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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. in. JAN. 27, 1917.

ISAAC PENINGTON, LORD MAYOR OF LONDON (12 S. iii. 28). This worthy was never knighted. Dr. Shaw in ' Knights of England ' is quite correct. If G. F. R. B. requires proof he will find it in my ' Aldermen of the City of London,' vol. i. p. 229, and vol. ii. p. 180, note 4a. The article on him in the Dictionary of National Biography ' should be read in conjunction with the corrections of it in vol. ii. p. 64, note 87, of the work to which I have referred.

ALFRED B. BEAVEN.

LIEUT. -CoL. LEWIS (BAYLY) WALLIS (12 S ii. 474 ; iii. 28). He took the name Wallis Sept. 17, 1800; became colonel, 1805; major-general, 1810; lieutenant-general, 1819 ; general, 1837. He was M.P. for Ilchester, 1799 to 1802 ; and died Aug. 10, 1848, aged 73. ALFRED B. BEAVEN.

Leamington.

" DONKEY'S YEARS" = A VERY LONG TIME {12 S. ii. 506; iii. 39). It may be worthy of note that this expression is offered to literature by Mr. E. V. Lucas in ' The Vermilion Box,' p. 86 : " Now for my first bath for what the men call 'Donkey's ears,' meaning years and years." ' The Vermilion Box ' was published towards the latter end of 1916.

ST. S WITHIN.

'JONATHAN WILD, THE GREAT' (11 S.ii.261 : 12 S. ii. 442 ; iii. 38). MR. ALFRED F. ROBBINS cites Mr. Andrew LangTas authority for attributing the authorship "of the Mist articles of June 12 and 19, 1725, to Fielding. 'Though admittedly " no mean critic," Mr. Lang allowed his fancy very wide play, even in matters biographical, as instance the following from his ' New and Old Letters to Dead Authors,' Longmans, 1907 ; letter to Henry Fielding, Esq., at p. 223 :

"You remember that little picture of Amelia which was stolen? I please myself by thinking that I have.discovered it, and am its owner. It is -a miniature of a lady with soft, dark hair, drawn up from the brow and piled high on her head. She is dressed in a white evening robe, with cherry- coloured slashes (or whatever they are called by the learned) ; she has the largest and kindest of grey eyes, an expression of much humour and sweetness, and traces of the celebrated accident to her nose which Dr. Johnson could not overlook. Is not this, Sir, the admired Amelia? I have ventured to scratch ' Miss Emmy's ' name on the back of the silver case which contains this treasure."

I suggest that it was in this same large- hearted spirit that Mr. Lang perceiving the excellent humour of the Mist articles, cand feeling pressed by MR. ROBBINS' s inquiry " What other author of the time can

be credited with the effort ? " "ventured to scratch " " Henricus " in the margin ; but it is a mere opinion, unbuttressed by any stated reasons.

Until more definite information be forth- coming it would be venturesome indeed to suggest who else might have written these two articles (assuming for the moment that Fielding did not), but it should not be over- looked that Swift, who disliked Burnet, and Defoe (although at that date, I believe, actually in prison) were both alive.

As MR. ROBBINS has given considerable attention to the subject of ' Jonathan Wilde, I wonder if he could tell students of the subject who wrote ''Jonathan Wild's Advice to his Successor, printed from a manuscript \ said to have been written while under condemnation in Newgate," 1758, and ' A Plan and Proposals for an Hospital, or Public Asylum, for decayed and infirm Thief- Takers,' 1758, which appear in an appendix to an edition of Fielding's ' Jonathan Wild, the Great,' published in 1840 by Charles Daly of 19 Red Lion Square, London. The ' Plan and Proposals ' is written in imitation of Fielding's style, and is none too com- plimentary to him.

J. PAUL DE CASTRO.

EWALD : SIR JOHN CUTLER (12 S. iii. 29). Arbuthnot introduces the story as "a familiar example " in the ' Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus,' Bk. I. chap. xii. :

"Sir John Cutler had a pair of black worsted stockings, which his maid darned so often with silk, that they became at last a pair of silk stockings."

EDWARD BENSLY.

See ' D.N.B.,' xiii. 364, under Sir John Cutler (1608 ?-93), a wealthy merchant of London, whose avarice, handed down by tradition and anecdote to Pope, has become immortal. A. R. BAYLEY.

NORTH AMERICAN*!NDIAN (12 S. iii. 9). The vocabulary at the end of Long- fellow's' Song of Hiawatha ' gives " Wabun Annung," the Star of the East, the morning star. J- MAKEHAM.

Crouch Hill, N.

THE MARSHALS OF FRANCE (12 S. ii. 182, 235, 279, 378). One more name has now to be added to the roll of the above, viz., that of Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre, given the baton last month. He is said to be the 325th French Marshal. R.. B.

Upton.