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as before, but with a dot at the end instead of an annulet, and a line dividing it from the outer.

. E. : PAYABLE AT THE TEMPLE OP THE MUSES.

' 8. As last, but E. : PAYABLE IN LANCASTER

kONDON OR BRISTOL.

9. As last, but E. : HALFPENNY PAYABLE AT

THE BLACK HORSE TOWER HILL.

10. O. : Similar to last, but the 1 of dateis some little distance to the right of the button.

R. and E. : the same as last.

11. O. and E. : the same as last.

R. : Similar to last, but positions of the outer and inner legends vary, which may be detected by noticing that in this piece the period after "LACKINGTON" is over the N of. "IN," whilst before it was over the T of "THE." There are other differences.

12. O. : Profile bust to right. J. LACKINGTON. A small cross below bust.

R. : The same as last.

E. : PAYABLE AT LONDON OR DUBLIN.

13. O. : Similar to last, but with FINSBURY SQUARE 1795 in place of cross under the bust.

R. : The same as last.

E. : PAYABLE AT THE TEMPLE OF THE MUSES.

14. As last, but E. milled.

15. O. : The same as last.

R. : A smaller figure of Fame. Without the dividing line.

E. : Milled to right.

16. As last, but E. milled to left.

17. As last, but E. plain.

18. O. : The obverse of No. 1.

R. : Figure of Vulcan at work. HALFPENNY. 1793.

E. : AN ASYLUM FOR THE OPPRESS'D OF ALL NATIONS.

19. O. : The reverse of No. 1 appears as an obverse.

R. : Arms of Liverpool between reeds. DEUS

NOBIS ttSC OTIA FECIT 1794.

A. L. HUMPHREYS. 187, Piccadilly, W.

Lackington issued two small copper tokens. That of 1795 is shown in Mr. Mumby's 1794 issue in Mr. W. Roberts' s 'TheBook- Hunter in London,' p. 182. This last-named token is superior in design and finish, the head of Lackington bearing some resem- blance to his engraved portraits. The legend round the edge reads " Payable at the Temple of the Muses."
 * Romance of Bookselling,' p. 309, and the

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

I have one of Lackington's medals, about the size of a florin : Obverse portrait, with inscription, " J. Lackington," and date ing a trumpet, and inscription : " Halfpenny of Lackington Allen & Co. Cheapest Book- sellers in the World." On the rim: "Payable at the Temple of the Muses."
 * ' 1794." Reverse allegorical figure blow-

A. H. ARKLE.

J. SUASSO DE LIMA (11 S. iv. 509). MR. SOLOMONS will find some interesting particulars of J. Suasso de Lima in ' Sixty Years Ago,' by L. H. Meurant, a copy of which is in this library. The author states that he was a Dutch lawyer, a clever man, and a linguist.

" He was always in trouble ; never paid any- body, especially his house-rent. On one occasion he had to change his residence, but there was a writ of ' gyseling ' (civil imprisonment) out against him, and constables on the watch. To effect his removal he obtained a large ' ballast- mant ' (clothes-basket), got into it, and had it covered over with books, newspaper?, &c., and carried out by two coolies. The constables on the watch, being suspicious, gave chase ; the frightened coolies abandoned their charge, the basket upset, and De Lima rolled out."

De Lima edited a paper called the Verzame- laar, a kind of Dutch Punch, and was -the author of a book of poems entitled ' Xieuwe Gedichten,' published in 1840. A list of his works will be found in Mendelssohn's ' South African Bibliography.'

P. EVANS LEWIN, Librarian. Royal Colonial Institute,

Northumberland Avenue.

EDWARD FITZ&ERALD AND 'X. & Q.' (11 S. iv. 469). A list of E. F. G.'s contribu- tions to ' N. & Q.' will be found in my ' Notes for a Bibliography of Edward FitzGerald,' published some nine or ten years ago by Mr. Frank Hollings, of Great Turnstile, Holborn. This little volume was a reprint, with addi- tions and corrections, of a series of articles contributed by me to ' N. & Q.' Being abroad at the present moment, I regret I cannot give the exact references.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

Villa Paradis, Hyeres.

[CoL. PRIDEAUX'S articles appeared at 9 S. v. 201, 221, 241, with a supplementary one at p. 61 of vol. vi. FitzGerald's contributions to ' N. & Q.' are included in the third article.]

MATTHEW PRIOR OF LONG ISLAND : MAJOR DANIEL GOTHERSON (11 S. iv. 447). Matthew Prior was a bailiff for two estates in England for Major Daniel Gotherson. The Daniel Gotherson who came to America with Prior and Capt. John Scott in 1663 was not Major Gotherson, but his son of the same name. Major Gotherson died in September, 1666, in London, and in that month described himself as "of the parish of Godmersham in the County of Kent." Prior's letter to Lovelace, written in 1668, was given in Gideon D. Scull's ' Dorothea Scott, otherwise Gotherson and Hogben,' privately printed at Oxford in 1883, in which book MR. HILLMAN will find much about