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the same purpose then in their way as mannequins, barbers' poles, pawnbrokers' three balls, &c.

I have a dim idea that the late Sir

Walter Besant was interested in the subject,

and collected instances of the survival of

these figures, but I can remember no details.

H. K. ST. J. S.

THOMAS GOWER TEMP. HENRY V. (11 S. iv. 528 ; v. 173). Killingworth is the Elizabethan spelling of Kenilworth, and the name by which it is still called by a few old people. " F. O. A.

THE BATHEASTON VASE AND THE OLYMPIC GAMES (11 S. v. 245). I have read with interest MR. COLLISON - MORLEY'S note on what he calls an " Etruscan " vase, as it concerns an object of beauty in the Royal Victoria Park at Bath whose history I wrote in The Magazine of Art for April, 1895. My article was illustrated by a lovely photo- graph taken by Perren of Bath.

The vase was excavated in 1769 from Cicero's Villa at Tusculum, near Frascati, Rome, and brought to Bath by Lady Miller, who wrote a pleasing journal of her Italian travels, all too harshly criticized by Horace Walpole for some trivial demerits. She used the vase for the purpose indicated by your correspondent : " vers de societe," " bouts rimes," &c., were placed within it, and drawn out by some fair " priestess " appointed to the function. The successful authors were called upon to recite their strains, and presented by Lady Miller with crowns of myrtle.

I spoke of humorous allusions in Horace Walpole's ' Letters ' and Boswell's ' Life of Johnson ' to these verses, which were printed and published in 1770.

The bluestocking Lady Miller died in 1781, aged only 41 years, and lies buried under a white f marble monument in Bath Abbey, near the altar.

Contributors to this " sacred " urn were Lord Palmerston (not our " Pam "), Miss Seward, Anstey, Dr. Graves, David Garrick, and other celebrities.

Carved in stone, this old Roman urn, with its handles of twisted snakes, should endure for ages yet to come. The human figures are time- and weather-worn, but a winged boy carrying a cup is less mutilated than the four or five others in relief. A large acanthus adorns nearly half of the surface, and the neck is surrounded by a chain of trefoil. Below is a cable pattern, all in excellent preservation.

MR. COLLISON - MORLEY'S reference to the " Arcadian Academy," as giving Lady Miller the idea of the rival poetical com- petitions, I leave to others who have studied closer than I " the' wisdom and morality of these artificial shepherds and their guardian." WILLIAM MERCER.

THE STONE'S END, BOROUGH (11 S. v. 289), The term Stones End is not uncommon ; it occurs in several places in England, and may be classed as descriptive, like Ringsend in Dublin. Boundaries were generally marked by stones, and a line of stones generally led up to a boundary. I believe the Southwark stones ended opposite the old police station in Blackman Street. The Kent, Surrey, and Sussex road used to> be measured from London Bridge. Stones- End was sometimes described in Acts of Parliament as in Blackman Street or in Kent Street. It was the starting - place mentioned in several Turnpike Road Acts,, either for amending or repairing roads. Thus in 42 Geo. III. cap. 63 (1802), allusion is made to a previous Act, on the same subject, for repairing roads from Stones End in Kent Street, in the parish of St. George's,. Southwark, to Dartford ; and the same term is used in 7 Geo. IV. cap. 125 ; but in 58 Geo. III. cap. 76, we have Stone's End in Blackman Street, in the Borough of South- wark. A. RHODES.

This was situated near the King's Bench Prison, and the name would be expressive as being the first and last milestone whence the turnpike road between Portsmouth and London was measured, and the only one so measured. HAROLD MALET, Col.

In the seventeenth edition of ' Paterson's Roads ' (1824) it is stated that " the Ports- mouth Road and those branching from it are measured from the Stones' [sic] End in the Borough, near the King's Bench, accord- ing to the milestones." The distance from the Stones' End in the Borough to Vauxhall Turnpike Gate is given as 1m. 5f. 2p. In Gary's 'Road Book' (1821) "Stones" is printed without an apostrophe. Presumably it means the end of the pavement in the roadway. C. B. WHEELER.

The first thoroughfare on the right in the- Borough Road, through to Great Suffolk Street, is Montague Street. The name Stones End was last connected with the police- court formerly situated there, opposite the old King's Bench Prison. TOM JONES. [MR. DAVID SALMOX also thanked for reply.]