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 US. VII. Mar. 22, 1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES. •237 subsequently, 1818-41, John Gill, surgeon, who died 1844. Although a private residence for over a hundred years, I have been told that during the French invasion scare of 1793-1805 it was a public-house known as " The Trotting Horse." John Barham was, I think, great-uncle to the author of ' In- goldsby Legends.' R. J. Fynmore. Santlgate. In the parish registers of Hayton, Notts, is recorded the marriage of " John Gill, exciseman, and Frances Smith," 27 Dec, 1815. In what part of the country this "Exciseman Gill" was stationed, either before or after his marriage, I do not know. Thomas M. Blagg. Pigments (11 S. vii. 169).—In answer to Peregrinus, /xi'A.tos was red earth, red chalk, or ochre, Middle Latin rubrica, with which the bows of the Homeric ships were painted red. See Liddell and Scott's larger ' Greek Lexicon,' under /xiA-ros. A. Gwyther. As to the substance denoted by fiiXroTrdpyoi see Merry and Riddell on ' Odyssey,' ix. 125, thus : " Probably /xi'A.tos is cinnabar, an ore of mercury from which vermilion is made." Selina Ross. The substance with which the cheeks of Odysseus's ships were painted has been explained by some to be ruddle, a red earth coloured by oxide of iron—by others to be cinnabar, native sulphide of mercury. Whether either view has been conclusively proved I am unable to say. An interesting little book that deals with the ancient pigments employed in wall and panel painting is Dr. A. P. Laurie's ' Greek and Roman Methods of Painting' (Cam- bridge, 1910). Edward Bensly. Univ. Coll., Aberystwyth. ' Iliad,' fi 637, iiIXtos would generally be taken to mean minium, or red (oxide of) lead. This is probably what Ulysses used to paint his twelve ships. MiA.Tojrapnoi is, of course, metaphorical. Literally, it would refer to the painting of a lady's face, pre- sumably with vermilion (sulphide of mer- cury). In this case the sides of the ship, representing the lady's cheeks, would be more suitably covered with a few coats of red lead. Red ochre, of course, would be & possible alternative. J. Foster Palmer. 8, Royal Avenue, 8.W. General Beatson and the Crimean War (11 S. vi. 430, 516; vii. 57, 135).— Beatson, on his way to Schumla, with Fox (Yusuf Bey) and other gaily dressed members of his staff, camped near us early in July, with, as was thought, the Quixotic intention 'of disciplining Bashi- bazouks, who scorn us as " Giaour Pese- vinks.'! After nearly three months Beatson left his intractables with Yusuf (a practised hand, who, however, soon equally failed), and appeared on leave in the Crimea ; he sometimes accompanied Scarlett (our colonel) on his visits to our camp. We do not re- member seeing him at Balaclava ; he was certainly not with Scarlett during the return of the remnants of the Light Brigade. Scarlett and staff (Elliot, A.D.C., had his head cut open in the action) Were in front of the interval between the Royals and the Inniskillings, well in view; he did move down a few lengths to where Nolan's body lay, as he told Cardigan when abusing Nolan ; but the General was the last man to think of rushing rashly to destruction. We knew nothing of him at Inkermann. V. D. G. In vol. i. of the ' Panmure Papers,' pub- lished by Hodder & Stoughton in 1908, there will be found between pp. 311 and 468 fourteen distinct references to Beatson and the Crimean campaign. W. S—r. " Morrye- house " (11 S. vii. 67, 158).— The Vicar of Offenham's suggestion to Mr. Mayhew is plausible at first sight. Bardsley, however, explains the surname Morey to signify " at the moor-hey " (hey or hay = hedge, enclosure). The sixteenth - century tenants enumerated in the register of Offen- ham Church were evidently residents of small houses located in the vicinity of enclosed ground or a moor, or common— the sort of people whom Mr. Hardy describes in his ' Return of the Native ' as inhabiting Egdon Heath. Thus "morrye-house " would then signify the house on the moor by the enclosure. N. W. Hill. San Francisco. " Once is never " (11 S. vii. 148).—The Jesuits may have used this saying, but the German equivalent, " Einmal ist kein Mai," is a well - established proverb, whoss truth, however, like that of most other adages, is one-sided ; "once " often settles the matter ! G. Krueger. Berlin.