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NOTES AND QUERIES, rn s. XIL NOV. 20, 1915.

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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.

LATTON FAMILY. I should be much obliged for any details of members of this family, as I am collecting materials for a family history which may be printed. I know of the references in Ashmole, Manning and Bray, Aubrey, and other county histories.

J. E. LATTON PICKERING. Inner Temple Library, E.G.

' THE MAGICAL NOTE.' I have purchased a small book, the front page of which reads :

The Magical Note

and its consequences,

which set the country in an uproar ;

Displaced a Great Man ; and Placed many Little Ones

ON THE STOOL OF REPENTANCE

London

Printed by T. Sorrell, Bartholomew-close.

And Sold by those who can obtain it to Sell, by

Permission of somebody who wrote it

1809 Can any reader tell me to what this refers ?

JOHN C. DOWDNEY. Whitehall, Stratford, E.

" DANDO." Can any of your readers in- form we where I can get an account of " Dando," tiie great oyster - eater, who nourished about the early part of Queen Victoria's reign ? Or was he only a mythical

personage ? Windham Club.

A. GWYTHER.

LEGAL PROCESSES IN THE MIDDLE AGES. I should be greatly obliged by any refer- ence in chroniclers and annalists from 1066 to 1400 to any legal process whatever, and especially to any mention of lay advocates therein. H. C N

" SKIFFLES." In the Day Book of Mrs. Sarah S. Dighton under the date of Novem- ber, 1731, there occurs the following entr/ : " Making Sniffles, 08. 06." Neither the ' N.E.D.' nor ' The Century Dictionary ' throws any light upon such articles. Can any of your readers suggest a solution ?

L. G. R.

Bournemouth.

JOHN SCOTT, D.D. Information desired about John Scott, son of John Scott of Wakefield, B.A. Univ. Coll. Oxford, 1725, M.A. 1729, B.D. and D.D. (from St. Mary Hall) 1731. Foster (' Alum. Oxon.') suggests that he may have lived at Vine Street ,> Westminster, in 1746.

MATTHEW H. PEACOCK. 21, Northmoor Road, Oxford.

HEINE : DESCRIPTION OF BROUGHAM SPEAKING. Heine quotes in his ' Pictures of Travel,' ' English Fragments ' (vol. iii. of Leland's translation, pp. 419-27), a wonderful description of Brougham speaking in the Commons. Heine calls it a sketch by an intelligent Englishman. Who is the Englishman, and where was the sketch published ? J. J. FREEMAN.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. I should be glad of any particulars of the following Old Westminsters : (1) Kerby Lee, aged 14, and William Lee, aged 12, admitted July, 1724. (2) Joseph Leech, admitted September, 1750, aged 11. (3) Herbert Leighton, admitted October, 1734, aged 11. (4) William Letheuilier, admitted January, 1721/2, aged 10. (5) Richard Letteii, ad- mitted May, 1742, a^ed 11. (6) John Levett, admitted July, 1736, aged 14. (7) William Levett, admitted October, 1748, aged 12. (8) Baptist Levison, admitted April, 1717 r aged 13. G. F. R. B.

JOHN VARDY, ARCHITECT. I should be glad to know the particulars of his marriage, and to have some information concerning his sons. The * Dictionary of National Biography/ Iviii. ] 48, is silent on these points.

G. F. R. B.

SALONIKA. I should like to know whether this should be pronounced Salonika or Salonika? T. F. D.

[This is the ancient Thessalonlca ; the moder n form Saloniki (n6e-kee) is correspondingly accented' There can be no doubt that Salonica is correct.]

WAR AND MONEY. The well - known saying, " To wage war three things are wanted : (1) money, (2) money, and (3) money again," is attributed to Mar6chal Teodoro Trivulzio (1456-1531), who ad- dressed the dictum in the first instance to King Louis XII. of France. It would be desirable to find out and ascertain the very wording of this saying in French, and the earliest original authority by whom it is quoted. Machiavelli in his ' Discorsi sopra le Deche di Tito Livio ' (libro secondo, capitolo X.,) refers to the " common opinion that money is the essential condition of