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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S,IL NOV. n, iwe.

IRISH ( VOLUNTEER) CORPS c. 1780. Can any reader give me information about the following corps : ( 1 ) The Killarney Indepen- dent Light Horse; (2) The Tipperary Light Horse ; (3) The Tipperary Light Infantry ?

They appear to have been independent Irish Volunteer Corps, and to have existed about 1782, but not to have had official recognition, as I cannot trace them in any Army Lists of the period.

S. G. EVERITT, Major.

New Barracks, Lincoln.

COLOURED BOOK-WRAPPERS. Is anything being done by librarians to preserve the coloured paper wrappers which now enclose cloth-bound books, notably novels ? Some of them are admirably drawn and reproduced in colour, and often constitute the sole illustration of a volume. In rebinding a book I have adopted the method of getting the front cloth cover or back pasted on to the inside of the back board, but so far have not tackled the preservation of the paper cover.

J. M. BULLOCH.

MAYORAL TRAPPINGS. In which boroughs in the United Kingdom do mayors wear a scarf, stole, or tippet of office, and of what material is it made ? E. BEAUMONT.

Brinsop Grange, Oxford.

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LEAD-TANK LET- TERING. Can any one explain

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on a solid lead tank dated 1716, 45 in. long and 30 in. high, with a blazing phoenix over a crown twice stamped on it ? The side with all this on it is also much ornamented. It is believed that there are other specimens of the same work and nature in Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn Gardens. This one is in a private gentleman's garden at Hampstead.

H. C N.

[Our correspondent has sent us a drawing of this tank, which we shall be glad to forward to any one who will undertake to return it.]

' THE CHELTENHAM GUIDE.' Who was the author ? It reads like Anstey in The New Bath Guide,' and the author's intent is to carry the characters from Bath to Cheltenham. XYXOGRAPHER.

THE SIR WILLIAM PERKINS SCHOOL, CHERTSEY. Is there any biography, or pedi- gree, of this founder ? *I see that Sir Albert Rollit recently discovered that Sir William had no crest or arms an unusual thing for a man in his position and consequently the school governors are considering what is to

be done about his supposed arms on the school. What are these ? What is called " the Prussian eagle " figures in them. As "an eagle displayed " appears in the coat of the old armigerous family of the same name, of Orton Hall, Leicestershire, he may have been thought to belong to it. One member of this family was Sir William Perkins, mentioned at US. ix. 25, who was born 1638, and was executed for high treason, 1696. CHARLES S. KING, Bt.

St. Leonards-on-Sea.

RIGHT HON. SIR ANDREW RICHARD SCOBLE, K.C.S.I., K.C. He died on Jan. 1 of this year. Born in London (1831), he was the second son of John Scoble (the name is apparently also found as Scobell), of Kings- bridge, Devon, sometime member of the Provincial Parliament of Canada. Where could I find a pedigree of this family ?

J. E. D. HILL, General.

THIRLWALL, 1536, CHAPLAIN TO QUEEN ANNE BOLEYN. What is known of him ? What was his Christian name ? He is said to be the author of an account of her last days, printed at Antwerp in 1547. What is the title of this book, and where may a copy be seen ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

" JOHN PRINE, 1568." Who was the man who left this inscription in the Beauchamp Tower of the Tower of London, with the addition : Verbum Domini manet ?

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

AUTHORS WANTED. A French lady asked her correspondent at what age the education of her child should begin. The sage asked the age of her infant. The answer was, let us say, three. " Then, madam," he replied, " you have begun three years too late." Where is this story told ? C. S.

Who wrote

Out of the stress of the doing Into the peace of the done?

EDWARD COWARD. 17 Waterloo Place, Leamington Spa.

BIBLE AND SALT. According to an acquaintance of mine, between fourteen and fifteen years ago a Lancashire man of good position brought a Bible, and some salt also, carefully packed, from his native county to a house which one of his relations had taken in Lincolnshire. The action, which was carried out seriously, seemed to depend on some traditional reason not clear to my informant. The salt was put into the kitchen. In which room the Bible was left