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as chief rent, and the house was, until it fell* in shape as having one high corner, and in occupied as a place of residence by Mr. Thomas | motion as swinging from side to side like a

I door on hinges. If the former feature be

When I reported the Coffin House at Brix- the one described, the word would group ham (see 10 S. i. 388, 493), I had not heard w i t h the French echantillon and our " scant- of the Hatherleigh one. The Brixham H ng . . if the latter> wit h Spanish escan- house seems to be the only one now left in this dallo and Italian scandaglio, both meaning- county. A. J. DAVY. a plummet or pendulum. In either case

English seamen may have supposed the

EPIGRAM ON A DEAF JUDGE. In ' The 8 aff itself to be described, and under the Reminiscences of a K.C.,' by T. E. Crispe influence of "scanty" and "scandalous (Methuen & Co., 1909), on p. 113 are quoted evolved the present form. OLD SARUM. the following lines " turned off impromptu A REPTJBLICAN S ON OF Louis XV.

f a distinguished writer, inspired by the In 1891 printed a note of mine (7 S.

deafness of a great Chief Baron :- | xL 302 ) on Louis Charles Antoine Beau-

great The plaintiff Johne Roe was deaf as an adder ;

franchet d' Avat, who was said to be a natural

3re c ^L the defendailt > one Doe > and what ' s I son of Louis XV., and who was present at

the execution of Loius XVI. My com- munication elicited some interesting com- ments (7 S. xi. 429) which made it appear

sadder,

Much deafer than both was the Judge enthroned high

Tliis intricate action of Trover to'try. _ % . ___,

SSf/iS! 1 ^ ma p ny dramas for Rentleft unpaid ; | probable that Beaufranchet was born at a

^j me w j ien jjjg mother had ceased to be the Quoth ^"judg^riwMng^do^^my^ot^Tof I Distress of the king, and had been married

one mind ? to Beaufranchet d'Avat.

After all, she 's your mother ; why don't you agree I have recently met with a reference to p between you, and let the Law be ? " t he mother in the ' Memoires ' of the The distinguished writer gave away a clue notorious Casanova which confirms this in " drachmas, '* but some will be glad to view. He calls her "la jeune et belle O have the exact reference to his original, viz., Morphi. n Casanova says (chap, xvii.) that Afi, rt i n,,^ >. x i 251 (Nicarchus). the son borne to the king left no trace, and

H. K. ST. J. S. that in 1783 he met a charming young man of twenty- five who was the fruit of the marriage

EARLY FIELD TELEGRAPH. The earliest O f " la belle O-Morphi " and Beaufranchet, illustrative quotation in ' H.E.D.' for It may be worth while adding this to the

d telegraph is dated 1874, and then, of other references. WILLIAM E. A. AXON. course, in connexion with an electrical 257, Deansgate, Manchester, system. But a semaphore system of field telegraphy was obviously in existence HENRY VII.' s GLOVES : HENRY VIII. s though it may not have received the name CAP. In the Lord Chamberlain's Accounts, three-quarters of a century before, as is v - 95 P- 91 is the following note : shown in the following extract from The I. " A Warrant to William Smithsby, Keeper of

Anthol.

Times of 1 Jan., 1801 :

Hampton Court, to deliver to John Tredescant,

~ * King Henry the Eighth his cap, his stirrups, and

The French, who have now advanced into TCi Henrv thp Spv^nth his e-loves and his-

Germany so far out of the line of the telegraph, I Combrace. tion i. ctween Augsburgh and Basle, to facilitate the correspondence of the army with the Govern- ment."
 * u< going to establish Telegraphic communica-

King Henry the Seventh his gloves and hi* Dec. 31, 1635."

C. C. S.

ALFRED F. BOBBINS.

ISAAC NEWTON AS MASTER OF THE MINT. There is preserved at the Record Office a set of extra receipts relating to those in the "S< \\nALizK." This verb is used at I serv * ce ^ Queen Anne in 1702. Among

describe rapid reduction of a fore-and- these appears (L.C., II. 287) : 'It sail by letting the peak of the gaff drop " Isaac Newton, Arm. et Magistro. Operator \\ith or without tricing up the tack. Prob- Monetar - supra Comptum, per Servic. et expensis 'ly th- word was in oral use long before it f^ni "STfof* P6r BreVG *"* ^^^ ^'^ c'ainc t> he written down, and, like many ' CCS

fcher sea- terms, may possibly have come

the Mediterranean, where the Spanish MONKEYS' PARADE. This expression is

or a gaffeail is escandalosa. Now a gaff- familiar in more than one London suburb,

from a squaresail in two ways and denotes the High Street or a portion of