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 130 NOTES AND QUERIES. ms. VII. rm 15, uns. _-.__ - Amlsnooss :msn 'ms STBAND.-In the early part of the nineteenth century there was a little model almshouse somewhere near the Strand. It was a pretty, q�l9¢ little place with grass plots. I should be glad of an information about xt. There was a chapiin attached to it. F. C. B.u.s'roN. Springfield, Maidstone. Aurnon WANTED.= I “ These children are dear to Me. Be a mother to them and more than a mother. . . .if thx weary thee, I will be tlily consolation; if thou sn under thy burden, I wi be thy reward.” Where is this passage to be found 1 ‘ Aausns.. T11 Tuma ON A Gear.-I can remember on a mantelpiece at home, more than half a century ago, a china ornament-Dresden, no doubt-beautifully finished in all its details, a goat with a tailor on it. I can see his open shears or scissors now, and I think there was also a flat-iron. I have just seen a very similar ornament in a friend’s house, with a pincushion on the back of the goat, with, bestowed about, other accessories of the sartorial art. The tailor wore a cocked hat, I think, and an elaborately flowered coat, with large lappels down to his high top-boots, the whole thing beautifully finished and coloured in various designs. My friend said that he had been told that admission to the Dresden china works was anciently refused to all and sundry, but that the K1ng’s tailor man d to overcome objections and get in. agermis- sion was, however, onl given on his consent to his being modelledi and the well-known ornament was the (? spiteful) result. Is this correct ? And, if so, why the goaté D.. [See ‘ Tailor in Dresden China/ 10 S. iv. 469, 536; vii. 292, 476.1 Tan Eumnou or Somcnslrr IN 'rum MOHUN FAMILY.-A correspondent of a local paper, The Western Morning News, states that one of the Mohuns (Reginaldf received from the Pope of the time t e tit e of Earl of Somerset; while a second asserts that it was another member of the family (William) who was created Earl by the Empress Maud, a title which was not confirmed by Henry II., and afterwards given by Richard I. to his brother John, along with the Earldom of Cornwall. In what way did the Po e claim the right and power to create an English peerage I Are there other instances of its exercise, and was the gift merely that of a title 1 What is the worth of the statement in Fuller’s ‘ Church History# Béaok III. v.d26, that the same Pope gave ir ° a pension of three (2 two) hm uh charged on Peter’s pence? W. S. B. B. Rosmrr Anuotm.-I have a cop of Cocker’s ‘ Arithmetic] Glasgow, 1787, hear- ing on the ily-leaf the inscription “ Robert Armour, his Book, Mauchline, February, 1796.” Can any corres ndent of ‘ N. & Q.’ say if Burns’s “ bonnie Egan ” had a younger brother or a nephew named Robert to whom this book may have belonged I C. D. ilrplirs. GALIGNANI. (ll s. vi. 409. 495; vii. 71.) A vomnm on the Galignanis would be of much interest to the literary world, and if the accountslof the firm are still in existence, and a com sts set of their paper can be consulted (fgr the copy at the British Museum is very impetxilfect), t e groundwork would be found in em. Cyrus Redding edited their paper, Galzgnanihs Messenger, for three years (1815- 1818)i At crime tiilne h§rgothi11toG(1;emporary troub e wit t e nc vernment through the early publication in the news- aper of aa cplnclordat bgween tl: Courts of E‘rance an t e cpe. e says t at “ the elder Galignani was then alive. He had a good business and had published a useful Italian grammar after an idea of his own.” This must have been the volume b Mr. Galignani which is entered in Robert £;att’s ‘ Bibliotheca Britannica ’ as ‘f Twenty-four lectures on the Italian language. gihvered at the Iiycleutrg o§)nArts,lSc1eaces, and nguages; 1n w c e nci es, armon , and Beauties of the Italian Langiiage are by in original Method simplified and ada ted to the meanest Capacity, and the Schogr enabled to attain, with Ease and Facility, a competent knowledge of the Language without the help of any Grammar or Dictionary. London, 1796, 8vo." The work was printed for the author at N o. 3, Little Brool; Strcet,hHah1iover Sqeuiard andsoldat6e. twas ig y rais in The Monthly Review for September, 1796, pp. 87-9. The second edition was under the edlitorsliigoaol fllélitonio :gucci at Edinburg in . e third' 'tion came out in 1818, the fourth in 1823. A volume of “Italian Extracts .... intended as