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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. v. JUNE, 1919.

r.ny assistance. To the lists of counties indexed must be added Middlesex, Warwick- shire, and Worcestershire ; and we are now getting on with Somersetshire. Can any reader inform us where we may find lists for other counties, so that our index work may continue ? J. W. FAWCETT.

Consett, co. Durham.

NEW CHESTERFIELD LETTERS. Could some one tell me in what paper these letters appeared and the date of publication ? They do not appear to have been published in book-form.

H. A. ST. J. MILDMAY, Col.

31 Gloucester Street, Warwick Square, S.W.I.

KELLOND SURNAME. I shall be glad if some one can tell me the origin and meaning of the surname Kellond. I understand it springs from somewhere in Devonshire.

WALTER M. KELLOND.

la Ashlar Road, Waterloo, near Liverpool.

LABOUR AND CAPITAL. " Labour is the father, and Land is the mother, of Capital." Can any of your readers oblige with a reference to the source of this definition ?

J. D. W.

WAYTE FAMILY. A monument in Ren- hold Church commemorates Edmund Wayte, who died in 1518. I shall be glad of any information relating to this family.

W. GLASSBY.

Renhold, near Bedford.

HERALDIC : SABLE, A LION RAMPANT, Can any reader say what family blazoned their arms, Sable, a lion rampant betwixt six fusils in pale ? An answer direct would be appreciated. A. E. OUGHTRED.

Lawns Cottage, Hartlepool.

MERCURY DRAWN BY COCKS. I have before me two prints, evidently a pair. One is named ' Venere,' and the other ' Mercurio.' In the latter the god is represented seated in a car drawn by two cocks. The car is passing over a cloud, and in it are three beings, one of them in an attitude indicating fear. My conjecture is that they are souls being conveyed to the underworld. Under the print to the left is inscribed " Raffaelo Sanzio Urbino " ; in the middle, " Stefano Tofanelli delin " ; and on the right, " Pietro Bonato Veneto incise."

Would any reader of * N. & Q.' kindly tell me why two cocks should be drawing Mercury's chariot ? Doves drew Venus, and tigers Bacchus, but both these cases can be explained easily. Is the print copied from some work of Raphael ? I have looked

through a long list of his genuine works and of the works falsely assigned to him, and I cannot find anything that throws any light on the subject. I suppose that the print might represent a figure taken from a larger work. Any information as to the probable date of the print would be of interest. T. PERCY ARMSTRONG.

JAMES COCKLE, OF COCKLE'S PILLS. Has any account of the still well-known surgeon- apothecary of this name been published ? When were his antibilious pills first patented? Was he the father of Sir James Cockle, F.R.S., sometime Chief Justice of Queens- land, who died in 1895 ? Both the ' D.N.B.' and the ' Encyclopaedia Britannica ' say that Sir James was the second son of an Essex surgeon named James Cockle, but neither authority mentions the pills, nor 4 Great Ormond Street, W.C., where the firm James Cockle & Co., patent-medicine vendors, still carry on business. HARMATOPEGOS.

TILLY KETTLE. Who was Tilly Kettle, and where was he born ? There is a por- trait by this artist of Rear-Admiral Richard Kempenfelt (1720-1782) in the Painted Hall at Greenwich Hospital. Are any of his other works in public galleries ?

J. LANDFEAR LUCAS.

Glendora, Hindhead, Surrey.

" ARGYLES " OR GRAVY-POTS. What was the origin of tjie word " Argyle "as applied to gravy-pots, and what is the date of the earliest known specimen ? They had an outer jacket which held hot water so that the gravy was kept hot while on the table, a very necessary luxury in the days of large dinners, when all the carving was done at the table. Any information will be gratefully received.

LEONARD C. PRICE.

Essex Lodge, Ewell.

[The only quotation in the 'New English Dic- tionary' is dated 1822, from Kitchiner's 'Cook's Oracle': "We have in the English kitchen our 'argyll' for gravy."]

THE HOUGHTON MEETING. As all turfites are aware, this is the style and title of the last of the three Newmarket autumn meet- ings. I am anxious to ascertain why it was so named, but so far my researches have been in vain. It was established and so styled in 1770. It is possible that it may have some connexion with the third Lord Orford, a wild gambler of that period who resided at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, but this is only conjecture. If any reader of ' N. & Q.' can furnish some precise 'in-