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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. AUG. 17, 1907.

The date of the second list is more pre- cise " Anno 1687, March 30th" :

John Stewart, James Douglas,John Russel, James Hamilton, William Hannay, George White, Gilbert M'Culloch, Thomas Brown, John Brown, William Hay, John Wright, John Richard, Alexander Bailie, Marion Weir, Bessy Weir, Isabel Steel, Isabel Cassils, Agnes Keir. W. S.

Wymans have just issued another volume of a Calendar of Jacobite MSS. at Windsor Castle, 1715-17.

Hotten's ' Emigrants ' shows names of prisoners exported at various dates. I think it is very awkward for their descend- ants, as you cannot distinguish between " prisoners of war " and " transported thieves." A. C. H.

If MR. J. G. CRUIKSHANK will turn to 10 S. iv. 66, he will find that I state that I have the names of the Jacobite rebels trans- ported to America and the West Indies. It includes many English as well as Scotch. GERALD FOTHERGILL.

11, Brussels Road, New Wandsworth, S.W.

" LOMBARD STREET TO A CHINA ORANGE " (10 S. viii. 7). Another and perhaps a more effective form of this expression occurs in George Daniel's farce ' Sworn at Highgate ' (London, 1826 ; first performed at Sadler's Wells 1 Oct., 1832 ; included in Cumber- land's ' Minor Theatre,' vol. xxii.). In Act I. sc. iv. Billy Buffalo says :

" Business ! it 's pleasure ! I 'm come on a matri- monial expedition to marry a tip-top lady, all strut and streamers ; though I'd bet Lombard Street to a Brummagem sixpence, that she's not half as handsome as my old flame, Miss Peggy Styles, of Penzance."

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

A China orange was a " sweet " orange to distinguish it from a " sour " or Seville orange : "... .a small parcel of China and Sour Oranges just imported " (Daily Adver- tiser, 23 Jan., 1742) ; and the proper form should, I think, be " All Lombard Street," &c., in allusion, of course, to the pecuniary wealth represented by that historic thorough- fare. Thomas Moore in his ' Tom Cribb's Memorial to Congress,' p. 38, is quoted by Farmer and Henley as using the phrase " All Lombard Street to ninepence " ; anc in The Sun (now defunct) of 7 June, 1898 occurred the following :

"After Mr. Justice Hawkins's summing uj yesterday, Lombard Street to a China orange die not represent the odds against Horsford. It was an uncommonly clumsy murder."

A China orange appears to have been> o called for no better reason than that it was popularly supposed to come from the- East. Similarly China-root was a medicinal root from the East and W T est Indies. While Johnson quotes Mortimer's ' Husbandry ' China orange been propagated in Portugal and Spain," he furnishes no evidence in support of his statement that China oranges^ were " brought originally from China."
 * o the effect that " Not many years has the

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

In a letter dated 25 May, 1668, Mrs. Papillon of Acrise, wife of a London merchant,, writes :

" I have yet heard nothing of the arrival of the goods Mr. Matsoii sent me on the 20th, and two dozen of China Oranges for a token from his Wife."

VIr. Papillon was, I believe, M.P. for Dover at this time, and Mr. Matson mayor or late mayor. R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

Two OLD PROVERBS (10 S. vii. 407, 457 ; viii. 55). I add the following short refer- ences with regard to " Toujours perdrix "' from my notes for a work which I hope may one day see the light, on the subject of the- sources and analogues of the tales in the- ' Decameron.' The Arabic versions of ' The Seven Sages ' contained in some versions of ' The 1,001 Nights ' (ed. Habicht und Hagen,. Nos. 980-81, vol. xv. p. 157) ; Burton's ' Arabian Nights,' original ed., p. 129, vol. vi., and p. 43, vol. v. ed. 1894 ; Payne's ' Arabian Nights,' 1883, vol. xv. p. 263. See also another version in the ' Supple- mental Arabian Nights,' Burton, vol. ix. p. 120, ed. 1894, from the Breslau ed., vol. viii. pp. 273-8, nights 675-6 ; ' La Pantoufle du Sultan ' in Cardonne's ' Me- langes de Litterature orientale,' 1771, p. 5,. taken from a Turkish collection called 'Adjaib-el-Measar.' See Clouston's notes to- vol. ii. p. 378 of Burton's ' Supplemental Nights ' ; MR. AXON at 9 S. xii. 223, 261 ; ' Conde Lucanor,' where the tale is told of Saladin, but in a different form ; the pro- verbs of Antonio Cornazano, where the dish is beans ; and ' Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles,' No. 10, which is the same as La Fontaine's. Manni, * Istoria del Decamerone,' p. 156, thinks it is historical, and quotes at length the wearisome story from Book III. of the history of the kingdom of Naples by the Archbishop Paolo Emilio Santorio. San- sovino has also taken it into the first tale- of the second day of his ' Cento Novelle.'

A. COLLINGWOOD LEE. Waltham Abbey, Essex.