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of art. . . .The back of the slab is a plain flat surface, and that side was placed downwards in the kiln when it was fired, as is proved by sundry liicivs of coke, dross, or ash being embedded there- in. The face side is incised with horizontal lines, like a schoolboy's copybook in longhand, such lines extending far below the range of the inscrip- tions. The inscription was impressed in a rude manner with Roman block letters before firing, each letter being the mark of a separate block, the fixing into position of which, before being pressed down, was guided by the horizontal lines. The work of pressing in these letters was rudely performed : some were pressed deep, others barely leaving their mark, and where letters or figures are in close proximity, the clay between h.is in some instances be3n dragged out in the process of raising or withdrawing the stamps."

A. STAPLETON. 39, Burford Road, Nottingham.

I believe I am right in saying that the memorial erected over the grave of the Rev. James Baldwin Brown (1820-84) in Nor- wood Cemetery is entirely 'composed of Doulton ware. JOHN T. PAGE.

ST. ANNE'S, ALDERSGATE : ECCLESIASTI- CAL RECORDS AT SOMERSET HOUSE (11 S. i. 187, 251). I sincerely hope that the petition suggested by MR. SHERWOOD will be put in hand at once. I will undertake to get a few signatures.

May I further suggest that, while we are about it, w r e might bring to the President's notice a few other " unconscious inadver- tences " known to some of us ?

HENRY R. PLOMER.

44, Crownhill Road, Willesden, N.W.

D. CAMERINO ARCANGELUS, PAINTER (1 1 S. i. 268). In answer to D. C. A.'s inquiry concerning two pictures by D. Camerino Arcangelus, I may say that they are still in the possession of my mother, amongst our family treasures. I shall be glad to answer to the best of my knowledge, any question concerning them the writer may wish to ask.

I do not think any reproductions or photo- graphs have ever been made of them since they were purchased by my uncle, Sir W. Boxall, in Italy some fifty years ago.

(Rev ) C. BOXALL LONGLAND.

The Vicarage, Radley, Abingdon, Berks.

THE BALTIMORE AND "OLD MORTALITY " PATTERSONS (10 S. xi. 25, 218 ; 11 S. i. 230). Miss FAIRBROTHER'S communication at the last reference seems to imply that I received, indirectly from her, unacknow- ledged information proving the connexion between Rear- Admiral George Hart and the Baltimore Pattersons. In this assumption
 * lu- is wholly mistaken. My proof was

derived from three members of Rear- Admiral Hart's wife's family in America and England. Facts which came to me indirectly from Miss FAIRBROTHER were merely of use as a check, at one point. To a much greater extent, but in the same way, Mrs. William Stuart of Ballymena gave valuable help.

As to the information given in Appendix A of my book on ' Carlyle's First Love ' being " in one particular misleading," I give exact references to the two sources (1) Henry T. Hart's ' Hart of Donegal,' (2) .the will of 1801 from which Miss FAIRBROTHER quotes. R. C. ARCHIBALD.

Rue Soufflot, 3, Paris.

RUSKIN SOCIETY OF LONDON (11 S. i. 227). There have been, I think, at different times various Ruskin societies. Perhaps the querist is referring to the Ruskin Society of. London (Society of the Rose) established in 1881. It invited th^ help of all students of Ruskin's works, and suggested the establishment of local centres as branches or reading societies. The hon. secretary of the Society in 1891 was Mr. R. F. Butler, London Institution, Finsbury Circus, E.G.

Perhaps a branch of this Society, known as the Ruskin Reading Guild, was issuing in 1895 a monthly sixpenny magazine, Igdrasil, the editor of which was Mr. William Marwick, 1, Rustic Place, Dundee.

In 1900 the Ruskin Union, to promote the study of the works of Ruskin, was instituted with offices at 7, Pall Mall, S.W. In 1901 the hon. secretary was the Rev. J. B. Booth, The Albany, W. W. SCOTT.

Stirling.

MOCK COATS OF ARMS (II S. i. 146) are far more numerous than is commonly supposed, but, so far as I know, there has been no endeavour to catalogue them. Among my collection of heraldic notes I happen to have the following memoranda, which it may be well to record in ' N. & Q.'

The arms of Crib, the champion pugilist in the early years of the last century, are described in The Sporting Magazine of 1812. As well as the description, there is, I think, an engraving of his fancy coat, but of this I am not sure.

In Mr. Charles G. Harper's ' Great North Road' (1901), vol. i. p. 267, there is a description of a Yorkshireman's coat of arms, which is, if I remember right, an enter- taining production.

The Yorkshireman appears in a different way in the late V. S. Lean's ' Collectanea '