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Barony of Wharton as being descended from Elizabeth, only daughter of the said Philip, fourth Lord Wharton, by his first marriage :

" That the Right Honourable Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Ross Cochrane, Baron Laming- ton, and George Lockhart Rives, a citizen of the United States of America, are two other of the co-heirs of the said Barony of Wharton as being descended from Philadelphia, the youngest daughter of Philip, fourth Lord Wharton :

" That the said Barony of Wharton is now in abeyance between the said Petitioner, Charles Theodore Halswell Kemeys-Tynte, and Gilbert, Earl of Ancaster, Charles Robert, Marquess of Lincolnshire, George Henry Hugh, Marquess of Cholmondeley, Charles Wallace Alexander Napier IBoss Cochrane, Baron Lamington, and George Lockhart Rives :

" That the said Barony of Wharton is at his Majesty's disposal :

" Read, and agreed to : and resolved and adjudged accordingly : and resolution and judgment to be laid before his Majesty by the Lords with White Staves.

" Ordered that all deeds, documents, and papers produced on behalf of the claimant, by his agents, be delivered to the said agents."

CROSS-CROSSLET.

" CENSURE " : ITS RIGHT AND WRONG USE. The following verse gathered from Juvenal (' Satirae,' liber primus, ii. v. 65), originally addressed to the hypocrites of ancient Rome, and recently quoted by Signor Luigi Luzzati (the veteran eminent statesman and political economist) in his patriotic speech before the Italian Deputies in Rome, but applied to the wrong and right use of " Censure " in Italy at the present time, may, perhaps, deserve recording :

Dat veniam corvis, vexat Censura columbas.

H. KREBS.

"LAMPPOSTS" AND "FOUNTPENS." It is somewhat distressing to note such ungainly words as these creeping into our printed English. They appeared recently not in the columns of that verdant and ardent journal which has, in its time, made us acquainted with such strange spellings, but in a staid and elderly newspaper of some distinction.

Is it too much to hope that ' N. & Q.' should enter a protest against the growing neglect of the hyphen ? There can be no reason why the great demand in modern nomenclature for these useful little bars which soften linked words should diminish the supply required to prevent our printed language from looking ugly and uncouth.

One of your readers much puzzled a few years ago as to what manner of thing a "boatrace" might be, and what place " mineowners " held in the scheme of things

began to make a collection of such mon- strosities a truly awful array and will " prent it " as a warning of how the lack of a hyphen may mar a line, if ' N. & Q.' will take the matter up and make a stand for the amenities of the printed word.

Y. T.

CLOCKMAKERS. A label in the Bagford Collection (5929: 100-101) has the following inscription : " D. Campigne Clok & Watch Maker at Winton." The date is, I suppose, about 1670 or 1680, and this name does not appear to be in the reference books I have access to. R. A. PEDDIE.

St. Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, E.C.

AN OLD STBEET NAME-PLATE. A plaque affixed to the wall on the west side of the present Gerrard Place, W., and immediately facing the stage-door of the Shaftesbury Theatre, reads :

NASSAU STREET

IN WHETTONS BUILDING

1734.

Should not this have been Whetton's Building in Nassau Street ? In any case it is one of the very few remaining old London street name-plates and is worthy of record. REGINALD JACOBS.

PIALEH PASHA AT CHIOS. Dr. Miller, in an article in The English Historical Review for July, 1915, makes the following state- ments :

" Piali Pasha, a Hungarian renegade in the Turkish service, appeared off Chios with a fleet of from 80 to 300 sails on Easter Monday, 15 April, 1566. The Pasha told the Ghiotes that he would not land, as he did not wish to disturb the Easter ceremonies. Next day he entered the harbour and demanded the tribute."

No authority is given, and consequently one does not feel inclined to reject the version hitherto accepted, according to which the Pasha was the son of a Croatian cobbler (Hammer) and arrived at Chios on Easter Day (Knolles). This English author gives the date as " the 15th day of April, 1566, being then Easter Day," but, as pointed out by Hammer, Easter Day fell on April 14 in that year. Neither the English nor the Austrian historian mentions the Pasha's alleged excuse for not landing his troops immediately on arrival, but he was more likely to disturb the religious ceremonies on the Sunday than on the following day. Dr. Miller perhaps relies on Giustiniani, the historian of Chios, but his book is not in the British Museum or any other library to which I have access. L. L. K.