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[12 S. I. MAY 6, 1916.

Gilly, where you will find that the Museum has also the third edition, London, 1833 ; the sixth edition, London, 1855 ; an Appendix to the fourth edition, 1835, 12mo ; and ' Views in the High Alps to illustrate the Memoir of Felix Neff by Dr. Gilly,' 1840, fol. JOHN R. MAGBATH.

I have a copy of a little book, ' Life of Felix Neff, Pastor of the High Alps,' third edition, printed at Norwich, and published by the Religious Tract Society in 1839. The subject of this memoir was a pastor of the Protestant communities, descendants of the Waldensians, in the Alpine valleys about Brianson in Dauphiny, and died in 1829. The author's name is not given.

H. HAMILTON Fox.

[THE REV. W. A. B. COOLIDGE and MR. W. H. PEET thanked for replies.]

LUMPKIN (12 S. i. 229). I told myself that this name was a diminutive of Lambert, and I am glad to find confirmation in Bardsley's ' Diet, of English and Welsh Surnames.' It says :

" Lumpkin Bapt. ' the son of Lambert,' from the nick. Lamb and dim. Lambkin. No doubt a variant of Lambkin or Lampkin. Phila-

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delphia 5.'

ST. SWITHIN.

MACAULAY'S PRINCE TITI (12 S. i. 207, 297). This subject was much discussed in 6 S. ix. and x., and in the latter volume, at p. 70, there is a long reply by MR. EDWARD SOLLY, which pretty nearly exhausts it. On one point, however, he would seem to be wrong. He says that Ralph may have had something to do with the French book published in 1736 ; but in the ' D.N.B.' life of Ralph it is said that he had no connexion with the Prince of Wales until long after that date.

Barbier, ' Diet, des (Euv. Anon.,' mentions two Paris editions of the ' Histoire ' : Pissot, 1735, 2 vols. in-12 ; and Veuve Pissot, 1752, 3 vols. in-12. I have a copy of the 3- vol. edition. Each volume is dated 1736. The first is entitled ''Histoire du Prince Titi. A. R. : a Paris, chez la veuve Pissot." The second and third have in addition " Tome Second " and " Troisieme " ; and of the first the approbation is dated November, 1735, that of the other volumes 1736.

It certainly seems very unlikely that the ' Memoirs ' of the Prince, by himself or by Ralph, were ever published, and one is inclined to doubt whether T. G.'s note, referred to ante, p. 207, may not have arisen from a confusion between the ' Histoire ' and the ' Memoires.' " J. F. R.

Godalming.

'ROMOLA' (12 S. i. 310).!. " Athens or Setine." Can this latter name be from

'A^vas, as Stamboul from es rrjv TroAiv, and Spalato from es HaAartov 1*

2. A reference, presumably, to Juvenal, Sat.' x. 66:

Due in Capitolia magnum Cretatumque bovem.

The scholiast on this passage quotes from Lucilius :

Cretatumque bovem due ad Capitolia magna. EDWARD BENSLY.

7. MR. WHEELER will find a full account of the Scottish Archers at the French Court in the two volumes by the Rev. William Forbes Leith, S.J., entitled ' The Scots Men-at-Arms and Lifeguards in France from their Forma- tion until their Final Dissolution, A.D. 1418- 1838 ' (Edinburgh, 1882). J. B. P.

ANNOYANCE JURIES (12 S. i. 287). A reference to the Act cited in the editorial note shows the time of the creation of this body, ; and the reason for its being formed, 29 Geo. II., cap. xxv. 10, begins thus :

" And whereas the obstruction of the public ways and passages in Westminster, and other annoyances and offences committed therein, are greatly owing to the want of a, sufficient power to compel persons to take upon them the office of Jurymen to present nuisances and other offences committed in Westminster, and to the want of an easy method of recovering the amerciaments set by such Jury, be it therefore enacted .... that the said dean or high steward or his deputy, the tAvo chief burgesses of Westminster, and the other burgesses for the time being or any five of

them shall and may, and they are hereby

required, twice in every year to issue out their

precept to the High Bailiff of Westminster

to impanel and return eighty substantial house- holders and traders residing and dwelling in

Westminster and out of the persons so im- panelled, summoned, and returned the said

dean, high steward, &c shall, at a Court to be

held for that purpose, nominate and appoint so many as they shall think proper not exceeding forty-eight. . . .and the several persons so nomin- ated and appointed shall be called The Annoyance

Jury, and shall take an oath That (I) will

diligently enquire and make true presentment to this Court of all such publick annoyances and other offences that shall be committed in West- minster."

11 provides a 40s. penalty on any one refusing to execute the office of a juryman, and 12 provides that

" The Jury of Annoyance to be appointed as aforesaid shall subdivide themselves into smaller

writes : " From the s rrjv 'Adfyyv we have formed our own barbarism of Setines."
 * I now see that Gibbon, chap. Ixii. last note,