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LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER <J, 1911.

CONTENTS. -No. 102.

NOTES : Casanoviana, 461 Signs of Old Country Inns, 462 Holed Stones : Tolmens, 463 Eleanor of Bretagne Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures Timothy Bright on English Medicines Vanishing Landmarks of London- Naval Epitaphs in St. Nicholas's, Deptford, 464 Boleyn Family in Ireland Sunday Schools in 1789" Writes me": "Stand it," 465 Oxen : their Names Halley's Pedigree Foreign Journals in the United States De Quincey's ' Opium-Eater,' 466.

QUERIES: Queen Mary's Armorial Bearings Donny Family, 467 Eugene Arain James Augustus St. John Hating of Clergy to find Armour ' The Convict Ship' Early English Bookbindings Felicia Hemans Baau- clerk Family, 463 Londop Hectors' Confederation Edward FitzGerald and N. & Q.' "Dillisk" and " Slook " - " Pe . . tt " William Meadows Authors Wanted The Sun as the Manger Latter Lammas " America" as a Scottish Place - Name Turpin Jelfe S. Jermyn W. Jesson Warren Juson, 469 Jockey Doctors-Wilson Baptisms Anglo - Saxon Words Mar- giret A. Jeffray Lackington's Medals Prime Serjeant, 470.

REPLIES: Edward Purcell, 470 Ralegh's House at Youghal, 472 -Miss Howard and Napoleon III. 'The Intelligencer' H. Fenton Jadis. 473 John Worsley, Schoolmaster "Rydyngaboute of victory," 474 Gibber's Authors of Quotations Wanted Nelson : " Musle," 476 - Farington of Worden Spider Stories, 477 "Fent" Jiarnard Family Learned Horses " Burway " ' Slang Terms and the Gipsy Tongue ' Frost Arms at Win- chester, 478.
 * Apology ' " Had I wist," 475 Crystal Palace Tickets

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Growth of the English Parish Church ' Reviews and Magazines.

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CASANOVIANA.

CASANOVA IN ENGLAND. (See 10 S. viii. 443, 491 ; ix. 116 ; xi. 437 ; 11 S. ii. 386 ; iii. 242 ; iv. 382.) I have received a com- munication from M. Edouard Maynial (the author of ' Casanova et son Temps,' a, translation of which has been published recently by Messrs. Chapman & Hall) that gives some further evidence to prove the identity of Casanova's La Charpillon and Wilkes's Charpillon or Charpillion. It appears that the name of Casanova's lady was also Marianne. M. Maynial writes :

" Nous savons aujourd'hui que la Charpillon d.e Casanova s'appelait aussi Marianne. M. Aldo Rava, un tres 6rud.it Casanoyiste, vient de publier a Milan, chez Troves, un livre du plus grand interet: 'Lettere di donne a Giacomo Casanova' (' Lettres de femmes & Jacques Casa- nova ' ). J'ai fait de ce curieux livre une traduc- tion franchise qui paraitra prochainement a Paris .... Or dans ce livre vous trouverez a la page 110-113 deux amusants billets (absolument authentiques, puisqu'ils ont et6 copies aux archives de Dux) de la Charpillon. Le premier de ces billets est sign6 : * Mariane de Charpillon,'

ce qui est exactement le nom de 1'amie de Wilkes. Ce detail joint a la circonstance commune que les deux Charpillons vivaient avec une grand' - mere, une mere, et une tante, ne me paralt pas laisser subsister le moindre doute, et, pour ma part, je considere comme resolu des maintenant 1'interessant probleme litteraire que vous avez pose."

It seems improbable that in ten con- secutive years there should be living in London two well-known courtesans named Marianne Charpillon, both of whom resided with a grandmother, a mother, and an aunt. I shall take steps, however, to have some of the autograph letters of Wilkes's Charpillon compared with the MSS. at Dux, which may put the question beyond dispute.

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

EDWARD TIRETTA. The researches of MR. RICHARD EDGCUMBE and MR. HORACE BLEACKLEY have rendered ' N. & Q.' such a storehouse of information relating to Casanova that I venture to add an item of information derived from a source that might possibly escape their attention. The following note occurs in Dr. Busteed's ' Echoes from Old Calcutta,' 4th ed., p. 341 :

" It may be worth noting that ' le jeune Comte Tiretta de Trevise ' is the name of one of the many boon companions whose unsavoury exploits in the service of Venus, Casanova tells of in his extraordinary ' Memoirs.' Casanova made his acquaintance early in 1757 ; he was then twenty- five, of a good appearance, with a noble and jovial air. He had fled to Paris from Venice to escape the consequences of a breach of trust there, and arrived destitute. Casanova set him up, and put him in the way of making a rather discreditable living. He witnessed in disreputable company the horrible execution of Damiens, the would-be regicide, and was much given to gambling, fighting, and love-making. After the loss of a favourite mistress, he told his patron that he wished to try his fortune in India, and Casanova gave him a letter to a friend in Amsterdam, whence he was sent to Batavia. There he got into trouble, being apparently a thorough scamp. He made his way to Bengal, where he prospered mightily, as one of his relations told Casanova that he was there in 1788 rich, but unable to realize his fortune and return to his country."

It seems that Tiretta' s business in Cal- cutta was that of an architect and land- surveyor, and he was also, Dr. Busteed thinks, registrar of leases. His name is still preserved in that of a bazaar in Calcutta. His wife, who was a Mile. Angelique de Carrion, died in 1796, after three years of wedded happiness, and was buried in the Portuguese burying-ground ; but nearly two years afterwards the widower had the remains exhumed and transferred to a grave in a cemetery in Park Street which he bought