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the work on enamel. I advise your corre- spondent to look at Boerhave's ' Elementa Chemica,' 1732. A full list of the works by Hollandus is given in Ferguson's ' Biblio- theca Chemica,' one of the most valuable bibliographies of modern times. I have found the notes in this book of great value, and what I write now gives but a poor idea of the wealth of reference to be found in it. A. L. HUMPHREYS.

Yet another authority on the subject, and where it will be found most fully described, is ' The Handmaid to the Arts,' the second edition, vol. i., London, printed for J. Nourse, bookseller in ordinary to his "Majesty, 1744. At section iii. pp. 278 to 362, the method of preparing and using all the colours and other substances employed in -painting in enamel is explained, how each colour is to be used being treated separately. The author is Robert Dossie.

HAROLD MALET, Col.

COL. HON. JOHN SCOTT, TEMP. CHARLES I. (12 S. iii. 51). A Lieut. -Col. Scot was killed at the Battle of Alresford, which took ^place on March 29, 1644. No other officer of the name appears in the various lists of Royalist officers who lost their lives during the Civil Wars. This information is taken from an old broadside, dated 1660, entitled Knights, Commanders, &c., that were slain in the late wars, &c.' This list is reprinted in Prestwich's ' Respublica.' No reference ~to Scott appears in ' The Loyal Martyrology,' T>y William Winstanley, 1665.
 * The Royal Martyrs. A List of the Lords,

RICHARD HOLWORTHY.

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FOLK-LORE : THE ANGELICA (12 S. iii. 51, -259). A former note of mine answering this query does not appear to have reached the Editor. The name angelica was undoubtedly given to the plant on account of its supposed many virtues, though there is a tradition that these were first revealed by an angel. iDu Bartas gives the reason for the name -thus, as englished by Sylvester : Angelica, that happy counter-baen, 'Sent down from Heav'n by some celestial scout, As well the name and nature both avow 't.

As for the name archangelica, the ' N.E.D.' says no explanation of its application to the dead nettle and black horehound is known ; but why should not the same reason apply in this case as in the other ? Lemery and several of our English herbalists give this name, too, to the angelica, and Lemery gives ^is the reason : "On appelle cette Pfante

Angelique ou Archangelique, a cause des grandes vertus qu'elle possede" ; and though the dead nettle had hardly such a reputation in medicine, it, too, has a long string of " virtues." Notably, Gerard says : " The distilled water of them is used to make the heart merry, to make a good colour in the face, and to refresh the vitall spirits." A plant that could do this is surely deserving of any name we might be moved to give it.

C. C. B,

THE KNIFEGRINDER (12 S. iii. 210). The knifegrinder's barrow was in common use in Dr. Johnson's day. See Boswell's ' Life,' vol. ii. p. 331 ("Everyman's Library" edition), where the Doctor is represented as criticizing a project of Goldsmith's to go to Aleppo in order to acquire a knowledge of any arts peculiar to the East : " Sir, he would bring home a grinding-barrow, which you see in every street in London, and think that he had furnished a wonderful improve- ment." The 'N.E.D.' does not illustrate this use of " barrow."

EDWARD BENSLY.

" LOCK"=LAZAR-HOTJSE (12 S. iii. 210). The 'N.E.D.' says :

" Lock, more fully Lock-hospital. A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases. The ' Lock lazar - house ' in Southwark, which is mentioned as having received a bequest in 1452, was afterwards employed as a hospital for venereal diseases, and its name came to be used as a general designation for institutions of that kind. The origin of the name is uncertain ; it has been conjectured that the ' Lock lazar-house ' was so called as being specially isolated or quarantined."

Smollett and others are then quoted. The expression en loques = in rags and tatters, is still used, according to the French dic- tionary. A. R. BAYLEY.

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY BURIED AT HAUTERIVE, SWITZERLAND (12 S. iii. 149). I cannot find any Archbishop of Canter- bury who is stated to have been buried at Hauterive. Archbishop Boniface of Savoy, uncle of Henry III.'s queen, died on July 18, 1270, and was buried in the burying-place of the Savoy house at Hautecombe, while on his way out with Prince Edward to the Holy Land on Crusade. A. R. BAYLEY.

GREATEST RECORDED LENGTH OF SER- VICE (12 S. ii. 327, 397, 412 ; iii. 258). I do not know whether the following touches the point of the original query- ; but, for length of service (with two between), reference jto my article in ' N. & Q.' at 11 S. v. 283 will show that Jerome Knapp was appointed Clerk of Assize for the Home Circuit in 1747 ;