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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. ix. MAY 16, 1914.

head of a serpent, which encircles the stem of the cross beneath. This is all intended to illustrate the words inscribed on the circle : ' The Good Shepherd giveth His life for the sheep.' On the reverse is a representation of the Agnus Dei in a circle, round which and on the back of the circle Are the words ' Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.' " Guardian, 5 May, 1911.

The architect is Mr. J. Arthur Reeve.

ADDENDA. RICHARD BAXTER.

Kidderminster. I am informed by MB. LIONEL R. M. STRACHAN of Heidelberg that another monument to the memory of Richard Baxter stands at the south end of Blakeshall Common, between Blakeshall and Wolverley, and about five miles north of Kidderminster. It bears the following in- scription :

" To commemorate that devoted man Richard Baxter, minister of the Old Church, Kidder- minster, about the year 1650, and whose unwearied labours were so greatly blessed to that town and neighbourhood. Bead his Saints' Everlasting Best and his Call to the Unconverted."

MR. STRACHAN also points out that the word " comprehensiveness " in line 10 of Baxter's Kidderminster inscription (ante, p. 66) should read comprehension.

I desire to thank the following for much- valued assistance : REV. A. A. DAVID, D.D., REV. E. T. HARDMAN, MR. ISAAC B. HODG- SON, MR. OLIVER H. HEYS, MR. ROLAND AUSTIN, MR. HUGH J. VINALL, MR. H. C. WANKLYN, MR. J. A. PYWELL, MRS. JEN- NINGS, &c. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

(To be continued.)

A LATE " BONNER " ORDINATION IN

QUEEN ELIZABETH'S REIGN. The Rev. Thomas Evatt, who held the parishes of North and South Stoke, Lincolnshire, from A.D. 1566 to 1589, was made a deacon in London on 24 Sept., 1558, with permission of the Bishop of Lincoln. He received his deacon's Orders from Bishop Peter Wall, Bach. Theology, Bishop of Clonmacnois, near Athlone, in Ireland, who was then assisting Bishop Boriner in London. The Dominican Order in Ireland were unaware of this visit of a member of their Order to London at this date, until I drew their attention to it.

Thomas Evatt received his priest's Orders in London in the great chapel of the Bishop's Palace, 18 Feb., 1559, from Bishop Bonner himself. See Ordination Book, Bishop of

London's Registry, Dean's Court, Doctors' Commons.

Thomas Evatt's son, the Rev. Richard Evatt, held in 1604 the parish of Stamford Baron St. Martin by nomination of Thomas Cecil, first Earl of Exeter.

G. J. H. EVATT, Surgeon-General.

Junior United Service Club.

LANDOR'S ' IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS ' : SALOMON. In a note on the conversation between Alfieri and Salomon, the Florentine Jew, Mr. C. G. Crump states that he had " failed to discover who Salomon was, or whether there was any such person." The mystery has been cleared up by M. Valery Larbaud, an accomplished French scholar, who, writing in the Revue Germanique, annee 1913, No. 3, p. 307, points out that Salo- mone Fiorentino was a poet and Alfieri's contemporary. M. Larbaud gives a refer- ence to * Sulle rime di Salomone Fiorentino,' by Signer Giovanni Rosini, Pisa, 1834.

STEPHEN WHEELER.

" NUTS TO" (A PERSON). The ' N.E.D.' under the word ' Nut ' has : " Nuts to (a person) : a source of pleasure or delight to one. Now slang"

The earliest quotation given in illustration is from Fletcher's 'Mad Lover,' 1617. An earlier and very interesting instance of the expression is, however, to be found in a letter from Sir Edward Stafford to Lord Burghley, dated 4 April, 1587. After the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, Elizabeth made frantic endeavours to throw the responsi- bility on her ministers, and Burghley was in consequence for a time in disgrace. Re- ferring to his treatment by the Queen, and her conduct generally in the matter, Stafford writes from France :

" I am very sorry to hear that her Majesty continues so offended with your lordship. She does herself and her service great harm. I assure you it is nuts to them here to hear it .... for all that she ca,n do cannot persuade them here that your lordship could ever be brought to do any- thing against her express will."

See Dennis's ' The House of Cecil,' p. 67 (London, Constable & Co., 1914), and also Fronde, ' History of England,' xii. 356, note. T. F. D.

" THREE BLUE BEANS," &c. This nursery jingle occurs in Peele's ' Old Wiues Tale,' 1595, sig. E :

" Whoope now I haue my dreame, did you neuer heare so great a wonder as this ? Three blue beans in a blue bladder, rattle bladder rattle."

RICHARD H. THORNTON.