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not allowed to say " I was sold a book," " I was lent a book " ? I have a feeling that the Irish use the construction on a more extensive scale, but I may be mis- taken. What I should like to ask my fellow-readers of ' N. & Q.' is this : Do they regard the construction as legitimate, and do the bulk of educated English persons use it without scruple ? In some cases, as in " I was given to understand," no choice even seems to me to be left. Do the un- educated use the form ? Is there a ten- dency noticeable to extend it to verbs which as yet have not come within its sphere ? Are the names of things also made its subject ? Do people feel the word after the predicate to be an object ?

G. KRUEGER. Berlin.

" JERUSALEM-GARTERS." What are Jeru- salem-garters ? Sir Daniel Fleming paid in May, 1682, in London, 12s. for clouded silk-stockings and Jerusalem-garters. The ' N.E.D.' gives no help under either word. JOHN R. MAGRATH.

Queen's College, Oxford.

' THE VELVET CUSHION.' I have an interesting little book entitled ' The Velvet Cushion.' It was published anonymously with this imprint : " London : Printed for T. Cadeir and W. Davies, Strand ; By G. Sidney, Northumberland-street. 1814."

Can any one tell me the name of the author ? ARTHUR LOWNDES.

143, East 37th Street, New York.

[Halkett and Laing state that the author was the Rev. J. W. Cunningham of St. John's College, Cambridge.]

JANE AUSTEN'S ' PERSUASION.' In ' Per- suasion ' some expressions and allusions occur that are difficult to understand at the present day. Any light that can be thrown on the following will be acceptable.

1. " She only came on foot to leave more room for the harp, which was bringing in the carriage " (chap. vi.). I do not find the intransitive use of "to bring " noted in any of the larger dictionaries ; can the word be so used ? Here it sounds like a provin- cialism, the sense being that of " coming " or " being brought."

2. "I should recommend Gowland.... You see how it has carried away her freckles " (chap. xvi.). Was this a specific made from the gowland or golland, i.e. buttercup, or was it called after the name of the manufacturer ?

3. " She has a blister on one of her heels as large as a three-shilling piece" (chap, xviii.). There was a seven- shilling piece

current from 1797 to 1813; was the three- shilling piece in use also between these dates, and what was its history ?

4. Who was the " inimitable Miss Larolles," mentioned in chap. xx. ? The Emma and Henry alluded to in chap. xii. are characters in T. Morton's play ' Speed the Plough.' N. W. HILL.

New York.

28TH REGIMENT AT CAPE ST. VINCENT. A portion of the 28th Regiment was de- tached to serve as marines, under the com- mand of Lieut. -Col. the Hon. Edward Paget, in Sir John Jervis s fleet, and par- ticipated in the naval action off Cape St. Vincent in 1797. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' kindly tell me the name of the ship in which the detachment served ?

CLAUDE PAGET.

The White House, Exmouth.

75TH REGIMENT AT DELHI. Does any regimental history exist of the old 75th Regiment of the Line, now the second battalion of the Gordon Highlanders ? Or can any reader recommend me a history of the Indian Mutiny in which the part of this particular regiment in the storming of Delhi, &c., is fully and exactly described ? I wish to trace the actual services of a cor- poral or sergeant who probably took part in these historic incidents. F. A. W.

ANNIE KEARY'S ' LAST DAY or FLOWERS/ Can any of your readers tell me where a poem by Annie Keary, called ' The Last Day of Flowers,' is to be found ? It begins :

Brother, before we go to bed

Let's run to the garden gate,

And gather a bunch of cuckoo-flowers :

To-morrow 'twill be too late.

It was published, I think, in a Mid- Vic- torian collection of children's poems.

MARY R. ROBINSON. Watford.

ST. FRIDESWIDE or OXFORD. I shall be obliged for reference to any old MS. lives of this saint in any library or private col- lection. Those at the B.M., Bodleian, and Cambridge University Library have been consulted. In a sale of Phillipps MSS., June, 1893, lot 658, a volume of lives of English and other female saints, was pur- chased by Mr. Quaritch, and ultimately was secured by a Mr. Seveson or Siveson. Can any one identify this collector, and inform me if his library is still intact ?

ALECK ABRAHAMS.