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 12 S. IV. FEB., 1918.]

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notice of a Jesuit." This is one of Bishop Kennett's collections, 1561-80.

If MB. WAINEWBIGHT makes a copy of this biographical notice, I shall be exceedingly obliged to him if he will let me have a duplicate, or at all events a summary.

E. A. FBY.

Thornhill, Kenley, Surrey.

EVENING DBESS (12 S. iii. 479). To reply to MB. HIGGINS'S query it is necessary to unravel the period in England between the late thirties and the early forties of last century, that time being, to my knowledge, one of marked changes.

Always of a curious turn of mind in the matter of male dress, I am able to remember the gradual disappearance of pantaloons and small clothes, shirt frill, twice-round stock cravat, Wellington boots, and pumps, and to fix the evening dress of to-day black coat, white waistcoat, and trousers as belonging to the first half of the forties.

Just a note or two on dress. " If," wrote my father,

" there was one place more than another where fashions were rigorously censored, it was at the Bath Assemblies. In the twenties the coats were claret or puce, &c., nankeen tights, and white silk stockings ; black coats only for mourning."

In 1835 my father was stopped at the doors to the Bath ballroom for having trousers on, and only on having these tied at the ankles was he admitted.

So far as the present evening dress coat is concerned, it was the ordinary dress coat of day wear, the only difference being the hip pockets to the latter. I never saw the late Mr. Lane-Fox in the Park without such a coat on, and certainly it played its part well on coach-box or saddle. ,

HAROLD MALET, Colonel.

Backetts, Hythe, Southampton.

ARMS OF ENGLAND WITH FRANCE ANCIENT (12 S. iii. 419, 485; iv. 31) In Leonard Hutten's ' Dissertation on the Antiquities of Oxford,' written about 1625-30, occurs the following :

" From whence wee come to the South gate of the Citty, the Cardinall's building [Christ Church] lying on the East side of the Streete, and the Almes House [now belonging to Pembroke College] on the West, where it is to bee observed, that, betweene those two Corners of each side, there stood, within these fewe yeares, an old auntient Gate of Stone, which though now wanting, and cleane taken away, yet is therefore to be remembred, because it was the South Gate of the Citty, continuing on the Wall onwards, and there on a faier Stone were quartered the Armes of England and France in one Scutchion,

the Armes of England beeing graven in the former and upper place, and those of France in the nether, contrarie to all that I, heretofore, have scene, which seemeth to mee worthy to be remembred for that it gave honor and prece- dencie to our Nation, and was a Monument not elce where to be found."

The shield was parted per fesse, the three leopards above, France ancient semee de lys below England over France. The quartering of arms was almost unknown before 1340, when Edward III. laid claim to the crown of France. A. K. BAYLEY.

SUGAR : ITS INTRODUCTION INTO ENGLAND (12 S. iii. 472; iv. 31). There is a much earlier notice of sugar than 1419-20 (in England) or 1465 (in France), included in a paper on ' The Captivity of John, King of France, at Somerton Castle, co. Line.,' in 1358. The paper was read before the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society in 1857, and published in their Transactions, p. 67. The writer says, on the authority of the. Comptes de 1' Argentine des Rois de France, that in a bill from John de la Londe, grocer, to the captive king, is the entry : 16 Ib. of loaf sugar at lid. a lb., 11. 2s. Sd. ; 25 do. of moist, at 15d., 11. Us. 3d.

It would be interesting if some corre- spondent would tell us what sort of sugar this was, and whence obtained.

It is just possible that the author has made too free a translation of "loaf" and " moist," but I have not the original to refer to. T. JESSON.

31 Parkside, Cambridge.

"ACT OF PARLIAMENT CLOCK" (11 S. x. 130 ; 12 S. iii. 462 ; iv. 23). There is one of these clocks in the possession of Mr. Percy Daniel, Eckersley, East Clevedon.

PENBY LEWIS.

Besides the three clocks mentioned by M. W., there is one at the George, in the Borough, and another at the Angel at " uildford. T. W. TYRRELL.

SIGNBOARDS AND SHOP DEVICES (12 S. iii. 446, 517 ; iv. 28). See illustrated articles on ' Old London Signs, Badges,' &c., Illustrated London News, Dec. 13, 1856 ; Old London Bank Signs,' ibid., Jan. 17, 1857. JOHN T. PAGE.

MARRIOTT FAMILY (12 S. iii. 446). There is a pedigree of Marriott, of Avonbank, near ?ershore, and other places, at pp. 583-4 of Burke's ' History of the Commoners,' vol. iv. S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN.