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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[12 8. IV. DEC., 1918.

PRUDENTIUS : TITLE - PAGE OF 1625 WANTED (12 S. iv. 190, 258). WYCKHAM -will discover what he seeks under that universal dome for the troubled, the British Museum, by quoting the press - mark 1067 a. 15. The title-page is engraved on copper, and runs thus :

" Aureli Prudentj dementis V. C. Opera ; ex postremo doct. virorum recensione. Apud Guiliel. lanss. Caesium : Amstelodami, 1625." The size is 16mo, and it has 261 pages. It forms one of a series of classics similar to the issues from the Elzevir press.

WM. JAGGAKD, Lieut.

NEW SHAKSPERE SOCIETY'S PUBLICATIONS fl2 S. iv. 77, 143, 170). A detailed list of i.his wayward and puzzling series will be found set forth in correct order in my ' Shakespeare Bibliography,' 1911, obtain- able at most fair-sized public libraries.

WM. JAGGARD, Lieut.

FREDERICK THE GREAT AND A FRENCHMAN (12 S. iv. 133). As this query has not yet Ibeen answered, I would suggest a search in some of the following books : Thomas Campbell, ' Frederick the Great, his Court and his Time ' (1842) ; Lord Dover, ' Life of Frederick II., King of Prussia' (1832); Camille Paganel, ' Histoire de Frederick le 'Grand ' ; Fraser's Magazine, vol. xxiii. (1841) ; and last, but not least, Thackeray's
 * Barry Lyndon.' L. L. K.

" BOLD INFIDELITY ! TURN PALE AND DIE " (12 S. iv. 102, 172, 251). Thanks to a Xiancashire correspondent, I am able to state that the Rev. Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshaw, Vicar first of Biddenham, Beds, and then of Burton Latimer, Northants, died at Biddenham on Feb. 20, 1850, aged 72. This makes him born in 1778, eight years after the earliest dated occur- rence of this epitaph (1770), and finally proves that he was not the author.

J. W. FAWCETT.

CJonsett, eo. -Durham.

NEWPORT (I. OF W.) AND THE REVOLU- TION SOCIETY (12 S. iv. 289). Will CAPT. TIREBRACE be kind enough to say if in the MS. book he refers to there is any in- dication of connexion such as the pay- ment of affiliation fees, for instance between the Newport Society and the devolution Society in the City of London ? 1 have some notes about the latter ; and I wish to know if all the Revolution Societies in the kingdom formed one body, which looked to London as the centre of their

political activities, or if all of them were independent of one another. On Nov. 4, 1788, there was a centenary meeting at the London Tavern, when three hundred gentle- men sat down to dinner. Was this a representative gathering, or only a meeting of London members ? FRANK PENNY.

" SYLVESTER NIGHT " (12 S. iv. 272). New Year's Eve, Dec. 31, is in Germany very generally known and spoken of as " Silvester Abend " or " Silvester Nacht." I do not recall its being so named in English except by Thackeray. E. H. BLANE.

SUGAR : ITS INTRODUCTION INTO ENG- LAND (12 S. iii. 472; iv. 31, 61, 114, 199, 255, 312). There are sixty-seven references to sugar in the index to the ' Durham Account Rolls ' (Surtees Soc., No. 103). The following kinds are named : Babilon, Blanch, Caffatyn, Cyprus, Loaves of, Marrokes, in plate, or sugarplate, de Roche vel de Rupe, Roset, Skaffatyne, White ; also barrel of ; jars for. Earliest date 1308.

J. T. F.

Winterton, Lines.

' THE CALL OF AFRICA ' (12 S. iv. 301). I would suggest ' Allan Quatermain ' : " I could tolerate England no more ; I would go and die as I had lived, among the wild game and the savages." BENJ. WALKER.

Langstone, Erdington.

THE PILGRIMS' ROAD IN EAST KENT (12 S. iv. 271). It is many years since I read the book, but does not Mr. Hilaire Belloc's ' The Old Road ' give the reqxiired information ? C. B. WHEELER.

There is interesting and varied informa- tion about the Pilgrims' Road in ' High- ways and Byways in Surrey,' with illustra- tions by Hugh Thomson (Macmillan & Co., 1909 the date of my edition).

M.A.OxoN.

ROMAN COFFIN AT COLCHESTER : PAU- SANIAS (12 S. iv. 299). The passage which MR. OSBORNE wants is at the end of chap. iv. in the tenth book of Paiisanias's ' De- scription of Greece,' and runs thus in Sir James Frazer's translation :

" In the land of Daulis there is a place called Tronis, where there is a shrine of the hero-founder. Some say that this hero is Xanthippus, a famous warrior ; but others say that he is Phocus, son of Ornytion, son of Sisyphus. However that may be, he is worshipped every day, and the Phocians bring victims, and the blood they pour through a hole into the grave, but the flesh it is I their custom to consume on the spot."