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of which I cannot identify. They are Baconface, a sort of bailiff to the Lady (Queen Anne ?); one Dammyblood; Clumzy, son-in- law to Avaro and Haggite (the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough ?) ; Split cause, an attorney ; and Mouse, a noted ballad- maker. There are references also to the Rev. Mr. Wh...n, Dr. G.. .th, and the Rev. arid Hon. L;. .y L. . .d, who were apparently persons of some note at the period in question. I should be glad of assistance in identifying the persons and allusions in the squib.

W. B. GEKISH.

MA YOBS : " WOBSHIPFUL " AND " RlGHT

WOBSHIPFUL." Can you tell me when a Mayor is " Worshipful " and when " Right Worshipful " ? In the Bidding Prayer before the sermon before the University the Mayor of Cambridge is sty led the " Worshipful " the Mayor. In that in use in Hereford Cathe- dral he is styled " Right Worshipful." Why this difference ? Both places are somewhat of the same size and importance as towns, though of course one has the University in its embrace. Is it because Hereford is a city and Cambridge only a borough ? WM. SELWYN,

Prebendary of Hereford Cathedral.

viii. 35 ; x. 352 ; 9 S. xi. 389, 437 ; xii. 14, 57, 211.]

THE Six CLEBKS' OFFICE : JAMES CLABKE. (See 11 S. iv. 328, 458.) The Lady's Magazine for August, 1775, states that Miss Frances Clarke was the youngest daughter of " the late James Clarke, Esq., of the six clerks office." Will any reader of ' N. & Q.' kindly tell me what is meant by this ?

I should also like, if possible, to ascertain where James Clarke lived. F. M. S.

[For Six Clerks' Office see 9 S. xii. 154, 277, 335, 375.]

SMOKING IN PUBLIC - HOUSES, SEVEN- TEENTH CENTUBY. The. East Anglian (vol. viii.) for 1900 contained a valuable series of extracts from the Account Books of St. Stephen's Church and Parish, Norwich. At p. 312, under the year 1628-9, there is mention of a new source of income. Several men, presumably innkeepers, were fined 20s. each for " selling of a pott of beare wanting in measure, contrary to the law " ; and two of them were further fined 30s. each <; for the like offence, and for suffering parishioners to smoke in his house." Was smoking in public-houses forbidden at that date ?

G. L. APPEBSON.

MISTAKE OF SCOTT'S. It has been said that Sir Walter, in one of the Waverleys, through an oversight as to the topography, makes the sun to rise in the west or set in the east- I forget which. Is this really so ? A. S. P.

CLEBICI FAMILY. I should be much obliged to the readers of ' N. & Q.' for any information concerning the Clerici family. One of them was an Italian count. Does a branch of this family reside in England ?

UPTA.

THE LEVANT OB TUBKEY COMPANY,

FOUNDED BY QUEEN ELIZABETH. Are there

not any memorials remaining of this once famous company in London, or other English (and perhaps Scotch) cities, where its charters and privileges were exercised until well into the nineteenth century ? I can trace nothing in the way of a place- name surviving in the modern ' London Directory.' I suppose it had no docks upon the Thames, and even its local habitations or offices have passed away without leaving a single souvenir of the kind which perpetu- ates the memory of the South Sea, East and West India, or Baltic Companies.

Has any history of the Levant Company ever been compiled ? G. E. J.

Cyprus.

[See 2 S. xii. 170 ; 5 S. xii. 187, 254, 516 ; 6 S. xi. 169,216.]

NORWEGIAN LEGEND. Can any reader indicate the whereabouts of a poem entitled ' Salami and Zulamith,' which is said to be a translation of a Norwegian legend explain- ing the origin of the " Milky Way " ? The poem may have appeared in a magazine. ROLAND AUSTIN.

Public Library, Gloucester.

PIGTAILS. Is it not the fact that the pig- tail, which is always present to Chinese eyes as a symbol of servitude, was intro- duced by the Manchus as a badge of sub- mission to them ? JAS. CUBTIS, F.S.A. [See 4 S. viii. 95. J

SIB PHILIP FBANCIS'S DESCENDANTS. Are there any descendants of Sir Philip Francis, the reputed author of ' Junius ' ?

There was a Thomas Francis, gentleman, of Five Fingers Farm, Ruabon, who went there from London in the early part of the nineteenth century. Also there was another Thomas Francis, gentleman, of Bebington, Cheshire, who died in 1850 at an advanced age.