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that all of them should have disappeared. Can any reader tell me where any of these works are to be found ?

HYDEK E. ROLLINS. 1707 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Mass.

CALVERLEY : CHARADE IV. What is the nu-\\vr to the fourth charade in C. S. Calverley's ' Verses and Translations ' (13th ed"., 1891, Bell & Sons) ? I know the answers to the other five.

A. F. DAUGLISH.

The Vicarage, Rowley Regis, Birmingham.

TOPP FAMILY CREST. On the south wall of Tormarton Church, in Gloucestershire, is a large mural monument to the memory of Edward Topp of Whitton, Shropshire, Esquire, who died in 1699, bearing his shield of arms, and over that his crest : A gauntlet clasped, grasping a naked hand couped at the wrist, guttee de sang. It is life size, and has a most gruesome appearance in the church. What is the history of this crest ? There is evidently some legend attached, but I find no mention of it in any of the heraldic works I have consulted, viz. those by Burke, Cussans, Boutell, and Fox-Davies.

CURIOUS.

" PANTS, AMICITIJE SYMBOLUM." Paulinus of Nola to St. Augustine, and St. Augustine in return to Paulinus, sent bread as a symbol of friendship. Was this purely a Christian custom ? If not, from what pagan custom and, in particular, when and where was it first adopted? Was it a common practice in the Church, or the peculiar practice of a few individuals ? In the ' Vita S. Augustini ' in Migne's ' Patrologia ' the words, " Ad eum [sc. Augustinum] vicissim panem, ut ipsi mos erat, dono mittit, amicitiae et eiusdem com- munionis symbolum," might imply that this was merely a graceful invention on the part of Paulinus. Are there any other ex- amples ? R. E.

THE " DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES." This is to the effect that the medicinal properties of plants are indicated by their shapes or colours. What is the origin of this ? and is the doctrine extant, and if so, where ?

ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.

FOLK-LORE : RED HAIR. What account can be given of the prejudice against red hair ? Among what peoples does it pre- vail ? Is it a fact that red-haired people are generally treacherous and deceitful beyond the rest of mankind ? When of the female sex, they appear to be particularly nice and kind. ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.

DARCY, MASTER OF THE KING'S ARTIL- LERY. In Burke's ' Extinct Peerage ' of 1866, p. 157, the following occurs : " Sir Thomas Darcy, Knt., b. 1506, who in the 36th Henry VIII. was constituted Master of the King's Artillery within the Tower of London," &c. Does any warrant of appoint- ment exist ? Information is asked for regarding this appointment. Darcy was advanced to the peerage in 1551 as Baron Darcy of Chiche, and was made a Knight of the Garter in the same year. He died iix 1558. J. H. LESLIE.

" CHECK " AND " CHEQUE." What is the origin of the word " cheque," and how came it to be so spelt ?

"Check" is the older, and therefore the more correct form. I have an autograph letter of Frederick Yates, the actor, dated 1838, in which the word is spelt " check.' T It is invariably so spelt in America.

REGINALD ATKINSON.

Forest Hill, S.E.

[Under 'Cheque, cheek. Banking,' the 'N.E.D/ has the following : " Cheque is a differentiated spelling of check, which is also in use, especially in U.y. In meaning it; belongs to CHECK 6. 4 sense 13. Cf. also CHECK v. 1 sense 16. From being the name of the counterfoil of an Exchequer or other bill, the purpose of which was to check forgery or alteration, the name appears to have been applied to any bill, note, or draft, having a counterfoil, and thus to its present sense, where a oounterfoil (though usual) is not even necessary."]

HENRIETTE RENAN. In the editor's pre- face to Renan's pathetic little volume ' Ma Sceur Henriette ' (1895) it is stated that the letters of Henriette Renan " ne peuvent r vu leur nombre, trouver place a la sxu'te de cette publication, et donneront un jour lieu a une publication speciale." Have those letters been published, and when ?

J. B. McGovERN.

HARE AND LEFEVRE FAMILIES. I should be glad if any of your readers could tell me in which of his works the late Augustus Hare refers to his connexion with the Lefevres. It is, I think, in the preface of one of the volumes. I cannot recall which.

Lister Selman, who died in 1779, had two daughters. One married John Lefevre of Heckfield (ancestor of Lord Eversley), the other married the Rev. Mr. Hare. They were, I believe, coheiresses, though ap- parently Lister Selman by his will (P.C.C. 515 Warburton) left practically all he had to his daughter Helena LefeVre. Probably Mrs. Hare was dead already, and her portion duly allotted by settlements.