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rendering, as the lines have baffled, every one to whom I have shown them ?

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I suggest that Croix was the name of the engineer who built the battery, and that he used convict labour.

C. W. FlREBRACE.

HENRY MORRIS (US. vii. 287, 354). John Walworth or Wai work, who appears to have been curate of Oldham in April, 1664 (Record Soc. for Lanes and Ches., Ixv. 110), soon after succeeded Henry Morris in the curacy of Burnley ('Victoria Hist, of Lanes,' v. 105, note 152 ; vi. 452). Was the latter, perhaps, the curate of Daresbury who certified twelve marriage licences on 28 Aug., 1666 (Rec. Soc. for Lanes and Ches., Ixv. 199 ; cp. 98, 112) ? This Henry Morris, w^hose administration bond with inventory was filed in the Consistory Court oi Chester in 1670 (ibid.,xv. 190), was buried at Daresbury on 9 Aug., 1669 (Helsby's ed. of Ormerod's ' Cheshire,' iii. 894).

H. I. A. Florence.

DR. FOWLER OF YORK : NAME OF PAINTER WANTED (US. vii. 350). Since appealing to your York readers for further infor- mation concerning Dr. Fowler of York, I have, through the kindness of Mr. Miller of the - British Museum, traced the rare, tiny volume called ' The Bijou Bio-

fraphy,' by W. JV Gordon (published by . Warne & Co., without date on title-page), wherein Dr. Fowler appears listed as an eminent physician, though his close con- nexion with York is ignored.

On examining the British Museum Cata- logue, I find he was the author of several medical works, particularly one, ' A Disser- tation on the Effects of Arsenic in Inter- mittent Fevers and Agues,' which he had proved in his own person, when he used it for angina pectoris, besides smallpox, &c. He also wrote on the effects produced by tobacco in certain cases.

He was born in York, 1736, and died there in 1801.

Chalmers in his ' Biographical Dictionary ' .devotes a couple of columns to Dr. Thomas Fowler of York, stating he passed through the Edinburgh University in 1778, and practised physic there for many years,

This word was very much worn.

until, returning to York in 1791, he met with a "very flattering reception" in his native city.

He was made the principal head of York Lunatic Asylum in his last years.

I refer Yorkists of to-day to the above volumes relating to this noteworthy doctor of their city, still relying on them mainly for information, as to the identity of the painter of the two small oval portraits of him and his wife. He is in the scarlet garb with ruffles worn by all physicians some 120 years ago. WILLIAM MERCEB,

' A LONDONER'S LONDON ' : TEMPLE BAR (11 S. vii. 378). In your interesting notice of ' A Londoner's London ' the reviewer says :

" The last time the Bar was illuminated was in 1863, f9r the marriage of the Prince of Wales with the Princess Alexandra."

This is incorrect. Temple Bar was illu- minated on Thanksgiving Day (27 Feb., 1872), the day when Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales went to St. Paul's to return thanks for the recovery of the latter from typhoid fever.

"The leading architectural lines were traced by gas jets under globes. On both sides on the frieze were the words ' Thanks be to God,' and over the arch ' God save the Queen and the Prince,' both in bold letters, which, though not large, could be distinctly read, as the jets burned well."

I have a distinct recollection of the terrific crush, as I was on foot, and went under the main arch of the Bar.

J. E. LATTON PICKERING : Inner Temple Library.

" MERRYGREEK " (11 S. vii. 309). A more usual name for Camborne people is " Merrasickers," and I think " Merrygeeks " very unusual (I never heard " Merry- greeks"). St. Meriasek, the patron saint, conferred on the waters of the holy well the power of preventing any christened in it from ever becoming silly. In Mate's ' Illustrated Redruth ' (Bournemouth, 1904) the author says :

" In the neighbouring town of Camborne they once had a holy well that saved the people from becoming foolish. They destroyed it gome years ago, and ever since well, this is not a Guide to Camborne."

YGREC.

Jago's ' Glossary of the Cornish Dialect ' gives :

" Meara-geeks. Noisy or obstinate people. Hals (1730) says: 'Camborne signifies an arched

burne, or well-pit of water to which young

people, and some of the elder sort, make frequent