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and female, the former making what is apparently an impassioned appeal to his companion, who looks demurely down. The costume is of the quite Early Victorian, the lady wearing what I believe was known as a " Queen Adelaide " bonnet, and the pew is furnished with two high " bass " hassocks. It looks like an incident out of Dickens, but I cannot find one in his Works published to date of the drawing. Sugges- tions as to a probable literary source will be welcome. W. B. H.

RUXTON. I desire to learn if any of the family of George Frederick Ruxton, traveller and author of ' Life in the Far West ' (1848), who died at St. Louis, Mo., in 1848, survive. I am particularly desirous of obtaining a portrait of him. WILLIAM ABBATT.

410, East 32d Street, New York.

"THE MARLEYPINS," SHOREHAM. In the High Street of New Shoreham, Sussex, is an ancient Gothic building of flint and stone called " The Marleypins.'* In the year 1347 it was spelt Malduppine ; in 1479 Maldup- pynne ; and in 1489, 1496, and 1500, Malappynny s.

If any clue to the derivation of this word can be suggested, it will be a favour, as the matter is one of historical interest. The original probably comes from Normandy or the Channel Islands, as in early days the trade and intercourse between these countries and Shoreham were considerable.

R. P. H.

' OUR NATIONAL STATUES ' : ' THE SATUR- DAY MAGAZINE.' In this periodical for 1832 and 1833 a series of articles appeared on * Our National Statues.' I should be obliged if any one could furnish informa- tion about these, with the dates of the numbers and particulars of any illustrations to the series. J. ARDAGH.

WARWICKSHIRE QUERIES. Could any of your readers give me the birth -date of Sir Henry Goodyere (or Goodere), born, I believe, at Monks' Kirby, Warwickshire ; also any information especially birth-date concerning Sir Aston Cockayne (or Cok- ayne)?

Did John Heminge or Cundall write any verse ? Were they of Warwickshire ? Was W. Heminge, the son of John Heminge, born in this county ?

Any information would be gratefully received by C. H. POOLE, LL.D.

Lytham, Lanes. >

CLOUET. In Gray's ' Shakespeare Verses ' there occurs the line :

So York shall taste what Clouet never knew. Who or what is Clouet ? Mr. Gosse gives no explanation. C. RAINES.

PANTHERA.

(11 S. v. 91, 177.*)

To the references given by MR. STRACHAN to the name and story of Panthera might be added Keim, ' Jesus of Nazara,' trans. by A. Ransom, 1873, ii. 77, and Baring- Gould, ' Lost and Hostile Gospels,' 1874, pp. 48 f. An etymology proposed by Strauss for the Pantira (or Pandira) of the Talmud Was Trevfle/oos, derived, he thought, from some Greek genealogy in which Joseph was described as " son-in-law " of Heli. But it hardly admits of doubt that this name in the Jewish writings, in Celsus, and in Prof. Deissmann's inscription is identical with the cognomen Panthera, which Pliny (' H. N.,' viii. 17, 64) states to have been first borne amongst the Romans by Cn. Aufidius, who had carried in the popular assembly a law permitting the importation of leopards from Africa. Havflr/p, the name given to the animal by the Greeks, is thought by Prof. Skeat, as MR. STRACHAN points out, to be foreign to their language. He suggests (' Etym. Diet.,' s.v.) as a possible source the Sanskrit and Pali punddrika, the white lotus flower, but also the name of the elephant of the S.E. quarter, and, again, one of the numerous names of the tiger. The principal objection to this derivation is that the word would be then a solitary example of the Greek B corresponding to the Sanskrit lingual d, so that it may, perhaps, be permissible to suggest an alter- native one.

The leopard, like the lion, was sacred to the Great Mother Goddess of Asia Minor, whom, as Cybele of Pessinus, leopardesses nursed when, in infancy, she was exposed on the mountain whence she took her name (Diod. Sic., iii. 58), and in sculptures the animal appears as her attendant, and, dog-like, " lolls its fawning tongue." It

Abbas and Bar Pantera or Panthera (11 S. yii. 381) the writer of this reply has had his attention drawn to the above prior references, which had previously escaped his notice.
 * Since contributing a note on the names Bar