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136 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S. X. FEB. 18, 1922. both writers possessed in so great a might easily account for this omission.

Mr. Mansel-Pleydell's valuable article was well illustrated by some photographic objects of Kimmeridge shale, including several discs or "coal money"—and he begins his remarks on these interesting relics by saying:—

And again (p. 187):—

(12 S. ix. 45, 355, 390; x. 78). At the second reference K. S. remarks that this sign is "to be found in Wiltshire at the towns of Chippenham and Marlboro ugh." It was at one time to be found at Devizes j also, as may be learnt from the ' Journals I and Letters ' of Samuel Curwen, Judge of the American Admiralty Court, whose j diaries of his stay in England from 1775 to 1783 so greatly interested Charles Dickens | (Household Words, May and June, 1853). Curwen set out from Bath for London on ! Aug. 4, 1780, and the following few lines are taken from his account of the journey : At eleven o'clock we alighted at the Black | Lion in Devizes, where, after taking refreshment. I walked forth to ramble, and espied a sign for quaintness of its device here noted. On the sign were painted five men, well known by the name of the " five alls " ; the first in order, according to the present mode of arrangement of Church before King, stands the parson in his sacer- dotalibus ; he prays for all : second, the lawyer, in his gown, band and tie-wig ; he pleads for all : third, the soldier in uniform, with a fierce counte- nance ; he fights for all : fourth is a physician, with great wig and solemn phiz and boluses and juleps in his hand ; he kills or cures all : the fifth and last is the farmer, with his settled, thoughtful countenance ; he pays for all. In this form the sign is clearly intended as a compliment to " the country interest," and would scarcely be displayed in London, the seat of " the court interest." Curwen's next stopping-place was in fact Marlborough, but he does not appear to have noted a repetition of this sign, due perhaps to his giving his whole attention to the grounds and gardens of the famous Castle Inn, which he describes in some detail. J. PAUL DE CASTRO. PRINCIPAL LONDON TAVERNS or THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: "THE SWAN TAVERN," CHELSEA (12 S. vi. 144; x. 96). The solution to the apparent discrepancy re- marked by MR. ST. JOHN BROOKS in the devises of Oct. 11, 1770, and April 4, 1794, lies in the fact that meanwhile, in 1780, the original Old Swan Tavern, which had stood at the southern end of Swan Walk 011 the eastern side of Sir Hans Sloane's Physic Garden was converted into a brewery," and that the second or White Swan Tavern was built on the western side of the garden, which would bring it almost within Cheyne Walk. There are people still alive who remember the newer " Old Swan." It does not appear to be generally known that Tobias Smollett frequented the older house. Writing to Alexander Reid, surgeon, on Aug. 3, 1763, he begs to be remembered to his old friends at the Swan. J. PAUL DE CASTRO. " TIME WITH A GIFT OF TEARS " (12 S. X. 18, 54, 96). This passage is not the only, or even the first, occasion on which Swinburne used the figure (whatever it is called) of transposing the attributes of a pair of en- tities. I remember, when ' Atalanta in Calydon ' was first published, John Coning - ton, who was then Professor of Latin at Oxford, instancing as an earlier -example of this literary waywardness two lines of an earlier tour de force composed by Swinburne, called " The Woodlouse," which ran - I remember all the future I prefigure all the past. JOHN R. MAGRATH. ERGHUM (12 S. x. 9, 55, 99). A canon of Lincoln described as Magister Radulphus de Ergum, Erghom, Yergom, is frequently mentioned in the capitular Acta in the fourteenth century. He was cited as canon in May, 1331, was appointed custos choristarum April 8, 1352, and occurs fre- quently as witnessing to proceedings in chapter from 1337 to 1355. He is not mentioned in Hardy's ' Le Neve,' nor is there anything in the Acta to show which prebend he held, so far as I have noted. J. T. F. Winterton, Lines.