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 ii s. ix. MAR. 21, 1911] NOTES AND QUERIES.

CENTENABY OF THE CIGAR (US. ix. 89). COL. PRIDEATJX asks when the cigar was first introduced into English literature. There is a reference to it in an undated letter of Mary Lamb to Coleridge, conjectur- ally placed by Mr. E. V. Lucas between two bearing post-marks 29 Aug., 1806, and 23 Oct., 1806, respectively. From the con- text and the known biographical details of Coleridge's life, there seems no reason to dispute the accuracy of the chronological arrangement. Mary writes :

" You are too serious and too kind a vast deal, for we are not much used to either seriousness or kindness from our present friends, and therefore your letter has put me into a greater hurry of spirits that [sic] your pleasant segar did last night, for believe me your two odd faces amused me much more than the mighty transgression vexed me. If Charles had not smoked last night his virtue would not have lasted longer than tonight, and now perhaps with a little of your good counsel he will refrain."

The erroneous spelling may possibly not have been uncommon, for we find it in Hood's ' Ode to Mr. Graham ' in his and Hamilton Reynolds's ' Odes and Addresses to Great People ' :

A few more whiffs of my segar And then in Fancy's airy car,

Have with thee for the skies : How oft this fragrant smoke upcurl'd, Hath borne me from this little world,

And all that in it lies !

S. BUTTERWORTH.

ST. PANCRAS (11 S. ix. 191). For life and martyrdom of the saint see Alban Butler's ' Lives of the Saints.' This, with the ' Catholic Encyclopaedia ' and the follow- ing, will no doubt give your querist all the information know r n : -

Saint Pancras, by Samuel Palmer. London, 1870.

Saint Pancras, by Fredk. Miller. London, 1874.

Saint Pancras, by Thomas Coull. London, 1861.

Saint Pancras Notes and Queries. 1899-1903.

Saint Pancras Book of Dates. 1908.

Collection of Materials for a History of St. Pancras, 3 vols. For description see ' Catalogue, Percival Library,' p. 202.

Collection of Epitaphs, St. Pancras, by Fredk. T. Cansick. London, 1869-72.

Charitable Foundations, &c., St. Pancras, by Samuel Wiswould. 1863.

Pancredge, by Edwin lloffe. Privately printed. 1865.

The above are a few titles culled from my own collection (the Percival Collection ex- cepted). Copies of all are in British Museum Library.

Resident in the borough of St. Pancras, your querist should first search the Branch Public Library opposite Highgate Cemetery

gates. He should also search the Catalogues in the MS. Department, British Museum ; and there is a splendid collection of London topography in the Guildhall Library possibly items might be traced" there not to be readily found elsewhere.

I may add that before long the Borough Council of St. Pancras will have possession of the marvellous collection of local litera- ture made by the late Ambrose Heal of Tottenham Court Road and Nower Hill, Pinner, during the last forty years, and bequeathed by him to the borough ; but it will be some months before this can be available for public inspection, as it has to be gone through and catalogued.

I hope, later, to send some details of the collection. As referee in any questions that may arise, I have a fair knowledge of its contents, and it is the more necessary that some notes thereon should be chronicled in the pages of ' N. & Q.,' as the collection is to find a resting-place at the Town Hall, and not at a public library.

GEORGE POTTER.

296, Archway Road, N.

Just outside Prague, on the road to Zizka's stronghold Tabor, is the village of Pancrac. A fierce battle was fought here in 1420, when the citizens of Prague de- feated the Emperor Sigismund in one of the conflicts included under the general heading of Hussite wars.

FRANCIS P. MARCHANT.

Streatham.

ANTHONY MUNDAY (US. viii. 509 ; ix. 57, 181). Anthony Munday " claimed to be of a Staffordshire family," and his father's name was Christopher ('D.N.B.'). Iu Stow's ' Survey of London,' " now completely finished " by Anthony Munday, Humphry Dyson, and others in 1633, among the in- scriptions given as appearing in the church of " S. Peter in Cheape " is that of "Sir John Mundy, Goldsmith, Maior, deceased 1537 " ; and in the same edition it is stated that this Sir John Mundy was son of William Mundy of Wycombe, Berks. At the time of the dissolution of monasteries John Mundy, Knight, was possessed of leasehold property at Wycombe and Penne in the same county, including one garden and " le Gatehowse " in Great Wycombe (' Nun- nery of Little Marlow,' Dugdale's ' Monasti- con ' ). At his death Sir John Mundy was succeeded by his eldest son Vincent, of Islington by London and Markeaton by Derby, who was aged 28 years in 1539 (I.P.M.). Besides succeeding to his father's