this inquiry was ever answered. Possibly a new genera- tion of readers may be able to throw some light on Dormer's career.

EDWARD B. REED.

Yale University, New Haven, Conn.. U.S.A.

NEWBOLDS OF DERBYSHIRE. In the six- teenth and seventeenth centuries there north of Chesterfield many families of this name, of which a few later attained some local importance. I am especially inter- ested in the Newbolds of Newbold, parish of j Chesterfield, and the Newbolds of Hacken- both in Derbyshire. These families are now, I ! mation relating to them and their descend- '. ants in America is already in my possession. I should like to receive more, and should also be glad to enter into communication with English descendants, if any yet survive. I should also be grateful for any informa- tion leading to the discovery of manor rolls, deeds, and other records relating to the manors of Newbold and Beighton, co. Derby, and Handsworth, co. York. I have
 * existed in the district south of Sheffield and
 * thorpe (Hackingthorpe), parish of Beighton,
 * believe, extinct in that district. Much inf or-