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his wife dated 9 July, 17 Henry VII., daughter of Sir Edmund Ingaldethorp, and coheir of John, Earl Worcester.

By this deed over forty manors in various parts of England devolved on Lady Isabella Nevill, a daughter of Montague, who married the ancestor of the present owner of one of these manors in 2 Henry VII. This Mon- tague was the brother of Richard, Earl of Warwick, called the Kingmaker, and both were killed in the battle of Barnet, where a high stone pillar records the memory of the fatal event. WILLIAM MERGER.

PHYSICIAN'S CANE (11 S. iii. 168). The following is from Jeaffreson's v A Book about Doctors,' 1861, p. 2 :

" The physician's cane is a very ancient part of his insignia. It is now disused, but up to very recent times no doctor of medicine presumed to pay a professional visit, or even to be seen in public, without this mystic wand. Long as a footman's stick, smooth and varnished, with a

heavy gold knob or cross-bar at the top

a physician's wand ought to have a knob at the top. This knob in the olden times was hollow, and contained a vinaigrette, which the man of science ahvays held to his nose, when he approached a sick person, so that its fumes might protect him from the noxious exhalations of 'his patient."

R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

"TEAPOY": " CELLARETTE " (11 S. iii. 149). Referring to the Editorial note, may I say that Yule does not state that " teapoy " is a corruption of the Persian sipai, tripos, but a Hindustani, or perhaps rather an Anglo- Hindustani word of hybrid etymology, from Hind, tin, three, and Pers. pde, a foot. Hs adds that the legitimate word from the Persian is sipdl (properly slhpdya] and the legitimate Hindi word tirpad or tripad, but tipai or tepoy was probably originated by some European in analogy with the familiar " charpoy " (Pers. chitar-pai, four feet), a bedstead, possibly from a desire to avoid confusion with another very familiar word, sepoy. W. 'F. PRIDEAUX.

. The word " tea-poy " is 'the Sanscrit tin-paya colloquially pronounced by an English tongue (compare " sepoy " for sipahi). The meaning of the word is '* tripod." By dint of use it became especi- ally associated with a three-legged stand to carry a tea equipage in India, where tea was drunk by the English residents long before it became domesticated in England. The date of its first appearance in this country is uncertain, but it was probably introduced by Anglo-Indians prior to 1650,

and with it came the fashion of the " tea- poy." The earliest public notice of tea, I think, appeared in the Mercurius Politicus in 1658 as follows :

"That excellent, and by all Physitians, approved, China Drink, called by the Chineans, Teba, by other Nations, Tay alias Tee, is sold at the Sultaness-Head a Cophee-house in Sweet- ing's Rents by the Royal Exchange, London."

H. D. ELLIS. 7, Roland Gardens, S.W.

MOVING PICTURES TO CINEMATOGRAPHS (11 S. ii. 502, 537 ; iii. 56, 155). The follow- ing notices of panoramic views are suffi- ciently noteworthy to be added to those already given. In or about 1794 Thomas Girton, a painter, produced a semicircular view of London, taken from the top of the Albion Mills, near Blackfriars Bridge, south side. In 1830 L. Mazzara exhibited a panoramic view of Alexandria. He also executed fifty splendid views forming a continued line from the castle of Dover to the point of Reculver, showing the coast of the county of Kent, as well as the inland of the island of Thanet. After this he illus- trated ' ' the most splendid town in the world," in one continued line of views from the mouth of the Thames to Richmond Hill. These were executed on a new system of perspective founded on circular lines as set forth in a pamphlet published by him, entitled Perspective, explained upon the System of Tangenteography, and the Effect as produced in the Tangenteorama,' 1834.

TOM JONES.

ROEITES or CALVERTON (11 S. iii. 9). Throsby, in his additions to Thoro ton's ' History of Nottinghamshire,' says that in 1793 there were two dissenting meeting- houses in Calverton,

" one of 'which has a famous pastor John Roe, who it is said bid defiance to the discipline of the established church, respecting matrknony. Two of his female followers have suffered a long im- prisonment in Nottingham jail in consequence. One I believe was his wife in his own way ! " J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

COUNT OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE (11 S. ii. 509 ; iii. 54, 94)A-The late F r William Humphrey, S.J., in his ' Urbs et Or bis,' at p. 167, writes as follows :

" Bishops Assistant at the Pontifical Throne receive at the time of their nomination the title of Count. This title is also given to laymen in reward of their services to the Church. These Counts are properly Counts Palatine, and not Roman Counts, as they are very often, but in- accurately, called. They were in ancient times