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casting, which may account for its non-issue in 1819 ; and when, re versed the king's head and the St. George and Dragon have not the same base the contrary of the normal relations of obverse and reverse. Perhaps some numismatic correspondents will give an opinion on the matter, and say if they have seen a similar coin. L. G. R.

Bournemouth.

PETITOT'S MINIATURE OF THE COMTESSE D'OLONNE. Included in the Strawberry Hill Catalogue, 1842, was a miniature in enamel by Petitot, a portrait of the Com- tesse d'Olonne, which Horace Walpole had bought in Paris in 1775, at the Mariette sale, for 3,200 livres. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' oblige me with the name of the purchaser in 1842, the price paid, and the subsequent history of the miniature in question ? P. MARIETTE.

WINCHESTER EPISCOPAL ARMS. In a window of the north choir clerestory in Winchester Cathedral is a shield, dating c. 1460, charged with the ancient arms of the see (Azure, a sword md key saltire-wise argent ; in chief a mitre of the second).

Other windows contain glass inserted 1501-28, including shields bearing Gules, two keys and sword in saltire, argent and or, impaling Bishop Fox's arms.

Can any reader tell me in what year the colour of the field was changed from blue to red ? JOHN D. LE COUTEUR.

Two OLD SONGS : ' THE RATCATCHER'S DAUGHTER.' I want to learn the rest of a song which contains the lines : So up she got and away she ran, And knocked at the door of 'the dog's-meat man, or something like that.

There is in another song the couplet :

And so not of " fell in the sea "

Died the pretty little ratcatcher's daughter,

which evidently indicates something about " manslaughter " in the preceding line, justifying a certain amount of sympathetic interest, and my present curiosity.

J. HERSCHEL, Col. (retired) R.E. Observatory House, Slough.

[The story of the composition of the music of ' The Ratcatcher's Daughter,' and the date when it was first sung by Sam Cowell (Feb. 12, 1855), will be found in an interesting article at 5 S. vi. 182 by J. W. E(bsworth), the well-known ballad editor. The lines quoted are a variant of the " Encore verses to ' The Ratcatcher's Daughter'" in 'Sam Cowell's New Universal Illustrated Pocket Songster,' vol. iii.]

LORD CHARLES MURDERED BY HIS BROTHER LORD JAMES. In a diary which I am publishing, the writer, in an undated letter, remarks :

" I dined with Lord Eardley. On that occasion I sat next the unfortunate Lord Charles T., who a short time afterwards was found dead in the carriage in which he had travelled from Yarmouth, shot by his brother Lord James. The body was quite cold when found."

The Lord Eardley referred to died in 1824, so that narrows the inquiry to between the years 1790 and 1824. Can any reader tell me the particulars or date of this event ? It must surely have been a cause celebre. It is possible" that the letter T may be incorrect as the manuscript in question is very faded and difficult to decipher.

A. M. W- STIRLING.

GEORGE VOYCE, CLOCKMAKER. Informa- tion desired as to the date when George Voyce made clocks at Monmouth. The specimen I have seen appears to be of early eighteenth -century make.

It xis possible that the above-named George was connected with two persons of the same surname, as Mr. Britten states, m his book on clocks and clockmakers, that a Gamaliel Voyce and a Richard Voycc were apprenticed in London, the former in 1687, and the latter in 1693

HERBERT SOUTHAM.

DR. TOWNE, 1803. Wanted the full name of Dr. Towne, head of the Towne Academy at Deptford in 1803. E. A. J.

" PHARAOH " = STRONG BEER.' I should be very glad if any of your readers could throw light on the "name " Old Pharoh " or " Stout Pharoh " as applied to a kind of beer. It is an old name dating back to at least 1685, as it is mentioned in that year in ' The Praise of Yorkshire Ale.'

There is a Hertfordshire token of 1670 issued by "Old Pharoh of Barley," who was probably an innkeeper ; and the singu- larity of the Christian name (?) mates me wonder whether there is any connexion between the token-issuer and the beer which is similarly named. W. L.I i

[The ' N.E.D.,' under ' Pharaoh,' 3, cites ' The Praise of Yorkshire Ale ' as the earliest instance of this meaning of the word. It also refers ' Faro,' 2, which is denned as a kind of beer mac chiefly at Brussels and in its neighbourhood ; but the earliest quotation for this is 1864. j

" PHARAOH " = TRAVELLING SHO\VMAN. Why is a travelling showman with horses and a roundaboxit called a Pharaoh ? " * ARCHIBALD SPARKE.