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316 NOTES AND QUERIES. [us. vi. OCT. 19,1912.

Mr. Fitzgerald adds:

The date of this incident is put at circa 1759.

(11 S. vi. 205).— at the above reference conjectures that these may be part of the spoil from Chandernagore, 1757. If he will turn to 'The Life of Sir Stamford Raffles,' by his widow, he will find that on 22 June, 1813, Lord Minto acknowledges receipt of these spoils, "formerly in the Government Hall of the Dutch Governor-General at Batavia, and sent by Mr. Raffles to Lord Minto." Lord Minto says:—

(11 S. vi. 149, 213, 251).—'Of making Pomanders for Bracelets' is the title of chap. xvi. of Lib. V. of "Polygraphice: or The Arts of Drawing, Engraving, … Beautifying and Perfuming, by William Salmon, Professor of Physick, living at the Blew Balcony by Fleet-Ditch, near Holborn-Bridge," London. 5th ed., 1685, p. 432. The title of Lib. V. is 'An Idea of the Arts of Beautifying, Perfuming, Alchemy and Chiromancie.'

There are ten receipts. I give the first and the last.

The receipt for "the Mucilage aforesaid" is apparently, "Dissolve Gum Tragacanth in Rose-water, so that it may be as thick as Gelly" (p. 430).

The tenth receipt is:—

As in receipts 1, 2, 3, and 10 only is mention made of beads, bracelets, or little balls, I am inclined to think that the other six receipts, and perhaps all the ten, were available for the large pomanders.

In seven out of the ten receipts given by Salmon labdanum is one of the ingredients. In Hannah Woolley's receipt, quoted ante, p. 214, laudanum is given. See Prof. Skeat's 'Concise Etymological Dictionary,' s.v. 'Laudanum,' where is found

May I remind your querist of the pretty story of "a Pomander Ball" which played a great part in the courtship of one of the young Pastons in mediæval days, as recorded in Gairdner's edition of 'The Paston Letters'? The word often occurs in Herrick's poems.

(11 S. vi. 107).—It should be placed on record in 'N. & Q.' that the evidence in favour of the authenticity of "Dick Turpin's pistol," found in taking down the famous Globe Room at "The Reindeer Inn," Banbury, is much stronger than the extract printed from The Times would suggest. The weapon, a double-barrelled horse pistol inlaid with gold, bears the inscription: "Presented to Dick Turpin at the White Bear Inn, Drury lane, 7 Feb., 1735." Messrs. Westley Richards & Co., the famous gun-makers of New Bond Street, state that the pistol was undoubtedly made in or about 1735. Its association with the famous highwayman is, I think, proved by 'The Newgate Calendar.' It is there recorded that after Turpin and his gang had obtained 700l. in the house of a farmer at Rippleside, near Barking, and had committed other robberies in January, 1735, they met, six of them,