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into a salmon. As, when bound in torment underground, he caused earthquakes by struggling, his volcanic nature may have suggested that the red -fleshed fish was an appropriate shape for him to don.

It is to be noted that Jacob, not his red brother Esau, was untrustworthy. Does not general tradition consider Judas to have "been red ? B. L. R. C.

MR. ACKEBMANN will find an interesting chapter (viii.) entitled ' Red Hair ' in Mr. J. Harris Stone's ' England's Riviera.'

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

" Red-headed Danes " used to be a term of reproach in Cheshire. E. E. COPE.

[Our correspondent MR. ACKERMAKN desires us to record his protest made in a humorous letter to us against a misreading of his query. He had written, not "When of the female sex, they [i.e., red-haired persons] appear to be particularly nice and kind," but, "When of the female sex, they appear to have particularly nice skins."]

HERALDIC QUERY (12 S. ii. 70). The arms mentioned by MR. ELLIS are those of Pitt, Cureyard, co. Salop, and co. Worcester, Barry of six or and az., on a chief as the second three pierced estoiles of the first.

CURIOSUS II.

' SABRING COROLLA ' (12 S. ii. 149). One of the editors was certainly Dr. Benjamin Hall Kennedy, the Head Master of Shrews- bury School. A. R. BAYLEY.

VILLAGE POUNDS (12 S. i. 29, 79, 117, 193, 275, 416, 474 ; ii. 14, 77). There are two pounds, built of brick, at Epworth, Lincoln- shire. They are now used mainly for storing metal for the roads. C. C. B.

CHRISTOPHER URSWICK (12 S. ii. 108). A copy of Alfred von Reumont's ' La Bibliotheca Corvina,' Firenze, 1879, may be seen at the London Library, St. James's Square. E. E. BARKER.

PANORAMIC SURVEYS OF LONDON STREETS {12S. ii. 5,135). The two maps or panoramas mentioned by W. B. H. do not belong to the same category as the street views or surveys described at the first reference. These overhead or bird's-eye views must be held distinct from the pedestrian or vehicular outlook. They may be described as two points of view, the roof downwards or the pavement upward. There was some attempted merging of the two purposes in the drawings of the late H. W. Brewer, and

in a once popular guide-book, ' London in 1898.' This was reissued with change of date on title for many years, and as recently as 1913 the copyright was on offer with a large number of woodblocks and the street plans or panoramas that were the special feature of the work, and at the same time an ingenious medium for advertising.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

MRS. ANN (OR ANNE) DUTTON (12 S. ii. 147) was born at Northampton ; her maiden name was Williams. When 22 years of age she was married to a gentleman named " C." (Coles), and resided with him about five years at London and W-k (Warwick), when he was suddenly removed from her. In London Mr. John Skepp, author of ' The Divine Energy,' and pastor of Curriers' Hall, Cripplegate, who died in 1721, and was buried in Bunhill Fields, was her great friend. She married secondly Benjamin Dut- ton, a Baptist minister, living with him at Wellingboro and Whittlesea. At Wellingboro she enjoyed the friendship of Mr. W. Grant Jones, a [Baptist minister, her husband at this time being in business as a clothier, and only an occasional preacher until 1732, when he became the pastor of the Baptist Church at Great Gransden, Hunts, where a chapel and house were erected (the former of which is standing to this day). Mr. Dutton went to America to collect funds to remove the debt ; the money arrived safely, but he himself was lost at sea on his return passage, October, 1747. His widow continued to reside at Great Gransden writing her life in three parts, and many other religious works until her death, November, 1765, aged 74. Mr. Christopher Goulding of London, in 1822, erected a memorial to her memory. This falling into decay, Mr. James Knight of Southport erected another in 1884, and also at that time issued a volume of her letters (ciii), with portrait. At his death a few years later he bequeathed a volume of her MS. letters and a nearly complete set of her works to the library of the Baptist Church at Southport. Mrs. Dutton made over all her property for the good of the minister and chapel at Great Gransden.

R. H.

THE " DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES " (12 S. ii. 128). Information on this quastion will be found in'MethodusMedendi,' by Dr. W. H. Allchin (Lewis, 1908), who quotes a seven- teenth - century writer, W. Cole, on ' The Art of Simpling ' :

" Though sin and Sattan have plunged mankinde into an Ocean of Infirmities, yet the mercy of God,