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HIBBERT, PRINTER. I shall be glad to have more information about a certain Julian Hibbert, who designed some uncial Greek type in 1827 and 1828, and produced it in two little books which are now quite rare : * The Book of the Orphic Hymns ' and ' Plutarchus and Theophrastus on Superstition.' The Preface of the final volume is extremely amusing, and he ends it by consigning " all Greek scholars to the special care of Beelzubul." I have tried to find out something about him, but he seems to be, with the exception of a very short notice in Bigmore and Wyman's ' Biblio- graphy on Printing,' entirely unfindable. His press was at 1 Fitzroy Place, Kentish Town, and the types that he used were destroyed after these two books were issued.

A. MERIC.

A MENSAL CHAPELRY. What is the meaning of this term ? Dunoon was until after the Reformation a mensal chapelry of the Bishops of Argyle.

G. H. CAMERON, Archdeacon of Johannesburg. P.O. Box 1131, Johannesburg.

[The 'New English Dictionary,' s.v. 'Mensal,' after defining mensal land as " land set apart for the supply of food for the table of the king or prince," adds: "In Scotland and Ireland before the Reformation, applied to a church, bench' ce, tc., appropriated to the service of the bishop for the maintenance of his table. Also similarly used in the modern Roman Catholic church in Ireland." Among the illustrative quotations is this from Carlisle's Topog. Diet. Scot.,' 1813 : " Hoddom, in the'fchireof Dumfries : formerly a Mensal Church to the See of Glasgow."]

ST. GEORGE MUMMING PLAY. (See 10 S. vi. 481 ; vii. 30.) Extracts from various versions of the old mumming play of references.
 * St. George ' were quoted at the above

Can any one interested give further and fuller quotations complete versions if possible ?

Versions from Scotland and the north of England would especially be welcomed.

F. GORDON BROWN.

5 University Gardens, Glasgow.

JACOB EDWARD TAVAREZ. He was, I believe, Mayor of Bayonne, France, and there is a full-length portrait of him in the Town Hall there, with peruke and knee- breeches, &c., the dress of the aristocracy of that time. Any information about him will oblige me.

FREDERICK LAWRENCE TAVARE.

22 Trentham Street, Pendleton, Manchester.

' DAVID COPPERFIELD.' 1. What is the rime to which Mrs. Micawber alludes when she says : " I now know less of [Mr. Micaw- ber' s life] than I do of the man in the south, connected with whose mouth the thoughtless children repeat an idle tale respecting cold plum porridge " (chap. xlii.). ?

2. " What is that which goes round and round the house, without ever touching the house ? " If the answer to this is, as David supposed (chap, xxxiii.), " the moon," it would be hard to find a feebler riddle.

3. What were the " extraordinary boxes, all corners and flutings, for sticking knives and forks in, which, happily for mankind, are now obsolete " (chap, xxxviii.) ?

4. Who wrote ' The College Hornpipe ' whistled by Mr. Micawber (chap, xii.) ?

5. Who wrote the song ' When the Heart of a Man is depressed with Care ' (chap, xxiv.)?

6. What was the date of Miss Linwood's Exhibition of pictures worked in silk (chap, xxxiii.) ?

7. Whence comes the line " It may be for years, [and it may be for ever] " (chap, xxxvi.) ? C. B. WHEELER.

[6. See 10 S. vii. 281, 392.]

AUTHOR WANTED. Who is the author of the expression " the violet of a legend," which occurs twice as a quotation in Black's ' Guide to Sussex' (1871) ? BEROKE.

[Tennyson, 'Will Waterproof's Lyrical Mono- logue,' Third Part, stanza i.]

WRIGHT FAMILY ARMS. Required, name of book containing arms of the Wrights of Grendon, Northants; Halstead, Leicester; and Stainby, Lines. R. A.

PICTURE WANTED : TRIAL OF THE TICH- BORNE CLAIMANT. Either shortly before or upon the end of this trial, which occupied 188 days between April, 1873, and Feb., 1874, there was published an autotype represent- ing the Court of Queen's Bench, crowded with individuals familiar to the public in the inquiry. The print measured about 13 by 9 in., and had a separate key to about 150 names the portraits being generally very correct. It must now be very scarce. I have seen only two copies in the last thirty years. Part of the lettering ran, " Pub- lished at the office of the great Tichborne picture proprietors, 35 Walbrook." From what original painting was the >rint taken, who was the artist, and where is it now ? It was probably of considerable size.

W. B. H.