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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[12 S. I. JAN. 8, 1916.

author of * L'Espion Frangais a Londres,' published in 1779. M. Charles Samaran, however, in his recently published ' Jacques Casanova, Venitien,' p. 94, gives the title of Goudar's book as ' L'Espion chinois.' Had Goudar anything to do with 'L'Espion Anglois,' published by John Adamson ?

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

REGIMENTAL NICKNAMES. Can any reader supply a list of regimental nicknames in actual current use ? The variations in the books of reference make it clear that many of the nicknames are quite unknown to-day, and so they differ according to the his- torical equipment of the compilers. Thus : 1st Life Guards.

"The Cheeses," " The Piccadilly Butchers," " Tin Bellies," and " The Patent Safeties " (Farmer's ' Regimental Records,' 1901).

" The Cheeses," " The Tin Bellies " (Charles White's ' Our Regiments,' 1915).

"The Lumpers," " Tinbellies " (Hon. John Fortescue in The Times, Nov. 3, 1915).

There must be some sort of standard nick- name among soldiers.

A Highland Light Infantryman told me the other day that the Gordons are called "The Paper Highlanders," apropos of the war correspondents' "boom" of them at Dargai. Is this generally used of the Gordons ? J. M. BULLOCH.

NODDING MANDARINS. Is there any con- nexion between the nodding of little figures supposed to represent mandarins, and any action of the real mandarins ? E. L.

SIR GEORGE MOUAT KEITH. (See 11 S. xii. 430.) In the year 1806 I find serving as lieutenant on board the gun-brig Boxer Sir George Mouat Keith, Bart. Can any of your readers say to what family he belonged, as I do not find his name in the ' Baronetage ' ? A. H. MACLEAN.

14 Dean Road, Willosden Green, N.W.

JOHN WHITFIELD, ACTOR. Wanted in- formation as to the parentage and marriage of John Whitfield, the comic actor. He died in London, 1814, and is known to have had a sister Margaret who married one William Green. William Whitfield, son of the actor, had an uncle, Thomas Lane, who devised lands in Romney Marsh, in the parish of Brookland, Kent. William Fynmore of Craven Street, Strand, was an executor to the above Thomas Lane.

GERALD FOTHERGILL.

11 Brussels Road, New Wandswcrth. S.W.

PASSAGE OF FUNERAL THROUGH CHURCH.

In a village in Northants there is a feeling that a dead body must always be taken to the church and pass through it for burial ; it is immaterial whether it passes north to south, or south to north. Can anybody sug- gest the reason for this feeling ?

A. G. KEALY.

Bedford.

ANN COOK. I should be most grateful to any reader who could spare a few minutes to help me in the following matter. Owing to the frightfulness of war, I have now access to no library.

On Feb. 5, 1821, died Mary Ann, dau. of Joshua and Ann Cook, and was buried at Framlingham. A memoir of her life ap- peared in The Methodist Magazine for that month, I believe. I should like a note of this memoir, with the exact date of publica- tion of the magazine, and any other in- formation as to Miss Cook that can easily be obtained. PRIVATE BRAD STOW.

GLACE KID GLOVES. When were these first introduced ? The earliest authoritative reference to them I know of is in the Dic- tionary of Furetiere, 1690, s.v. " glace " where the definition unequivocally points to an article analogous to, if not positively identical with, the modern thing.

F. M. KELLY.

THE SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL

INFORMATION. (11 S. xii. 462, 508; 12 S. i. 11.)

THE Society for Constitutional Information descended from the Bill of Rights Society, which was founded in 1769 by John Home afterwards Horne-Tooke John Wilkes, Ser- jeant Glynn, and others, to urge reforms based upon the principles legalized in the Bill of Rights. Its meeting-place was the London Tavern, and among the reforms it advocated were annual Parliaments, the exaction of oaths against bribery, and the ex- clusion of pensioners and place-holders from Parliament. The Revolution of 1688 had established parliamentary government, and safeguarded the law against the sovereign. In other words, it had established a limited monarchy, with Parliament controlling the Crown, on a sound basis. Parliamentary representation, however, was far from