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The following reply was received :

Home Office, Whitehall, SIR, 8th April, 1909.

\Yith reference to your letter of the 10th February, I am directed by the Secretary of State to say that he has had the honour to submit to the King your application, on behalf of the Burgesses of your Borough, for permission to add to the name of the Borough the prefix " Royal," and that His Majesty has oeen graciously pleased to grant the permission desired, and to command that the Borough be henceforth known as "The Royal Tunbridge Wells."

I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

(sd.) G. A. AITKEN. The Mayor of Tun bridge Wells.

It would be interesting to know the names of other places upon which this privilege has been conferred. M. CROCKER.

Royal Tunbridge Wells.

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.

CHANCELLORS or YORK MINSTER. Will any of your readers kindly refer me to any books or documents that give an account of- the office and duties of the Chancellors of York Minster, and of the persons who have held the office ? GEORGE AUSTEN.

The Rectory, Whitby.

GALIGNANI. Could any reader of ' N". & Q.' give me information with regard to the history of the Paris house of Galignani, known as booksellers, librarians, book publishers, and, of course, as editors and publishers of the well-known paper the Messenger ? A list of their books and pub- lications would be interesting, and any other information would be of value. The history, as is known, now covers nearly a hundred years, the house having been founded in 1814. T. FISHER UNWIN.

1, Adelphi Terrace, W.C.

SYMBOL FOR " Li." In a will of the year 1592 by John Broadhurst of Sandbage, Cheshire, there is used in some places a symbol or figure of which I should be glad to know the signification. It occurs in the column for pounds, and resembles the Greek 6, or an O open at the top and with a horizontal line drawn across it, thus : 9- iijs. iiijrf. I can find nothing about it in 'How to Decipher Old Documents,' by E. E. Thoyts. Is it an old form of ?

PENRY LEWIS,

TO BE " OUT " FOR A THING = TO Do A

THING. I have lately found the adverb " out " in a connexion quite new to me :

" He was manifestly out to do his competitor harm."

" I am sure that no person in this country, save him who is out for personal gain, wishes us to lag behind in this movement." Humani- tarian, October, 1912, p. 76.

" We are out to get life into the theatre."

As neither the ' N.E.D.' nor the ' C.O.D.' knows this use, I think I am justified in assuming that it is a neologism. If this is the case, is the further assumption that it is due to German influence too hazardous ? We say :

" Auf etwas aus sein." " Napoleon war nur auf Eroberung aus." " Er ging darauf aus, ganz Europa unter seine Herrschaft zu bringen."

There are continual exchanges of words and idioms between living languagfs, most of them unconscious, 'but some attempted consciously. An Englishman has told me that to him the expression is quite familiar. Perhaps it originated in America.

G. KRUEGER. Berlin.

WESTONHANGER IN KENT. Could any of your correspondents give me information regarding the above place, near Hythe ? Sir Samuel Morland speaks of " a great house called Weston Hanger in Kent, moated about," of which use was to be made in a certain plot. Is there a place of the kind still standing ? If so, whose property is it, and what is its history ? The matter is of interest as bearing on the credibility of Morland's narrative regarding an incident in 1659. J. WILLCOCK.

Lerwick.

V. HULSDONCK AND O. HOYNCK. 1 should

be grateful for any information about these portrait painters. Presumably they flou- rished in the days of Charles II. I have searched two painters' biographical dic- tionaries and other likely sources in vain.

RICHARD EDGCUMBE. Edgbarrow, Crowthorne, Berks.

MRS. WHITTLE, ACTRESS. Two playbills hang in one of the rooms in Kew Palace of performances given in the little Theatre Royal, Weymouth, in October, 1798, in which "Mrs. Whittle" took the leading parts. Can any reader refer me to any bio- graphy of the actress or give me any infor- mation concerning her ?

J. LYON WHITTLE.

Wilderspool, Warrington.