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ROMAN LADIES : PURITY OF THEIR LAN- GUAGE. Does Cicero say, in his letters or elsewhere (or is it some one else ?), that in his time the diction of Roman ladies was more pure than that of orators or professional cultivators of the Roman language ?

V. H. C.

' EDWIN DROOD - CONTINUED. Who is supposed to have finished this novel ? Lombroso mentions in his * After Death What ? ? that the book was finished by a lad (a medium) named James a mechanic, who could scarcely read under the dictation of the spirit of Dickens. O. S. T.

[Various continuations of * Edwin Drood ' have been discussed in ' N. & Q.' ; see 5 S. ii. 407, 475, 526 ; iii. 136, 177 ; 8 8. vi. 348, 418, 472 ; 9 S, xii. 389, 510.]

CIMA'S ' INCREDULITY OF THOMAS.' In the National Gallery there is a large picture by Cima, ' The Incredulity of Thomas,' and there is another picture so entitled in Venice. There is also in existence an old copy of the picture in the National Gallery, of similar size, and framed similarly. Can any reader furnish me with information about the last-mentioned picture ? It is now in Not- tingham. D'ARCY LEVER.

DANGER PERSONIFIED AS MASCULINE BY SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare personifies Danger as masculine in a well-known passage of ' Julius Caesar,' Act II. sc. ii. :

Danger knows full well That Csesar is more dangerous than he ; We are two lions litter'd in one day, And I the elder and more terrible.

It would be interesting to learn whether Shakespeare was followed in such a personi- fication by a modern English or foreign poet.

INQUIRER.

ST. MARTIN'S.LE-GRAND. Has the model of that part of St. Martin's-le-Grand upon which the Post Office stands, understood to be in Mr. Joyce's muniment-room at the ( J.P.O., ever been photographed ? Does an illustration of it appear in any work ? WILLIAM MCMURRAY.

JOHN SYMMONS, 1781-1842. The ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' says that " he probably died at Deal in 1842." Is it possible to obtain the place and the exact date of his death ?

G. F. R. B.

WILLIAM WELBOURNE was elected on the foundation at Westminster School in 1713. ( 'an any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' give me particulars concerning him ? G. F. R. B.

JOHN SAVAGE, 1673-1747. I should be glad to obtain the particulars of his parentage and the date of his birth in 1673. The ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' (vol. 1. p. 340) is silent on these points. G. F. R. B.

Miss BRUSBY. I have a portrait (an engraving by Val. Green, dated 1772) of ' Miss Brusby,' taken when a child. Can you give me any information about this lady ? She was, I believe, at one time a friend of George IV. when Prince of Wales.

F. H. J.

" WELSH " : ORIGIN OF THEIR NAME. Max Miiller connected the word Welsh phonetically with the words Baluchi and Mlechha. As mlechha in Sanskrit means a " barbarian," it would follow that the Welsh adopted as their name a term originally used contemptuously of them by another race. Is there any historical ground for this inference ? V. CHATTOPADHYAYA.

[PROF. SKEAT in his * Concise Etymological Dic- tionary,' 1901, says : " Welsh, pertaining, to Wales. (E.) M.E. walsh, foreign. A.-S. wcEhsc,wehsc, wylisc, Celtic. Formed, with suffix -we 05. -Mft) and vowel-change, from A.-S. wealh, a Oelt ; whence Wealas, pi., mod. E. Wales." MB. JAS. PLATT, writing on 'Walsh Surname (10 b. xu. 446), also regards Welsh as " the A.-S. adjective Welisc."]

SIR HILDEBRAND CAKES. Can any reader tell me the names of artist and engraver of a mezzotint portrait of Sir Hildebrand Oakes (1754-1822), who served in the British Army in the U.S.A. and in Egypt ?

F. B. M.

PENZANCE MARKET CROSS. This ancient cross was removed from the western end of the Market House in 1900, and removed to the Morrab Gardens. In the course of this displacement, an ancient inscription on the back was again disclosed, after many years, and deciphered anew, differently from an earlier interpretation. None of the antiquarian publications appears to give this. Does any reader of ' N. & Q. J know it ? I should add that Langdon's book on Cornish crosses gives only the earlier version, before the cross was removed to its present position. W. H. SCARGILL.

' A GENERATION OF JUDGES.' Who was the author of ' A Generation of Judges, by their Reporter, 1 London, 1886 ? The book is composed of notices of twenty-two English judges and one other, and was at first attri- buted to Mr. W. F. Finlason, then a veteran reporter and writer on legal subjects. But I