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 12 S. V. MAY, 1919.]

KOTEJS AND QUERIES.

CAPT. PALLISER. I should much like to get into communication for historical pur- poses with the representatives of Capt. Palliser, \vho was distinguished for his exploration work in Canada crossing the Rocky Mountains, &c.

DAVID Ross McCoRD. McCord National Museum,

Temple Grove, Montreal.

SCOTCHMAN'S POST. In walking over the Horwich Moors recently I saw an iron post which goes by this name, and which, I am told, commemorates the murder of a Scotchman (travelling bargee) which took place many years ago. Particulars wil oblige. J. W. S.

' THREE BLACK CROWS.' Who wrote ' The Three Black Crows ' ? C. V. D.

VICKERS FAMILY OF FULHAM. John Vic kers of Fulham, Middlesex, died 1672, hi> wife's name being Margaret. They hac four children : John, James, Jacob, anc Mary. John died on the voyage home from Balasor, Bengal. His wilf was dated Feb. 19, 1073, and administration was granted to his brother Jacob on Sent. 10 1673.

Can any correspondent give additional information, about this family or tell me Margaret's maiden name ?

WM. JACKSON PIOOTT.

Manor House, Dunclrum, co. Down.

MAY. Information is desired concerning the following Mays who were educated at Westminster School :

1. Arthur, admitted in 1738, aged 11.

2. Florentius, admitted in 1745, aged 13.

3. Florentius, admitted in 1777.

4. Henry, who matriculated at Oxford March 21, 1823, from Magd. Hall.

5. John, admitted in 1770.

6. Joseph, admitted in 1738, aged 8.

7. Rose, admitted in 1777.

8. Thoma?, admitted in 1817, aged 13.

9. William, son of Rose (or Roseherring) May of Spanish Town, Jamaica, admitted to Trin. Coll., Camb., in 1779.

G. F. R. B.

LABOUR-IN-VAIN STREET, SHAD WELL. What is the origin of this strange name ?

J. ARDAGH.

"TALKS ABOUT OLD LONDON." Some yon:-} ago a series of articles with this title appeared in The Evening News. Any pa-hlcular^ (including dates of first and last a"; i ,'les) will be useful. J. ARDAGH.

C~> Church Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin.

MARLIPINS. I have failed to find this word in the ' New English Dictionary ' or in any of the past series of ' N. & Q.' It is apparently a Sussex word ; and an inn in Shoreham, I am informed, bears the name of " The Marlipins." What does it mean ? Is it akin to " marlinspike " ? " Spike " and " pin " in a mechanical contrivance are easily interchangeable. Shoreham has for centuries been a resort of seafaring men, and nautical terms are apt to vary with time. ALBAN DORAN.

The Athenaeum, S.W.I.

[The, Sussex Daily News of Jan. 22 of the present year contained a long report of a paper by Mr. Burton Green on Shoreham, in which he claimed to have solved the riddle of the " Marlipins." He stated that in 1367 John le Potere of New Shore- ham devised " a stone-built corner tenement called ' Mai duppine ' in the market-place " ; and he traced the history of the building, tinder the forms " Mai aduppnes," " Malappynn^s," &c., down to 1500. The Templars had a chapel at Shoreham, the history of which M.r. Burton Green also related ; and he argued that " Marleypins " represents " Mai dubbia.ns," the name of the meeting-place of the Templars.]

"THE LIGHT INVISIBLE." The late Mgr. R. H. Benson wrote a book with this name. Mr. E. F. Benson in ' Up and Down ' seems at p. 139 to ascribe the phrase to St. Paul :

"What does St. Paul call it? 'The light invisible,' isn't it? That is exactly descriptive. ' The light invisible, the uncreated light.' " From whom does Mr. E. F. Benson really quote ?

I had always assumed that Mgr. Benson took the title of his book from Wordsworth's

The light that never was on sea or land,

The consecration and the poet's dream.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

JOSEPH KNIBB, CLOCKMAKER. On p. 181 of Mr. Arthur Hay den's ' Chats on Old Clocks ' (T. Fisher Unwin, 1917) is figured a

lock by this maker, when in retirement at Oxford, dated 1690 ; height 12 in., width 8 in., and depth 5 in. A very similar, but probably earlier, clock by the same maker is on the mantelpiece of the room in which I am writing ; and, as several contributors to

N. & Q.' are interested in old clocks, it may be permissible to give some particulars n which it differs from the one delineated in }he above work " by courtesy of Percy Webster, Esq."

1. It has not got the scrollwork on the sides of the frame.

2. It was made in London, but is undated.

3. It stands on brass feet, such as are ound in lantern brais clocks of contem- porary date.