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about 1754, to Richard Fiennes, Viscount Saye and Sele. The Viscount died in 1784, and she died 23 July, 1789, aged ninety-four. In the notice of her death in The Gentle- man's Magazine it is stated that she dressed, even at the close of her life, more like a girl of eighteen than a woman of ninety. Her favourite amusement was dancing, and she indulged in it almost to the last week of her life. She was always lively and had an excellent heart. J. B. P.

May I be allowed to make the following comments upon MB. BEAVEN'S most per- spicacious contribution to this subject ?

P. 25. Having considered MB. BEAVEN'S exhaustive summary of possible people, I have come to the conclusion that this epi- taph was intended for Edward, 12th Earl of Derby, whose character, allowing for exaggerations, it appears to ftt. My edition (the seventh) gives in the Index " Lord D h."

P. 78. MB. BEAVEN seems to be right. My Index gives " Lord N h, and as Lord Newborough had been M.P. for Carnarvon, I was led astray.

P. 92. This is certainly Mrs. Macaulay, In copying my list I transcribed " Dr. Graham," her husband, whose name appears at the top of the inscription.

P. 112. My Index gives "Hon. M M-n-a-ue,"' but the initial evidently is wrong.

P. 115. My Index makes another mis- take, giving " Sir W r H -rt n."

P. 126. I ought to have written Elizabeth, Countess of Berkeley, but copied in error the name of her husband. After the death of Augustus, 4th Earl of Berkeley, she married {in 1757) Mr. Robert (afterwards 1st Earl) Nugent, the " Lord N " of the text. They separated at the end of two years. I still think that the blank epitaph on p. 50 refers to Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, as my Index gives " D of K ," and the reference to " Three Russians ** corroborates my belief.

P. 130. My Index, which is so often

wrong, gives "B Countess of B ,"

not P.

I had not seen the previous lists of MB. PIEBPOINT and MB. VAN NOOBDEN, which anticipated the greater portion of my own. HOBACE BLEACKLEY.

STEEBAGE ON A FBIGATE (10 S. xii. 470). Since the original frigate was a merchant vessel as well as a battleship, the steerage portion would probably have been, as in

merchant ships, the space between the com- panion ladder and the captain's cabin. R. H. Dana, jun., in his ' Seaman's Manual,' 1867, describes it as being " that part of the between decks just forward of the cabin."'

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

" UNE CATALOGUE RAISONNEE " (10 S. xii. 348, 418, 474). In " Dictionnaire Fran- cois-Anglois & Anglois -Francois, par Louis Chambaud, nouvelle edition, revue, cor- rigee, &c., par J. Th. Des Carrieres, a Londres, 1815," " Catalogue n appears as feminine. In Boyer's ' Royal Dictionary Abridged,' 5th ed., London, 1728, it is masculine. What was the date of the first edition of Chambaud' s dictionary, and whether in it " catalogue " is said to be feminine, I do not know. Is it not possible that " catalogue " attracted, as it were, in some dictionaries the feminine gender of its next or near neighbour " Catalogue " ? ROBEBT PIEBPOINT.

W. JAY, THE PBEACHEB : CYBUS JAY (10 S. xii. 444, 485). I have heard Cyrus Jay spoken of by several who knew him personally, and though he was not success- ful in his latter days, I do not think he was in any great straits. Thanet Place had still at least one well-known, not to say distinguished, occupant ; and a writer on legal subjects, in a letter of 1901 now before me, makes this mention of Jay's ' The Law : What I have Seen, What I have Heard, and What I have Known * : "... .poor old Jay's book, the proof-sheets whereof he gave me to read.' 1 W. B. H.

ST. GBATIAN'S NUT (11 S. i. 10). In the extract from Hakluyfc the mention of trees presents a difficulty in the way of tracing the kind of nut described. The synonym St. Gratian is not given by botanists. But popular and scientific names change, and after a long period their par- ticular application is forgotten. The author of the ' Voyages ' refers more especially to the virtues of the nuts, and perhaps assumed that they were the fruit of some tree ; but the description generally points to the Trapa, water-caltrop, aquatic herbs pro- ducing farinaceous seeds (nuts). The seed is larger than the kernel of the filbert. There are three species. Trapa natans is sold in Venice under the name of Jesuits' nuts. Pliny says that the Thracians made this into bread ; and Thunberg states that the seeds of the Trapa bicornis are commonly put into broth in Japan. The large seeds of Trapa bispinosa are sweet and eatable ; they form an extensive article