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 12 S. 1. MAY 27, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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THE TURKISH CBESCENT AND STAB (12 S. j. 189, 254). Anglo-Indian ladies wear such "' amulets," sometimes made of tigers' claws, but does Prof. Ridgeway explain when the -tar was added to the crescent ? Since sending my reply I have had an opportunity to consult the book ' Insignia Turcica,' by Paulus Pater, a Hungarian author quoted by Hammer, The author reproduces state- ments by Franciscus Menenius and Ezechiel Spanhemius, both based on a letter written by Justus Lipsius to Busbequius (in ' Ques- tionibus Epistolicis,' Lib. i. Epist. 16), in which the following passage occurs :

" Adsentior Tibi, vir nobilissime, illam semi- flunam Turcarum, quod Genti solemne militiee signum, quasi Bomanis Aquila est, originem a Byzantinis habuisse. Vidi apud te primum, et postea complures numps aeneos, in quorum parte iluna media esset, cum inscriptione BYZANTION."

The Hungarian author gives what purports to be illustrations of such Byzantine coins, showing the " falcata luna cum stella," as Spanhemius <jalls the sign ; but I have not been able to find any photographic repro- ductions of similar coins in Mr. Wroth' s standard work on Byzantine coins in the British Museum. The crescent and star -occur on two coins in the Museum from Alexandria, but they are separated from "each other by another device.

L. L. K.

4 THE GHENT PATERNOSTER ' (12 S. i. 328). The original and translation are given in -a note to chap. ix. of pt. iii. of Motley's '* Dutch Republic ' (1888 edition, Bickers & Son, at p. 543). JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

LOCKER'S LONDON LYRICS ' : COSMO- POLITAN CLUB (11 S. xii. 482 ; 12 S. i. 291). There is an account of this club in "Anthony 'Trollope, his Work, Associates, and Literary Originals,' by T. H. S. Escott, 1913.

W. B. H.

ELIZABETH EVELYN (12 S. i. 288, 356). Tn expressing my thanks to MR. MAYNARD SMITH, I regret I cannot reconcile his ex- planation with the following, which I have since discovered in Miscellanea Genectlogica et Heraldica, second series, vol. iii. p. 243 :

"Elizabeth Evelyne of St. Foster's (Vedast), Foster Lane, London, spinster. Sententise pro valore test. 10 July, 1652, inter John Buckeridge the exor. of 1 part, and Sir John Evelyn, Knt. (brother of the defunct), Dame Jane Hart (sister of the deft.), Sir John Evelyn the younger, Knt., and Arthur Evelyne, sons of George Evelyn, deed.

^brother of the deft.), and Elizabeth Foster, da. of

Foster, deed, (sister of the deft.), of the other part 4209 Bowyer)."

On referring to the pedigree of the Evelyn family on p. 329 of vol. iv. of the same publication, I find George Evelyn of God- stone had two daughters bearing the name Elizabeth : the eldest daughter, who was baptized at Kingston, May 16, 1583, and married Sir Edward Engham of Godneston, co. Kent, Kt. ; and the eighth daughter, who is said to have died unmarried in 1623. There is, apparently, some confusion here. Seaborne Buckeridge, the nephew of the executor of Elizabeth Evelyn's will, married Sarah, daughter of John Pierrepont, who after his death became the wife in 1704 of Joseph Pember, attorney, of Billiter Square. Who was this John Pierrepont ?

The Buckeridges were related through the Bainbriggs to the Maynards of Walthamstow and the Dyotts of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, both of which families appear to have been connected with that of Evelyn. Mary, daughter and heir of Sir John Maynard, is stated to have married a William Adams, probably the same who is mentioned as a cousin and of the Middle Temple in Elizabeth Evelyn's will. A. STEPHENS DYER.

207 Kingston Road, Teddington.

THE NEWSPAPER PLACARD (11 S. xii. 483 ; 12 S. i. 13, 77, 129, 230, 31 7). -Newspaper placards are even more ephemeral than newspapers, and in ordinary circumstances it would be futile to argue about them. But I think there can be no doubt that MR. FREEMAN'S memory has misled him in regard to the evening newspaper placard which he quotes :

Death of Mr. Bradlaugh.

Scorcher's Finals.

All the authorities in such matters I have consulted confirm my own recollection that the only sporting tipster en any evening or morning newspaper who used the name of " Scorcher " was engaged on The Sun, and on no other newspaper. As Mr. Bradlaugh died on Jan. 30, 1891, and The Sun did not start until June 27, 1893, this contents bill could not have been issued.

R. S. PENGELLY.

"AVIATIK" (12 S. i. 31Q).Aviatik appears to exist, as a word, only in the Baskish language, if one does not look beyond Europe. In that language it means :

(a) " from the trunk, or beam of timber," or " from the column, or pillar," in which case it may be connected with Latin abies ;

(b) " from the nest, or cage," in which case its origin is Latin cauea. Its v is pro- nounced b ; and tih is the separative or