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officers ; and at last Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper had to call upon " the Doctor Incumbent " to pacify them in requital for which Cooper and others afterwards turned the said Doctor " out of his living, and banished him out of the county." I shall be much obliged for any further information concerning Ford or the Doctor. This episode, I think, probably belongs to the preceding year, 1645. I have consulted Hutchins, Walker, and Calamy.

A. R. BAYLEY. St. Margaret's, Malvern.

THE STONES or LONDON. Are the round stones used for paving now being taken up in Great Colle%e Street, Westminster, the last survivors in London of a feature that once led to a familiar phrase ? The flat stones in Abingdon Street, hard by, are of course quite different from those named, and are modern. HIPPOCLIDES.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. I am seeking the origin of the following, which is quoted from memory probably incor- rectly :

Silenus, old drunken Silenus,

On his ass, with his paunch full of wine, Comes, followed by countless Bacchantes, Their brows all wreathed with the vine. Evoi ! Evoi !

They rend with their shouts the thin air, And Bacchus, led slow on his leopard, Sweeps by with his ivy-bound hair. The three dashes in the fifth line stand for a Greek exclamation in three syllables, which I have forgotten. I. H. P.

1. " Who does not venerate the Chief of that illustrious family, who, being stricken by mis- fortune, wisely and greatly turned his attention to ' coals ' the accomplished, the epicurean, the dirty, the delightful Micawber ? "

2. So once of yore each reasonable frog Swore faith and i'ealty to his sovereign log. Thus hailed your rulers their patrician clod As Egypt chose an onion for their god.

J. L. W.

1. Toujours mecontent de ce qu'il vient de faire. II plait a tout le monde, et ne saurait se plaire. 2. Who referred to the Church of Rome as

An old lady in Babylon bred, Addicted to flirting, and dressing in red?

(? 'Ingoldsby Legends.') 3. Though with pistols 'tis the fashion To satisfy your passion, Yet where 's the satisfaction If you perish in the action ?

(Quoted in ' Melincourt,' chap, xxiii.). R. L. MORETON.

" MAREBOAKE " : " VIERE." Turning over some old terriers and title-deeds (referring

to Buckinghamshire in the seventeenth century), I constantly meet with the words " mareboake " or " viere " or " veare " in the description of the portions of land. What is the precise meaning of these words ?

R, B. Upton.

NASMYTH'S ' SCENE IN HAMPSHIRE.' Where is the ' Scene in Hampshire ' repre- sented in Nasmyth's National Gallery picture of that name? I should be glad to know the exact spot. S. MEAD.

Faversham.

HERALDS : THEIR ANOINTING. I should be glad of some information as to the anoint- ing and inauguration of Heralds. By whom is the oil consecrated ?

Is it necessary that a new Herald should be hallowed (I use the term because I do not know what other to employ) by existing Heralds ? and, if so, by how many ?

If a heraldic succession really exists, how- far back and to what source can it be traced ?

So far I have been inquiring as to English Heralds. Further, I would ask whether what is true of English Heralds is true of Scotch and foreign (e.g., Spanish) Heralds; or, if not, what the main differences are. In particular I wish to know whether there is a common source from which the English and foreign successions, if any, are derived. For all I know, it may be in the Kings of Arms that the power of transmitting heraldic order is vested. Indeed, it looks on the surface as if the triple grades of King of Arms, Herald, and Pursuivant were in some way analogous to those of bishop, priest, and deacon.

Will some expert be good enough to enlighten my ignorance ?

R. JOHNSON WALKER.

Little Holland House, Kensington.

" KEELHAUL " : " COBKEY " : " MORRY- OUNE." In a volume of ancient tracts is an interesting treatise by Capt. John Smith, published in 1626 as an 'Accidence for Young Seamen.' In setting forth the duties of the various office-holders on shipboard the author says of the " Marshall " that he " is to punish offenders and to see Justice executed according to directions, as ducking at Yards arme, hawling under the Keele, bound to the Capsterne, with a basket of shot about his necke, and to pay the Cobty or the Morryoune." " Cobty " I have found under ' Cobkey.' To " pay the cobty " or " cobkey " might be, I gather, correctly expressed " to serve the rope's-end." But for " Morryoune "