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Some years ago I copied all the inscriptions iii Stepney Church and all the more impor- tant ones in the adjoining churchyard. I presented many copies in slip to readers of ' X. cV Q.' 1 was at the time quite familiar with Limehous3 Church and churchyard, and it was my intention to carry out a similar work there ; but removal from London rendered this impossible. So far as I am aware the task has never been accomplished, and I am truly sorry to learn of the present neglected condition of these valuable memorials of the past. JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

THE BUTCHER'S RECORD (12 S. ii. 265). At the above reference MR. BULLOCH gives the Aberdeen edition of The People's Journal for Aug. 29, 1916, as the authority for the world's record in slaughtering cattle, where it is stated that three men (there named) killed and dressed three cattle in 17 minutes and 11 seconds, the individual times for each animal being : 5 min. 57 sec. ; 5 min. 55 sees. ; and 5 mins. 18 sees., respectively. It is not stated, however, whether each animal was killed and dressed by a single man, or whether the three men participated in the slaughtering, &c., of each animal.

I remember when passing through Chicago, nearly twenty years ago, going to see one of the sights of the world, as it was then considered, at Armour's slaughter-yards, in which several thousands of cattle, sheep, and pigs were killed and dressed in the space of three to four hours of a morning. I asked the attendant who showed us round if he could tell me what was the shortest time in other words, the record that any man had taken in killing and dressing ready for market a particular beast. I understood him to say that a really clever man with his dresser or helper (I think there was only one) could kill and dress a beast within 5 minutes, but there had been one man there of ex- ceptional skill and activity who had done the same in from 3 to 4 minutes. That would be, I think, from the time the animal was handed over to him from the truck where it had been pole-axed.

J. S. UDAL.

NEGRO, OR COLOURED, BANDSMEN IN THE ARMY (12 S. ii. 303). In his ' British Military Prints' (1909) Mr. Ralph Nevill says that early in the nineteenth century there were about four or five black musicians in the Grenadier Guards' band, who wore special costumes and turbans ; that they were not abolished, but died out about 1838, when the last survivor, " Francis," who was the

drummer, died ; and that Francis used to- sport a silver collar as a special distinction,, which ha.s apparently been lost, not having- been for years in the hands of the regiment. Mr. Xevill's illustrations include " Grenadier- Guards, Drummer (1829), from a lithograph by E. Hull," showing in black and white a coloured man in English uniform, with white- trousers, but wearing a high turban, with lofty plume resting upon a crescent fixed on. the turban's front.

I have several small hand-coloured con- temporary lithographs depicting scenes at Queen Victoria's coronation in 1838, one of them showing members of a Guards' band playing in front of Buckingham Palace,. with a black drummer in blue jacket and yellow breeches and turban. W. B. H.

'THE LONDON MAGAZINE' (12 S. ii. 149,. 198). I think this first appeared in 1732" as an imitator of The Gentleman's Magazine^ started the previous year, and it met with deserved success, some of its plates, especially of American places, being still sought after.. I believe it lasted till 1770 or 1780. Another excellent rival was The Scots Magazine,. which had a long run from 1739 to 1817.. The European Magazine, also noted for its fine plates, ran from about 1780 to 1826.

W. R. W.

WORLD'S JUDGMENT (4 S. vii. 456 ; viii. 197). As it is never too late to mend,, and suum cuique tribuere, let me correct an erroneous reply given to a query concerning the author of the saying : " Die Weltge- schichte ist das Weltgericht." It is not Goethe, but Schiller to whom it is originally due. Cf. Schiller's poem 'Resignation' (last line of last stanza but one). This first appeared in 1786, when Schiller was in the- 27th year of his life. H. KREBS.

BRASSEY (BRACE Y) FAMILY (12 S. ii. 269,. 333). The following appears in the Subsidy Roll for Hertfordshire, 1545 : " Hertyngford- bery : John Bracye, in goodes vijli. xiijrf." R. FREEMAN BULLEN.

Bow Library, E.

MARSHALS OF FRANCE (12 S. ii. 182, 235,. 279). As the omissions in the list given are very numerous, it would be well to consult some of the authorities for the earlier history of the Marshals, such as Jean Le Feron r Bernard Gerard, Jean du Tillet, Denis Godefroi, Jean Pinson de la Martiniere, P. Anselme, Louis Moreri, Andre Favin, Boxiteillier, Faucher, M. A. Mathas, and Andre de Chesne. R. B.

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