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NOTES AND QUERIES. [iis.x.oer.31,1914.

" I AM THE ONLY RUNNING FOOTMAN "

(11 S. x. 229, 298). The name of the house in Charles Street is not "The Running Horse," but "The Running Footman." Giving the wrong name was only a lapsus calami.

In addition to the references already given, it may be as well to refer to ' The History of Signboards,' by J. Larwood and J. C. Hotten, pp. 360, 361, where they state that

" most of these running footmen were Irish, hence Decker says ' The Devil's footeman was very nimble of his heeles, for no wild Irishman could outrunne him ' (Decker's ' English Villanies,' 1632), and Brathwaite remarks :

For see those thin-breech'd Irish lakies run. Brathwaite's ' Strapadp for the Diuell,' 1615, notes in Percy Society's edition.

" St. Patrick's Day was generally given to them as a holiday, which they invariably cele- brated by purging themselves. In various country places the sign of the Running Footman has been corrupted into the Kunning Man."

HARRY B. POLAND. Inner Temple.

AUTHORS WANTED (11 S. x. 309). 1. ' Love Elegies ' was written by James Hammond (1710-42). The first edition bears on the title-page " Love Elegies, by Mr. H nd. Written in the year 1732. With Preface by the E. of C d [Chesterfield]. 1743." The 1757 edition, which your correspondent quotes, is the fourth edition.

2. ' Four Elegies : Descriptive and Moral,' was written by John Scott (1730-83), and published in 1760.

An account of both of the above authors will be found in ' D.N.B.'

ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.

[PROF. BENSLY and MR. R. A. POTTS also thanked for replies.]

HARFORD OF PLYMOUTH, "TRAITOR," 1538 (11 S. x. 309). In 'A Summarie of the Chronicles of England,' by John Stow (1598), p. 236, under date 1537-8, appears : " Alwin a priest, H. Harsam Customer of Plimmouth, and Thomas Ewell was hanged and quartered at Tyburne."

OLD ETONIANS (11 S. x. 309). (9) ? George Gibson, s. Walter of Gateshead, co. Durham, gent. Magdalen Hall, Oxon, matric. 3 Nov., 1789, aged 34 ; B.A. and M.A., 1799.

THE NATIONAL COLOUR OF WALES (US. x. 310). The Tudor livery colours were white and green. A. R. B AYLEY.

' THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL ' (11 S. x. 268, 314). No notice of Mr. Pullen would be complete which omitted the fact that he was a Minor Canon of Salisbury, hence a ' Shot from a Minor Canon.' From the ' Marlborough College Register ' I glean that he entered the School in February, 1845, as Henry William, son of the Rev. W. Pullen of Redhill, Surrey, and that he was born on 29 Feb., 1836. He left Marlborough at Christmas, 1848 ; went to Clare College, Cambridge, B.A. 1859; ordained 1859; M.A. 1862 ; Assistant Master, Bradfield, 1859-62 ; Minor Canon of York Cathedral, 1862-3 ; Vicar-Choral of Salisbury Cathe- dral, 1863-75 ; Chaplain to H.M.S. Alert in the Arctic Expedition, 1875-6 (received the Arctic medal) ; Rector of Thorpe Mande- ville, Northants, 1903 ; author of ' The Fight at Dame Europa's School,' ' The Ground Ash,' &c. Died at Birmingham, 15 Dec., 1903. J. J. H.

EARLY ENGLISH RAILWAY TRAVELLING: SEASON TICKETS (11 S. x. 170, 215, 252, 318). The first season tickets issued con- tained a curious clause affecting the intend' ing passenger. The facsimile of such a ticket is given in The Great Western Railway Magazine for November, 1910.

The passenger

" is entitled to travel free in any of the Com- pany's trains between on condition that before

entering a carriage he shall show this ticket to the clerk at the station from which he may take his departure and sign his name, in a book kept for the purpose"

The ticket bore the date of 1856. The italics are mine. R. B.

Upton.

BOMBAY AS A SURNAME (11 S. x. 107). This is a Belgian family, and numerous references to it will be found in J. G. Loyens's ' Recueil Heraldique des Bourguemestres de la cite de Liege ' (1720) ; also in J. de Hemricourt's ' Miroir des Nobles.' The arms are " de sinople, a la fasce d'argent, accompagnee au canton dextre du chef d'un maillet penche d'or." (Sometimes with two maillets.) LEO C.

MEDALLIC LEGENDS (US. x. 28, 48, 68, 89, 109, 315). Nos. 18 and 19 are from Martial, ' Epigr.,' VI. iii. 3-4 :

Cui pater seternas post specula tradat habenas, Quique regas orbem cum seniore senex.

'THE SALOGNE ' : A PROPHECY (11 S. x. 210). Is not the Sologne meant, the Sovith-east district of the Department Loir- et-Cher ? EDWARD BENSLY.