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also, and for any third party, a perfect and safe cure. After all, the sources of modern surgery and physic are, in some at least, dependent on smallest herbs and creatures. They are witchcraft less the Babylonian and Chaldaean incanta- tions. Hence MB. J. B. WILLIAMS' s " colonel who was hanged " no doubt con- sidered quite honestly and conscientiously that " a slice of burglar's liver " was an excellent remedy for the gout. Dr. Budge of the British Museum in his painstaking compilation on ' The Mummy ' quotes (from Pettigrew, I think) how the Turks of Asia Minor suppressed a very businesslike Jewish mummy merchant, whence the failure of modern medicinal mummy.

CECIL OWEN. Perth, W.A.

MARQUIS DE SPINETO (US. ix. 510; x. 138;. Lady Granville wrote (22 Aug.,' 1820) that, at the Queen's trial,

" the interpreter is the man that delights them all. Uis name is Spinetto ; he is an Italian teacher at one of the Universities, as quick as lightning, all gesticulation, and so eager he often answers instead of the witness. Between them they act all the evidence, and at times they say this is so irresistibly comic that the noble lords forget all decorum and are in a roar of laughter." ' Letters of Harriet, Countess Granville,' vol. i. p. 161.

A. FRANCIS STKUART.

It seems to be forgotten that one daughter <of tliis Neapolitan nobleman, Mary Jane JDoria, married in 1846 Henry Philpott, D.D., Master of St. Catherine's College, afterwards Bishop of Worcester.

F. DE H. L.

THE WEARING OF THE OAK (11 S. x. 7). Autumnal fires were known in Europe long before the days of Guy Fawkes. Is it not probable that oak-leaves were worn at some May festival earlier than th'j Battle of Worcester ? Some few fragments of folk- lore suggest that the first of the month was not the only time of merrymaking in May. An old Lincolnshire woman, who would have been more than a hundred had she lived till now, once described to me a festival anciently held in the pasture of a village in the north of her native county. At this feast a garland of oak-leaves had to be set up. Its date could scarcely have been Old May Day, for frequently oaks have no leaves then.

What evidence exists of a festival con- nected with milk and milkmaids about the end of May ?

If wearing oak-leaves has to do with a spring festival, doffing them at noon may have some connexion with the sun.

M. P.

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED (11 S. x. 129). The lines about which MR. MAT- THEW HUGHES inquires are from Mr. William Watson's poem on ' The Tomb of Burns/ published in ' The Father of the Forest, and Other Poems ' (John Lane, 1895), p. 42. In the fifth line quoted " And " should be But. CHARLES J. BILLSON.

1C. L. S. also thanked for reply.]

OLD ETONIANS (11 S. x. 108). "Llano- well, Denbigh," must be an English con- tortion of " Glanywern, Denbigh." Glanywern is a mansion still standing in the neighbour- hood of the town of Denbigh. "Edward Clough," who was admitted to Eton in 1751 and left in 1756, in all probability was Edward (b. 1741), the third of the thirteen children of Hugh Clough, Esq., of Glanywern, Sheriff of the county of Denbigh in 1759. Edward Clough must have died early in life, as his brother Bichard Clough (b. 1753) inherited Glanywern after their father. -:. It is of interest to point out that Roger, the thirteenth child of Hugh Clough, Esq., of Glanywern, and brother of Edward Clough of this query, was the father of James Butler Clough, who was the father of Arthur Hugh Clough, the poet.

T. LLECHID JONES.

Yspytty Vicarage, Bettws-y-Coed.

LORD ERSKINE'S SPEECHES (11 S. x. 131). There can be no doubt that Phillimore's reference to ' Miscellaneous Speeches ' is to

" Speeches of Lord Erskine, when at the Bar, on Miscellaneous Subjects. London, Printed for J. Ridgway, 1812."

In vol. i. there is a good report of the Bishop of Bangor's trial, but " the whole trial " is not reported, as the evidence is omitted.

It is stated in a note at p. 95 that the report is taken from Gurney's shorthand notes of the trial, published by Stockdale of Piccadilly. HARRY B. POLAND.

Inner Temple.

[MB. O. E. A. BEDWELL also thanked for reply.]

STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES : WILLIAM CAREY (11 S. x. 104). The bust of Dr. William Carey by J. C. Lough is no longer in the vestibule of the Metcalfe Hall, Calcutta, as a " lasting testimony " to his memory. On the Hall