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 12 S. IV. JUNE, 1918.]

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SHEPPARD MURDER STONE (12 S. iv. 18, 140). I shall be very grateful if MR. ARCHI- BALD SPARKE or any other correspondent will kindly send me a copy of the restored inscription. JOHN T. PAGE.

SHRAPNEL : ITS INVENTOR'S EPITAPH (12 S. iv. 129). Lieut. -General Henry Shrapnel, R.A., was born at Wingfield Manor House, Wilts, in 1761. The house itself has, I believe, been rebuilt ; but I understand that the original pillars of the park gates still stand, and that on them are inscribed the names of battles won with the shrapnel shell. I shall be glad to be favoured with a list of these names, or a copy of any other inscriptions the pillars may contain.

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

MAW : PIQUET (12 S. iii. 299, 367, 426 ; iv. 116). SIR D. HUNTER-BLAIR was quite correct in writing of a piquet pack of 36 cards when maw was played. All the card-books up to 1699 describe the game as played with a pack of 36 cards, including the sixes ; but in the 1702 edition of ' La Maison Academique des Jeux ' the pack of 32 cards is mentioned for the first time. The change is noted in ' The Compleat Gamester ' of 1709. F. JESSEL.

BISHOP DAWSON OF CLONFERT (12 S. iv. 133). Robert Dawson was not " Duke of Ireland." He was, as the Kendal in- scription, when rightly interpreted, tells us, Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh. A short Life of Dawson is given in Thomas Baker's ' History of St. John's College, Cambridge,' ed. J. E. B. Mayor, vol. i. pp. 263, 264. According to this he was a native of Kendal, and received his school education at Sedbergh. He was admitted a Fellow of St. John's in 1609. He did not stay long in college, but entered the house- hold of Sir Henry Gary, first Viscount Falk- land, Lord Deputy of Ireland, and became his chaplain. To the Lord Deputy Dawson owed his appointment as Dean of Down. He was consecrated Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh on May 4, 1627. In 1640 the Irish rebellion drove him to take refuge in England, where he died in his native town in 1643. His epitaph as given in the ' Hist. of St. John's ' describes him as " Episcopus Clonfertensis et Duacensis Hibernicus." Is " Ducensis " in J. W. F.'s query an error in transcription, or of the stone-cutter ? " Duacensis " would seem to be the correct form. According to Gough's additions to

' Gal way ' in his edition of Camden's-' ' Britannia,' the " see of Kilmacduach," founded by St. Colman, son .of Duach, was united to Clonfert in 1573. He mentions that the episcopal house of Clonfert was rebuilt by Bishop Dawson. Mayor in his notes on Baker refers for further details to Cotton's ' Fast. Eccl. Hibern.,' iv. 166, and index ; also index to Laud ; and Knowler's ' Strafford Letters,' vol. i. 172, 301-3, 392.

Personal and place names when expressed in modern Latin are a frequent source of bewilderment. Kilmacduagh in its Latin dress runs a risk of being confounded with Douai (Castrum Duacense, or Duacum). Gough in his translation of Camden speaks of the see of Duac, though it has the full name in his additions.

Was Jemmy Dawson who left St. John's to join the Young Pretender a kinsman of" the Bishop ? Baker says that Robert Dawson " liberos reliquit non bene (ut videtur) provisos," and that nothing was> known of them. EDWARD BENSLY.

[THE REV. W. A. B. COOLTDGE, MB. E. S. DODGSON, and COL. POWLETT also thanked for replies.]

CONSERVE OF ROSES (12 S. iv. 104). This is an old preparation, now used as a- vehicle for more active medicines. It appears in the British Pharmacoposia as confectio rosce Gallicce, made by beating together in a stone mortar 250 grammes of fresh red rose petals and 750 grammes of refined sugar. Its principal use now is for making " blue pill," thus : quicksilver, 40 gr. ; conserve of roses, 60 gr. ; powdered liquorice, 20 gr. Triturate the mercury and conserve till globules are no longer visible ; then add the liquorice, and form a- mass. .

The old pharmacists attributed virtues of its own to this conserve, but I have not access to their works at present. Probably C. C. B. can tell us more. There is or was a kind of jam made of the hips of the dog rose called confectio roses canince or cynosbatce.

J. T. F.

Winterton, Lines.

Conserve of roses was until quite recently an official medicinal preparation, as was also conserve of hips (the old Latin name of which was conserva fructus cynosbati). They were different preparations, but were made in the same way, by pounding, in the one case red rose petals, in the other the pulp of ripe hips, in a mortar with refined sugar. The conserve of roses contained one part of petals to three parts of sugar, that of