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' A Little Morality.' Reprinted in The Spectator, 19 March, 1910, from The Pioneer of 11 Jan., 1888. A satirical arraignment of English methods of educating the natives.

'The Proconsuls' (poem). Colliers Weekly, 5 Aug., 1905. In praise of the skilled administrator. It is headed by a quotation from a Times editorial in praise of Lord Milner's work in South Africa.

' The .Dove of Dacca ' has been included in at least one authorized edition of Kipling's poems, the volume of ' Ballads and Barrack- Room Ballads ' issued by Macmillan, New York, 1896. Many in fact, most of the items listed by MB. YOUNG in the recently published bibliography and in his ' Kipling Dictionary ' appeared also in American periodicals, but I shall not take up space by enumerating any others. I hope to be able before long to furnish a complete note on one entire series of Kipling items, of which at least four seem to be wholly unknown to bibliographers.

J. DE LANCEY FERGUSON. Plainfield, New Jersey.

CRICKET IN 1773 (11 S. ix. 46). Surely " Batts " should read " Balls," and then the weight given, 4J oz., to 4^ oz., would more nearly approximate to the present weight allowed, some 5| oz. The bats used at that time, as may be gathered from an inspection of the very interesting specimens and pic- tures in the possession of the Marylebone Cricket Club, were far heavier than that, and were more of the shape indicated by MR. THORNTON. One cannot imagine the bat upon which the boy is leaning in the picture ascribed to Gainsborough, now in the pavilion at Lord's, being weighed by ounces !

I do not think that your correspondent's suggestion that bats of such a weight might have been shaped more like rackets will avail much, for no racket-shaped article even, used for the purposes of a bat, could possibly have been so light, the short-lived game of " ping-pong " not having been invented in those days.

J. S. UDAL, F.S.A. Inner Temple.

According to some editions of Frances Burney's ' Early Diary,' it was two cricket balls, not cricket "batts," that Mrs. Rish- ton asked to be sent to her. Certainly no cricket bat, riot even of the old curved variety, ever weighed so little as 4J oz. or 4 1 oz. The old bat preserved in the pavilion of the Surrey County Cricket Club at the Oval weighs 2 Ib. 4 oz. Later they became heavier ; that used by the Earl o"f Winchilsea (1752-1826) turned the scale

at 4 Ib., and it may be that Mrs. Rishton wrote " oz." instead of " Ib."

Pett, of Sevenoaks, was a famous bat- maker, and some of his descendants are still living in that town.

If Mrs. Rishton wished cricket balls sent to her, she was still somewhat out of her reckoning. By the Laws of Cricket of 1744 a ball should weigh " between five and six ounces " ; by the Laws of 1774 "not less than five ounces and a half, nor more than five ounces and three- quarters." F. S. ASHLEY-COOPER. South View, Gomshall.

HERALDRY OF LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL (US. ix. 69). I have identified the following, but as I do not know much about heraldry, and the sources of my information seem contradictory and inaccurate, I offer the information somewhat diffidently.

3. Cheverell, Wiltshire, Arg., three lions passant in pale sa.

4. Upsale, or Opsate.

5. Speake.

9. Fettyplace, Berks.

10. Swardieote or Swardseote, Cornwall.

11. D' Albany. 13. Walton.

23. Daniell, Suffolk.

25. Mikeles, Cambridgeshire; Milkelby, Hert- fordshire ; Aveney or A very, Gloucestershire.

27. Grey, Broadgate, Leicestershire, and Derby- shire.

28. Vere, Hartlow, or Lyndeford (?).

29. Somery, Warwickshire.

30. Shatton, Or, on a chief indented az. three escallops arg.

32. Shepey, Leicestershire, temp. Henry II., Az., a cross or, fretty gu. Montlaby, Az., a cross arg , fretty gu.

34. Quaplade (?).

35. Merick. West Camel, Somersetshire, granted by Cook, 1589.

37. Seroope, Az., a bend or, over all a label of five points.

39. Monketon, Sa., on a chevron between three martlets or as many mullets of the field. Cabell, Yorkshire, F.gham, Surrey, and Lincolnshire.

JAMES FINCH.

Saint Raphael, France.

' THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DISSENTING MINISTER' (US. ix. 69). This book was written by William Pitt Scargill, and the first edition was published in London, 1834. The author wrote many books, and was a contributor to BlackwoocTs Magazine. He was a Unitarian minister, born 1787. From 1812 to 1832 he was minister of Churchgate Street Chapel, Bury St. Edmunds, but in the latter year resigned his charge and became an adherent to the Established Church. In 1834 he wrote 'The Autobiography of a Dissenting Minister,' in which he plays the