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 us. vir. j>tsB7, i9i3.j NOTES AND QUERIES. 457 and subsequently Bishop of London. In ' The Political and Occasional Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed,' 1888, p. 72, Sir George Young supplies the following annotation :— " The ninth stanza is somewhat obscure ; 1 would paraphrase it : ' thanks to the administra" tion of Ixml Anglesey in Ireland, and his suppres- sion of the Catholic Association, and thanks to Bishop Blomfield's learned oration, among others, in the Lords, the Anti-Catholics, headed by Wellington and other heroes of the French war, Marshal Boresford for example, and Lord Anglesey himself, have been victorious, and Sir F. Burdett's Catholic Belief Bill has been defeated.' " Liberal and Whig writers of political verses at the period immediately preceding the Act of 182!) were inclined to suggest that the Tories feared that the reintroduc- tion of the stake would synchronize with Catholic emancipation. R. L. Moreton. Diminutive Almanacs (11 S. vii. 329, 375).—An exhaustive bibliography of these was issued some years ago, " Les Almanachs Frangais : Bibliographie — Iconographie, 1600-1895, par John Grand-Carteret. Paris, J. Alisie et Cie., 176, rue de Rivoli, 1896." A valuable and long introductory essay, ' L'Almanach a travers les ages,' is an excellent feature oi this book. Compare with this " Livres Minuscules: La plus grande bibliothcque des plus petits livres du monde : Collection de 51. Georges Salo- mon, par Gaston Tissandier. Paris, 1894"; also " Bibliographie de quelques Almanachs illustres du XVI IP et XIXC siecles, par F. Meunie. 1906 " ; and "Almanachs illustres du XVII Ic sieele. par Savigny de Monoorps. 1909." Mr. W. K. A. Axon issued privately as a pamphlet his contribution to ' X. & Q.,' 2 Oct.. 1876, upon 'The Smallest Books in the World: a Bibliographical Xote.' A. L. HUMPHREYS. 187, Piccadilly, W. I have a collection of some hundreds of tiny almanacs and other books, in English, French. German, Italian, Latin, Chinese, ajid other languages, and shall be glad to send particulars to any of your readers. Ludwig Rosenthal. Hildegavdstrosse 14, Munich. Schaak, an Artist (US. v. 507 ; vi. 78). —Had the artist who painted the portraits of General Wolfe, mentioned by Mb. Alger- non Graves, the initials " J. H." (Schaak) ? Charles S. King, Bt. .St. Leonards-on-Sea. Lions in the Tower (11 S. vii. 150, 210, 272, 316, 357) :— " But why to the Tower ; am I a company for Lyons ? Do you think me a Cat-a-mountain, fit to be shown thro' a Grate for two Pence ? No, my Lords, keep the Tower for Malignants."— ' The Posthumous Works of Mr. Samuel Butler,' fourth edition, 1732, p. 165. The extract is from 'The Earl of Pem- broke's Speech to the House of Peers, when the Lords were accused of High-Treason, 1647.' I do not, of course, suggest that the ' Speech ' is genuine, nor do I assert that the ' Posthumous Works of Mr. Samuel Butler ' were written by him. Robert Pierpoint. Samuel Harmar (US. vii. 388).—' Vox Populi ' was printed by Thomas Bates, and sold at his " Shop in the Old-Bayly, 1642." The full title is printed in Hyett and Bazeley's ' Manual of Gloucs. Literature.' i. 6. A copy is in the British Museum, and in the Catalogue of the Thomason Tracts the actual date of publication is given as [May] 1642. There is nothing in the tract to indicate any local connexion with Gloucestershire, though this is suggested by the sub-title. Samuel Harmar may have been related to John Harmar, who was born at Churchdown. Glos., and died 1670 (' D.N.B.,' xxiv. 413). Roland Austin. Gloucester. Abolition of Tenure by Knight Ser- vice (IIS. vii. 369).—By 12 Car. II. c. 24 all tenures by knight service of the King or of any other person were turned into free and common sooage. Long before the time of Charles II. knight service had been usually compounded for by a money payment. Fealty and suit of court likewise are now discharged by a money payment, while reliefs are still in force. Land held by copy- hold escheats to the lord on the death of an intestate tenant without heirs. C. H. R. Peach. Duke of Xewcastle at Marston Moor (11 S. vii. 348, 393).—The incident referred to furnished the principal motif in the picture ' Marston Moor,' by Ernest Crofts, A.R.A.. exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1888. The Duke leans out of his carriage window, pipe in hand. The picture was accompanied by the following quotation from Gardiner's ' History of the Civil War ' t— " Xewcastle strolled towards his coach to solace himself with a pipe. Before he had time to take a whiff, the battle had begun." W. B. H.