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in ' Amphion.' I think, too, that the chief use of sloes was not primarily to make vinegar, but wine. Sloe wine used to be found in all farm-houses and many cottages ; and sloe vinegar, so far as my experience goes, was only the same wine turned sour for want of drinking, which in our house, at any rate, it rarely did. The wine was regarded as a specific for diarrhoea, and when fortified, as it usually was, with brandy, it was neither a bad remedy nor a bad drink.

C. C. B.

How far back can, not this Chichester fair itself, but the name of the fair in this form, be traced ? One of the oldest churches in Chichester as to foundation and site, though not as to its present fabric is St. Olave's. Is it possible that "Sloe" is a corruption for " St. Olave " ? I am aware that St. Olave's Day falls at the end of July, but I believe this is not necessarily an in- superable objection. PEREGRINUS.

MARIA RIDDELL AND BURNS (11 S. x. 50). May I be allowed partly to answer my own query at the reference above ? The fragment is :

How gracefully Maria leads the dance ! Slic's life itself : I never saw a foot So nimble and so elegant. It speaks, And the sweet whispering Poetry it makes Shames the musician.

' Adriano ; or, The First of June.'

" This elegant little fragment appears, in the

poet's holograph, on the back of an MS. copy of

the ' Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots,' that

apparently had been presented by the author to

.Urs. Maria Riddell." W. Scott Douglas,

'The Works of Robert Burns,' vol. iii. (1877), 1, 82.

The fragment has been photo -lithographed by William Griggs, with an introductory note by H. R. Sharman, 1869. ' Adriano ; or, The First of June,' is " a poem by the author of ' The Village Curate ' " (J. Hurdis), 1790, p. 94. The quotation by Burns is incorrect, insomuch that in the third line of the original the word " eloquent " is used instead of " elegant."

MR. SCOTT DOUGLAS (vide supra) states

that he discussed the subject in ' N. & Q.,'

April, 1877, and that he was answered on

3 April, 1877, but this I have not been able

to confirm.

I am still unable to verify the statement tluit Burns sent Maria Riddell an MS. copy of his ' Tarn o' Shanter.'

HUGH S. GLADSTONE.

[The query appeared at 5 S. vii. 189, and the reply by the late W. R. MoBFlLL lit p. 339 of the same volume.]

' PICKWICK PAPERS,' FIRST EDITION (US. iv. 248, 292, 352). Mention is made at the last reference of the copy of ' Pickwick Papers ' in parts catalogued (Catalogue 264, No. 1683) by Messrs. Maggs in 1911 with a detailed bibliographical description. Another, and finer, copy was sold by Messrs. Sotheby on 26 May last, when the record price of 495Z. was bid. This formed part of the library of the late Capt. Douglas, and is- catalogued as " probably the finest copy extant." The description of this copy (lot 331) is of special value for the full par- ticulars as to the advertisements which should accompany each part, and in this respect supplements the collation given by Messrs. Maggs. ROLAND AUSTIN.

THE VOYAGE OF THE PROVIDENCE : ROBERT TINKLER (11 S. x. 116). In, ' The Royal Navy,' by Wm. Laird Clowes, Robert Tinkler is included in the list of midshipmen on the Bounty on 23 Dec., 1787. In the index he is referred to as being identical with First Lieutenant Robert Tinkler of the Isis on 2 April, 1801, at the battle of Copenhagen. J- F.

WELLINGTON (11 S. x. 49, 132). A writer in ' N. & Q.' (1 S. vi. 516) says that the title of Wellington in Somerset was selected for the Duke because that town is near the village of Wensley a name which bears a close resemblance to Wesley, the old family name, since altered (he says) to Wellesley. As a matter of fact the original name of the family was not Wesley, but Wellesley, being derived from an ancient manor in Somerset called Wellesley or Wellesleigh. In the course of time the name of the family became abbreviated to Wesley, and up to the age of 29 the Duke was always known as the Hon. Arthur Wesley. But the Duke's ancestors were not Wesleys at all, but Colleys, and it was only at the beginning of George II. 's reign that the Duke's grand- father, Richard Colley, in accordance with the terms of his cousin Garret Wesley's will which gave him Dangan Castle and Mornington, took the additional name of Wesley and became Richard Colley Wesley. As to the Colley (or Cowley) family of Castle Carbery, co. Kildare, from whom the Duke of Wellington is descended, it is said that they once possessed the estate of Wellington in, Somerset. If this be correct, it would perhaps account for the title of Wellington bring selected by or for the Duke. A curious bit of information is furnished by Lord Colchester's Diary. Lord Colchester,