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Mississippi came into the possession of the United States by the Louisiana Purchase (1803) we find the term apparently applied to a passenger's cabin. Indeed, it is possible that the term was so used in the passage from Cutler (1776). But, however that may be, the explanation given by the American lady has no basis in fact.

ALBERT MATTHEWS. Boston, U.S.

WELLINGTON AT BRIGHTON AND ROTTING- DEAN (12 S. i. 389). There may not be much risk of misapprehension, but perhaps it is worth while to point out that the state- ments quoted by MR. WAINEWRIGHT respect- ing the early education of the Duke of Wellington at Brighton and Rottingdean relate, not to the first Duke, but to the second. The first Duke of Wellington was educated elsewhere ; Lord Douro, afterwards the second Duke, was placed, as a small boy, under the care of the Vicar of Brighton. It seems that he was also a pupil of the Vicar of Rottingdean, together with Bulwer Lytton and Cardinal Manning. The three were very nearly of the same age. The statements, no doubt, are true enough not of " Wellington," but of the second Duke.

B. B.

I have a note that the Wellington memorial is in the chantry of St. Nicholas's Church, Brighton, and that it consists of a stone cross 18 ft. high. Will some one kindly provide a copy of the inscription ?

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

" ERZERUM " (12 S. i. 287, 417). In my query I asked for some Armenian etymology of the name in question, being acquainted with both the Turkish and Persian ortho- graphies for the same, and the Arabic word presumably introduced by the Osmanli conquerors.

I venture to remark on Canon Taylor's explanation of " Erzerum " as follows :

1. The word " Arzek " is a Persian diminutive of " Arz," a Persian equivalent (probably) of Latin " Arx." How came the Arabic definite article " el " to be joined to " Arzek " ? Such hybrids are not common.

2. The plural of the Arabic " Arz " is " Arazi," not " Aruzai."

Much confusion has arisen on account of the use of English z for two quite distinct letters in the Turkish and Persian ortho- graphies respectively.

X. POWLETT, Col.

CORONATION MUGS (12 S. i. 370, 448). I have seen a number of Coronation mugs, but none earlier than the Coronation mug, or rather cup, of George IV., which bears impressed " George IIII." above a crown, and below t he- crown "Worksop, 1821." It is of brown- ware, salt-glazed inside and outside, stands 3 in. high, and the same in mouth-diameter- Such mugs or cups were made for all Midland towns at the potworks at Brampton, Swinton,. Derby, and, no doubt, Nottingham, and they are somewhat rare.

More common are memorial mugs in. white pottery, and one I have has on it in, transfer all in capitals :

To the memory of

His late Majesty

King George the TV.

Born Angst. 12, 1762

Ascended the throne Jan. 21, 1820

Publicly proclaimed Jan. 31, 1820

Departed this life June 20, 1830

Aged 68 years

That is on the right side of the mug. On. the opposite side is a picture of the King, the bust set in a half scroll of roses, thistle, and what seems to be intended for shamrock,, and flowers shaped like the harebell. It appears to be one of the kind made for public-houses, and holds about a pint.

THOS. RATCLIFFE. [Should not the date of accession be Jan. 29?]

OYSTER TABLES (12 S. i. 368). These- existed in the reign of Edward VI.

Strj^pe, writing of the orders for taking- down altars in the year 1550, says in his ' Memorials of the Reformation ' :

" But the Papists now called the communion- table, most irreverently, an oyster board. So did Dr. Weston, and White, afterward Bishop* of Lincoln."

White was at that time Warden of Winchester- College. JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.

TEMPLE GROVE, EAST SHEEN (12 S. i. 349)_ An excellent descriptive account of Temple Grove, written by Mr. W. L. Button, F.S.A. r will be found in The Home Counties Magazine,. ix. 128, 311 (1907), with three illustrations from old prints, dated respectively 1798,. 1812, and 1818, as well as two photographs taken in more recent years. The first illus- tration, which is, no doubt, the print referred to in the quotation from the ' Victoria History of Surrey' as showing " the- Jacobean front," was reproduced from a view of ' Lord Palmerston's, E. Sheen,' which, Mr. Rutton tells us, is bound up in " the invaluable interleaved copy of ' Man- ning and Bray's Surrey '" (1814) at the