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TOKENS : GEORGE III. AND GEORGE IV I have a thin yellowy-brown metal coin or token, rather larger than a farthing o: present date. Obverse, a stiff-looking heac of (I presume) George III. in style of the Roman emperors hair bound with a fillet of leaves with flowing ends to a ribbon bow at nape of neck. Inscription : GEORGIVS ni DEI GRATIA. Reverse, a shield divided into quarters. Lower left quarter bears a harp. Upper right bearings may be intended for shamrocks. The shield is surmounted by a royal crown. Inscribed IN MEMORY OF GOOD OLD TIMES 1790.

Who issued this token ? Has it any reference to the illness of George III. in 1790, which was the beginning of his mental trouble later ? Is the designer known ?

I have also a copper token, very well finished, size of our shilling, but thinner. Obverse has a massively moulded head of George IV., in which the retreating forehead from line of the nose is markedly shown, and thickly curling hair. Inscription: GEORGE

IV. KING OF GREAT BRITAIN. Reverse,

branches of yew (?) for mourning make a border, or are they laurels for kingship ? Inscribed in small capitals :

BORN AUGT 12. 1762

DIED

JUNE 26. 1830

BELOVED

& LAMENTED.

What is the history of this token ?

CURIO -Box.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. If any correspondents of ' N. & Q.' would kindly furnish me with particulars of the following Stewards of the Westminster School Anniversary Dinners, I should be much obliged: (1) William Mitford of Berners Street, Steward 1781 ; (2) George Musgrave, Steward 1772 ; (3) Charles O'Hara, Steward 1771 ; (4) Col. John Ramsay of Queen Street, Mayfair, Steward 1799 ; and (5) Francis Bushell Reaston of Queen Anne Street, Westminster, Steward 1800. G. F. R. B.

THOMAS WADDING. I shall be obliged if any of your readers can give me information regarding a Mr. Thomas Wadding and his wife who restored a convent in this town in the south of Spain. It was damaged at the time of the Lisbon earthquake. A marble slab in the chapel commemorates them. W. A. MACK AY.

Vinas de San Pedro, Huelva.

SHAKESPEARE MONUMENT IN WESTMIN- STER ABBEY. In The Daily Journal for 23 Feb., 1726, appeared the statement :

" We are informed, that Mr. Rich, the Patentee of the New Play-House, designs to erect a Monu- ment in We*stminster-Abbey, in Memory of Mr. Shakespear the Poet."

Was anything further heard of the project ? and was it the origin of the movement that secured, in 1740, by public subscription, the erection of the Shakspere monument in Poets' Corner, executed by Kent and Scheemakers ? ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

EDMUND CARTWRIGHT. In the Leeds Reference Library is a " Memoir of the Life, Writings, and Mechanical Inventions of Edmund Cartwright, D.D., F.R.S. | London


 * 1843," of which the Preface is signed

' M. S."

I should be glad to know whether the above is the only complete published life of Cartwright. I have examined both ' The Encyclopaedia Britannica ' and the ' D.N.B.' The latter gives a short list of technical Works that mention the inventor, along with a number of others. One would have expected to find a newer biography of that undoubted genius than one of 1843.

J. W. SCOTT.

Leeds.

GRILLION'S CLUB. Can any of your readers inform me when this Club was started, who were the founders, and what was the qualification for membership ? xave heard it stated on one hand that Lord Melbourne was its founder, and on the other hat it was founded by a set of Christ Church nen, of whom one was Dyke Acland.

ALFRED GWYTHER.

MATTHEW ARNOLD'S POEMS. I shall be grateful if some one will be good enough to tell me : (1) for whom Arnold wrote his four-stanza poem ' Requiescat,' beginning

Strew on her roses, roses ;

(2) who, in his ' Scholar-Gipsy ' (stanza xix.), is the one

Who. . . .takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne ; And all his store of sad experience he Lays bare of wretched days.

KINGSLEY'S POEMS. Where if anywhere is the " Airly Beacon " mentioned in Kingsley's ballad of that name ?

" IF NOT THE ROSE." I should be glad to know the correct version and source of the saying, " If I am not the rose, I have lived near it," or words to that effect.

C. B. WHEELER.