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having been renumbered subsequent to this date, we must conclude that the site of the 'Cellar was used for some other purpose, and the reference in ' Old and New London,' cited by MB. STEWART, is inaccurate.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

THE LUDGATE OR GRAFTON PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE (11 S. xi. 321, 442). I am very much interested in anything connected with, Shakespeare portraiture, and am eager to know the history of this claimant panel Arms " not a wayside inn, as has been stated, but the principal, if not the only hostel in the village of Winston. Can any one tell what sum was paid for it to the Ludgate family, and whether Mr. Kay was the original purchaser ? Years ago I knew something of Winston, and of its being touched by the pen of Sir Walter Scott ; but I never thought of its having any associa- tion with Shakespeare. ST. SWITHIN.
 * ince its discovery at " The Bridgwater

DERWENTWATER MEMORIAL (11 S. xi. 361). A short time before her death the late Mrs. Pollard (see 11 S. xi. 392) kindly supplied me with particulars of this memorial. She informed me that it consisted of a plain obelisk of no great height, placed on a square pedestal. It formerly contained no inscrip- tion, but since its removal to its present position a wooden tablet has been affixed, inscribed as follows :

" Acton Urban District Council. This monu- ment was designed as a memorial of James Radclyffe, Earl of Derwentwater, one of the leaders in the Rebellion of 1715, who was taken prisoner at the battle of Preston, tried in West- minster Hall, and beheaded on Tower Hill, February 24th, 1710. It was erected by Lady Dcrwentwater in the grounds of the mansion, Horn Lane, Acton, formerly General Skippon's, and afterwards known as Derwentwater House, .at ^ which house she was at the time residing.

" Messrs. F. A. and 0. J. Kerven, the owners of Derwentwater House, having given the monu- ment to the Council, it was removed and erected by them on this site in January, 1904."

JOHN T. PAGE.

GEORGE WALLIS, ANTIQUARY AND GUN- SMITH (US. xi. 452). The following notice of George Wallis is taken from Sheahan's 4 History of Hull,' p. 613 :

" George Wallis, an eminent and eccentric gunsmith, who, from his great antiquarian know- iedge and research, was usually called ' Wallis tin- Antiquary, 1 resided at X<>. 7-1, Mylon-,^;it<- [Hull], where he died in 1803, in his 56th year. Mr. Wallis collected at his house a valuable" and interesting MI scum of ancient and modern arms and armour ; dresses, ornaments, weapons of war, and numerous other articles used by the

natives of the South Seas ; Roman, Egyptian, and British antiquities ; rare books, &c. The collec- tion of ancient guns and fire-arms was particu- larly rich and valuable. After the death of the last" male member of Mr. Wallis's family, in 1833, this beautiful collection was sold by auction (the printed catalogue containing no less than 1,197 lots), and the gunsmith business was sold ; and in 1852 it was resold to Mr. Edmund Balchin. A great part of Wallis's curious museum is included in the splendid collection of ancient armour at Grimston Park, the seat of the Right Hon. Lord Londesborough. ' '

RICHARD LAWSON. Urmston.

JOHN STUART, EDINBURGH (US. xi. 432). The " pamphlets " to which MR. BEAU- CHAMP refers are parts of the pleadings, in ordinary eighteenth - century form, in two Scottish actions, presumably either in the Court of Session or in the Commissary Court of Edinburgh. The Advocates' Library contains many thousands of such papers. They were always signed by counsel, and "Ho: Dundas " was Robert Dundas of Arniston, afterwards Lord President of the Court of Session, who was the busiest, counsel of his time. Many of the leading advocates preserved the papers in the cases in w T hich they had been engaged, and bound them in volumes. Probably these two papers originally formed part of such a collection. JOHN A. INGLIS.

[MR. JOHN MACGREGOR also thanked for reply.]

TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENGLISH (11 S. xi. 450). The expression " he has a right to " in the sense of " he ought to " is quite usual in Ireland, where the common speech retains various idioms once current in England, but now obsolete, or only rarely heard, in this country.

For instance, in ' Tom Jones ' we find : " I don't believe there is arrow a servant in the house," " I don't believe there is arrow a young gentleman," " as good as arrow a squire," and in the same sentence as that in which the last occurs the negative form " there is narrow a one " (Book V. chap. viii. ; Book VI. chap. viii. ; Book VIII. chap. ii.). During my boyhood in Ireland forty or fifty years ago, I constantly heard the expressions " airy a one " and " nairy a one " (or perhaps they should be written " aira a one " and " naira a one ") used by town and country people, and probably they are still current. Similar phrases, judging from Harper's Magazine, are in vogue in the Eastern States of America.

Words are also used by the Irish peasantry in a sense which they have almost lost in England. Once, when I was buying some