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able to write ' The History of Self-Defence. But they are not mentioned in the accounl of him in the ' D.N.B.'

The letter of W. C. B. (ante, p. 227), about

the writing of " president " for " precedent "

being common at the time of Sir Roger

L' Estrange, is a valuable result of my query

EDWARD S. DODGSON.

ADMIRAL CHRIST EPITAPH (10 S. vi. 425 517 ; vii. 38). Still another example not hitherto noted in ' N. & Q.' will be found {copied from a tomb at Newhaven) in The Gentleman's Magazine for November, 1856, at p. 603. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

This epitaph, or a variant of it, as follows, may be found in the churchyard of Whitby, just where it might be expected : "An old man of eighty- two is made to say : From rageing storms at sea The Lord he did me save, And here my tottering limbs is brought To moulder in the grave. Lancelot Moorsom, aged seventy-four, varies the matter thus :

Tho' boreas blasts, and rieptune waves,

Hath toss'd me too and fro', By God's decree, you plainly see,

I 'm harbour'd here below, But here I do at anchor ride

With many of our fleet, And once again I must set sail Our Saviour Christ to meet." From ' A Month in Yorkshire,' p. 99, 1858, by Walter White.

JOHN PlCKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

Has the similarity of the idea expressed by Tennyson in the concluding couplet of

his noble poem noticed ?

Crossing the Bar ' been

I hope to see my Pilot face to face

When I have crossed the bar.

T. M. W. O. W. HOLMES ox CITIZENSHIP (10 S. vii.

of special kinds of medicine who had invented them spoke of themselves as the " authors " of them. Greenhough's tincture, for in- stance, a famous preparation, the receipt for which is given in Dr. Paris' s ' Pharma- cologia,' 1833, p. 708, is described in The WhiteliaU Evening Post, 16 March, 1756, as being sold by " the Author T. Greenhough, Apothecary in Ludgate Street."

J. HOLD EN MACMlCHAEL.

DR. JOHNSON : DR. JOHN SWAN : DR. WATTS (10 S., vii. 348). I would suggest that the Dr. Watts referred to by Dr. Swan in his letter to Dr. Johnson may have been Dr. W. Watts, of Northampton. He was evidently practising in that town in 1757, some five years previous to the date of the letter quoted, as on 3 Oct. of that year he was a co-signatory with Dr. Stonhouse and others of an official announcement that Northampton was at that time entirely free from the smallpox. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

" BLACK HORSE " INN : DEAN OF KILLA- LOE, &c. (10 S. vii. 369). Hatton's 'New View of London,' 1708, vol. i. pp. 8, 9, records four " Black Horse " Inns :

1. At the N.W. end of Bow Street, Covent Garden.

2. On the N.W. side, and near the middle of Great Queen Street.

3. On the W. side of Water Lane, near White Friars.

4. In Finsbury Fields, near Little Moor- fields.

There were two Black Horse Yards : on

the N.E. side of Windmill Street, near ' Pickadilly " ; and on the E. side of Nightingale Lane, near East Smithfield.

There was a Black Horse Alley on the N. side of Fleet Street, " the first Wd. from Fleet-bridge, a Passage to ditch-side."

There were also two Black Horse Courts :

249, 297). The statement of O. W. Holmes ! O n the W. side of Aldersgate Street, near that Dr. Hunter could not locate is not ' Half Moon Alley ; and on the W. side of the passage MR. OXBERRY refers to, but is in the Minories (by Tower Hill), about the ' Elsie Venner,' chap. xx. 1 : i middle. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

"There are people who think that everything! tt -r>,, TT ) -r nn ; au, ia.

may be done, if the doer, be he educator or There was a Black Horse Inn in fenug physician, be only called 'in season.' No doubt, Lane, near the end of the Hay-market ana but in season would often be a hundred or two Piccadilly. Lane's ' Masonic

Records

(1886), p. 93, says that a Masonic lodge was commenced to be held at " The George," Shug Lane, in 1765, and was held at ' The Black Horse," Shug Lane, from 1767 to 1782, when it was removed to Westminster. This is the only mention I find of either

century use of the word " author " which j " The George" or " The Black Horse " in a I do not think has been noted. The vendors I Masonic connexion. At " The White Hart,"

years before the child was born ; and people never send so early as that."

ALEX. RUSSELL, M.A. Stromness, Orkney.

"AUTHOR" USED FOR "EDITOR" (10 S. vii. 226). There is another eighteenth-