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Koecher in vol. iv. (press-mark in British Museum 9386.ee), of the " Publications from Prussian Archives," and her correspondence ly Bodemann in vol. xxvi. (press -mark 9386. eee).

Sir Thomas " Howe " is meant for Roe ; and Siebenbiirgen is the German name of Transylvania. " Prince of Siebenbuergen in Transylvania " looks grotesque (p. 227).

There is such a publication as ' Heidel- berger Jahrbiicher [der Litteratur],' but it is not the source to which the lady refers.

L. L. K.

TICKET, PORTRAIT PAINTER. Probably less is known of the English portrait painters of the first quarter of the eighteenth century than of any other period. The period, it is true, is not an inspiring one, and most of the portraits, especially of clerics, bear a strong family likeness. I feel sure that many of these were done by an artist unrecorded by Bryan and other writers of the name of Ticket. I find that I have one after this artist of the Rev. Robert Warren, S.T.P., "rector of St. Mary at Stratford Bow, in Middlesex," engraved by H. Fletcher, who does appear in Bryan. Warren wrote a number of religious books and pamphlets, some of which ran into many editions, and to one of these his engraved portrait was added as frontispiece. He does not appear in the ' D.N.B.' W. ROBERTS.

" SVABACH." In Cech this word means German calligraphy, i.e., cisti svabach, to read German. In appearance it is an abla- tive plural. Prof. Dr. V. E. Mourek's Cech- English dictionary gives, besides this word, svab, docked tail, dock-tailed horse, cock- roach ; svaby, peeled barley. Svabach is more likely to be derived from svab, as a popular expression, than from Suabia (Svabia). FRANCIS P. MARCH ANT.

Streatham Common.

THE COMMON HANGMAN. (See 1 S. xi. 13, 95, 252 ; xii. 293 ; 2 S. xi. 151, 256, 314, 445 ; 4 S. ix. 136 ; 5 S. vi. 26 ; 10 S. viii. 244, 335, 353, 376; x. 167.) According to tin* records of the Barber-Surgeons' Com- pany, quoted in The Daily Telegraph of 7 March, one John Hooper held the office of hangman in 1730.

From a delightful little book entitled ' Xotrs from a Collector's Catalogue,' by the i!' -v. A. W. Oxford, a copy of which the Author has been kind enough to send to m>, I have gleaned a useful piece of

information about Turlis the executioner, who died in April, 1771. Mr. Oxford possesses a receipted bill of the public whipper (who was also the hangman) in 1767, upon which the man signs himself Edward Turlis. I suspect this individual to be the Tallis who succeeded John Thrift in May, 1752. HORACE BLEACKLEY.

HERB-WOMAN TO THE KING. (See 10 S. xii. 289, 354, 418.) At the first reference appeared a query concerning a lady said to be " hereditary herb-strewer to the royal family, the dignity having been conferred

on her great -aunt, daughter of, one of

the King's physicians."

Perhaps Miss Fellowes was the ' ' great - aunt " :

" Miss Fellowes, sister to Mr. Fellowes, Secre- tary to the Lord Great Chamberlain, has received the appointment of Herb -woman to his Majesty, pursuant to a promise which, we understand, was made to her, while his Majesty was yet Prince of Wales. This lady will have to nominate her six maids, who will be young ladies of respect- able families, and their duty will be to precede the procession strewing the way with flowers." ' Preparations for the Coronation,' Gentleman's Magazine, 1821, vol. xci. pt. i. p. 560.

The coronation of George IV. took place 19 July, 1821.

In pt. ii. of the above volume, p. 6, is given the ' Procession to the Abbey.' First of all appear

" The King's Herb Woman, Miss Fellowes, with her six maids, Miss Garth, Miss Collier, Miss Ramsbottom, Miss Hill, Miss Daniel, and Miss Walker, strewing the way with herbs."

" On the arrival of the Procession at the Abbey, the Herb-woman and her Maids, and the Serjeant- Porter, remained at the entrance within the great West-door." Ibid., p. 8.

W. Toone in his ' Chronological Historian,* 1826, ii. 674, says :

" All were splendidly dressed in white, Miss Fellows [sic] wore in addition a scarlet mantle trimmed with gold lace."

When the King was approaching West- minster Hall at about half-past three, " Miss Fellowes with her assistants first entered the Hall.... The Herb-women were followed by the Children of the Chapel, the Judges, and the Privy Councillors not Peers." Gentleman's Maga- zine, vol. xci. pt. ii. p. 13.

Some of the above, taken from ' The Annual Register,' was given by COL. FYN- MORE at the second reference. Refer also to 11 S. i. 126.

I have found no reference to a herb-woman at the comparatively economical coronation of William IV. I doubt the office being hereditary. ROBERT PIERPOINT.