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EARLY GRADUATION : GILBERT BURNET, JOHN BALFOUR (11 S. ii. 427 ; iii. 32). On p. 88 of ' Admissions to the College of St. John the Evangelist in the Uni- versity of Cambridge,' Part II., ed. by J. E. B. Mayor, is Wotton's certificate of good, conduct from the fellows of St. Katherine's Hall (the master being away). It is here stated that he " commenced batchelor of arts in January 1679/80." This is decisive for the higher age of thirteen years and c. five months.

EDWARD BENSLY.

The names of Wotton and Bentley appear in the Cambridge Honours List for the year 1679/80. Wotton's name is second, and Bentley 's sixth upon the list.

A. R. MALDEN.

(US. ii. 490). There is a copy of this in the Boston Public Library. On the verso of the title it is stated that " a portion of this poem appeared, some weeks ago, in The New York Herald." If L. L. K. cannot find a copy near home, I shall be glad to answer any question that may be sent direct to me. ALBERT MATTHEWS.
 * KOSSUTH COPPERED,' SATIRICAL POEM

Boston, U.S.

REV. J. SAMWELL : REV. J. PEACOCK (11 S. iii. 9). In Julian's 'A Dictionary of Hymnology,' 1907, p. 1586, it is stated that John Peacock was b. 1731, became a Wesleyan minister 1767, retired 1796, and d. 1803. In 1776 he published 'Songs of Praise compiled from the Holy Scriptures.' FREDERIC BOASE.

ANDREW ARTER'S MEMORIAL, HAMMER- SMITH (11 S. ii. 10). Mr. Andrew Arter was a timber merchant. He lived at Linden House, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, and represented Hammersmith in the first and second London County Councils.

G. W. E. R.

The low stone pillar standing in Beavor Lane, Hammersmith, is evidently a sort of cippus marking the angle of a particular plot of ground, which has been left by some incom- plete road-widening in its present dangerous position ; and Mr. Andrew Arter, whose name is inscribed on the face of the stone, was evidently the owner of the plot. His death was recently announced in the papers, and he was the son of a timber merchant of the same name, the site of whose premises in Little North Street, Chelsea, is now absorbed in that of Harrod's Stores, and

who, somewhere in the fifties, erected the houses of Bridge Avenue, Hammersmith, as a speculation. J. TAVENOR-PERRY.

Chiswick.

The worthy here commemorated lived in Beevor Lane for many years, and died, I believe, last year. The monument is merely a boundary stone which he inscribed similarly to one deciphered by me long ago, and mentioned in the papers of a bygone archaeo- logical society. SAMUEL PICKWICK.

QUAKER OATS (US. ii. 528). Recalling former notices on numerous hoardings, I seem dimly to remember an explanation of the term " Quaker Oats " vouchsafed by the makers of that delicacy. The name (so I seem to recall the matter) was properly " Quaking Oats," from a fancied resemblance to the Briza Media or " quaking grass " of botany. As " quaking," however, was felt to be an unsuitable word to use for an article of food, it was altered into " Quaker," whence in due time emerged the portly gentleman in Quaker garb, whose full-blown proportions represented the result of the use of the preparation. SCOTUS.

It is certain that " Quaker Oats " are food so named because the peculiar way of milling that produces this food was first carried on in Pennsylvania, the American State named after its founder, the famous Quaker Wm. Penn. T k WILSON.

Harpenden.

WILLIAM MEARS, BELLFOUNDER, 1626 (11 S. ii. 445). The baptismal entry recorded at this reference does not seem to refer to the Wm. Mears of the Whitechapel bell- foundry, though possibly his family might have come from Nottingham. The White- chapel firm was begun about 1570 by William Mott, who sold it in 1606 to Carter of Reading. It passed to Thomas Bartlett in 1619, and he and his descendants carried it on till the end of the century. The last Bartlett died in 1701, when Richard Phelps succeeded. After him came Lester & Pack , then Chapman was taken into partnership, and the firm became Lester, Pack & Chap- man ; but the first name was soon dropped, and the firm was known as Pack & Chapman. Their bells were noted for being marked with riming mottoes, well known to cam- panologists. Pack died 1781, when Chap- man took as a partner William Mears. The latter had learnt his trade at the White- chapel foundry, and had started in business for himself several years previously. The