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although the result has been encouraging, I am still without the slightest indications respecting the registers and papers belonging to Furnival's Inn, Clifford's Inn, Barnard's or Mackworth's Inn, and Thavies Inn. Any reference to their existence sinca the several societies were dissolved, or news of their present whereabouts, will be highly appreciated. ALECK ABBAHAMS.

39, Hillmarton Road, N.

" THE SILLY SIXTIES." Quite recently somebody in ' N. & Q.' so characterized, within the guard of inverted commas, the sixth decade of the nineteenth century. As one who knew something of that period, and who owes it much, I am anxious to learn who first gave currency to an epithet which appears to me to be as foolish as it is false.

ST. SWITHIN.

' THE DAYS WHEN WE HAD TAILS ON Us.' I should be glad of information as to the authorship and rarity of a book entitled ' The Days when We had Tails on Us,' printed and published by Newman & Co., 186, Bishopsgate Without, 1849. It has 24 pp. ; size, 9J in. by 5| in., with 14 coloured illustrations ; dedicated to the officers of the British Infantry, and bound in cardboard. W. M. M.

[Halkett and Laing state that the author is Lieut. -Col. John Josian Hort.]

RICHARD STRANGE. According to Halkett and Laing, vol. ii., p. 1277, he was the author of ' Journal of Meditations for Every Day in the Year,' first published in English in 1674, Edward Mice being the translator. This is not mentioned in ' D.N.B.,' lv., 24. The third edition is thus described in a bookseller's recent catalogue :

"Journal of Meditations for Every Day in the Year, gathered out of divers authors, and trans- lated by E. M. from the Latin of N. B., 3 rd edition, Permissu Superiorum, 8vo, calf. London : Printed by Henry Hills, Printer to the King's Most Ex- cellent Majesty, for his Household Chappel; for him and Mathew Turner, at the Lamb in High Holborn, 1687."

Was the original Latin ever published? If so, when ?

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

MONASTIC SCRIPTORIUM. I require infor- mation, with details of architecture, &c., regarding the Scriptorium in Benedictine and other monastic establishments, ancient and modern. Some of my collaborators can no doubt help me in my quest therefor. Replies, either direct or in these columns, will be thankfully received ; but to save

time and space I may mention that I am acquainted with Fosbroke's ' British Mon- achism,' Du Cange, and Dugdale's ' Mon- asticon.' J. B. McGovERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

APPLES : THEIR OLD NAMES. It would be interesting, now that " Sops in Wine " has proven to be a living variety (ante, pp. 249, 313), to ascertain how many of the old names are still in existence.

In John Pechey's ' Compleat Herbal,' 2nd ed., 1707, a list of the most esteemed varieties of apples is given, " the English apples being accounted the best in Europe " :

"First, those that are soon ripe and soon decay : The Gineting, the Margaret or Magdalen, the King- Apple, the Aromatick or Golden-Russeting, the Flax-Apple, the Spice- Apple, the Summer-Queen- ing, the Go-no-farther or Cat's-head, the Good- Housewife or Bontradue, the Giant - Apple, the Pome-water, the Summer Pearmain, the Kirton- Pippin or Holland-Pippin, 'tis called Broadeye in Sussex, the Orange Apple, the Summer Belleboon, the Paradise-Apple, the Famagusta, the Codling, the Costard- Apple, the Sops in Wine.

" Secondly, Winter- Apples, and such as last long : The Winter - Queening, the Quince - Apple, the Winter-Pear main, the Nonesuch, the Pealing, the Leather-Coat, the Winter -John, the Pome-Roy, the Lording, the Julyflower- Apple, the Pear- Apple, the Greening, Lones-Pearmain, the Green-Russet- ing, the Red - Russeting, the Winter - Fillet or Violet, the Winter-Belle or Bonne, the Oaken -Pin, the John-Apple or Deux-Ans, the Westbury, the Winter-Reed, the Flower of Kent, the \\inter- Chesnut, the Maligar-Apple, the Short-Tart, the Pelmell, the Thrift, the Winter-Clary, the Fig- Apple.

"Thirdly, the Apples that are best for making Cyder : The Redstreak, the Bromsberry-Crab, the Golden-Pippin, the Gennet-Moil, the Westbury- Apple, the White and Red Mast- Apples, the J9hn- Apple, the Under-Leaf, the Winter-Fillet, Elliots, Stocken-Apple, Bitter-Scale, Claret- Wine Apple, Arrier-Apple, Richards or Grange-Apple, Colmg- Apple, Olive-Apple, Fox-Whelp, Pippins and Pear- mams mix'd, the Gillyflower."

H. HALLIDAY SPARLING.

15, Villa Davoust, Asnieres, Seine.

MINIATURES BY Rossi. I have three miniatures signed Rossi. : ' Napoleon I.,' ' Roi de Rome,' and ' Marie Louise.' They are in a very pretty brass gilt frame surmounted by an eagle. I shall be obliged for any information about Rossi. M. M.

" NITOR IN ADVERSUM." Edmund Burke in one of his philippics says :

" I was not, like his Grace of Bedford, swaddled, and rocked, and dandled into a legislator : ' Nitor in adversum ' is the motto for a man like me."

Is this the motto literally of any family ?

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.