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"PAW-PAW" IN THE 'N.E.D.' (11 S. vii. 367). A still earlier instance of the use of the word occurs in ' Poems on Several Occasions ' by Nicholas Amhurst (1697- 1742), published at London by R. Franc klin in 1720:

No Play of late can be obscene enough ;

Think ye, the Ladies like such paic-paw stuff ?

This couplet, with the word italicized in the original, occurs on p. 77 of the volume, in ' An Epilogue for the Tragedy of King Henry IV. of France, design' d to have been spoken by Charlotta.' The tragedy in question, the work of Charles Beckingham (1699-1731), was produced at Lincoln's Inn Fields on 7 Nov., 1719, and ran for four nights. It was published in 1720. Beck- ingham was a Merchant Taylor boy, and his first tragedy, ' Scipio Africanus ' (1718), got his schoolfellows a half-holiday to enable them to see the performance. Am- hurst, also a Merchant Taylor, and scholar of St. John's. Oxford, was expelled from that college in 1719, and afterwards achieved notoriety as the author of ' Terrse-Filius ' and editor of The Craftsman.

L. R. M. STRACHAN.

Heidelberg.

TOLLING ON GOOD FRIDAY (US. vii. 330, 395). The Ayot St. Peter's custom is mentioned by Messrs. North and Stahl- schmidt in * Church Bells of Hertfordshire,'

?p. 7677. The practice was originated, understand, by the late Mr. C. W. Wilshere, of the Fryth, Welwyn, who presented the bell to the cemetery chapel at Ayot St. Peter in 1881. INTACTTJM SILEO.

JOHN MOULTRIE (11 S. vii. 387). This poet's second daughter, Margaret Harriet, married the Rev. Offley H. Cary, whose present address is Trusham Rectory, Chud- leigh, Devon. There is a grandson also of the poet the Rev. Henry Lucius Moultrie Gary, Mission House, Marston Street, Ox- ford. MR. HARVARD should apply to Miss Moultrie, St. Austin's, Farnham, Surrey.

A. L. H.

"EMPLOYEE" (11 S. vi. 146, 411; vii. 37). Since my reply appeared at the last reference I have come across an earlier use of the word " employee," used as common to both sexes. In Form 11 issued by the Income Tax Commissioners in April, 1912, in which a person liable to assessment is required to give particulars of the amount assessable, the phrase occurs in the direction in Section A, "If an Employee, state name of Employer." W. S. B. H.

MIRACLES (US. vii 270). The continu- ance of miracles during the first two cen- turies A.D. and later is discussed by Lecky, ' History of European Morals,' i. 37S-& (cheap edition, 1911).

LAWRENCE PHILLIPS. Lichfield.

MRS. SALMON'S WAXWORKS (11 S. vii. 346). An engraving of the house in which these famous waxworks were exhibited appeared in The Mirror of 18 Dec., 1830. See also 9 S. iv. 378, 395, 481, 543 ; v. 131.

JOHN T. PAGE.

THE WIFE OF JAMES MOHR DRUMMOND (11 S. vii. 348). Her name was Annabel McNicoll. JOHN MACGREGOR.

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Calendar qf the Patent Rolls preserved in the

Public Record Office. Edward III. Vol. XIII.,

A.n. 1364-67. (Stationery Office.) THE text of this volume was prepared, under the supervision of Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte, by Mr, R. F. Isaacson and Mr. M. C. B. Dawes, the Index being the work of Mr. Isaacson.

Among matters illustrated here the student will find specially interesting the documents connected with trades ; e.g., the regulations for the " mis- teries " of the merchandise of drapery and of the fishmongers issued in the summer of 1364, giving details of the various frauds and difficulties re- quiring to be met ; the case of Thomas Harding, indicted for " forestalleries. customable wares taken across the sea without custom and other misdeeds"; the similar case of Robert Hal ton, to whom, as to- many others, pardon is granted "at the request of Queen Philippa" ; the commission to inquire into a complaint by one Marbot that the men of Sand- wich, when la Seint Marie de Burgh broke up on the sands before their port, came in boats to her and carried away the cargo and had their will of it without restitution made ; the commission to in- quire into the conduct of one John de Godesland who shipped 160 quarters of wheat and other corn to Ireland, to the King's enemies ; and the licences issued to divers persons to ship a given quantity of ale or of wheat for sale in foreign parts.

A most instructive piece, too long for the com- plicated history it recites to be related here, is the pardon granted to Lionel de Bradenham for his doings, at the head of 200 armed men, at Colchester ; and another pardon worth rioting is that to John Malleblaunk, chaplain, for cutting down a felon who had been hanged, before he was dead, whereby execution on him was prevented.

In 1366 we find mention of St. Margaret's, West- minster, a licence allowing alienation in mortmain of 20s. yearly for a wax light, called a " torche," to- be supplied to burn daily at all masses celebrated at the high altar from the time of the elevation till communion.

Light is thrown on the difficulties of pilgrimages- by the commission to the Sheriff of Kent for the repair of the common passage through the town of Strode, which was part of the way to the shrine ofi