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"TEAPOY ": " CELL ABETTE . " In ' The Warden ' by Trollope, in the account of the Warden leaving Hiram's Hospital anc removing his furniture, two things are men tioned : his daughter's " teapoy " and his " cellarette." I have heard the latter term given to a drawer in a sideboard where bottles are kept, but do not know it as a separate piece of furniture. What is a "teapoy"? is it an old name for a tea caddy ? MABIE L. DUABTE.

[A "teapoy" is a three-legged table with a lift ing top, enclosing tea-caddies, or a small stand for holding teacup, sugar-basin, cream-jug, &c. Ogilvie's ' Imperial Dictionary ' quotes Yule to the effect that the name has no relation to tea, but is an Anglo Indian importation, a corruption of the Persian sipai, tripos, and meaning a three-legged table or tripod generally. The ' N.E.D.' includes both mean ings of " cellarette."]

ALBEBTUS A LASCO. Can any reader kindly inform me where I can find particu- lars relating to the life of Albertus a Lasco, a Polish Palatine, who visited England in the time of Elizabeth ? SCYTHIAN.

[The ' D.N.B.,' under Laski or k Lasco, John, says : " Albertus Laski, palatine of Siradz in Bohemia, probably a nephew of the reformer, visited England in 1583, and nearly ruined himself by searching for the philosopher's stone with John Dee and Edward Kelley." Reference is made to 2 S. x. 332, where JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS supplies further interesting information about Albertus.]

GBATIOUS OB GBACINES STBEET = GBACE- CHUBCH STBEET. When did the change in the name of this street take place ?

In a pamphlet ' The Nine Worthies of London,' &c., 1592, in Harleian Miscell., vol. viii. p. 436, it is Gracious Street. In ' God's Warning to his People of England by the great overflowing of the waters or Floudes lately hapned in South Wales,' &c., the pamphlet is to be sold in Gratious Street.

I have also found the name on several pewter plates of about 1700. J. JESSON.

CBEVEQUEB OF BEBEFOBD. The name of this place was used to distinguish one branch of the great Kentish family. Where is it ? OLD SABUM.

WOBTLEY-MONTAGU. WTio was Catherine, married by licence 16 September, 1737, at St. Paul's, Exeter, to Henry Ashe of Sowton, Devon ? It would seem to be a mere coincidence that Edward, the notorious eon of the celebrated Lady Mary, in 1751 married a Miss Ashe, as that lady, reputed to be the daughter of "a high personage," had nothing to do with the highly respectable county family. OLD SABUM.

QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFOBD : FELLOW IN 1625. In the burials of Meysey Hampton, Gloucestershire, occurs the following :

" Edmond Minister, Master of Arts, and

fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, buried Nov. 4, 1625."

Can any one oblige me with the surname of the above ? It is the first entry in the register, and indistinct.

R. J. FYNMOBE. Sandgate.

ABSINTHE -DBINKING : ITS OBIGIN. This practice undoubtedly dates from the French wars in Algeria (1832-47) ; but while M. Anselmier, a French physician, states in a pamphlet published in 1862 that the French soldiers on service in Algeria took to drinking absinthe mixed with water because they had no wine or beer, ' The Encyclopaedia Britannica ' (tenth edition) says that they were ordered to mix it with their wine as a febrifuge. Can any one inform me, stating also his authority, which of these accounts is the correct one ? H. M.

EAB-PIEBCING. Can any reader give information on this somewhat curious subject, especially in relation to the practice of piercing boys' ears, whether in connexion with initiatory rites or otherwise ? Does the custom survive in any part of Europe at the present time, and in what manner is it com- monly performed ? The subject is interest- ing and has its bearings both on archaeological and anthropological research. E. H. C.

VANISHING LONDON:

PROPRIETARY CHAPELS.

(US. ii. 202, 254, 293, 334.)

THBOUGH the courtesy of Mr. Harry W. l,ee, the Chapter Clerk and Registrar to the Bishop of London, and Prebendary Glen-

dinning Nash, the editor of ' The London Diocese Book,' I am able to give the follow- ng complete list of Proprietary Chapels .vithin the diocese of London, asked for by

MB. CECIL CLABKE at the second reference. There are Proprietary Chapels in other

dioceses, but Mr. Nash has no particulars

)f these. Mr. Nash's name will always be associated

with that of Christina Rossetti, for during

her last illness he was her daily visitor,

and it was to Christ Church, Woburn Square,