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NOTES AND QUERIES. in s. x. DEC. 26, 191*.

assaiez plusours foitz a aler par celles riuers vers Paradis et as grandez compaignies, mes unques ny poaient espleter lour voie, ancis moroient plu- sour delassetz pur nager countre les undes et plusours autres, qi deuiendrent aueogles, et plu- sours sourdez pur la noise del eawe, et plusours sont enz suffoqes et perduz dedeinz les undes, si qe nul mortel ne poet approcher, si ceo nestoit de especial grace de Dieu." Ed. Warner, pp. 150, 151.

Sir George Warner, in the note on this passage in his most valuable, but, alas ! difficultly accessible, edition (Roxburghe Club, 1889, p. 221), remarks that the author appears to be here drawing upon his own imagination. It seems to me, however, that the original of the above passage is to be sought in the highly curious ' Epistola de Itinere Alexandra Magni ad Paradisum,' which I published some few years ago (Hermathena, xv., 1909, pp. 368-78) from a twelfth-century manuscript belonging to the library of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and which I am now re-editing from this and other MSS. The Latin passages which appear to have been freely incorporated by " Mandeville " in the extract given above are :

" Macherise illius [i.e., Paradisi] . . . .tota super- ficies adeo veteri musco erat obducta ut lapidum nulla pateret conipositio vel iunctura .... Cumque ulterius [i.e., versus Paradisum] progrediendi iam nulla suppeditaret facultas, nam crebris inunda- tionibus cassati fatigabantur, et incredibilis fluctuum sonitus pene omnium auditus adeo debilitabat ut nullus vocem comparis, nisi altius inclamantis, aduertere posset .... Memini enim me puero nonnullos iuvenum viribus ingenioque prseditos navigationem hanc assumpsisse, nee ullo modo prevaluisse urbis illius menibus appli- care, et tantum pene omnes inutiles extitisse. Plerique enim laboris nimietate viribus exhausti fluctibus sunt absorti, plerique cseci, plerique surdi, plerique membrorum omnium tremore multati, perpetualiter sunt periclitati. . . .At tu . . . .furentes fluctus superasti. . . .permissu seu moderatione divina aut magni prodigii gratia." Pp. 370, 371, 374.

M. ESPOSITO.

MOORFIELDS : "THE BARKING DOGS." A public -house at the corner of Cowper Street and Tabernacle Street, recently closed, has for nearly two centuries been identified by this sign. Its origin is obviously some con- nexion with the Lord Mayor's kennels, and a place-name, " Barking 'Dogs' Walk near Moorfields," may have been derived from what may be described as the cause of the sign, or it may have originated with the name of the inn.

In 1751 Anthony and Emanuel de Rosa and William Fullagar murdered a Mr. Farques "near the Barking Dogs, Hoxton," and to the 8vo pamphlet describing their

crime, apprehension, trial, &c., there is prefixed an illustration of the murder, showing an inn on the left having for its sign two dogs barking, or baying, at the moon. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

THE KRUPP FACTORY IN 1851. In 'The Office Window ' of The Daily Chronicle of the 15th inst., mention is made of the Krupp display, in the Great Exhibition of 1851, of a two-ton ingot of cast steel. This attracted shoals of orders, and led the firm, hitherto quite a small affair, to " almost fabulous prosperity."

This reference caused me to look up the Official Shilling Catalogue, and I find that the particulars of the Krupp exhibit occupy there less than four lines. In the Official Illustrated Catalogue, vol. iii. p. 1086, No. 649, the following description is given : Krupp, Friedrich, Essen, near Dusseldorf, Manufacturer and Part Inventor.

Rolling mill for mints. The rollers, 8 inches in length and diameter, are hardened ; exhibited for equal hardening, purity, and durability.

Carriage and buffer springs. Railway carriage axles.

Forged cast steel, containing a small quantity of carbon ; exhibited for purity and toughness. Used for axletrees for locomotives, waggons, &c. ; gun and carriage, cast steel cuirass, breastplates, &c.

It would have been well for the world if the genius of the Krupps had been confined to inventing articles conducive to the com- fort of mankind, instead of the instruments of destruction by which the firm is now generally known.

JOHN COLLINS FRANCIS.

PRUSSIAN EAGLES IN PICCADILLY. An interesting statement was made lately in The Pall Mall Gazette that the Prussian eagle, which forms part of the crest of the 14th (King's) Hussars, was adopted rather more than a century ago in honour of the Princess Frederica, the Princess Royal of Prussia, and daughter of King Frederick William II. of Prussia, who married the Duke of York and Albany, second son of George III., who, had he lived, would have succeeded his elder brother, George IV., on the throne.

I have reason to believe that this marriage led to the eagles being placed as ornaments on the wall of the courtyard along Picca- dilly, on the south side of the Duke of York and Albany's house ; and when the property was disposed of, and the wall taken down, the eagles were fixed over the facias of the shops erected on its site, where they remain to this day. J. LANDFEAR LUCAS.