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P. H. Pearce, a swimming - master of Ramsgate, f duly " magnified " his office, called himself esquire, and painted the word poet after his name on his bathing-machines. It is but a question of good or bad taste. Tailors, barbers, shoemakers, and others are artists in their way. If you have any doubt on the point, test it upon a suitable opportunity. EDWABD SMITH.

AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED (11 S. iv. 428). In Byron's ' Works,' John Murray, 1859, p. 427, there is a note speak- ing of Joseph Cottle: "the same person has had the honour to be recorded in The Anti- Jacobin, probably by Canning " : And Cottle, not he who that Alfred made famous, But Joseph, of Bristol, the brother of Amos. Possibly these lines may have appeared in The Anti-Jacobin, but they are not in 'The Poetry of the Anti- Jacobin.' There is another book called 'The Beauties of the Anti- Jacob in,' London, 1799, in which there was a foot-note (not in The Anti- Jacobin], by the editor, to one of the poems, ' The New Morality,' in which such serious charges were brought against S. T. Coleridge that he contemplated an action for libel. Doubtless a copy of ' The Beauties ' is to be found in the British Museum" (see Athenceum 31 May, 1900). R A. POTTS.

G. M. T. will find the Stevenson quotation he seeks in ' An Inland Voyage,' chapter
 * The Royal Sport Nautique ' (p. 25).

H. S.

AVIATION IN 1811 (11 S. iv. 5, 75). Supple- menting its remarks of 9 June, 1811, quoted at the first of these references, The Observer of 24 November, 1811, said :

''The watchmaker, Degen, made an attempt with mechanical wings, of his own construction, to rise in the air at Vienna on the 15th ult. He ascended about six in the evening, reached an extraordinary height, and descended safely near Irantemandorff, district of Bruh."

Junior Athenaeum Club.

CECIL CLARKE.

MANOR OF MILTON-NEXT-GRAVESEND (US iv. 367, 436). The Parliament of Shrews- bury having declared all the acts of the

merciless" Parliament of 1388 to be null and void, the King on 23 October, 1398 ordered this manor to be restored to Roger Burley, son of Sir John and nephew of Sir Simon Burley, by Richard Ronhalle, clerk,

w j ( lr / ?? e) ' parson of St ' Michael's, Wood Street, John Feriby, Thomas Godyng- ton, and John Wynde (Close Roll, 22

In 1404 Sir Richard Arundel and Alice his wife sued Reynold Cobham and Eliza- beth his wife for one- third of the manor as dower of Alice from Roger Burley, formerly her husband, and after adjourn- ments obtained a judgment by default ('De Banco,' Mich. 6 Hen. IV., m. 124 d). In the same year John, son of Roger Burley, had sued other persons for the Here- fordshire manor of Leonhale, also forfeited by Sir Simon Burley.

Can any one supply information about the ownership of the manor between 1398 and 1404 ? G. O. BELLEWES.

13, Cheyne Row, S.W.

THE CORPORATION OF LONDON AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION (11 S. iv. 425). DR. CLIPPINGDALE is wrong in thinking that in London the Chief Magistrate is chosen from a restricted number of Livery Companies ; he_need not necessarily be a liveryman at all. He is elected from the Aldermen, and the qualification for the aldermanry, apart from the pecuniary, is that he must be a freeman, " paying scot and bearing lot."

PELLIPAR.

FATHER CONNOLLY, HYMN- WRITER (US. iv. 429). At the end of the article on ' Roman Catholic Hymnody ' in Julian's ' Dictionary ' (p. 976) there is a lengthy list of hymn-books. No. 28 is " Hymns by the Rev. James Conolly, Missionary-Rector, London, 4th edition, 1882." This gives the correct spelling of the surname and! one of the clerical positions he held. No doubt some of his surviving contemporaries among the London clergy will be able to furnish further particulars.

J. F. HOGAN.

Royal Colonial Institute,

Northumberland Avenue.

"BROKEN COUNSELLOR" (11 S. iv. 368, 458). I suggest that the term means that the counsellor had been, on his own applica- tion, formally disbarred by his benchers, it being against the declaration, made by a barrister on call, to enter into orders "while he shall remain a barrister."

ERIC R, WATSON, Bar.I.T.

PONTEFRACT CASTLE : PICTURE AT HAMP- TON COURT (US. iv. 403). The discovery by your correspondent MR. A. S. ELLIS of the identity of the picture of 'A Castle* by Josse de Momper, No. 916 in this palace,. is most interesting and valuable, and I need scarcely say that the information he supplies will be gratefully noted in the next edition. of the Historical Catalogue of the pictures