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scare : Theodore Hook and " Thomas Ingoldsby " wrote some of their best political squibs to it, and it suggested more than one of Lord Neaves's lively verses in Bktckwood. R. L. MORETON.

' THE KINGDOM'S INTELLIGENCER' (10 S. vii. 148, 238, 270, 395, 491). I notice one error in J. B. W. : s otherwise accurate reply at the last reference. He says : " The paper then stopped for a week " (col. 2, 1. 5). This is incorrect. Though the numbering was faulty, there was no gap, at this date, in the issue of The Parliamentary Intelligencer. The numbers and dates were as follows : No. 24, June 4-11, 1660; No. 26 (sic) June 11-18, 1660; No. 26 (sic) June 18-25, 1660; No. 27, June 25-July 2, 1660. Consequently, there appears to have been no No. 25, though J. B. W. mentions one. The Order of the Council of State to the Stationers' Company appears prefixed to No. 16 of The Parliamentary Intelligencer (April 9-16, 1660), and also to No. 16 of Mercurius Publicus (April 12-19, 1660).

As regards The Kingdom's Intelligencer, it may be mentioned that there was no issue for the week April 15-22, 1661 ; in the num- ber for the week following (No. 16, April 2229) the excuse is made that it was the eve of his Majesty's coronation. The num- bers 17 (1661), 46 (1661), and 26 (1662) do not occur, having been skipped by error, though there was no gap in the actual issue. My copy of the paper for May 5-12, 1662, is numbered 1, though the preceding paper was No. 18, and the succeeding one No. 19. CHARLES LINDSAY.

"BACON" (10 S. viii. 310). The oldest known quotation is that given in ' N.E.D.,' about 1330. But it occurs earlier in Anglo- French. It is spelt bacun in William of Wadyngton's 'Manuel des Peches,' 1. 2384, translated as early as 1303 ; also in The Conquest of Ireland,' ed. F. Michel, 1. 1961 ; and the plural is bacons in ' The Legend of Fulk Fitzwarin,' 1. 315, written about 1300. So we may yet hope to find an earlier quota- tion in English.

The three references given above are taken from my ' Notes on English Etymo- logy,' p. 373.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

A bacon in the sense of a pig (as opposed to the flesh of a pig) is often to be found in fourteenth-century documents. An earlier instance than any given in the 'N.E.D.' occurs in 1310, when there are several Cheshire Recognizances dealing with the

production at Chester, by the purveyors to- the King in each hundred, of the corn and bacons charged on the hundred, or 4s. for every bacon. C.R.R., 3 & 5 Ed. II. m. 1 (17) and others.

Much earlier use of the word could be found, I dare say. R. S. B.

4 INTO THY HANDS, O LORD,' AN OIL PAINTING (10 S. viii. 330). I fear that A. J. W. has no poetry in his soul, and I lope that he will forgive my saying so. The- tainting in question is by Mr. Briton Riviere,. R.A., and was exhibited at the Royal Aca- demy in 1879 (Cat. No. 487) under the title of ' In Manus Tuas, Domine.' It shows a youthful knight riding through an enchanted iorest, and just about to enter a deep, dark ravine, evidently peopled thickly by ghosts, hobgoblins, pixies, et hoc genus omne, which, though invisible, can yet make their presence telt, as every quivering muscle and trembling imb, both of horse and hounds, most clearly proves. But the knight rides on unmoved,, confident in his faith in the Deity, to whom,, with bared head, he offers the ejaculatory prayer.

It is a fine conception, and the execution is masterly. ALAN STEWART.

' Into Thy Hands, O Lord,' is by Briton Riviere. The picture is in the Manchester City Art Gallery, and I believe the knight in armour to be the Red Cross Knight of Spenser's ' Faerie Queen,' Book i.

B. HULTON.

[MB. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL also thanked for reply.]

THE HAMPSTEAD OMNIBUS (10 S. viii. 86, 156, 293). It will serve to bring this matter up to date if there be given the following extract from The Daily Telegraph, this time of 18 October:

" No Hampstead 'Buses. One of the oldest omni- bus routes in London Hampstead to Oxford Street is to be relinquished to-morrow. This step haa been brought about through lack of public support. With the opening of the Hampstead Tube Railway the omnibuses, instead of going to Oxford Street, went for a time to Bayswater, but this experiment not proving successful, a route to Kilburn was tried, with, however, no better results. The 'buses were- then put back to their original line, and are now to- disappear finally."

As to the antiquity of the route as one for public passenger conveyances, a striking light is thrown by the fact that it was- advertised in The Daily Post of 14 June, 1721, that

"John Smith's Double Chaise, goes twice every Week-Day from Hampstead to London, Math Passen-