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upon negroes at baptism, which may, per- haps, account for its occurrence among the coloured population of the United States to-day :

4 April, 1739. Baptized : " Robert Francis (a Black boy, supposed to be abt. 7 years, & to whom was given for a sirname, Nottingham)." St. Nicholas's Register.

7 Aug., 1768. Baptizd : "Thomas Nottingham, a Negro, aged 19 years." St. Mary's Register.

PEVERIL (11 S. -v. 90). My query as to the present existence of the Peveril family does not seem to have elicited any relevant replies. Am I justified in assuming that the surname came to an end with the members who died in Nottingham in the first half of the nineteenth century ? A. STAPLETON.

39, Burford Road, Nottingham.

CASANOVA AND CARLYLE (11 S. v. 428 ; vi. 16, 94). The reference to Casanova is a mistake. As MR. DUNCAN points out, the criticism occurs in Carlyle's Essay on Diderot (' Miscellaneous Essays,' v. 22, Popular Edition). It is in a paragraph which, begins, " However, our Denis has now emerged from the intermediate Hades of Translatorship," and is concerned with the Encyclopedist's sadly unworthy novel. The critic admonishes thus :

" If any mortal creature, even a Reviewer, be again compelled to glance into that Book, let him bathe himself in running water, put on change of raiment, and be unclean until the even."

THOMAS BAYNE.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (US. vi. 69). The lines beginning stout north-easter, Sea-king, land-waster,

are stanza xv. in Swinburne's ' Winter in Northumberland,' from ' Four Songs of Four Seasons,' published in ' Poems and Ballads,' Second Series. H. DAVEY.

[PROF. BENSLY and C. C. B. also thanked for replies.]

(11 S. v. 449, 518.) The song

Last night the nightingale woke me

has apparently been translated from Danish into German, and thence by Theo. Marzials into English, as Christian Winther (1796- 1876) was one of the most prominent lyrical poets of Denmark. Halfdan Kjerulf being a Norwegian composer, it came natural to him to make use of this song for musical purposes in the common Danish- Norwegian language. W. R. PRIOR,

COFFEE, CHOCOLATE : FIRST ADVERTISE- MENT (11 S. v. 406; vi. 96). Sampson probably took his quotation from that source of most errors about the newsbooks Chalmers. There never was a Publick Advertiser, and since the terms " advertise- ment " and " advertiser " were not, in 1657, used in the all-round sense in which we" now employ the words, there could not have been such a periodical in that year. The first periodical to bear the name of " adver- tiser " was The Generous Advertiser of 1707. The terms in use for an advertisement in 1657 were usually " advice " and " intelli- gence." " Advices " were taken in at the eight "offices of Public Advice," and then published in The Publick Adviser four times consecutively an exception to the rule that notices of this sort only appeared once and in one newsbook up to those days.

The " advice " of chocolate appeared in The Publick Adviser, No. 4, 9-16 June; No. 5, 16-22 June ; No. 6, 22-29 June ; and No. 7, 29 June-6 July, and then stopped.

Although The Publick Adviser consisted entirely of advertisements, ---*" *

advices " of

particular importance will occasionally be found headed ' An Advertisement.' This was the case with chocolate, though not with coffee. " Advertisement," as applied to all advertisements, first attained its modern use just after the Restoration.

The ' N.E.D.' is in need of some revision as regards all these words.

J. B. WILLIAMS.

No TWIN EVER FAMOUS (11 S. v. 487; vi. 58). Robert de Beaumont (le Bossu), second Earl of Leicester (1104-68), was twin with Waleran, Count of Meulan (1104-66). Robert held the great office of Chief Justiciar of England jointly with Richard de Lucy from 1155 to his death, and as such was co-ruler of England during the King's long absences on the Continent. Perhaps the Earl was hardly " famous," but he must have been a man of some ability to be trusted with such a post by Henry II. The elder twin, Waleran, is not so well known, although in the Civil War he was prominent as one of the most devoted sup- porters of Stephen. G. H. WHITE.

St. Cross, Harleston, Norfolk.

NAMES TERRIBLE TO CHILDREN (10 S. x. 509 ; xi. 53, 218, 356, 454 ; xii. 53 ; 11 S. ii. 133, 194, 258 ; v. 517). In ' A Compleat History of the Piratical States of Barbary,' " by a Gentleman who resided there many Years in a public Character," London, 1750