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insurance company. The place was a verit- able rabbit-warren, with its various arrange- ments on ground floor and in basement. Its departure will be much felt by the Stock Exchange fraternity. CECIL CLAKKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

"ANY": ITS PRONUNCIATION. The Eng- lish and American use is " enny." In Ire- land " anny " or " annee " is common ; and this was probably the mode in England. Stanihurst, in the ' Conceites ' annexed to his ' ^Eneis,' p. 93, 1. 3, furnishes this example (1583) :

What man of annie reason with Villenye Vertue requiteth ?

And, though I do not lay stress on the point, he means " annie " to be a spondee.

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

DlCTTJM ATTRIBUTED TO LORD FlSHER.

" The essence of war is violence ; moderation in war is imbecility," which is so persistently attributed by the press to Lord Fisher, is from Macaulay's essay on ' Lord Nugent's Memorials of Hampden,' and when Lord Fisher used the words, he did so doubtless as a quotation. GEORGE T. WALCH.

DR. EDMOND HALLEY'S ANCESTRY. (See US. iv. 466 ; vi. 303 ; vii. 203, et passim.) Mr. E. Williams, of 37, Newtown Road, Hove, has kindly supplied some data from a

" manuscript report of the case of Hudson and Whitley v. Dormer, in 1651. The MS. is contem- porary, on paper, runs to seventy-four pages, and breaks off unfinished. Various members of Halley's family come forward as witnesses. They are described thus :

" (1) Humfrey Halley of Bednall Greene in the county of Middlesex, servingman, borne at Chesterfield in the county of Derby, aged about 22 years.

" (2) Richard Hally of Bednall Greene

servingman, borne in Chesterfield in the county of Derby, aged about 20 years.

"(3) Francis Hally of Bednall Greene.... victualler, borne at Chesterfield in the county of Derby, aged about 26 years.

" Their united evidence occupies the first ten pages of the MS.

" I would take it that these three were brothers [?] to Edmund Halley the elder. Shore- ditch (where he lived) and Bethnal Green ad- join."

The above statements are of interest in connexion with the search for confirmation of the Derbyshire origin of Dr. Edmond Halley's grandfather Humphrey Halley, vintner.

Perhaps some reader can supply Halley entries from parish registers at Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

Is it not of some significance that, as. pointed out by MR. CHARLES DRURY, " Fran- cis Fulwood, after disposing of Middleton,. would appear to have gone into the neigh- bourhood of Chesterfield " ( ? circa 1 624 ) ? Se& US. vi. 497. MR. DRURY adds that th& surname Halley is of frequent occurrence in. the registers of Taddington.

EUGENE F. McPiKE.

1200, Michigan Ave., Chicago.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to. affix their names and addresses to their queries,, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

MODERN ADVOCATE OF DRUIDISM. I remember I once read of a modern writer in Great Britain or Ireland who had brought himself into public odium on account of his- having advocated the religion of ancient Druids ; but now I have entirely forgotten his name as well as the title of the book containing his account. I should be glad of any information about them.

KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA.

Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

WARRINGTON : POEM WANTED. The Re\v George Warrington wrote a poem telling the story of the occurrence in Nannau Park,, when Owen Glyndwr fell upon his treacherous host and relative, Hywel Sele. Some of the verses are quoted in ' The Gossiping Guide to Wales ' (1895 edition, p. 73), but the compiler does not give the title of the poem,, nor does he say where and when it was printed, for I presume it appeared in book- form. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' supply this information with some particulars of the author ? GERALD R.

AUTHOR WANTED : "A MAN OF THE WORLD." At p. 736 of the current Fort- nightly Review, in the article ' Armageddon and After,' is the following : " Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong.'' I should be glad to know who made that definition. PEREGRINUS.

WILLIAM PARKER, LORD MORLEY AND- MONTEAGLE, 1575-1622. It is stated in ' D.N.B.' that a portrait of Lord Monteagle (of Gunpowder Plot fame) by Van Somer was, in 1 866, in the possession of a Mr. John Webb. Is it known where the portrait now is ? and has any print of it been published ?

M. B.