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to be found. This circumstance is mentioned for the information of strangers unacquainted with the Police of the Metropolis ; to whom it is recom- mended, in case of fire, or any accident or distur- bance requiring the assistance of the civil power, to apply immediately to the officer of the night, at the nearest watch-house, or to the watchman on the beat." P. 216.

In many towns and villages what was known elsewhere as a Watch House was called a " lock-up." I know of one such place in a small country town, which consisted of a <lirty hole under the Market House.

Besides the works already referred to I have drawn facts from C. J. Feret's ' History of Fulham ' and Hill and Frere's ' Stepney.' A. L. HUMPHREYS.

187 Piccadilly, W.

The four " round-houses " referred to at p. 113 are at Breedon-on-t he-Hill arid Packington, Leicestershire, and at Smisby and Tickenhall. Derbyshire. The first two adjoin more or less ruinous pinfolds. A local work of 1907 says of the round-houses that " the style of building seems peculiar to the Midlands," and that there is another example at Snarestone, Leicestershire.

W. B. H.

MARSH ALS OF FBANCE (12 S. ii. 182). There were apparently two Marshals Biron, vide " Memoirs of the Reign of Queen THizabeth. . . .from the Original Papers of his intimate friend Anthony Bacon, Esquire, by Thomas Birch, D.D. MDCCLIV."

Foot-note at p. 19 of vol. i. :

" Armand Gontault de Biron, Marshal of France, father of the duke de Biron ; killed at the siege of Espernay in July, 1592."

Footnote, p. 234 :

"Charles de Gontaut, dukede Biron, admiral and marshal of France, son of Armand de (ion taut,

marshal of France beheaded in the Bastile,

31" July, 1602."

As to Turenne, the date^ given are wrong, according to Birch :

41 Turenne in 1591 became duke of Bouillon and

prince of Sedan and the year following was made

marshal of France. He died 25 th March, 1623."

GEO. WALPOLE.

A good many additions to the list pub- lished could be gleaned from the following : Le Feron, ' Catalogue des illustres mares- ehaux de France,' Paris, 1555 ; and the edition of the same edited by D. Godefroy, 1658. Moreri, ' Grand dictionnaire,' nou- velle edition, Paris, 1759, vii. pp. 218-20.

SICILE.

These lists may be considerably augmented from the French almanacs published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Almanack Royal for 1769 gives the following names, in addition to those mentioned by MR. CHEETHAM :

1741. M. de Duras.

1746. M. de Balincourt. 16SO-

1747. M. de Clermont-Tonnerre, 1688- 1757. M. de Seneetere, 1685-

1757. M. de Biron. 17">7. M. d'Estrees.

1758. M. de Bercheny, 1689- 1758. M. de Constans, 1690- 1758. M. de Contades, 1704- 1768. M. de Lorges.

1768. M. d'Armantieres 1711- 1768. M. de Brissac.

In this list the date of appointment of the Due de Richelieu is given as Oct. 11, 1748, and that of the Due de Broglie, Dec. 16, 1759.

The Almanack de la Cour for 1818 gives the following additional names :

M. le due de Conegliano. M. le due de Trevise. M. le prince d'Eckmuhl. M. le due de Bel une. M. le due de Tarente. M. le due de Reggio. M. le due de Raguse. M. le due d'Albufera. M. le marquis de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr. M. le due de Valmy. M. le due de Dantzick. M. le due de Feltre.

Both these lists give also the address of the Marshals' Paris residence.

H. J. B. CLEMENTS. Killadoon, Celbridge.

UNCUT PAPER (12 S. ii. 187). I have two letters of the year 1654/5 in which the edge of the paper is cut quite smooth. In others of 1626 and 1627 the edge is left rough, and they are written on a rougher quality of paper. H. J. B. CLEMENTS.

SNOB AND GHOST (12 S. ii. 109). Is not "snob"=a botching tailor, and "ghost" a perversion of his tool a " goose " = flat- iron ? SUSANNA CORNER.

Waverley Military Hospital, Farnham.

CAPT. ARTHUR CONOLLY (12 S. ii. 189). If not the first, one of the first lectui-.-s I heard in my belectured life was delivered by Dr. Joseph Wolff, and therein he related his experiences when he went to Bokhara to ascertain the fate of Capt. Conolly and Col. Stoddart, who were British envoys, suppose the matter was a salmi of his ' Mission to Bokhara,' published in 18I.V have tried to renew my acquaintance with