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Surely MB. BAYNE is a little hypercritical in assuming that there is a misprint of fourth for fifth commandment in his quotation. The Roman branch of the Church makes the first two into one, thus putting each number a place forward, but, keeping the total to ten, divides the last into two. M. L.

' A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE PUBLICK BUILDINGS, &c., IN LONDON,* 1734 (11 S. i. 189). A second edition of this work was published in 1736. Anderson, ' British Topography,' 1881, gives the title thus : ' A new critical review of the public buildings, statues, and ornaments, in and about London and Westminster,' second edition, London, 1736, 12mo. He does not supply the name of the publisher. Lowndes also mentions the 1736 edition as having been sold at the Xassau sale for 7s. The publishers of the second edition were possibly the same as those of the first. Lowndes unhesitatingly attributes the authorship of the book to " James Ralph," and terms it "a satirical piece." Presumably, this second edition is the one to which MB. ABRAHAMS refers.

W. SCOTT.

STAVE POBTEBS (11 S. i. 10). I think the origin of this sign must be in accordance with the editorial note, and for this reason. Among the Beaufoy tokens there is one which Mr. Burn describes erroneously, I think as the Two Drovers ; but there is nothing to indicate with certainty that this is so, for the token bears a representa- tion of two men with staves. These are evidently the cowl-staves, or stangs, used to carry burdens, supported on the shoulders of two bearers, and seen in the sign of " The Two Brewers," "The Two Draymen," &c., who are represented thus carrying a cowl, which is a tub or barrel used for conveying water or beer. Thus also the sign of "The Bunch of Grapes n is represented by two cowl -staff porters bearing an enormous bunch of grapes between them ; and we may even go back as far as the days of Pompeii (A.D. 70) for an instance in which two slaves are bearing a wine-amphora lKween them, suspended from such a staff. This was the sign of a wine merchant.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

Two men carrying a load too heavy for one, slung on a stave or pole between them from shoulder to shoulder, would virtually be "stave porters." When a lad I saw blocks of stone carried in this way, by means

' a short, but stout pole thrust through or under a chain passed round the block.

I remember, too, seeing in Derby some casks and boxes warehoused in this manner in the bottom floor of a building. In " s tang-riding " the effigy was carried in this manner, tied on a stang or stave. In fact, amongst Derbyshire folk the name of a pole of this kind was " a stang." In the villages where the spring or well was some distance from the houses- often the case the children went for pails of water, bringing it home on a stang put through the handle of the pail. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

THE CBADLE OF HENBY OF MONMOTJTH (11 S. i. 183).

"Aug. 8. Sunday. Saw at the Vicar's, M r Ball, Henry the 5 th cradle, made of wood."

This is an extract from the diary of the Hon. William Hervey in 1779, and removes all doubt as to the vicar. The diarist had served in North America under General Gage, and at this time was visiting him at High Meadow in Newland. S. H. A. H.

DEW-PONDS (10 S. xi. 428, 474 ; xii. 17). The Geographical Journal, August, 1909, pp. 174-95, contains a paper entitled ' Some Observations on Dew-Ponds,' by Mr. Edward A. Martin, F.G.S., read before the Royal Geographical Society on 22. April, 1909, with diagrams and discussion on the paper. FBEDK. A. EDWABDS.

DR. JOHNSON'S BOOTS (11 S. i. 184). HIPPOCLIDES seems in doubt whether during the doctor's time "Wellingtons" were made "rights and lefts." I feel sure they were not. I have seen them made "straights" a technical term for wearing indifferently on either foot in modern times, on account of the simplicity of use. A Wellington is not an easy boot to slip into, and men in a hurry to mount could ill afford to make mistakes of that sort.

With regard to slippers for men and women, until the nineties I made thousands of pairs per annum, " straights " only an ugly style. M. L. R. BBESLAB.

CAPT. BBOOKE AND SIB JAMES BBOOKE (11 S. i. 130, 213). I heartily thank MB. J. N. DOWLING for his reply to my query. I was hoping that " Capt. Brooke " great- grandfather of the Rajah would prove to be the son (Capt. Arthur Brooke) of Henry (' Fool of Quality ') Brooke, or a kins- man, because Henry Brooke and his brother, and Henry's nephew Robert, and others of that clan were all men of temperament like the Rajahs honourable, daring, truthful,