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 12 s. ii. AUG. 26, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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' THE WORKING-MAN'S WAY IN THE WORLD ' (12 S. i. 468 ; ii. 16, 110). I wonder if it is possible after so long a time to identify

the clergyman, " Dr. D e," mentioned

in ' The Working-Man's Way in the World.' Or is anything known of the work of which he was the author ?

The Doctor resided (in the thirties) at

Prospect Villa, near F d, sixteen or

seventeen miles from Bristol, in the direction of Bath, and, purchasing press and types, he had a small printing-office fitted up at his Tiome in order that Charles Manby Smith might privately print his book.

Vague hints are given as to the locality of the Doctors residence, but the only clue offered to the identity of the Doctor himself is the statement : "he had long left off preaching himself, having resigned his living in Hampshire in favour of his eldest son."

Regarding the nature of his work, Smith writes :

" When all things were ready to begin, the Doctor produced his manuscripts. These were mostly in the shape of sermons, enveloped in black shining covers. They had been written, and no doubt preached, as sermons ; but they had been digested into somewhat lengthy essays, or disquisitions, by means of liberal erasures and interlineations, and comprised altogether, the good man informed me, a complete exposition of the fundamental doctrines of Christianity, and a vindication of the creed and practice of the Church of England."

By the middle of March, 1831, Smith had printed the first volume, amounting to above four hundred pages. " By the time the harvest was reaped and carried " he had finished the second volume. The third and fourth volumes were completed in the course of the next twelve months. The manuscript for the fifth volume not being in a condition for the press, Smith left the Doctor in March, 1833, to seek employment in London, and did not again visit Bristol for three years, when he returned to be married. He after- wards settled in London, and if the fifth volume of the work appeared, it is hardly probable that it was printed by Smith.

Only once does he refer to the Doctor's book after leaving him in 1833. The Doctor, his wife, and Smith's sweetheart, together paid a short visit to London in 1835, and, referring to their departure for home, Smith states :

" I packed Ellen and the Doctor and his lady, together with a hundred of his volumes of divinity, which he had taken the opportunity of his visit to town to get substantially bound, into the Old Company's coach one cold, starlight morning."

Nowhere does Smith give a hint as to the title of the book. The size was post octavo,

the text in small pica, the notes in brevier, and only about seventy copies were printed. Can any reader of 'X. & Q.' identify either the Doctor or his work ?

B. GRIME.

GORGES BRASS (12 S. i. 488 ; ii. 13, 138). If MR. DENNY wishes for further information as to the Gorges family he may find it in Thorne George's ' De Georges Pedigree and History of the Families of George and Gorges.' I refer him specially to p. 178. This book was issued in 1898 by Kentfield & Harris of Folkestone. It is in the B.M., but is not catalogued under Gorges (as it should be). It appears under De Georges. A. L. HUMPHREYS.

187 Piccadilly, W.

THE LION RAMPANT OF SCOTLAND (12 S. ii. 71, 138). A red lion within a red double tressure on a gold field was the banner of the King of Scots, and now forms a quarter of the banner of the King of Britain. This flag is strictly analogous to the three lions of the Kings of England ; both flags are royal banners, and not " national flags " in the ordinary sense of the term. The national flags of England and Scotland are respec- tively the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew. The crosses have always been the national flags. In 1606, and again in 1707, they were combined to form the national flag of Great Britain ; St. Patrick's cross was added in 1801, making the British flag of to-day. Cromwell used the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew in the great seal of the Commonwealth instead of the royal lions. It is true that the so-called " Scottish Standard " (lion rampant) is frequently flown by undiscerning people in Scotland ; it is a fancy flag, and " 'cute " commercialism has prompted English and German flag- makers to foist it on Scotland. But the misuse of this royal flag is condemned by all authorities. See the booklet ' The Scottish Flags ' (St. Andrew Society, Glas- gow), also ' Heraldry in Scotland,' a large work published by MacLehose, Glasgow. JOHN A. STEWART.

The St. Andrew Society, Glasgow.

I do not think that the " lion rampant " can ever have been considered to be the national flag or banner of Scotland. That is Azure, a salt ire (or cross of St. Andrew) argent.

May I refer your correspondent to an article of mine on ' St. Andrew's Cross ' at 10 S. x. 91, where I give an extract from Lord Bosebery's very interesting and amus- ing address to the children of the Edinburgh