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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. SEPT. ao. me.

impostor Simon Magus, that I turned out of ollioc.

Julius. Enough of this. T am Julius, the Ligurian, P.M., as you can see by the letters if you can 'read.

Peter. P.M. What is that? Pestis Maxima?

Julius. Pontifex Maxinvus, you rascal.

Peter. If you are three times Maximus, if you are Mercury Trismegistus, you can't come in unless yoxi are Optimus too.

Julius. Impertinence ! You, who have been no more than Sanctus all these ages and I Sanctissi- mus, Sanctissimus Dominus, Sanctitas, Holiness itself, with Bulls to show it.

Peter. Is there no difference between being Holy and being called Holy ? Ask your flatterers who called you these fine names to give you ad- mittance. Let me look at you a little closer. Hum ! Signs of impiety in plenty, and none of the other thing. Who are these fellows behind you ? Faugh ! They smell of stews, drinkshops, and gunpowder. Have you brought goblins out of Tartarus to make war with heaven ? Yourself, too, are not precisely like an apostle. Priest's cassock and bloody armour below it, eyes savage, mouth insolent, forehead brazen, body scarred with sins all over, breath loaded with wine, health broken with debauchery. Ay, threaten as you will, I will tell you what you are for all your bold looks. You are Julius the Emperor come back from hell.

And so the dialogue proceeds, but Julius does not succeed in his endeavour to persuade Peter to allow him to enter. There is much more of the same sort of discussion between the Pope and the Janitor. This, perhaps, is enough to show the trend of the argument. W. W. GLENNY.

According to my memory of the Toole and Irving anecdote, MB. ATKINSON (ante, p. 177) has omitted an important point. As I heard it many years ago, Toole produced his invented dream in a speech, in which he proposed the health of his intimate friend Irving, to the great delight of a festive company, of whom Irving of course was one, fully appreciating his friend's fun.

Some, perhaps fifteen, years ago there was a conversation in one of the smoking-rooms of the House of Commons, in which came up our old friend, the derivation of " John

Dory." A certain M.P., Sir ,

gave his knowledge somewhat as follows :

" John Dory, perfectly simple ; you know there is a mark on each side of the fish ; these are the marks of the finger and thumb of St. Peter : St. Peter was the doorkeeper of heaven, in Italian janitore ; there you are, Janitore, John Dory."

I have spelt the word like the Latin janitor. There is, as far as I know, no such word as janitore, gianitore, or giannitore in Italian. I am not trying to revive any dis- cussion as to the derivation of John Dory. The late Prof. Skeat has dealt with it in his dictionaries. ROBERT PIEBPOINT.

THOMAS PANTON (12 S. ii. 108). I !>. Thomas Panton of Charles II. 's Life, Guards was a successful gamester who, " having in one night won a sum sufficient to ensure him an estate worth 1,500/. a year, never tempted Fortune again, but acquired a positive aversion to both cards and dice." Chester's ' Westminster Abbey Registers,' p. 214 (quoted by Dalton).

His son Thomas Panton was made captain in the Queen's Regiment of Horse (1st Dragoon Guards), April 20, 1695, and held that regimental rank until he became lieutenant-colonel thereof, 1715, to March 26, 1718. He was on the Staff as A.D.C. to the Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim, 1704, and as such received the Blenheim Bounty of 30/., together with 64Z. 10s. regimental bounty, March, 1705. He served in a like capacity at Malplaquet, Sept. 11, 1709, where he was wounded. He was promoted brevet lieutenant-colonel of horse, Oct. 25, 1703 ; brevet colonel of horse, Jan. 1, 1706 ; brigadier-general, Feb. 12, 1711 ; major- general, May 1, 1730 ; lieutenant-general, Nov. 5, 1735 ; and was serving as brigadier at Ghent, Nieuport, and Bruges in 1713. He was an equerry to Queen Anne, 1707 to 1714, and to George I. and George II., 1714 to April, 1743, with a salary of 300Z. a year. He died July 20, 1753. His son, Thomas Panton junior, was made cornet of his father's troop of the Queen's Horse, Feb. 12, 1711, and is given in the ' Court and City Register,' 1750, amongst " A List of the Officers and Servants under the Master of the Horse," as follows : " For keeping six Running- Horses at Newmarket, Tho. Panton, Esq. ; 600Z. a y." In ' The True State of England,' 1734, he appears as " Thomas Panton, Esq. : for keeping Six Race Horses at Newmarket, with all Necessaries, 500Z. per Ann." He held this post until 1782. (His predecessor Tregonnel Frampton was paid 1,OOOZ. by George I. in 1727 for keeping ten racehorses.) Henry Panton, Esq., senior of the three Pages of Honour to the King (salary 260Z.) in 1734, was presumably his brother. W. R. W.

GRAVE OF MARGARET GODOLPHIN (12 S. ii. 129, 176, 218). I should be grateful if YGREC (see ante, p. 218) would enlarge on the subject of the taking up of the coffin in 1891.

1. Why was it done ?

2. Was it replaced in the same spot ?

3. Was the coffin opened ?

4. Does Lord Godolphin's (her husband's) dust lie with hers as she wished, &c. ?

5. If the coffin was opened, was the (em balmed) body found intact, &c. ? IKONA.