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Leeds, the drawing-master of the Bronte family. It was during Mr. Robinson's tuition that Thompson became acquainted with Branwell Bronte, who, after having failed to obtain a Royal Academy scholar- ship, was sent to Mr. Robinson, with a view to his adopting portrait painting as a pro- fession. Mr. Wood tells us that Thompson died so recently as 1890, being buried at Bradford, and that the Bronte episode will probably do as much to preserve Thomp- son's name from oblivion as his life's work.

A. STAPLETON. 158. Noel Street, Nottingham.

" CAVEAC " TAVERN (10 S. iii. 29; viii. 116). The apt quotations under this head given by MB. ALAN STEWART prompt me to mention that Mr. J. P. Simpson's inter- esting work entitled ' Old City Taverns and Masonry,' which appeared last year, states that " a little further east, where the Pea- body statue now is, stood the ' Caveac ' Tavern, for some time probably the resting- place of the Caveac Lodge, No. 176 " a conjecture which seems to be duly estab- lished in Mr. Richard Davies's letter. What one still desires to ascertain is whether this old tavern was identical with " The Lion and Fleece," which occupied, it is surmised, the same site. This, perhaps, some reader of ' N. & Q.' can tell us. I may add that there is a slight error in the designation of the church referred to. This should be given as St. Bene't Fink, the name of the parish at the present time.

CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club.

MARSHALL'S ' GENEALOGIST'S GUIDE ' : A SUPPLEMENT (10 S. vii. 347; viii. 52). On hearing from MR. ISAAC MARSHALL I wrote to him as follows :

" I have no intention of infringing any copyright of yours in Marshall's ' Genealogist's Guide.' What I think of doing is to index pedigrees in books issued since the last edition of the 'Guide,' and perhaps some not included in that book. I am sorry if my paragraph has misled any as to the ownership. 5 '

GERALD FOTHERGILL.

MUSICAL SERVICES ON CHURCH TOWERS (10 S. viii. 8, 96). MR. F. A. EDWARDS states that at Southampton the dawn of May used to be heralded by a local choir singing from the top of the Bargate a custom which, he says, was kept up till 1890 or 1891, and possibly may still be continued. And he observes that he finds no reference to it in my ' History of South- ampton.' May I say that I never heard of

such a custom ? My book, was published in 1883, and I can only imagine that the practice of which he speaks commenced after that date. It would be interesting to know a little more of this matter, for by long experience I have learnt that old customs and traditions have to be narrowly ques- tioned before being allowed to stand.

J. SILVESTER DAVIES. Adelaide House, Enfield.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. viii. 109). T. E. M.'s query respecting the origin or authorship of " Think clearly, feel freely, bear fruit well," recalled to me the lines of Horatius Bonar, which, though not a direct reply, seem to me to have some connexion with the foregoing quota- tion, and to be worth citing from memory :

Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed ;

Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a living seed ;

Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.

J. GRIGOR.

W. A. M. is referred to ' Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border,' iv. 133, where he will find :

The hare sail kittle flitter] on my hearthstane, And there never will be a Laird Learmont again.

In ' As You Like It,' III. ii., Rosalind compares herself to " the cony that you see dwell where she is kindled."

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

CEMETERY CONSECRATION (10 S. vii. 490 r viii. 93). It is scarcely needful to make clear that the phrase " fast approaching com- pletion " (coming after an enormous amount of local talk on the subject) refers to the active rate of growth rather than the point reached, though not commonly used so.

When the Liverpool Cathedral founda- tion stone was laid in July, 1904, an official declaration proclaimed that the Lady Chapel would be ready for use within five years, three of which have gone by. To the most pessimistic eyes it must be clear that the rapid growth of the huge building, especially the Lady Chapel, is a guarantee that the- builders mean to keep their word. If, then, the first portion no inconsiderable one becomes ready for service in 1909 (or 1912, as MR. ARKLE prefers to think), the relative term I applied cannot be considered " mis- leading."

In the past a period for construction of from thirty to forty years and upwards was not considered long, and one famous con-