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find his name in any ( 'k-rgy Li>t of the period. I shall be glad to know about his university, college, degree, and employment after he left India. FRANK PENNY.

3 Park Hill, Baling, W.

MARSEILLES HARBOUR FROZEN. Can any reader of ' X. & Q.' kindly inform me if there is any record of the harbour at Marseilles having been frozen some time during the eighteenth century ? To me it seems in- credible. A. T. CROSSE.

Arthur's, St. James's Street, S.W.

" GREAT- COUSIN." Your readers have always been so kindly encouraged to note any new or uncommon words that I hope I may ask if the word given in The Times of Sept. 4 is known beyond the Xorth of England.

In a paragraph concerning the will of a Blackburn lady we read that she left a legacy to her " great-cousin." I am fairly conversant with family records, but I never saw this word before.

I should be grateful to any one who could inform me whether it refers to the third or fourth generation, i.e., whether the ladies descended from a couple who were their grandparents or their great -grandparents.

Y. T.

" THE FREEDOM OF A CITY IN A GOLD

BOX." What are the earliest records of the presentation of the freedom of a city in the now accustomed " gold box " ? The London Gazette of July 7-10, 1679, contained the following :

" Edenburg, July 3. This evening his Grace the Duke of Bucclugh and Monmouth was Treated by the City at a very noble Collection of Meats ana Fruits, after which the Lord Provost presented his (irace with the Freedom of this City, the Letters being in a large Gold Box."

Horace Walpole's famous reference to the elder Pitt, " For some weeks it rained gold boxes," suggests how firmly this practice, when freedoms were presented, had become rooted by the middle of the eighteenth century. ALFRED F. BOBBINS.

' THE COMIC ALB RICH.' This was an Oxford skit published in 1866, and addressed to undergraduates as an invitation " to chop Logic instead of cutting it." The author is doubtless the late H. D. Traill, who describe? himself as " the Angelic Doctor." The illustrations by " the Subtle Ditto " leave greater room for doubt. They may have been by Sidney Hall, who was Train's friend and contemporary at Oxford. Presumably many of the personages are real, for Dean

Vfansel is plainly and Prof. Wall vaguely recognizable. Can any of your readers give nformation, especially on the identity of ' the Subtle Ditto " ? The illustrator seems o have been gifted with prophetic powers, ?resent day is seen working in the field.
 * or in one sketch a lady in the garb of the

L. G. R. Bournemouth.

Acco. Can any one tell me something of Acco ? I met her in my childhood in the Heathen Mythology ' section of ' Mang- nall's Questions,' and, as far as I can remember, have never found her elsewhere. She was introduced as being " an old woman remarkable for talking to herself at the glass,, and refusing what she most wished for."

ST. SWITHIN.

ST. XEWLYN EAST. In the churchyard of this Cornish parish there is a cross bearing the inscription : " God's visitation of Xewlyn 1880. Psalms 130-134." I have heard that an epidemic raged in Xewlyn in 1880, and shall be obliged to any correspondent who- will kindly give me full details. The cross is not of the usual Cornish pattern, and appears to be an old one restored.

F. GODFERY.

Larnaca, Argyll Road, Boseombe, Hants.

A MEDIEVAL HYMN. In a book on stained glass in Rouen which was published in 1832, Langlois, a French author, describes a panel representing the Annunciation (formerly in St. Leu Church, Paris) as one of the joys of the Blessed Virgin, and quotes- one strophe from an ancient hymn which he attributes, I do not know why. to St. Thomas a Becket :

Gaude, Virgo, mater Christi, Quse per aurem concepisti, Gabriele nuntio.

I should be pleased to know if the other strophes are to be found. What about the date and attribution to St. Thomas ? It seems to be very improbable.

PIERRE TTTRPIN.

TINSEL PICTURES. Being interested in old tinselled portraits of actors and actresses. I should be pleased to learn the name of the publisher of theatrical prints who first introduced and supplied the tinsel foil; ornaments for the embellishment of the same. I should also be glad to know if there i? any collection of these old tinselled portrait- in any public gallery or museum in the country. I have seen those in the London. Museum. ANDREW J. GRAY..

138 Durham Road, Wimbledon, S.W.