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NOTES AND QUERIES, no s. vm. DEC. u, 1907.

Col. Wm. Anderson, C.B., Bengal Artillery The collection includes a parchment with sea conferring upon him the freedom of the Royal Burgh of Wick (1862), and tracings of his pedigree, through Oswalds, Murrays. and Sinclairs, to John Dunbar (father of Sir William) and to Murray of Clairdon. There are further details of marriages with the families of Haldane, Johnstone, Dalrymple, Ramsay, Frazer, Sutherland, Edmiston, Smythies, Shirley, Gordon, and others. E. A. PETHERTCK.

Streatham, S.W.

FLEET STREET, No. 7 (10 S. viii. 248, 350, 411). No evidence is, I submit, at present forthcoming pointing to " Hary Smyth " having, at any time, dwelt at No. 7, Fleet Street, or of his having, at any time, preceded Tottel on that spot. While No. 7 was " between the Temple Gates," Tottel is, I think, never so described, nor does he describe himself otherwise than as being " Within Temple Bar, at ' The Hand and Star ' " ; whereas " between the Two Temple Gates " almost invariably accounts for the publishing- and dwelling-place of other booksellers between the Gates besides Thomas Woodward at " The Half Moon," who thence advertised the London edition of Epictetus, the publication of which was superintended by James Upton, jun. Wood- ward concludes the advertisement as follows: " Impensis T. Woodward, ad Signe Lunae Crescentis inter Templi Portas " (see The Daily Advertiser, 24 March, 1741). Thus also in The Grub Street Journal, 8 May, 1735 ; in The St. James's Evening Post, 23 Oct., 1736 ; The Daily Gazetteer, 15 May, 1738 ; and in other instances Woodward's announce- ments terminate with " between the Two [sometimes " two "J Temple Gates in Fleet Street." That it is impossible for " The Half Moon " to have been identical with " The Hand and Star," No. 7, is evident from the circumstance of Joel Stephens, as MB. HILTON PBICE shows (ante, p. 351), having been at the latter sign from 1730 to 1741, at the time Woodward was publishing at " The Half Moon," " between the Two Temple Gates " ; so that the house after- wards distinguished as "The Half Moon" was perhaps that where Henry Smyth dwelt before his removal to the " Trinity " or " Holy Trinity " without Temple Bar, and " The Half Moon" was perhaps the "Crown" at No. 9, Fleet Street, renamed, which was also a bookseller's. Of this " Crown " MB. PBICE says that it possibly went under another sign after 1695, since he does not

find it mentioned again. " The Sun," another booksellers' between the Temple Gates, at No. 14, is not apparently so de- scribed, however, while " The Crown " is. Of the twelve houses " between the Temple Gates," Tottel's (afterwards Butterworth's) was the easternmost, and Lintot's, " The Cross Keys," the westernmost ; and this. brief portion of Fleet Street contained at one time or another no fewer than five different booksellers' dwellings, Nos. 7, 9, 11, 15, and 16. J. HOLDER MACMICHAEL.

"SLINK": "SLINKING" (10 S. viii. 27, 117, 418). There is a technical term in the leather trade for certain kinds of dressed skins known as " slink lambs." They are small and expensive, and used as linings of ladies' dainty slippers only. They are the " pelts " of the animal stillborn, I believe, since the output is restricted.

M. L. R. BBESLAB.

WELSH HEBALDBY (10 S. viii. 330). A human head is usually supposed to represent the head of any Englishman who was so un- lucky as to find himself on the wrong side of Offa's Dyke. It exists in the arms of the families of Hughes, Lloyd, Meredith, Price, and Wynn, and in those of the town of Haverfordwest. S. D. C.

THE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT (10 S. viii. 268, 418). I have never heard MB. PIEB- POINT'S version of the Eleventh Command- ment. The version I have been familiar with for many years is, " Thou shalt not be
 * ound out." JOHN ADDISON.

The H.E.D.,' ii. 670, gives the follow- ng uses of this expression : ( 1 ) nothing succeeds like success ; (2) do not tell tales out of school ; (3) thou shalt not be found out. Thus there would seem to be a suffi- ient choice of accepted meanings from which to select. W. B. H.

I have heard the " Eleventh Command- ment " given as " Thou shalt not be found out." A novel bearing the title of ' The Eleventh Commandment ' was published some four or five years since, and became the subject of a lawsuit.

R. L. MOBETON.

JAMAICA RECOBDS (10 S. viii. 29, 274, 377). It may interest the querist to know that a transcript of various Jamaica registers, so far as the family of Gordon is concerned, appeared in The Huntly Express of 25 October .ast. J. M. BULLOCH.

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