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 NOTES AND QUERIES. t u s. v. FEB. 24, 1912.

religion and the liberties of England, was read on this pedestal by the Rev. John Reynel, rector of the parish, on the 5th of November, 1688."

Two miles from Totnes, Devon, is the house known as " Parliament House," a thatched building of unusual design. It is in the shape of a Z. In the garden plot before " Parliament House " a stone has been set up a granite slab, about six feet high, sixteen inches wide, and eight inches thick which .bears the inscription :

William Prince of

Orange

Is Said To Have

Held His First

Parliament

Here In November

1688.

Council of war is meant by " Parliament " evidently.

About midway on the Victoria Pier, Brixham, Devon, a granite obelisk has been erected, in which is fixed the actual stone upon which William III. first set foot on landing in England. The inscription is as follows : \ On This Stone

And Near This Spot

William Prince of Orange

First Set Foot On His Landing In

England

The 5th November 1688.

There is a life-size marble statue of William HI. at Brixham, erected to cele- brate the bicentenary of the landing at Torbay, 5 Nov., 1888. In Brixham Town Hall is a fine oil painting of the monarcli in royal robes. The arms of Brixham repre- sent the landing, of which there is also an old plate in the Town Hall.

I should be glad to know of any other memorials in Devon (or elsewhere) of the Revolution of 1688-90.

WILLIAM MACARTHUR.

JAMES WRIGHT. Is anything known of the life of James Wright ? He wrote ' Historia Histronica, an Historical Account of the English Stage, showing the Ancient Use, Improvement, and Perfection of Dra- matick Representation in this Nation,' London, 1699, 4to. M. DORMER HARRJS.

"THE PANGAM." It is more than sixty years since I first saw what the children in my village called " the Pangam " or " { Pangam-man." He carried about his body " a band of music," whicfi he worked

entirely by himself. In front of him was a kettledrum, on his back a large drum, on the top of the drum cymbals, and at his throat a set of " Pandean pipes." He blew into the pipes to the accompaniment of the drums and cymbals, which he worked by cords attached to his elbows and one of his feet. He managed also to beat at intervals a triangle suspended to the kettledrum. I have often wondered why children called him the " Pangam-man," because certainly none of them knew anything of " Pandean pipes." Did this music-man bear a real name ? THOS. RATCLIFFE.

JOSEPH RICHARDSON, AN EIGHTEENTH- CENTURY BOOKSELLER. I should be grate- ful if any one learned in the history of eighteenth - century bookselling could give me any information as to Joseph Richardson of Paternoster Row, who died in 1763. He was the founder of the firm which afterwards became Richardson & Urquhart of Paternoster Row and Cornhill, then Wm. Richardson (d. 1810) of Cornhill, and finally Jas. Mallcott Richardson of Cornhill (d. 1854). Joseph Richardson's will (P.C.C. Caesar 482) is an interesting document because it is appended to a balance sheet showing the stock-in-trade of an eighteenth-century bookseller and its value.

T. C. D.

ROMAN EMPRESSES. When, and by what authority, was the word " empress " first applied to the wives of the men commonly called Emperors of Rome ? Was the Latin word " Imperatrix " ever applied to them while Latin was a living language ? I am not referring to the Holy Roman Empire, but to the Empire as it existed dow r n to Augustulus in the West, and from the time of Arcadius in the East. The word " Empress " seems to be coming into use in English in the above sense, and it is even found in the British Museum. But is it not a mere vulgarism ? for the wife of Augustus or Trajan would no more be an empress than the wife of an Archbishop of Canterbury is an archbishopess. W. SYMS.

EDMOND HALLEY, JUN., SURGEON R.N. (See 10 S. ii. 88, 224: 11 S. iv. 164.) A summary of the known facts concerning this personage, son of the astronomer Halley, appeared in The Home Counties Magazine (London) for September, 1911 (vol. xiiu No. 51, pp. 240-41).

No record of his burial can be found in the parish of Portsea or Greenwich. He seems to have resided in Kent at the time