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NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 S.I.FK.. 12.191* 1676); afterwards of William Golding; and then of Thomas Green, who, in 1809, was succeeded by his niece Frances and her husband, Westerman Scholefield, after whose death his widow actually remained in charge of the inn until her death in 1859.

Although the house has been considerably altered since then, and is now promoted to the rank of an hotel, a portion of the old yard and galleries on one side of it have survived, and it is still worth a visit.

might consult Timbs's 'Curiosities of London,' under Southwark inns; Burn's 'London Tradesmen's Tokens'; and A. St. John Adcock's 'Booklover's London.'

I recommend to take an early opportunity of lunching at this old tavern. The manageress, Miss Murray, will be able to give him a good deal of information, and there are always present a few clients who have patronized the place for many years, and who are well up in its history and associations.

I presume that is familiar with 'The Inns of Old Southwark,' by Rendle and Norman.

(12 S. i. 70).—Traces of these mysterious philosophers are to be found in other parts of England. There is in a churchyard at Honor Oak the tomb of Robert Wentworth Little, who was Supreme Magus, 1866-76; and in the church at Bearstead, Kent, that of Dr. Robert Fludd, who died in 1637. In common with the inquirer I should be glad to learn more of the present-day Rosicrucians and their connexion with the earlier body.

See 'The Real History of the Rosicrucians,' by Arthur Edward Waite (Geo. Redway, 1887).

'THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM' (11 S. xii. 259, 487 ; 12 S. i. 59). I am indebted to MR. MAURICE JONAS for pointing out my slip in the ' Shakespeare Bibliography,' w r hich shall be corrected in the forthcoming Supplement to that work. On p. 429 therein I stated " three copies of the 1599 issue are known to survive." It should be two only ; and of the 1612 issue two copies are now recorded, instead of one.

On account of the recently discovered copy of 1612 having passed privately to America, no record appears to have occurred in the usual bibliographical quarterlies. After

some search I discovered a mention of it in the columns of our faithful ally The Athenceum for Jan. 11, 1908, p. 42, which says 'The Passionate Pilgrim,' 1612, "obtained 2,000/. by private sale twelve months ago."

If Swinburne were alive it would be engaging to hear him reconcile this astound- ing price (the highest yet paid for a separate piece of Shakespeare's) with his judgment of the book, which runs, if I remember aright, thus :

" A worthless little volume of stolen and mutilated poetry, patched up with dirty and dreary doggrel, under the senseless and prepos- terous title of ' The Passionate Pilgrim '. . . .the gabble of geese or chatter of apes."

After this " exhaust of steam " it is refreshing to hear MR. JONAS describe it as " a rare bibliographical treasure."

WM. JAGGARD, Lieut.

GENERAL JOHN GUISE (12 S. i. 45). Is this the general whose epitaph is said to be :

Here lies Sir John Guise, No man laughs and no man cries ; Where he's gone and how he fares, No man knows and no man cares ?

H. A. ST. J. M.

THE PINDAR OF WAKEFIELD (12 S. i. 69). There is a house with this sign at 328 Gray's Inn Road, W.C. W. B. S.

I am told by a collector of signs that this sign is a very rare one ; the only example he knows is to be seen (or was till lately) in t he- Gray's Inn Road, W.C.

G. C. MOORE SMITH.

JOHN STUART, EDINBURGH (US. xi. 432; xii. 15). ' Miscellanea Invernessiana,' by John Noble, 1902, gives many particulars about the Barbour-Stuart marriage ; and ' Letters of Two Centuries,' edited by C. Fraser M'Intosh (1890), p. 193 or so, says the lady had a son. M. R. R. M'G. G.

REGIMENTAL NICKNAMES (12 S. i. 30, 74). By way of supplementing the bibliography already mentioned on this subject, I may say that a long list of regimental nicknames appeared in The Sporting Times of Feb. 22, 1879. This list was reconstructed and supplemented in order to adapt it to the new territorial arrangement in the same organ of March 10, 1900.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

MR. J. M. BULLOCH would find a mine of information in * Nicknames and Traditions of the British Army,' published by Gale & Polden, Amen Corner, E.C. SwITHIN.