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of getting your ' Books of Birds ' sent by a safe con- veyance I know not *** You '1 see I have sent 3 Books *** I have only a few of these Books on hand for my particular Friends, for as soon as Mr. Mawman saw a specimen he ordered the whole Edition. The retail price is half a guinea."

J. Mawman, Poultry, London (who suc- ceeded C. Dilly, one of the London pub- lishers of the first three editions of the ' Quadrupeds ' ), is the only publisher besides R. Beilby and T. Bewick named on the title-page.

Atkinson was evidently mistaken (as he was about the tail-pieces, since in only five instances are the tail-pieces that follow the birds in the previous edition placed in that position in this edition) when he stated that the price of this edition was 12s. per volume, and that it did not sell well, at least as far as Bewick was concerned. What is the authority for the statements made by Atkinson and Bell that the edition did not sell well, and that a portion of it was destroyed ?

3. The British Quarterly Review for Novem- ber, 1845, p. 554. contains a review of the " History of British Birds. By Thomas Bewick. 1845 (new edition). Blackwell and Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne." (Mr. D. Croal Thomson, in his ' Life and Works of Thomas Bewick,' 1882, p. 42, says the reviewer was the Rev. Dr. Vaughan ; while Robinson, in his ' Thomas Bewick : his Life and Times,' 1887, p. 292, says the review was written by Thomas Doubleday of New- castle.) As the edition reviewed is evi- dently that published by R. E. Bewick, and is dated 1847, how came it to be reviewed in 1845 ?

4. According to the catalogue raisonne of the w r orks of S. Leclerc by C. A. Jombert, Paris, 1774, " the illustrations of ^Esop (22 small ovals, without title) were engraved in 1681, but have not been used in any edition of the text." In Jackson's 'Treatise on W T ood Engraving,' 1839, p. 534, it is stated that " many of the cuts in Croxall are merely reversed copies of engravings on copper by S. Le Clerc, illustrative of a French edition of yEsop's Fables published about 1694." If Jackson is correct, a copy of the title of the edition referred to would be of interest. WHITE LINE.

PRIOR BOLTON'S WINDOW IN ST. BAR- THOLOMEW THE GREAT CHURCH. It is said that Ben Jonson refers to " Bolton with his bolt-in-tun." Can any one tell me where this occurs in Ben Jonson's writings ?

E. A. WEBB.

LOCHOW. I shall be obliged if any reader of ' N. & Q.' can inform me whether, in the proverb "It is a far cry to Lochow," cited in Scott's ' Legend of Montrose,' chap. xii.,the last word is equivalent to Loch Awe. ' The Century Dictionary ' writes " Loch Awe," but the novel " Lochow."

AUTHOR WANTED. I should also like to know to whom the line

Nee licuit populis parvum te, Nile, videre, is attributable. G. M. H. P.

ASHFORD FAMILY. Information is re- quested respecting the family of Ashford, 1 am aware of the late Irish artist of that name ; also of Mary Ashford, who was murdered by her sweetheart some seventy or eighty years ago, the latter being dealt with in a peculiar manner under an old and almost obsolete law ; and of a branch settled at Deptford, co. Kent, and worthily represented by Mr. Frederick Ashford (b. 1829, living 1884), a well-known anti-

quary.

South Australia.

AYXA.

" PLUMPE " WATCH. What is the mean- ing of this word, which relates to the watches on the borders ? It occurs in Lysons's ' Magna Britannia,' vol. iv. p. xii (co. of Cumberland), under the heading of * Regu- lations of the Barony of Gilsland,' as follows :

" That every tenante come to the plumpe watch, being warned, upon paine to forfeit 2s. 6rf.

" That every tenante come to the plumpe watch in horse armoure and weapon in every respecte as he is appointed to keepe. And what tenante as cometh to the plumpe watch and leaveth either horse or armoure behinde him, or bringeth not the weapon that he is appointed to beare, that tenante to forfeit 12d."

No such compound of " plump " appears

in either the ' N.E.D.' or Wright's ' E.D.D.,'

nor is it in ' Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary,'

nor in any dictionary to which I have access.

RICHD. WELFORD.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

WESTON PATRICK, HANTS, AND KING FAMILY. Can this place-name be connected with Ireland ? The national arms of Ireland, as found by an early commission, were : Or, on a pale az. three regal crowns of the first. These arms were granted to a King family of Weston Patrick. Does this suggest an Irish ancestry for King, or does the place- name account for such a grant, which 1 have been told was issued during the Com- monwealth ? W. Louis KING.

Wadesmill, Ware.