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player, said : " An egg and this," giving the vis-a-vis the spoon. This one in turn stood before the next player, and said : " An egg, a good fat hen, and this." The next followed with " An egg, a good fat hen, three grey geese, and this." Each player following had to repeat and add a link to the memory chain. Failing to remember or to add something entailed a forfeit, which was placed in a basket carried by the forfeit -holder, and seldom did the game go beyond the sixth or seventh player. Upon its breaking down there followed redemption of the forfeits in the ordinary ways. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

No TWIN EVER FAMOUS (11 S. v. 487; vi. 58, 172, 214, 433). It may be well to point out that the " Dr. Simpson " whose opinion is cited at the first reference is none other than Sir James Y. Simpson, who introduced the use of chloroform in clinical cases. As a child I had the privilege of being well known to him, his services having been at the time required for a com- plicated disease from which my mother was suffering.

Simpson was doubtless speaking from evidence to hand in his day, the instances of Lords Eldon and Stowell being exceptions that could be held to prove the rule. Still, he might, perhaps, have included in his purview the notable Biblical case of Esau and Jacob.

The examples lately brought forward in b rider to the supposed rule, viz., that where one twin develops more than average intellectual capacity, the other will almost certainly do so sympathetically.
 * N. & Q.' would seem, however, to establish

"CURZO" (US. vi. 428). I think this is merely another spelling of cursus, which signified an avenue or adjacent road in mediaeval documents. See the quotations given s.v. in the ' N.E.D.' N. W. HILL.

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"TAMSON'S HEAR (MARE) " (11 S. vii, 9). This, no doubt, is a variant on " Shanks's " nag, naggy, or " naigy," a well-known Scottish term for going on foot, which has already been fully discussed in these columns. In the days of the "makaris " (see Dunbar's poems) to be " John Thomson's man " was to be guided in action by one's consort ; and possibly this proverbial phrase may be represented in the equivalent for Shanks's nag. Stevenson's Scotch is fre- quently provincial, and sometimes inaccu- rate. THOMAS BAYNE.

SIR JOHN GREVILLE OF BINTON, 1480 (11 S. vii. 8). The correct reading of the second inscription must necessarily be con- jectural. Assuming that some of the last eight letters were miscopied, and some not, pn may give a key to the original. " Pater- noster " is often abbreviated to pn, and an ampersand is often a snare to copyists. I would suggest the reading " intercede pro me Johanna et cum paternoster et cum aue (ave)." A. T. M.

'!AN ROY' (11 S. vi. 510). The novel inquired for appears in the Catalogue of the British Museum. It was published by the London Literary Society in 1886.

H. DAVEY.

' Ian Roy,' by Urquhart Forbes, was published by the London Literary Society in 1886, price Is. The Society is not now in existence, and I have tried in vain to procure a copy of the book by advertising.

WM. H. PEET.

T. CHIPPENDALE, UPHOLSTERER (10 S. vi. 447; vii. 37; 11 S. vi. 407: vii. 10). Since last writing to you on this subject I have received a book, by Mr. J. P. Blake, called ' Chippendale and his School ' (" Little Books about Old Furniture," Vol. III.), wherein are given, at p. 7, the date, place, and cost of Thomas Chippendale's burial, also his age, on the authority of the rough book of the sexton of St. Martin's-in-the- Fields Church. From this it appears that Chippendale was buried

" in the old ground on the north side on Nov. 13th, 1779, that the fee charged was 21. Is. 4(/., and that

the cause of death was consumption being aged

62."

The date of his birth, therefore, was in 1717. It would be interesting if one of your corre- spondents in Otley would kindly search the church registers there for that year, so as to see whether a Thomas Chippendale was born there.

MR. J. S. UDAL refers to Chippendale of Blackenhall, Staffordshire, as a possible ancestor, but there seems to me a difficulty. The person at Blackenhall was John Chip- pingdale, only surviving son of Dr. John Chippingdale of Leicester. He sold Blacken- hall to Alderman Sir Edward Bromfield about 16356, and went to live on his wife's property at Heighington in the parish of Washingborough, co. Lincoln (vide Chan- cery Proceedings, Bromfield v. Chippingdale dated 7 Feb., 1635: Record Office B