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name of Mawe is found as early as 1271 I shall be very grateful if any reader of or Mawe occurs in early Lincolnshire records, as, if not, it is probable that the Maws of Epworth are of Yorkshire ex- traction. GERALD W. MAW, M.R.C.S. 30 Kempston Road, Bedford.
 * N. & Q.' can inform me if the name Maw

'INDEX ECCLESIASTICUS, 1550-1800.' The late Joseph Foster left x a collection of MSS. for an ' Index Ecclesiasticus ' from about 1550 to 1800. Can any reader eay if this is still extant, and where it may be seen ? J. W. F.

ST. BEES ALUMNI. Can any reader say whether any work has been published dealing with the students and graduates of St. Bees College, Cumberland ?

J. W. F.

DISRAELI ON GLADSTONE. In which of Disraeli's works occurs the description oi Gladstone as " a good man in the worst sense of the word " ? J. W. F.

NiccoL6 DA UZZANO. Can any reader tell me anything about Niccolo da Uzzano, whose bust by Donatello is in the National Museum at Florence ? BRAD STOW.

[He was a Florentine statesman of the Guelph u-ty, and waged war against Visconti, Duke of, from 1423 to 1428. He died in 1432.]

JOSEPH CLOVER OF NORWICH. " Joseph Clover, Esq., late barrack-'master at Nor- wich " (1756-1824), was also a promoter of the first " Swedenborgian " congregation in that city. His son, another Joseph (1779- 1853), was a professional artist, and ex- hibited at the Royal Academy from 1804 to 1836. Were they, respectively, son and grandson to the " Joseph Clover, 1725-1811, farrier, blacksmith in Norwich," noticed in 'D.N.B.,' vol. xi. p. 131 ?

CHARLES HICHAM. 169 Grove Lane, S.E.5.

Milan


 * " PIPCHINESQUE." In

' The Little Man, and other Satires,' by John Galsworthy, p. 256, we read : " garbed, if I remember, in a daverdy brown over- coat." This word is not in the ' N.E.D.' or the Eng. Dialect Diet.' There is a West-Country verb, to daver, to fade or wither, and the past participle, daver' d, is quoted. Does " daverdy " mean faded ?

On. 257 of the same work Mr. Gals- worthy uses the phrase " matched his pipchinesque little old face." I suppose this refers to the original illustration in

' Dombey and Son.'; It is a great tribute to the descriptive powers of Dickens end H. K. Browne to assume that modern readers will understand the meaning of this word. The puzzle is that the word is ured to describe a delightfully amiable, childlike old man, with a

" face that riveted attention. Thin, cherry-red, and wind-dried as old wood, it had a special sort of brightness, with its spikes and waves of silvery hair, and blue eyes that sermed to shine."

Mrs. Pipchin is described by her creator as

" a marvellous ill-favoured, ill-conditioned old lady, of a stooping figure, with a mottled face, like bad marble, a hook nose, and a hard grey eye, that looked as if it might have been hammered at on an anvil without sustaining any injury."

How can these descriptions be reconciled ? J. J. FREEMAK. Shepperton, S.O.

GEORGE POWELL, THE DRAMATIST. I have recently obtained a copy of the ' Reliquiae Wottonianae,' 4th ed., 8vo, 1685, on the fly-leaf of which is written " E Libris Georgii Powell, 26th Decemb., 1692." I am desirous of learning whether there a-re extant any specimens of the handwriting of George Powell, the author of * The Treacherous Brothers ' (4to, 1690) and ' Bonduca ' (4to, 1696), with which I might compare my fly-leaf inscription.

C. W. B. H.

EARL OF BEACONSFIEID : TEE FIRST LORD LYTTON : MARTIN TUPPER. In ' A Bock- man's Letters,' 1913, Sir W. Robertson Nicoll has much about Mark Rutherford (William Hale White), and quotes the follow- ing from his fugitive writings :

" Lord Lytton. . . .drew a wonderful horoscope of his friend Benjamin Disraeli, in which by some strange freak of fate nearly every one of the predictions was fulfilled."

" Lord Beaconsfield, charmed, I suppose, by the mystery of the line, ' A fool is bent upon a twig, but wise men dread a bandit,' pensioned its author, Mr. Martin Tupper."

I should like to ask, as to the first, if anything is known of the horoscope, its showings and their fulfilment. As to the second, was not the author of the line given he late Sir W- S. Gilbert ? He certainly included it in his * Bab Ballad ' of ' Ferdi- nando and Elvira ; or, The Gentle Pieman ' i

Mister Close expressed a wish that he could only

jet amgh to me ; And Mister Martin Tapper sent the following

reply to me : ' A fool is bent upon a twig, but wise men dread

a bandit," Which I know was very clever, but I didn't

understand it.