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Fitzwilliam of Mablethorpe \yho could have died in 1470. Thos. Fitzwilliam of Mabelthorpe, Esqr., died in 1479. Dugdale remarks in his ' Visitation of Yorkshire,' 1666: "S r VVm. Either of Ryther, in Co. Ebor., Kn f mar. [secondly] Eleanor, dau. of Sir Wm. jFitz- Williams, of Malberthorpe, in Co. Line. Kn*. He died 1475." Here again there was no Wm. Fitzwilliam of Mablethorpe anywhere near that date. Thos. Fitzwilliam aforesaid had a daughter Eleanor, who may have married Sir Wm. Ryther. He himself married Margaret, d. of Sir Thos. Wymoke, Knt. He had a second son John, who married Joan Britt [Itiq. p.m., 7 Edw. IV], who had .an only son Thomas."

F. P. BABNABD.

AUTHOR WANTED : " LONDON BRIDGE is BROKEN DOWN" (11 S. xi. 401, 478). MB. JACOBS is in error in regard to the adoption of the tune " London Bridge is broken down " as the Afghan National Anthem. The tune is undoubtedly known in the country, and this may point to an Eastern origin. During my eight years' residence at Kabul, I noted that the children played " Ring, a ring of roses." This, too, may be of Eastern origin. But on the other hand, it does not require a very great stretch of imagination to suppose that simple English tunes and games were taught the children by some ancestor of the red-headed, blue- eyed, ruddy-cheeked Afghans I was sur- prised to see, who w r ere certainly not of Eastern type. The Afghan National Anthem never struck me as having any resemblance to " London Bridge is broken down," but there were certain parts in it that sounded very much like that boisterous tune " At Trinity Church I met my doom."

KATF DALY.

THE PARTHENON CLUB (US xii. 99). Perhaps a few scraps of information, which I have gathered from papers belonging to a long-dead relation of mine who was a member of the Parthenon Club, may be of interest to XYLOGBAPHEB.

1. In January, 1854, the Erechtheum Club, St. James' Square, was amalgamated, by the vote of 308 of its members, of whom my relation, William Eden, was one, with the Parthenon Club, and the Parthenon was ready for the reception of members of the Erechtheum in February of that year.

2. The Secretary of the Erechtheum in 1854 and 1855 was William Holl; the com- bined subscription for the two clubs for 1854 was 12Z. 12s., and the subscription to the Parthenon for 1855 was 11. Is.

3. In 1861 the subscription to the Parthe- non was 81. 8s., and the Secretary was Frederic W. Halford.

There is nothing in my papers to show the location of the Parthenon, but I believe that, like the old Erechtheum, it was in St. James's Square. F. SYDNEY EDEN.

"The Parthenon Club (late Mr. Edwards's), east side of Regent Street, nearly facing St. Philip's Chapel, was designed by Nash (1836). The first floor is elegant Corinthian. The south division was built by Mr. Nash for his own residence ; it has a long gallery, decorated from a loggia of the Vatican at Rome; it is now the Gallery of Illustra- tion." (See Timb's 'Curiosities" of London.')

R. A. POTTS.

ABMS OF HUNGABY (US. xi. 379). The shield in question represents Fiume. What appears to be a " closed book " is a flat slab of rock on the sea-shore, and the " broken egg " is meant for an amphora lying on its side with water issuing from it and flowing into the sea. L. L. K.

THE VIBTUES OF ONIONS (11 S. xii. 101). Pliny, in the Twentieth Book of his ' Natural History ' (Holland's translation, 1635, pp. 41-2), speaking of onions, says :

" Those which are sown in gardens, I am sure, wil with their smel, only cause the eyes to shed tears & by that means clarify the sight : but if they be anointed with the juice, they wil mundifie the better. It is said that they will procure sleepe, and heale the cankers or ulcers of the mouth, beeing chewed with bread. Also greene Onions applied with vinegre to the plaae (sic) bitten with a [mad] dog, or els drie, and laid to with Honey and Wine, so the plaster or cataplasm be not re- moved, in three daies cureth the hurt without danger. In this maner also they wil heal galled places. Being rested under the ashes, many use to apply them with Barley floure or meale. as a pultesse or cataplasm to the eies that be waterie or rhematick, as also to the ulcers of the privy parts. The imunction of the eies with the juice therof, is thought to cleanse their cicatrices or cloudines of the eies called the pin and web : as also to cure the pearle there breeding : moreover, the bloudshotting or red streaks, in the white, and the white spots appearing in the black circle about the apple. Moreover, it cureth bi tings and stings of serpents, yea, and healeS al ulcers, being emplastred with Honey. Also the exulcerations or impostumes within the ears, are by it and womens milke cured. And for to amend the ringing and unkind sound and noise therein, & to recover those that be hard of hearing, many have used to droppe the juice of Onions together with Goose grease or els Hony. Furthermore the give it to be drunke with water, to those that suddenly become Speechlesse and dumb. A collution also made with Onions, helps the tooth - ach. And being laid upon wounds, made either with prick or bite of any venomous beast, and especially of Scorpions, it is thought to be a sovereign salve. Many are wont (to very good