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when the two boys referred to in the query entered Westminster School. Possibly there- fore he may have been their father. "Much interesting matter relating to Da Costa," says Allibone, " will be found in Nichols's ' Literary Anecdotes,' and an account of his family, compiled from his own notes, may be seen in Gent. Mag., Ixxxiii. 21." U.

C. H. SPURGEON'S KNOWLEDGE OF GREEK (11 S. iii. 267). The desired information is to be found on p. 56 of ' The Life and Letters of Sir George Grove,' by Charles L. Graves, 1903, and still fuller details on the subject at 10 S. iii. 206. For this infor- mation I am indebted to a Melbourne corre- spondent, for whose kind courtesy I desire permission to express my obligations.

This is not the first time I have been honoured, through the medium of ' N. & Q.,' with valuable information from various parts of the world, for which attention one cannot be too grateful.

FREDK. CHARLES WHITE.

26, Arran Street, Roath, Cardiff.

WILLIAM EVATT (11 S. iii. 367, 437). In the 1802 volume of The Gentleman 1, s Magazine Obituary, July the correct de- scription of William Evatt is given, viz., one of the clerks of the House of Commons.

In the Votes for Supply, August, 1784^ payment is made to William Evatt, clerk of the Select Committee on the administra- tion of Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, for defraying charges of the establishments.

GEORGE J. H. EVATT.

Junior U.S. Club.

" RHUBARB " : ITS DERIVATION (11 S. iii. 328, 392). In the term Eha Ponticum does the adjective really present any difficulty ? The word in itself certainly need not refer to the kingdom or province of Pontus. When " the most capricious poet, honest Ovid, was among the Goths," and applied this epithet again and again to the land of his exile, he did not imagine that he was languishing on the southern shore of the Euxine. It seems not unreasonable to suppose that the plant or drug acquired its name because it reached the Western world through a trade route that passed by the Black Sea. Equally, if it could be shown that " Pontic " had reference to the province, it need not be supposed that the plant was grown there. " Turkey " and " Russian " rhubarb were named from the countries through which they were imported. EDWARD BENSLY.

JUDGE JEFFREYS AND THE TEMPLE CHURCH ORGAN (11 S. iii. 427, 452). The organ was reconstructed in the autumn of 1910, and on its being reopened two his- torical articles appeared in The Times (16 and 17 December, 1910), according to- which the old organ was " purchased in f June, 1688, by the Societies of the Middle and Inner Temple for LOOOZ." Mr. Hugh H. L. Bellot in his book ' The Inner and Middle Temple,' 1902, at p. 226 quotes Luttrell as giving the price as 1,5002.

I do not think that MR. U.DAL is quite accurate (see foot-note, ante, p. 427) in assigning the seats of the two societies to the eastern and western sides respectively of the church. The members of the Middle Temples sit on the north side, and those of the Inner Temple on the south. M.

ROBERT AINSWORTH THE LEXICOGRAPHER (US. iii. 406). He is buried in the East India Company's Chapel at Poplar. On the south wall is a tablet inscribed as follows :

Rob. Aiusworth et uxor ejus admodmn senes Dormituri vestem detritam hie exuerunt, Novam primo mane surgentes induturi. Dura fas, mortalis, sapias et respice finem Hoc suadent manes hoc canit Amramides.

Robert Ains worth

author of the Latin Dictionary

was born at Woodyate, Clifton, Lancashire

September 1660

and died in London April 1743. This monument was

restored by

J. H. Ains worth, Esq r

of Moss Bank, near Bolton. Lancashire,

A.D. 1862.

Below are the following arms : Gules, three battleaxes or. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

I know not whether the person under- named was any relation to the lexicographer, but parties interested in the family may like to know that an earlier Robert Ayns- worth commenced to officiate as one of the two parish clerks of St. ^Mary's, Nottingham, in May, 1620. He was buried there on 23 October, 1630, having died while holding that office. A. S.

BISHOPSGATE STREET WITHOUT (11 S. iii. 2, 142, 403). When I was a lad there stood on the site of the piesent Bishopsgate Institute a repository for sale of horses,. carriages, &c. I attended many a horse- sale there in the old days. I cannot say off-hand when the business was given up, but I think it was still in existence in the nineties. M. L. B. BRESLAR.