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which is nineteen feet in length, and to be seen at the British Museum."

Research into the bibliography and icono- graphy of this subject of Peace celebrations leads into diversified channels ; except they were not intended to be so identified, we might have to include Madame Tussaud's, the Benin Bronzes at the Ethnographical Gallery of the British Museum, and the doyen of Drury Lane Theatre, where many years ago Sir Augustus Harris produced a spectacular drama, ' The Armada.'

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

51 Rutland Park Mansions, N.W.2.

TANKS (MILITARY). The following, which

gives the origin of the name "tank," may

well find a place in ' N. & Q.' :

" STORY OP THE TANKS.

" General Swinton, the military originator of the Tank scheme and the commander of the first Tank unit, on Saturday presented to Berwick a tank, the gift of the Army Council, in appreciation of the borough's War Savings work. He said that the tanks got their name from the belief when they were being manufactured that they were water-carriers for the troops in Egypt." The Times, June 24, p. 13, col. 4.

This does not, I think, imply that General Swinton was the inventor of the machine itself. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

[See also 12 S. iii. 444 ; v. 36.]

KNOX'S ' SPIRIT OF DESPOTISM.' The ' D.N.B.' (vol. xxxi. p. 336) says of the edition of Vicesimus Knox's work published in London in the year 1795 : " Only three copies were left in existence .... no trace, however, of the three copies is now dis- coverable." References to this book appear in ' N. & Q.,' 5 S. xi. 43, 174 ; 6 S. vii. 407. The Library of Harvard University has a copy received in 1900 bearing the imprint "London; printed in the year 1795," which bears every evidence of having for some time been in possession of Boston families. The Harvard Library at one time possessed another copy which was received " by exchange of duplicates " in 1869. This copy unfortunately disappeared previous to 1900.

T. FRANKLIN CURRIER,

Assistant Librarian. Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass.

SIR NICHOLAS BAGNAL AND THE EARLS OF KILMOREY. In the review of vol. iv. of p. Ill) that the Earls of Kilmorey are descended from Sir Nicholas Bagnal.
 * Indexes to Irish Wills ' it is stated (ante,

This is, strictly speaking, not correct, as the Earls of Kilmorey are descended from

Sir Robert Needham, 1st Viscount, elder- son of Robert Needham of Cranage, whose younger son Thomas Nedham of Pool Park r co. Denbigh, married the daughter and co- heiress of Sir Henry Bagenal of Newry and Plas Newydd, Marshal of Ireland.

The great -grands en of Thomas Nedham,. Robert Nedham of St. Thomas-in-the-Vale and St. Catherine, Jamaica, succeeded (as coheir with Sir Edward Bayley, ancestor of the Marquess of Anglesey) to the estates of Nicholas Bagenal, grandson of Sir Henry Bagenal.

The grandson of this Robert Nedham was William Nedham of Newry and Moone- Park, who d.s.p. 1806, leaving the estates to- Robert, llth Viscount Kilmorey, thus dis- inheriting his father's brother, viz., Major- General William Nedham of Mount Olive,, Jamaica, and Widcombe, near Bath, M.P. for Athenry in the last Irish Parliament. The Major -General's grandson is Capt. Charles Sewell Nedham, R.N. (retired) of Branksome Chine, Bournemouth, who is head of that branch of the Nedham family descended from Thomas Nedham of Pool' Park, and, in the female line, from Sir Henry Bagenal.

H. R. POPHAM BAKER,

M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.

77 Accrington Road, Blackburn, Lanes.

BOSWELL'S ' JOHNSON ' : A CORRECTION. Boswell, in his ' Life of Johnson,' under date 1730 (Hill's ed., vol. i. p. 77), says :

"We are told by Tursellinus, in his life of St. Ignatius Loyola, that this intrepid founder of the Order of the Jesuits, when he arrived at Goa, persisted in wearing his miserable shattered shoes," &c.

Not one, I think, of the innumerable- editors and commentators of Boswell, has*- ever noticed that this is a mistake. St~. Ignatius never visited India, and both the- anecdote and the biographer Tursellinus pertain to the other great Jesuit, St. Francis* Xavier. F. R. BRACEY.

St. Dominic's Priory, London.

" NON -NATURALS." The earliest quota- tion in the ' N.E.LV for " non- natural " as a substantive is from my remote- relative Dr. Jeremiah Wainewright in 1708 ;, but Burton, in his ' Anatomy of Melan- choly,' first printed in 1621, in his ' Synopsis, of the First Partition ' speaks of " Necessary causes, as those six non-natural things,, which are : Diet .... Retention and evacua- tion Air Exercise Sleep and wak- ing .... Passions and perturbations of the: mind." JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.