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(I forget which) from, my father's stock and rubbed it over the palm, of my hand, pre- paratory to action. " Swish ! " fell the cane. " D ! " muttered the man, as the ferule split, to the immense delight of the whole class. I kept the secret to myself, and I was thenceforward made monitor.

M. L. R. B.

" MYRIORAMA "(US. xi. 361, 441). Up to the "eighties," if not later, a family named Turner, which, I think, had its centre at Sheffield, travelled about the country with a " show " called " a myriorama," a superior kind of " panorama," out of which, I have heard it said, the modern " pictures " were developed. The Turner family were artists of no mean character, and one of them was a popular tenor singer. They invented the myriorama, I think. THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop.

" JANUS" (11 S. xi. 418). At p. 98 of vol. v. of ' The Catholic Encyclopaedia' the Right Rev. Mgr. Paul Maria Baumgarten writes :

" Scarcely had the first detailed accounts of the council's proceedings appeared, when D61- linger published in the Augsburg Allgemeine Zcitung his famous ' March articles,' reprinted anonymously in August of that year under the title : ' Janus, der Papst und das Ivonzil.' The accurate knowledge of papal history here mani- fested easily convinced most readers that only Dollinger could have written the work."

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

The British Museum ' Catalogue of Printed Books' gives "Janus" as being Johann Friedrich and Johann Joseph Ignaz von Doellinger; whilst Halkett and Laing also give the same authorship.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.

PACK-HORSES (11 S. xi. 267, 329, 362, 440). It may be of interest to note that we have at Aberdeen a well-preserved pack-horse bridge the only one, I think, in this part of Scotland. It spans what is known as the Ruthrieston Burn (stream running from the suburb named, in the twelfth century, Ruadri's-toun). The bridge was built by the Town Council of Aberdeen in 1693-4 of granite. It is about 8ft. wide, with no parapets (the usual arrangement), and has a double line of cobble-paving, for horses going and horses coming. The little bridge carried the south highway from the Bridge of Dee into Aberdeen from, 1694 to 1800, when a new spacious highway, now known as Holburn, was made from the Bridge of Dee into the city. The bridge has three small arches and

two piers. Above one pier the Town Council placed a sandstone block cut with the town's coat of arms. The Provost of the time without permission balanced this by placing above the other pier a corresponding block with his own coat of arms, and the Town Council were so angry that they had the Provost's block reversed, and an inscription cut on the other end telling that it was the Town Council that erected the bridge t Eight years afterwards they had the Pro- vost's block restored to its original position, and both coats of arms are still to be seen.

There are at least two pack-horse bridges in Perthshire, and one in the parish of Stow r near Galashiels, known there as a Roman bridge, but there is no Roman bridge in Scotland. It was really built in 1655.

G. M. FRASEB.

Public Library, Aberdeen.

Pack-horse bridges over the River Brock, in Bleasdale, Lancashire, and over the Cher- well at Charwelton, Northamptonshire, are described and illustrated in The Antiquary, for November, 1914, and April last re- spectively. Are there pictures of these two bridges in Mr. Wilkinson's book, mentioned by ME. A. L. HUMPHREYS, ante, p. 363 ?

PENRY LEWIS.

MARYBONE LANE AND SWALLOW STREET (11 S. xi. 210, 258, 325, 410). I am obliged to MR. ALAN STEWART for his useful amend- ment to my statement at the third reference, that King Street is now Warwick Street. Clearly at the date cited, 1692, King Street extended from what is now Oxford Street to Marybone Street or Lane. At a later date the portion below King Street was re- named Warwick Street, and still later the remainder was called Kingly Street.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

BIRGIT ROOKE, NINTH ABBESS OF SYON (US. xi. 433). The following will not prove very helpful, I am afraid, but having noted a discrepancy between MR. WAINEWRIGHT s designation of Lady Bridget Rooke and that given by Mr. Aungier in his ' History of Syon Monastery,' I venture to encroach on your valuable space.

According to Mr. Aungier, Lady Bridget Rooke was the thirteenth abbess from the foundation (3 March, 1415), and the third in succession from Sister Agnes Jordan, who surrendered the monastery in 1539. Sister Agnes Jordan has 30 Jan., 1531, placed against her name, which date is probably that of her election, as by the pension list at the period of the suppression she appears