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was nephew to Richard Cluot, D.D., Arch- deacon of Middlesex, vicar of Fulham, and rector of the parish ; the other being John East, clerk of the united parishes, temp. Oeorge II., a later member of the family of East which figures in the London Visitation of 1634.

There are numerous instances on record of the holding of parish clerkships by members of the clergy, who of course may have been born of armigerous families. One such that occurs to me at the moment is that of the Rev. W. J. Emmerson, who was appointed by his father, the then rector, to St. Ethel- burga, Bishopsgate, in 1724.

A late parish clerk of the united parishes of St. Swithin and St. Mary Bothaw, the lamented Mr. J. G. White, was a J.P., deputy alderman of his ward, and author of several valuable works of topographical research in regard to the old City.

At the present time several of the London clerks are men of some rank and position. One, representing St. Mary Abchurch, is an under-sheriff and a deputy alderman ; while another, representing St. Mary-le-Bow, Tiolds, if I am not mistaken, the degree of M.A. of our oldest university.

WILLIAM McMtrRRAY.

Gawen Radcliffe was parish clerk of Crosthwaite, Cumberland, in 1571. He was a descendant of Sir Nicholas Radcliffe, who in 1417 married Elizabeth ae Derwent- water, from whom were descended the Earls of Derwentwater. MISTLETOE.

I remember being told about thirty years ago of a country gentleman filling this office. He belonged to a family established in Kent antecedent to the Conquest, and had been in the royal navy and militia, and J.P. and D.L. for the county. He died in 1887.

R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

Quite recently within the last forty y ears I remember one of the Cecils, son of Lord Salisbury, was parish clerk of Hayes, Kent doubtless unpaid. H. P. S.

[MK. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL also thanked for reply.]

" POT-GALLERY " (10 S. vii. 388, 431; viii. 172, 254, 312, 493). As it would appear, from documentary evidence of the seven- teenth century adduced by one of your Correspondents, that the term " pot-gallery was not confined to a structure attached to a tavern or drinking-place, may I hazard the query whether fit might have originally

denoted a sort of stair or platform on any water-side, where people could take up " pot- water " for domestic purposes ? An Exchequer deposition (32 3 Eliz., Mich. m. 4) in defining the rights anciently conceded to " tynn- works " in the streams of Dartmoor, excepts such " water, river, or brok," as did " first belonge to any grist-mill, or to any man's use for pott -water."

The term might gradually have extended to any sort of projection over the river where persons might sit to " take the air," with or without the additional attraction of pota- tions. ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. viii. 109). The couplet beginning " Femina dux facti " I remember hearing in the autumn of 1876. It was quoted by my form master at Haileybury (Mr. A. V. Jones of Exeter College) as a schoolboy's original effort. Mr. Jones has informed me that he cannot now remember where he heard or read it. " It was told," he adds, " of a Westminster boy. The Head Master, it is

over one boy's shoulder and read :

Femina dux facti. Facti dux femina ? Quid turn ?

Quid turn ? Turn facti femina dux fuit. I believe the last word, 0, was never written. It was an exclamation involuntarily elicited by a striking remonstrance from the exasperated Head Master."

With regard to the application of the words " Dux femina facti " to Queen Eliza- beth and the Armada, Camden in his Annales ' says (p. 534, ed. 1639, Lugd. Bat.) that " nomismata " were struck in honour of the Queen with a repre- sentation of fireships and a fleet in dis- order, with the inscription DVX FCEMINA FACTI. But in ' Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the Death of George II.,' compiled by Edward Hawkins, and edited by the late Sir A. W. Franks and Mr. H. A. Grueber, 1885, the statement is made (vol. i. p. 146) that no trace can be found of this counter. EDWARD BENSLY. Univ. Coll., Aberystwyth. It may be worth remarking that Scott has repeated his thought (see ante, pp. 428, 475) with a variation in ' The Lady of the Lake ': At once there rose so wild a yell Within that dark and narrow dell, As all the fiends, from heaven that fell, Had pealed the banner-cry of hell.

Canto VI. stanza xvn.

The following lines from ' Paradise Lost '