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JOCKEY DOCTOBS (11 S. iv. 470). Is it not possible that this is an instance of a Cambridge Degree by Mandate ? Charles II. had no doubt derived much benefit from his visit to Newmarket, and he would be just the man to declare that those who had contributed to his amusement and so, indirectly, to his health should be rewarded with the appropriate degree of M.D. at the hands of the neighbouring University. ALAN STEWART.

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT : ' APPEAL TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND' (11 S. v. 389). In a list of works by Mrs. Wollstonecraft Godwin at the end of my copy of ' Memoirs of the Author of a " Vindication of the Rights of Woman," ' by William Godwin (London, printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Churchyard; and G. G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, 1798), there is no mention of such a work as forms the subject of MR. JOHN R. CLAYTON'S inquiry. HAROLD MALET, Col.

POET'S ROAD, CANONBURY (11 S. v. 389). Presumably the poet commemorated in the name of this road is Oliver Goldsmith. Canonbury Tower is not so very far away, and we know that Goldsmith once resided there. Some years ago, when I visited the Tower, "Dr. Goldsmith's Room" was pointed out to me on the first floor. Wash- ington Irving' s reference to this room in his
 * Tales of a Traveller ' is inimitable.

JOHN T. PAGE.

DOGS IN CHURCHES (11 S. v. 209, 294, 395). I was in the cathedral at Perugia lately during High Mass, and saw two dogs roaming about. One of them ran leisurely through the sanctuary a yard or two from the cele- brant and close to the bishop, who was seated in his throne. No one took any notice of them. LAWRENCE PHILLIPS.

NAMES TERRIBLE TO CHILDREN (10 S. x. 509 ; xi. 53, 218, 356, 454 ; xii. 53 ; US. ii. 133, 194, 258). I offer some additions to the list of bugbears already given. They were jotted down from Mr. C. Bogue Luffmann's ' Quiet Days in Spain,' p. 148 (London, Murray, 1910) :

" In this province [Murcia] children are still told that ' Sulcyman ' is coming, and, though he dwells just across the strait, the custom dates from the time of the Moors in Spain. In Anda- lusia I have heard parents tell their children that the Carthaginians are coming ; and ' Oh, go and live with the Moors,' is an everyday expression among the peasants, when in an angry mood."

ST. SWITHIN.

MILGROVE, 1731-1810 (11 S. v. 388). I take the following notice from Brown and Stratton's ' Musical Biography ' :

" Milgrove, Benjamin, composer, born pro- bably at Bath about 1731. He was precentov of the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel, Bath, and died in 1810. Composer of Church music, and of ' Sixteen hymns as they are sung at the Bight Honourable the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel in Bath ' [1769]."

W. R. B. PRIDEAUX.

[MR. H. B. CLAYTON also refers to Brown and Stratton's book.]

REGENT'S PARK CENTENARY (11 S. v. 107, 405). The extract from The Times given at this reference is hardly sufficient evidence on which to ascertain the centenary year of the Park. In 1793 White, architect to the Duke of Portland, first exhibited a plan for the improvement of what was then Maryle- bone Park. The property reverted to the State in 1811, but no great progress was made with the laying out of the ground or the building of villas and terraces until 1823. The " circus " at the north end of Portland Place was, as regards its northern half, com- menced, but not completed. I am informed the cellars still exist. The name " Regent's Park " was, I believe, not applied before 1814, when the Regent Street improvement was promoted, and sanctioned by the Houses of Parliament. It does not occur in the guide-books Leigh's ' New Picture of Lon- don ' and others before 1820, when it is described at some length (pp. 427-30) under ' Projected Improvements of the Metro- polis.' ALECK ABRAHAMS.

' A WHITE HAND AND A BLACK THUMB ' (11 S. iii. 249, 338). The title-page of my copy of this work, in one volume, reads : " A White Hand and a Black Thumb and Cousin Cis, by Henry Spicer. Published by Chapman & Hall, 1864."

F, S. HOCKADAY. Highbury, Lydney.

"SKIVVY" (11 S. v. 288). If I may make a guess, I would suggest that this word may be derived from the Italian schiava woman-slave, and was probably originated by tourists as an equivalent to our own " slavey." C. S. H.

' THE COMMONWEALTH MERCURY,' 1658 : TEA (11 S. v. 306, 432). Permit correction of a slip in my reply under this head. Upon the walls at the rear of Martin's Bank is a stone tablet with the words " Site of Garra- way's Coffee House, rebuilt 1874," and,