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QUEEN ANNE'S THREE REALMS (12 S. i. Dl, 152). One remembers the uncourtier- like remark of gouty George III.'s physician : " I would not have your Majesty's two legs for all your three kingdoms. 1 *

ST. SWITHIN.

Walter Scott has the following :

"It is impossible to deny the praise of devoted

courage to a few hundred peasants who ventured

to declare open war against an established Govern- ment, supported by a regular army and the whole force of three kingdoms." 'Old Mortality,' ohap. xvii.

SUSANNA CORNER.

Lenton Hall, Nottingham.

MARIA THE JEWESS (12 S. i. 70, 151). Information in regard to the (presumably apocryphal) work on chemistry by Maria the Jewess can be obtained in Marcillon Berthelot's work on the Greek alchemists. HENRY LEFFMANN.

Philadelphia, U.S.A.

"BURD" (12 S. i. 151). The Stratmann- Bradley ' Middle English Dictionary ' {Clarendon Press) tentatively gives the -derivation and meaning of " burd " as follows : " O.E. byrdu, fern, of byrde, ' of high rank.' "

Sweet' s ' Anglo-Saxon Dictionary * refers byrde to beran, " to bear."

N. POWLETT, Col.

SUDBURY HOSPITAL, LONDON (12 S. i. 127)' The almshouses referred to in the above reference were situated in Gunpowder Alley, Seething Lane. The ' New View of London ' '(1708) contains the following :

"Gunpowder Ally near Crutched Fryars, hath in it 10 Alms - Houses for Ancient Housekeepers -of this [St. Olave] Parish, founded by 8ir Paul Bayning, Viscount Sudbury, about Anno 1631. They receive ISd. per week from the Church- wardens."

The Baynings were for long connected with St. Olave parish, and the church contains a memorial to two members of the family, both of whom are described thereon as having been Aldermen of the City of London. F. A. RUSSELL.

116 Arran Road, Catford, S.E.

NEWCOME'S SCHOOL, HACKNEY, AND LORD CHANCELLORS HARDWICKE (12 S. i. 148). If MR. ALDRED consulted the printed ad- missions to Caius and St. John's Colleges, Cambridge, he would find information about several old pupils of Newcome's School. It may interest him to know that one Robert Bayspoole, who was admitted to Caius College in 1721, is stated to have been

educated at " Hackney, Middlesex, under Mr. Moreland." In the ' Index of School- masters ' given in the third volume of Dr. Venn's book the Hackney schoolmaster is described as Benjamin Morland.

G. F. R. B.

Who was Miss Morland ? Sir S. Morland was said to be son of the rector of Sulhamp- stead, Berks. There w r as Martin Morland of Sulhampstead. The birth of Samuel Mor- land has never been found. He left no descendants. E. E. COPE.

SOURCES OF SOUTHEY' s * THALABA ' (12 S. i. 111). The ' N.E.D.' cites Domdaniel :

"a. F. domdaniel, app. f. Gr. ow;ia Aavt^X, or L. doinus Danielis, hall or house of Daniel. A fictitious name, introduced in the French ' Con- tinuation of the Arabian Nights,' by Dom Chaves and M. Cazotte, 1788-93, whence adopted by Southey in 'Thalaba,' and so by Carlyle. It is not clear whether ' Daniel ' is intended to refer to the Hebrew prophet or to 'a great Greek sage ' of that name who appears in the tale of ' The Queen and the Serpents ' in ' The Arabian

Ni hts -' " A. R. BAYLEY.

Brewer's ' Reader's Handbook ' says :

" Dom-Daniel originally meant a public school for magic, established at Tunis ; but what is generally understood by the word is that immense establishment, near Tunis, under the ' roots of the ocean,' established by HaMl-Mau'graby, and completed by his son. There were four entrances to it, each of which had a staircase of four thousand steps ; and magicians, gnomes, and sorcerers of every sort, were expected to do homage there at least once a year to Zatanai [Satan].

" Dom- Daniel was utterly destroyed by Prince Habed-il-Rouman, son of the Caliph of Syria. ' Continuation of the Arabian Nights ' (' History of Maugraby ' ).

" Southey has made the destruction of Dom- Daniel the subject of his ' Thalaba ' in fact, Thalaba takes the office of Habed-il-Rouman ; but the general incidents of the two tales have no other resemblance to each other."

Dr. Brewer says that he has in his library 4 vols., each of about 500 pp., called ' Con- tinuations of the Arabian Nights,' trans- lated by Dom Chuvis (?) and M. Cazotte from, the Arabian MS. into French, and translated into English in 1792. R. A. POTTS.

Speldhurst, Canterbury.

TAVERN SIGNS : KING JOHN (12 S. i. 147). A King John Tavern formerly stood opposite the Cathedral Close Gate called Little Stile, in South Street, Exeter. It was one of the finest houses in Exeter, being of early Tudor date. It possessed a massive oaken staircase and an imposing front and doorway ; an illustration of the latter