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 494 NOTES AND QUERIES. r 12 s.x. JUNE 24,1922. but I have nothing to prove this, nor do I know if he was the same person as the one referred to by your correspondent. Judging from the dress the sitter is not in uniform the portrait would date about 1835, and the printer's name appears to be B. J. Rauh. FREDERIC CROOKS. Eccleston Park, Prescot. SALAD (12 S. x. 389, 436, 473). There does not appear to be any particular reason why a salad should require a madman (or madcap) to mix it. The point in the tail of the saying, as I have heard it both in Italy and in England, appears to be missed in the examples given in your columns. The usual form is, I believe, " a spendthrift for the oil, a miser for the vinegar, a counsellor for the salt, and [=then] any fool can mix it." The Italians are very happy in such sayings as, for instance, their desiderata for coffee, " Black as the devil, hot as hell, and sweet as honey " and always have been ; " Vino di mezzo, oglio di sopra, e mele di sotto," has an ancestry as old at least as Macrobius ( Sat.,' vii. 12). The French consider that a salad, even if prepared secundum artem, requires a correc- tive, hence their proverb : Qui vin ne boit apres salade Est en danger d'etre malade. Burton ('Anatomy of Melancholy') con- demns the salad meal of Italians and Spaniards, even though the salad be qualified by oil, and quotes Plautus against these coenas terrestres : Hie homines tarn breyem vitam colunt Qui herbas hujusmodi in alvum suum congerunt, Formidolosum dictu, non esu modo Quas herbas pecudes non edunt, homines edunt. RORY FLETCHER. CLARENCE GORDON (" VIEUX MOUSTACHE " (12 S. x. 349). I do not find the death of this writer recorded in any of the American necrologies of recent date ; but ' Who's Who in America ' refers his name back to vol. viii. (1914-15), where his entry ceases ; so that he probably died at that time. As Appleton's ' Cyclopedia of American Biography ' states, he held the post of " special agent to the U.S. Census Bureau in 1879-83 in charge of the investigation of meat production in the grazing States." I conclude the Clarence W. Gordon inquired for, who wrote the pamphlet in 1883 on ' Live Stock Farms, 1880,' was his son. ' *^ X. W. HILL. San Francisco. "HAY SILVER" (12 S. x. 409, 454). I am much obliged to MR. SELF-WEEKS and also to MR. STRACHAN for their replies to my query. I fear there is little I can add. The parchment came from a man whose father and grandfather had been lay rectors and also churchwardens they lived in an old parsonage or rectorial house and were lessees of the rectorial tithe, under the prebendal rector, between 1820 and 1880 and with it was another parchment headed ' A List of Commoners, Yatton, 1720.' Both these parchments may have been handed on, with other papers, from former lay rectors or churchwardens. As vestries at that time appointed the "Hayward," the list might have been prepared by a church- warden. In view of the fact that very few of the payments (hay silver) exceeded iii d, it seems unlikely they could have anything to do with " a tithe charge of one shilling an acre on mown land," especially as Lord Poulett, who was lord of the manor and owner of over a thousand acres, only paid xd. H. C. BARNARD. The Grey House, Yatton, Somerset. " BOMENTEEK " (12 S. viii. 510 ; ix . 39, 77, 96.) -I distinctly recollect this word being used, fifty-five years ago, by workmen in my father's foundry, as the name of a compound which was used for filling up blow-holes in iron castings. The compound was made up of iron filings, sal-ammoniac and sulphur, which, in a hardish, pasty i condition, was rolled into a ball of suitable j size and pushed into the hole so as to fill it i up. The compound became hard, and if wetted would rust over, making it difficult I for the patch to be observed. The word " Bomenteek " was then looked on as a corruption of " Beaumont egg," Beaumont having been the original inventor. R. MURRAY WIGHT. Hammersmith. ADRIAN STOKES (12 S. x. 409, 474). I G. R. will find all that is known about j Adrian Stokes (including his will, inquisition I post mortem, &c.) in ' Miscellanea Genea- logica Heraldica,' 4th series, vol. ii., passim. He should also refer to ' Some Notes on the Stokes Family,' by Arthur Schomberg, and to Nichols's ' Leicestershire,' ! Hundred of East Goscote, sub. Beaumanor. W. G. D. FLETCHER, F.S.A. Oxon Vicarage, Shrewsbury.