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Is there any work accessible containing newspapers, &c., it would be interesting the names of all the holders of this office, to know something, from those who can

1 " ' still give the information, as to the transition from the use of woodcut engravings to the present process blocks for the purpose of illustrating magazines, newspapers, &c. For

with the time during which they flourished? In default of such a work can any reader of ' N. & Q.' tell me when, each of these par- ticular officials received his appointment,

and the time during which he filled his I example, when was the last illustration office? W. S. B. H. I given direct from a woodcut, and the first

process block used in, say, Punch, The

" MOUNEB." What is the meaning of this I frustrated London News, The Graphic, word, which occurs frequently in mediaeval & c? E. N. G.

documents? In a volume of the Calendars [Linton's book on wood engraving would probably of Close Rolls I have just been consulting ang wer some of these points.] (1288-96) there is mention of William the

Mouner at Winchester, Roger the Mouner in - AMES GBANT or BENGAL. - Can any of p.i^i fv, M, vi~w,, your readers give me additional information

Kent, Ac.

Richard the Mouner in

Yorkshire, STAB.

SIB WILLIAM LANGSTOW : ST. ZITA'S

as to James Grant of Bengal? He went to India in 1779; was Resident at Hyderabad 1781-4; in 1786 was appointed " Serishta- apparently created

CHAPEL AT ELY. Can any of your readers? ar f Ben g a l>.

supply me with biographical or other r hun ' ard m 179 Pblished in London

references to a Sir William Langstow, who according to Baring-Gould's ' Lives of the Saints' (27 April), built a chapel at Ely in honour of St. Zita in 1456? I shall also be glad of any information relating to this church. W. H. .B

SIMON DE MONTFOBT : TBANSLATION OF FBENCH POEM. A contemporary poem on Simon de Montfort and the battle of Eves-

the result of his researches into the native land laws, entitled ' An Inquiry into the

ing, from Rickey's Bengal Gazette, September, 1781, refers to his appointment at Hydera- bad :

" On Tuesday last James Grant, Esq., set out on an Embassy to the Nezam's Court. More mischief Brewing."

There are many letters from him to the

ham, written in French, has been translated Governor-General m the Warren Hastings

into English. I have seen the translation

ascribed to G. Ellis, but it does not seem

to be in his 'Works' in the British Museum.

Can any one tell me (a) who translated it,

(b) in what book or paper the translation

first appeared? H. C s.

correspondence at the British Museum, but they contain nothing of a personal nature, very anxious to ascertain his parentage; if he married and had children in India; when he died, &c. Can the following announcement amongst the deaths in Gent. Mag., March, 1816, refer to him?

" Feb. 4 in Welbeck St., aged 65, James Grant, Esq., Head of the Department of the Ship Letter and East India Packet offices; and one of the Commissioners of Hackney Coaches. He was son

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" BABNBUBNEB " : " HTJNKEB." In one of Hawthorne's letters, written in 1853, this passage occurs : "He tells me he is a

democrat; but as to hard shell or soft shell, I of the late Sir Ludoyick" Grant of Dalvey, and or Barnburner or Hunker, he don't know ' brother of Lad y Mackintosh. Were those the names What does mean?

M. L. R. BBESLAB. Percy House, South Hackney.

[Webster has : " Hunker, originally a nickname for a member of the Conservative section of the

one from another.'

of American political parties?

" hard shell or soft shell " -

AND

Democratic party in New York; hence, ___ opposed to ^progress in general; a fogy (Political

OflnTr, U.O.)* J

M. F. H.

INTEBCHANGED. The interchange of c (or k) and t in names of places and other words is not uncommon. Thus " inmake " was at one time used for inmate "; and the other day I noticed the

THE WOODCUT : ITS PASSING. As the time is approaching when there will be no engravers, pressmen, or editors left to us who have had the cutting of, printing, and arranging for woodcuts in books, magazines,

statement that a hill formerly called Beacon Hill is now marked Beaton Hill on the map a change against expectation, for the former name is intelligible. The alteration no doubt takes place according to some law; what is it? Children will say " lickle IJ for ' ' little "; is the change from c to t due to advance from childhood to maturity in language? J. B.