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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. iv. SEPT. 9, ion.

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170). The writer wished to indicate that the lady who desired a contribution to her album was a bore ; so he designed to give her a slight shock. The answer is " album," with a punning reference to " all."
 * INGOLDSBY LEGENDS ' : REBUS (11 S. iv.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

[Several other correspondents thanked for replies.]

DEEDS AND ABSTRACTS OF TITLE : SOCIETY FOR THEIR PRESERVATION (11 S. iv. 148, 194). The Yorkshire Archaeological Society and the Thoresby Society, both of Leeds, collect old deeds and abstracts of title, and probably would accept them on the terms that, if required, they should be returned at owners' risk. G. D. L.

Leeds.

THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD (11 S. iv. 170). MR. LYNN will find a discussion of the point which he has raised in Lupton's ' Wakefield Worthies,' pp. 182-8, where it is pointed out that the character of Dr. Primrose may have been drawn from the Rev. Benjamin Wilson, Vicar of Wakefield from 1750 to 1764, and that Goldsmith probably had paid a visit to Wakefield before writing his novel. There is a " Thorn- hill " near Wakefield, and a " Primrose " Hill in the city. MATTHEW H. PEACOCK.

"BED OF ROSES" (11 S. iv. 126, 176). Having returned home, I can now correct my previous reference. The phrase appears in Ossian (Temora), Book VI. Clun-galo (wife of Conmor, King of Inis-hana, and mother of Sul-malla) is here represented as missing her daughter, after she had fled with Cathmor. She exclaims :

" Where art thou, beam of light ? Hunters A 0n Y the mos& y rock saw Ye the blue-eyed fair ? Are her steps on grassy Lumon, near the bed of f ? Ah me ! I behold her bow in the hall. Where art thou, beam of light ? "

"Blue eyed fair " has also passed into a proverb. J AS. CURTIS, F.S.A.

Surely the phrase "bed of roses " is derived from the story of the Sybarite who suffered from sleeping on a crushed rose-leaf. Cf. " Die of a rose in aromatic pain."

Mr. Gladstone, writing to Monckton Milnes in 1843, says with regard to the Independent M.P. : " His seat must less and less resemble a bed of roses."

GLADSTONIAN.

OVERING SURNAME (US. iv. 89, 178). Charles Overing of Carey Street, goldsmith, entered his name and mark at Goldsmiths' Hall in April, 1697. Little is known of him ; and examples of his work are extremely rare, although he appears to' have carried on his business for at least 20 years, since I have a drinking-cup made by him in 1717. Apparently, also, no one of the same name succeeded him in the business.

H. D. ELLIS.

7, Roland Gardens, S.W.

CLUB ETRANGER AT HANOVER SQUARE (US. ii. 407, 477; iii. 96; iv. 179). From ' Notes and Jottings on Hanover Square and the St. George's Club ' I extract the follow- ing :

" This Club, known originally as the Cercle des Strangers, was established to give club accommodation to that very large floating popu- lation of London formed by American, Conti- nental, and Colonial visitors who visit England for long or short periods .... And in order more fully to carry out their laudable intentions, and thus to realize the design of the founders of this Club, by rendering it emphatically a National Club, or rather, a truly Cosmopolitan Club a Cercle des Nations an important and numerously attended meeting," &c.

This makes it clear that " Cercle des Nations ' was only an intention, never a name for the St. George's Club.

But all this is remote from the original

?uery. Further information on this might, suggest, be obtained from a collection of the concert tickets engraved by Bartolozzi after Cipriani. I think that some for the Cercle Etranger at Hanover Square were printed. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

BARRY O'MEARA, NAPOLEON'S SURGEON AT ST. HELENA (11 S. iv. 167). He was the son of Jeremiah O'Meara, a " member of the legal profession," by Miss Murphy, sister of Edmund Murphy, M.A. of T.C.D., and Rector of Tartaraghan, co. Armagh. He is supposed to have been a descendant of the Irish medical family of which Dermod or Dermitius Meara (fl. 1610), author and physician, and his son Edmund Meara or O'Meara (d. 1690), physician, were members.

A. R. BAYLEY.