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Council, the symbol of their authority, their batons. In returning them the Provost usually delivers a short homily reminding the police of their duties, and expressing the hope that they may have little occasion to use their batons during the ensuing year. The ceremony was gone through on Nov. 14, when the Provost referred to it as "an ancient custom," adding that he had never been able to find out the origin of it. Can any reader tell us ? H. B. A.

BLOOMSBURY STREET-NAMES. Why were Barter Street, Bury Street, and Silver Street, in Bloomsbury, so named ?

HENRY A. HOWARD.

YATES. I should be glad of any in- formation concerning the following names : (1) George Yates, admitted to Westminster School in 1742, aged 9. (2) James Yates, son of Thomas Yates of Charlton, co. Oxford, who graduated B.A. at Oxford from Christ Church in 1742. (3) John Yates, admitted to Westminster School in 1778. (4) Min- shull Yates, admitted on the foundation at Westminster School in 1688. (5) Thomas Yates, admitted to Westminster School in 1725, aged 8. G. F. R. B.

COVENT GARDEN GREEN-ROOM nsr 1853. Can any one tell me the name of the artist who drew in water colours a picture of the green-room at Covent Garden Theatre in 1853 ? It shows Mr. F. Gaye, the English composer, and manager of the theatre at that time, seated at the piano, accompanying a lady singer, whilst grouped around is a company of actors in costume, including Mario and Grisi. Could a member of the Gaye family oblige ? Perhaps there is a memorandum of this scene in their archives. EDWARD WEST.

SIB ANDREW MELVTLL, 1624-1706. Can any reader give information as to whether there exists a portrait of Sir Andrew Melvill, soldier of fortune, whose memoirs were published in 1704 (Amsterdam, Jacques Desbordes) ? Born 1624. Son of John Melvill and Janet Kelly. Served in Flanders, 1647-8. At Worcester, 1651. Poland, 1655-60. Hungary, 1664. Entered service of Luneburg, 1666. Fought against France, 1672-8. Married La Motte, lady-in- waiting to Electress Sophia. Came to England , 1660 ; 1667 ; also in 1680 with George Lewis of Hannover. Made M.D. at Oxford (Wood's ' Fasti,' Feb. 25, 1681). Applied for birth - brief ; granted March, 1683 (Register of Privy Council of Scotland). Transcript of

birth -brief given in ' NeuesyVaterlandisch.es Archiv,' 782. In 1685 invited by Sir John Cochrane to join Argyle's expedition (letter given in Sir William Eraser's ' House of Leven and Melville '). Died 1706.

Any further information will be acceptable, and I should be glad, since time is of im- portance, if correspondents would com- municate with me direct. JOHN LANE.

The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.I.

ROBERT DODD, MARINE PAINTER. A large - quarto ample - margined edition of William Falconer's poem ' The Shipwreck ' was published in 1811, characteristically illustrated also with pretty devices by Dodd, Was the illustrator ever a master mariner ? I should be grateful for any particulars about him. ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

Carnarvon.

J. SHAFTO : SOLOMON DAYROLLES. The former is cited in Mr. Parnell Kerr's brilliant book entitled ' George Selwyn and the Wits.' The latter is referred to by the Whartons in their lively account of the Restoration period, &c., in a work published in 1861, ' The Wits and Beaux of Society.' I have an idea they were members of the Hebrew cdmmunity. Am I correct in this ?

M. L. R. BRESLAR.

Percy House, South Hackney, E.9.

[Solomon Dayrolles was a godson and friend of Lord Chesterfield. There is a full account of him in the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' with numerous references to other authorities at the end.]

LifeGE ABBESS AND CORPUS CHRISTI. On a brace beam of the roof in Marston Morteyne Church, Beds, opposite the north door, there is a coloured figure of an angel holding a shield with the chalice and wafer painted on it. In a line with it on a central boss of the roof is a crescent moon painted. It refers, of course, to the legend of the Liege abbess and Corpus Christi. Can any- bodv give other like instances ?

A. G. KEALY.

NEW TESTAMENT MS. OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. SIR FREDERIC MADDEN ^sent from the British Museum to ' N. & Q.' on March 28, 1850, the following query (1 S. i. 366) :

" The Add. MS. 15,521, in the British Museum, contains a copy of Lewis's edition of the Wyclifflte New Testament, printed in 1731, with manuscript notes by Ames and Lewis, and the former has transcribed into it some additional prologues, prefixed to each book of the New Testament, which had not been printed by Lewis, and weie taken by Ames from a MS. of the New Testament, written "in 1424, and in 1731 in the possession o.