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 ■<H NOTES AND QUERIES, m s. vn. Feb. i, mx Great Glemham, co. Suffolk (US. vi. 29, 369, 457, 497).—An interesting fact about Sir Thomas Olemham the Royalist, which is not. mentioned in the ' D.N.B.,' is that a i^atin version of Sir Thomas Smith's ' De Republica Anglorum,' Lugd. Bat., ex officina Elzeviriana, 1630, was dedicated to liim by Jean de I .act of Antwerp, who speaks of him as " aflini suo." See Bibliographica, i. 470, in the article by Mr. W. D. Macray on ' Early Dedications to Englishmen by Foreign Authors and Editors.' " Pot-boiler" (11 S. vi. 128, 216).—In a letter of Swinburne's among the Powell MSS. of the University College of Wales a novel is criticized as " the daub of a. clever painter—a brilliant ' pot-boiler,' if you know that slang phrase of the studios." There is no date, but internal evidence points to 1866. Edward Benbly. Exciseman Gill (11 S. vi. 490; vii. 34). —In the annotated edition of ' Ingoldsby Legends,' vol. ii. p. 197, is the following note explanatory of ' The Smuggler's Leap ' :— "The story and the reference are equally mythical; the former was indeed suggested by a dangerous chalk hole, which had occasionally been used as a smuggler's ' hide,' existing in a wood in the manor of Farmstead, Upper Hardres, the pro- perty of the author." No supplement to Lewis's ' History of Tenet' has been published. "Mr. (Jill, Riding Officer at Folkestone, seized near Hythe on the 5th inst. thirty casks of foreign Geneva."—Kentixh Gazette, 13 Jan., 1770. W. J. M. Thomas Chippendale, Upholsterer (10 S. vi. 447; vii. 37; US. vi. 407; vii. 10, 54).—I believe I read in a Yorkshire nespaj)or many years ago a statement that this celebrated cabinet-maker of St. Martin's Lane was one of the Otley family. He probably inherited the experience of several generations, who had become more and more skilful in design and workmanship, for we find, on referring to Baines's ' Directory of the West Hiding, 1822,' that there were then two of the name cabinet-makers in Bond- gate, Otley, viz., Benjamin and John. There were also John, a linen manufacturer; David, a plumber; and William, a mill- wright. 'I he will of William "Chipyngdal" of Harvwood was proved at York in 1544, and is the earliest there. " Copendale " was the name of a wealthy merchant family of Beverley in the time of Edward III. They had a house there called "Gopendale Tower," and ultimately became large landholders in the East Riding, using a coat of arms, Argent, a mullet sable, and a chief indented of the second. " Copendale "' seems to be an Anglo-Danish way of pronouncing and spelling the same name—that of some place further north, which Col. Chippindall may have already found out. In 1338 (Rot. Scot.) there were in Beverley two Jolin de Thorntons: one was called '* de Risom "'; the other, " de Copendale," was the ancestor of those who used this name only. A. SS. Ellis. Westminster. Primero (11 S. vii. 1, 23. 41). —Mr. McTear states on p. 3, in his first article, that the mention in the ' Privy Purse Expences of King Henry the Eighth' of the King's playing at primero " is gener- ally held to be the first allusion to a specific game of cards being played in England." and he refers to William Forrest as stating that Queen Catherine played gleek at an earlier period. An earlier contemporary reference to gleek might have been found at 11 S. iv. 443, where in the account published by me from the Aske MS. (Add. MS. 38133) " Hire fortypens of gold " are entered as paid on 27 May, 1527, "to my lord him self at York Place to play at cleke [sj'c]." H. I. B. The Rocket Troop at Leipsic (11 S. vi. 230, 313, 377, 432).—Supplementing the information already supplied, there is a foot-note on p. 264 of ' Marshal Ney : the Bravest of the Brave,' by A. Hilliard Atte- ridge, recently published by Messrs. Methuen & Co., as follows :— " The English army was also represented in the great battle, not only by the officers attached to the allied headquarters, but also by a fighting detach- ment, a Rocket troop of the Royal Artillery, com- manded by Capt. Bogue. It was with Bernadotte's army. Bogue was killed in the tight. Lieut. Strangways then took command, the same officer ' who, as General Strongways, was mortally wounded at Inkerman in 1854." WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. First F'olio Shakespeare (11 S. vii. 8, 56).—I beg to thank Mr. Ja<:<;ard for his reply. Unfortunately, in none of his refer- ences, literary or pictorial, is any specific mention made of the Folio or its date. Cart-wright's letter would be to the point if it contained, which it does not, any such details ; though, similarly to the entry in the Stationers' Register, I feel sure it does refer to the First Folio. I can cssure. Mr. Ja<;uard that there is not, among the