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other general notes on the subject which have appeared in ' N. & Q.' :

14 It is stated that Prescott Street, Goodman's Fields, was the first London street in which the houses were numbered consecutively, and that this thoroughfare was so treated in 1708. Swing- ing signs were interdicted in 1762, though symbols on stiff brackets and mural carvings as signs for particular buildings were preferentially employed for some years after."

WILLIAM McMuBBAY.

LONDON RIOT nsr 1629. In the State Papers Dom. Charles I., vol. 146, p. 62, is the following glimpse of a disturbance in London in the early years of Charles I.'s reign :

Harrij Modes son/ a wond on is head w th a Stone/ princes strit/

Enson Ward, a wond on is head w th a sord/ in S fc Marte lane.

A: Nicholas [-nc]de laval Taylor boy: shotew th a musket boulet in the brest/ in Drwly lane at the Greffen.

A : Coch man : shot w th a musket boulet in to the bresf and so' in to is longs/ at M r doctor Caddinman howse in the Strane.

A : Tabaco man : shot w th a muse boulet in the arme, and out at is backe/ at y e black Bull w th in Tembull bare

A Labrine man rone through bothe is thies' W* a sorde/ indrulij lane near rayne. dear-yarde/ [Endorsed :]

July 1629 M r Doughtons note of y 6 men y' were wounded in y late Riot or tumult

E. H. FAIBBBOTHEB.

SOLAH TOPEE OB PITH HELMET. In rela- tion to my query (ante, p. 290) on this point, the following notes may be of interest.

General Sir Mowbray Thomson, K.C.I.E. (now the only survivor of the unfortunate garrison of Cawnpore), writes in a private letter under date 29 Sept., 1912 :

" As far as my memory goes, sola topees were in use when first I went to India in the year of grace 1852, but were not worn regimentally till 1857-8. Outram affected them, but Sir Colin, if I remember correctly, wore a turban over his forage cap till Elwood, I think, sent out his helmet ; when they amongst many became the fashion. I can remember wearing them out snipe - shooting, shaped like a big mushroom. Hoping the above will help you. (Signed) M. T."

A Ceylon friend furnishes me with the following quotation from ' More about Names 2 :

" Havelock. The light cloth worn by the British warriors in India to protect the head against the heat of the sun is called a Havelock

after General Sir Henry Havelock who first

adopted it, and ordered it for his troops." Leopold Wagner.

The first statement is open to some doubt, I as cap-covers, or curtains covering the neck, were used by many Sir Richmond Shake- speare, for example before the Mutiny.

In Maude's ' Memories of the Mutiny,' i. 229, is a caricature by General G. S. Macbean of Havelock in a cap-cover reaching j only to the occiput, and Fraser-Tytler in a pith helmet, with a puggari rolled round it. COUP DE SOLEIL.

DUBAND HOTHAM. The ' D.N.B.' states that he is the author of the ' Life of Jacob Boehme,' &e., that he died in the parish of St. James's, Westminster, in 1691, and that he was buried in the church. It is, perhaps, worthy of a note that his tombstone still exists in the churchyard of St. James's, under the trees on the south side. It gives the exact date of his death, and the presumably correct spelling of his Christian name as Durand, not Durant. The inscrip- tion, which is much worn, runs as follows :

(D-r)and Hotham, ,[son] of John Hotham,

of York Bar died Sep. 16, 1691, in

the year of his age.

G. S. PARRY.

17, Ashley Mansions, S.W.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

" MARROWSKYING." In The British Medi- cal Journal of 22 June, 1912, p. 1443, an article with the heading ' The Psychology of " Marrowskying " ' appeared. The open ing lines are :

" All actors live in dread, of ' marrowskying,' that curious transposition of syllables which often illustrates the truth of the saying that from the sublime to the ridiculous there is but a step. The actor who said, ' Stand back, my lord, and let the parson cough ' (instead of ' coffin pass ' ), may have made a solitary slip, but in some persons ' marrowskying ' amounts to a veritable infirmity."

I am told that some thirty years ago it was a word in common use in the theatrical profession, and should be glad if any of your readers could give me an account of its origin. HERBERT SIEVEKIXG.

THE AMERICAN LIVINGSTONES. This family is said to be descended from James I. Are there any papers that prove this descent ?

BETJU