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then " Others did the same, but this particular man lived quite close to my home, so that I could the more easily notice his doing it when I ran out to se3 the horses come home. The same msn, when they had words which led to blows, would first dash their caps all of them wore billycocks on the ground, and then off with their coats.

THOS. RATCLIFFE. Southfield, Worksop.

GAS AS A STREET-NAME (US. viii. 290). There is a Gas Street in Bolton, in which part of the gas works serving the town is situated. This street was formed after it was decided to build ihs works there. There are also a Gas Street in Oldham and War- rington, and a Gas Works Street in Hudders- field. ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.

Bolton.

A short thoroughfare at Leamington Spa is named Gas Street. It contains the gas works and eight or nine dwellings, and was constructed about half a century ago. At Reading there is a Gas Lane, in which the gas works are situated; and at Oxford a Gas Street. WM. JAGGARD.

Rose Bank, Stratford-on-Avon.

There are two Gas Streets in a Directory of Manchester for 1885 which I have, but in the Directory of to-day only one is men- tioned a small street off King Street, near the centre of the city. There is also a Gas Street at Radcliffe, six miles north of Manchester. This last street is, I think, close to the works of the Radcliffe and Pilkington Gas Company.

W. H. PINCHBECK.

MR. DENNIS AND ' THE CONSCIOUS LOVERS' (11 S. viii. 288). For Benjamin Victor (d. 1778), theatrical manager and writer, who began life as a barber " within the liberties of Drury Lane, :? see ' D.N.B.,' Iviii. 302. He defended, in ' An Epistle to Sir Richard Steele ' (two editions, 1722), Steele's play of ' The Conscious Lovers ' against the attacks of John Dennis.

A. R. BAYLEY.

"TRANSEPT" (11 S. viii. 287). No mediaeval Latin transeptum or transseptum occurs in Ducange's ' Glossarium Mediae et Infimse Latinitatis,' although Darmesteter- Hatzfeld-Thomas in their ' Dictionnaire general de la Langue francaise ' (1895-1900) recognize the French transept as " emprunte de 1'angl. transept, qui est le bas lat. trans- septum," literally, " enceinte trarisversale," a new term admitted, not before 1878, among

the words of the ' Dictionnaire de 1'Aca- demie fran9aise.' The proper architectural equivalent of Engl. and French transept in German is Querhaus or Querschiff, " einer Kirche, wodurch sie die Kreuzform erhalt " (cf. H. Otte's ' Archaologisches Worterbuch,' 8vo, Leipz., 1857, pp. 268). But Transept has also been adopted from French and English in German as a technical term of the same meaning. In Italian it is rendered by navata laterale ; in Spanish by nave transversal, crucero ; in Portuguese by cruzeiro de igreja (i.e., cross of a church).

H. KREBS. Oxford.

RALPH BEILBY (11 S. viii. 290). Mac- kenzie, in his 'History of Newcastle,' p. 582, says :

" Another [son], named William [Beilby], ac- quired a knowledge of enamelling .... His enamels upon glass at Newcastle were most exquisitely beautiful, and justly excited the admiration of all the nobility and gentry in the neighbourhood."

Thomas Bewick, in his ' Autobiography,' wrote of Ralph Beilby that

" he also undertook the engraving of arms, crests, and cyphers on silver, and nearly every kind of job from the silversmiths ; also engraving bills of exchange, bank-notes, invoices, account-heads, and cards. These last he executed as well as did most of the engravers of the time, but what he excelled in was ornamental silver engraving. In this, as far as I am able to judge, he was one of the best in the kingdom."

Richard Welford, in his * Men of Mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed,' 1895, i. 227, says that

" Richard, the eldest son [of William Beilby], had served an apprenticeship to a die-sinker, or seal engraver, at Birmingham ; W'illiam, the second son, had learned enamelling and painting at the same place ; Ralph, who was a skilful musician, had been brought up to his father's trade of a silversmith and jeweller, and had ac- quired the art of seal-cutting from Richard."

If MR. QUARRELL has any paintings 011 glass by a Beilby, they are probably the work of William, not of his brother Ralph Beilby. BROWNMOOB.

"THE FIVE WOUNDS" (11 S. viii. 107, 176, 217, 236). The Passionswappen noted on p. 177 impel reference to Miss Underbill's fine article ' The Fountain of Life : an Iconographical Study,' in The Burlington Magazine, 1910, vol. xvii. pp. 99-109. The group of pictures therein set out and described represents the whole Catholic dogma of Grace. A far less fortunate attempt appears in the vestibule of the principal Ritualistic church here, where the horizontal bar of a cross is labelled