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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vra. SEPT. 28, 1907.

to William Auden of that place. She died 20 Oct., 1867.

These entries are taken from some MS. genealogical notes in the handwriting of their son, the late Rev. John Auden. It is probable that further information could be supplied by the Rev. T. Nicklin, Rossall School, Fleetwood. GEORGE A. ATTDEN.

York.

There was a well-known publisher in Fleet Street, against Fetter Lane, in 1714, 1733 and 1736, by name R. Gosling (see Post Boy, 27-29 April, 1714 ; Craftsman. 8 Sept., 1733 ; London Evening Post, 19-22 Dec, 1733 ; and St. James's Evening Post, 23 Oct. 1736). This Gosling, by a notable coincidence, must have been very near the present Gosling's Bank.

Another note that might be of some use in tracing the Joseph Gosling in question is from Weever's Funeral Monuments,, where an epitaph from the Savoy Church is preserved relating to an old vintner of the ' White Hart " :

Here lieth Humphrey Gosling of London, Of the Whyt Hart of this parish, a neghbor Of vertuous behaviour, a very good archer And of honest mirth, a good company keeper ; So well inclined to poor and rich, God send more Goslings to be sich.

The distinguished conduct of another Gosling at a fire at " The Boar's Head " in Fleet Street

When Salamander-like he made it known Fire was an Element that was his own, is duly recorded in the ' Vade Mecum for Maltworms,' Part I. (circa reign of Queen Anne). J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

29, Tooting Bee Gardens, Streatham.

CROSBY HALL (10 S. vii. 481 ; viii. 30, 71, 111). It has not hitherto been generally recognized that the ceiling of the Council Chamber is entirely modern. Several of the volunteer guides who have expatiated on the interest and beauty of Crosby Place claimed that it was the original roof, but had been very much restored and decorated.

The earlier ceiling, with its timber brackets, turned beams, lanterns, &c., was probably removed before 1831, and passed into the Cottingham Museum, for at the sale of this remarkable collection by Messrs. Foster & Son in 1851 it formed lot 291 in the first day's sale (3 November). The purchaser was Mr. Waleaby, of 5, Waterloo Place.

Is it still in existence ? There are several large private collections of early English woodwork, and perhaps, unidentified in one

of these, it forms a much-admired specimen of late decorated Gothic work. With small probability of anything but the actual Hall Deing saved from the impending demolition,, t is useless to suggest its being reinstated. But perhaps at South Kensington, by a public- spirited act on the part of its owner, t might become the ceiling of an apartment in which other relics of this memorable City mansion could be preserved.

Until there is definite news of its exist- ence, we must be satisfied with the illustra- tion provided in The Builder, 8 Nov., 1851. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

39, Hillmarton Road, X.

" SUCK - BOTTLE " : " FEEDING - BOTTLE " [10 S. viii. 190). I am one of a Warwick- shire family born between 1841 and 1850, all " brought up on the bottle." As a reader of Baxter and other seventeenth-century writers, I am well acquainted with the term " suck-bottle " ; but I never heard it in use, except as a bottle of gruel, for the conve- nience of old and bed-ridden people. The term " feeding-bottle," which the ' N.E.D.' dates from 1858, I never heard ; nor ever saw till I read MR. ATKINSON'S query. What was in common use in my boyhood was an ordinary bottle (various sizes being employed) with a bit of washleather (pierced with cuts) tied round the muzzle. We,, however, had a special article (got from a chemist), oval in form and flattish, some- what in the shape of an ancient lamp, with a mid-oval hole for inserting the milk-and- water, and a nozzle, tipped as aforesaid. This was always known as a " baby's- bottle"; I never heard it called anything else. Experienced nurses did not prefer it to the ordinary bottle, for this reason : it was possible to refill it without removing (and cleansing) the washleather nipple : and if this were not cleansed it was liable to sour the contents.

I have seen also but I do not think this was common a mere washleather bag, with no (glass) bottle, used for infantine nutri- tion. V.H.I.L.I.C.I.V.

Seeing that the Romans had feeding- bottles, and that they must have been re- quired by other peoples who succeeded them in the occupation of this land, it seems strange that the 'N.E.D.' should trace the term " feeding-bottle " no further back than. 1858. I remember the article, distinctly, in the forties. It differed much from the hookah-like contrivances which now solace peramulated infants and set motive sprites