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 us. V.JAN. 20, 1912.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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the Orcadian Stonehenge, called the Circle of Stennis. . . .The ceremony is now confined to the troth-plighting of the lower classes, but at an earlier period may be supposed to have influenced a character like Minna in the higher ranks."

THOMAS BAYNE.

FELICIA HEMANS (11 S. iv. 468, 534). It is not mine to give Mrs. Hemans her rightful place in the chorus. But she can never be wholly forgotten. Five quotations from her poems fill half a page in Bartlett's ' Familiar Quotations,' one of which at least is known by every schoolboy. In Will- mott's ' Poets of the Nineteenth Century ' she is allowed fifteen pages. Cheap re- prints of her works are current.

W. C. B.

[In our edition of Bartlett (1891) Mrs. Hemans has nearly two pages.]

VANISHING LANDMARKS or LONDON : "THE Swiss COTTAGE" (11 S. iv. 464, 514, 537 ). May I supplement the interesting notes of MR. W. H. EDWARDS at the second refer- ence ? I have a photograph of the first omnibus (City- Atlas, No. 6132) over the Holborn Viaduct, with Thomas Grayson on the box and his conductor standing by the horses. The Viaduct was opened on 6 November, 1869, and the first omnibus went over on 8 November. Thomas Grayson (" Viaduct Tommy ") was, accord- ing to the inscription on the back of the photograph, presented with a gold-mounted whip by his passengers, and also a silver- mounted whip by Capt. Cuff of Regent's Park, in commemoration of the event.

T. T. V.

PEPLOE GRANT OP ARMS, 1753 (11. S. iv. 508). It would be interesting if G. B. M. would print the whole of this grant. On Bishop Peploe's monument in Chester Cathedral the arms of the diocese are shown impaling Peploe, Azure, a chevron raguled between three bugles or (Ormerod's ' Cheshire,' 1886, i. 294). There is also a monument to his son the Chancellor (p. 291, where the year of his death [1781] is mis- printed 1721). In this case Ormerod gives the arms as Azure, on a chevron raguled or, a mitre sable ; on a canton ermine a sword and crosier in saltire or. Crest, A buck's head gules, attired or, issuing from a ducal coronet. There are accounts of the Bishop and his son in Raines's ' Wardens of Manchester ' {Chetham Soc.), ii. 157, &c. The Bishop's father is not given. The " singular loyalty " is there mentioned as a traditional anecdote which there was no reason to question to the effect that Peploe was reading the

prayers for George I. in Preston Church when some of the Stuart adherents entered and threatened the vicar with instant death, holding a musket before him, unless he instantly ceased praying for " the Hano- verian usurper." Peploe only paused to say, " Soldier, I am doing my duty, do yours." Canon Raines says that the King immediately determined to promote his loyal subject, and that in 1718 he was appointed Warden of Manchester. Nothing is said about the additional bearing on his arms ; hence the desirability of printing the whole grant of 1753, which appears to go on to recite it. R. S. B.

" After the Jacobite occupation in 1715 Samuel Peploe viewed with alarm the large number of Roman Catholic residents in the town, and he procured the erection of two new churches. While Preston was in the hands of the Jacobites, tradition says that a party of rebels entered the church while the vicar was reading the prayers, and threatened him with instant death unless he ceased praying for the ' Hanoverian usurper.' With great self-possession Peploe continued the service, only pausing to say, ' Soldier, I am doing my duty ; do you do yours.' On this incident being related to George I., he is reported to have said : ' Peep-low, Peep-low, is he called ? ' Then, with an oath, he added : ' But he shall peep high ; I will make him a bishop.' "

Whether this story be authentic or no, Peploe's subsequent advancement was prob- ably rather an acknowledgment of the active assistance rendered by him to the Commis- sion for Forfeited Estates, appointed in 1716, to which he furnished an elaborate report of " estates granted to superstitious uses in and about Preston." See ' D.N.B.,' xliv. 352.

A. R. BAYLEY.

In Griggs's ' Armorial Book - Plates ' (Second Series), 1892, the book-plate of Samuel Peploe, Bishop of Chester 1726-52, bears the arms as mentioned in the grant of 23 Feb., 1753, to his son, viz., " Azure, a chevron counter-embattled between three bugle horns or," except that the chevron is surmounted by a mitre, and the bugle horn in the dexter part of the shield is nearly hidden by a canton ermine, with a sword and crosier crossed. In the same volume is a book-plate of John Peploe Birch, Esq., with the same arms as the bishop's, mitre and all. J. DE BERNIERE SMITH.

"DILLISK" AND " SLOOK " (11 S. iv. 469, 532). I was brought up in Connemara, where nearly all sorts of Algje were abun- dant, and whence a near relative used to export Carrageen moss (Chondnis crispus) by the ton. But what astonishes me is that