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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. iv. JULY 29, ion.

- EMERSON AND MANCHESTER. In 1847 Emerson visited England to lecture in Manchester and the district, where he was most cordially received and entertained. Can references be given to local prints con- cerning this visit ? Any information will be gratefully received by

M. L. R. BRESLAR, Percy House, South Hackney.

SAINT- JUST. Is there any English life of Saint-Just, the colleague of Robespierre in the French Revolution ? M. Hamel has, I think, written a life of both these Jacobin leaders ; but I do not know if either of the works has been published in English.

H. A. B.

Brighton.

LITHOGRAPHY AND SIR J. WILLOUGHBY GORDON. According to Willis's Current Notes (January, 1851, p. 7), the name of this once famous officer (the builder of Gordon House at Chelsea Hospital), was " intimately connected with the history of lithography in this country." Where can I find an account of this connexion ?

J. M. BULLOCH.

118, Pall Mall, S.W.

"TUMBLE-DOWN DICK." Is there any example of the use of this sign in recent years ? Larwood and Hotten (3rd ed., 1868) describe signs at Hedenham and Woodton, where in each instance a drunken man is represented, and the original sig- nificance of the sign lost sight of. At Alton, Barnaby is shown as " Tumble- Down Dick." " Ephraim Hardcastle " in 'The Twenty-Ninth of May' (i. 81) says it was then (1825) a sign of a public-house on the Surrey side of London Bridge, entering the Borough. Are we to assume that the allusion to Richard Cromwell was forgotten within a few decades of his abdi- cation ? ALECK ABRAHAMS.

" MASTER OF GARRA WAY'S." Thomas Benson, who died on 30 April, 1824, aged 44, and was buried in St. Peter's Church- yard, St. Albans, is described on the head- stone as " Master of Garraway's." What was

this post ?

W. B. GERISH.

ELIZABETHAN SEAL. I should be glad to have an explanation of the following armorial device, occurring on a seal attached to a fragment of a document 34 Elizabeth.

Between two posts, each surmounted by a cross, is a raised portcullis, and imme- diately beneath the lattice is an erect demi-

lion on a wreath, facing to the left, with tongue protruding, and holding a battle- axe. To the left of the left gatepost is the letter R ; to the right is a remnant of another letter. The whole device is within a circle, the lowest segment of which has the date 1591. Outside the circle is part of a legend, beginning " Rien " ; the rest is indecipherable. J. H. R.

SEAL WITH CREST AND " S. M." I have in my possession a seal (apparently of about the eighteenth century) engraved with the following crest : a demi-lion rampant (all in profile), ducally crowned. Underneath are the initials S. M. in old English letters. Can any of your readers inform me to what person or family this crest belonged ?

H. GRAY.

GRAY'S ' ELEGY': TRANSLATIONS AND PARODIES.

(US. iii. 62, 144, 204, 338.)

THE following notes may be of service in supplementing MR. NORTHUP'S list. I am able to answer some of his questions.

Translations. Latin.

The translation published anonymously in 1762 by Christopher Anstey and William Hay ward Roberts, mentioned at 11 S. iii. 63/is reprinted in the Dublin (1768) edition of Gray's ' Poems.' The ed. of 1778 (introd. verses signed " C. A. et W. H. R.") has many alterations.

J. D. in ' Musse Berkhamstedienses.' The author, according to the Bodleian Catalogue, is John Dupre, D.D., Fellow of Exeter College.

H. J. Dodwell : In elegiacs. The first line is

Edidit interitum vox aerea rite diurnum. The title is : " Gray's Elegy in Latin and English. Translated by Henry J. Dodwell, M.A., Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, June 12th, 1882."

S. N. E. There appeared at Warwick in 1818 ' The Murdered Maid ; or, The Clock struck Four !!! A Drama in Three Acts,' the preface to which is signed S. N. E.

D. B. Hickie. 1823. (See also p. 145 of last vol.) Mentioned among books lately published in Valpy's ClassicalJournal, vol. xxvii. p. 190.