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R. Nevill, F.S.A. ' Wimbledon, the Camp and the Battle,' Surrey Arch. Soc., x. 273-9.

W. Whitaker. ' Lockesley Camp,' Hants Field Club, ii. 80.

Rev. S. Baring-Gould. ' An Ancient Settle- ment on Trewortha Marsh,' Royal Inst. Cornwall, xi. 57-70.

F. R. Coles. ' The Motes, Forts, and Boons of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbrightshire,' Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., xxvi. 117-70.

T. McKenny Hughes. ' On the Camp at Ardoch, Perthshire,' Cambridge Ant. Soc. Proc., viii. 57-8.

Henry Layer, F.S.A. ' Rayleigh Mount : a British Oppidum,' Essex Arch. Soc., N.S., iv. 172-8.

Rev. E. Maule Cole, F.G.S. ' Danes' Dike,' Trans. East Riding Ant. Soc., i. 53-8.

H. Swainson Cowper, F.S.A. ' The Ancient Settlements, Cemeteries, and Earthworks of Furness,' ArcJtceologia, liii. 389-426.

T. McKenny Hughes.' On the Castle Hill, Cambridge,' Camb. Ant. Soc. Proc., viii. 87-92.

J. M. Martin. ' Broadbury and its Ancient Earthworks,' Trans. Devon. Assoc., xxv. 547-51.

T. Tindall Wildridge. ' The British Barrow at Marton,' Trans. East Riding Ant. Soc., i. 46-52.

G. F. Beaumont. ' Layer Marney Earthwork,' Trans. Essex Arch. Soc., N.S., v. 100.

S. Baring-Gould and others. ' Exploration of Grimspound,' Trans. Devon Assoc., xxvi. 101-21.

Edward Conder. ' Account of Exploration of Lyneham Barrow,' Proc. Soc. Ant., Second Series, xv. 404-10.

J. R. Mortimer. ' The Grouping of Barrows and its Bearing on the Religious Beliefs of the Ancient Britons,' Trans. East Riding Ant. Soc., iii. 53-62.

John Ward. ' Account of some Barrows recently opened in the Vicinity of Buxton,' Proc. Soc. Ant., Second Series, xv. 419-29.

Robert Newstead. ' Grave Mounds at Penmaen- mawr,' Chester Arch. Soc., vi. 145-51.

T. N. Brushfield. ' Arbor Low,' Brit. Arch. Assoc., N.S., vi. 127-39.

Prof. Boyd Dawkins. ' Exploration at Hod Hill, near Blandford,' Arch. Journ., Ivii. 52-68.

Attention may also be directed to the scheme for recording ancient defensive earthworks and fortified enclosures issued by the Society of Antiquaries in 1903, and to the siibsequent reports of their Earthworks Committee, presented yearly to the Congress of Archaeological Societies.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

Lancaster.

"TUMBLE-DOWN DICK" (11 S. iv. 90). In 1855 there stood a public-house bearing this name near Frimley, in Surrey. Most likely it is still open perhaps under a new title. It had no picture sign such as MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS describes. In the year [ speak of the landlord told my father that the licence dated from the days of Bos- worth Field, the inn having been called, derisively, after the fallen monarch. Most probably " mine host," not being well

posted in historic lore, confused one un- lucky Richard with another ; or my father, perhaps, in re-telling the tale, jumbled names and dates. Yet a question might arise, Was Richard III. the original " Tumble - Down Dick," the sobriquet being afterwards revived to ridicule the fallen Protector ? There can be no doubt,, however, that Richard Cromwell was the one thus commemorated. I recollect, when a child, often hearing my mother busy about the house, singing :

Tumble-Down Dick was the sweetest of men,.

Hi-diddle ho-diddle hey ! He fell down stairs and he got up again, Hi-diddle ho-diddle dee ! Ho-diddle-dey !

Whether this was the whole song, or only one verse, I did not think to ask : I never fancied it was a ballad concerning a real person. Yet I have not forgotten, through long years, either the words or the tune- as I heard them of old. Has the song been alluded to before in the pages of ' N. & Q.' ? HERBERT B. CLAYTON.

There is an inn of this name on the London and Farnham Road in the parish of Farnborough, Hants. The sign, which was pictorial, has lately been repainted,, and the picture has disappeared.

J. P. STILWELL. [S. W. also thanked for reply.]

DR. JOHNSON IN SCOTLAND (11 S. iv. 105). The anecdote of Dr. Johnson which D. J. quotes from ' Memoirs of Bishop Bathurst ' may be found in ' Chalmeriana," by Joseph John Gurney.

W. ROBERTSON NICOLL.

DICKENS AND THACKERAY : MANTALINI (US. iv. 47). One prefers to believe that there may have been some existing original for Madame Mantalini rather than that Thackeray should have conveyed the cha- racter from the pages of Dickens. May not some business directory about the forties* of last century reveal such a name as being then in London ? Or perhaps the suggestion of millinery in the name Mantalini may have guided both writers to an almost simul- taneous use of the name.

The practice of conveying a fictitious haracter from a contemporary author is not* indeed, unknown in literature, but is, I think, far from common. For instances of the practice see 1 1 S. ii. 432, where Capt. Cross- tree and Tom Bowling are mentioned as depicted by different writers. Another, and perhaps better, instance is Crabtree,.