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Dessein having been purchased by the town o Calais, it ceases to be an hotel for travellers." In the guide part of the book, p. 256, it ii said that the

' ' Hotel Dessein is now transferred to the premises

of the old Hotel Quillac the latter ceases to be

an hotel, and the former takes its place as the Hotel Dessein."

Tliis no doubt means that Quillac as th name was changed into Dessein.

In Murray's ' Handbook for France, 17th ed., 1886, part i. p. 3, is the following :

" Hotel Dessin (formerly Quillac's), uncom- fortable the Hotel Dessin, where Sterne and Sir Walter Scott lodged in Rue Boyale, is con- verted into Baths, a Museum, and Schools."

Quillacq's [tc], as well as Dessin' s, appears in the ' Traveller's Guide through France,' quoted above.

Whether the old house of Dessin's Hotel, eold to the town in or about 1860, still stands I do not know, nor do I know whether any hotel in Calais is now named Dessein or Dessin. The name does not appear in the advertisements of the Calais hotels in V Indicateur des Chemins de Fer (Chaix) of Sept. 21-27, 1913.

ROBERT PIEBPOINT.

The replies to my query give all the information one could wish for. It is, however, curious that none of your corre- spondents give the name of the house, of which I was ignorant. I find that it is mentioned by William Hickey, who writes :

" On the 12th of October [1776] we reached Calais, putting up at the far-famed Lion d'Argent, of which hotel the voluble Monsieur Dessein was the proprietor." ' Memoirs of William Hickey,' edited by Alfred Spencer, ii. 04 (Hurst & Blackett,

For the spelling of the name 'as " Dessein " Sterne is, of course, responsible.

T. F. D.

SOL AS A WOMAN'S NAME IN ENGLAND (12 S. iv. 133). W. J. B. writes: " One instance is believed to be an abbess, or daughter of some pre-Norman, Saxon, or British queen in Somerset or thereabouts." This is not a very definite clue, but the geographical indication makes it, perhaps, worth suggesting that the instance is the British goddess Sul or Sulis, after whom the Roman city of Bath was named Aquas Sulis. The Romans identified her with Minerva, and her name i found in several dedicatory inscriptions at Bath. An error which affected some manuscripts of the spelling " Aquse Solis/' See the Pauly-
 * Antonine Itinerary ' gave rise to the mis-

Wissowa ' Realencyclopadie ' under ' Aquae, r No. 31, and the ' Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum,' vol. vii., edited by Hiibner r pp. 24 sqq. It may be added that a goddess Sol (2c3A) is mentioned on a Greek in- scription from the Bosphorus, of 152 A.D. An attempt was made at one time to connect her name with that of the British deity - See Roscher's * Lexicon,' part 66, col. 1152.

EDWARD BENSLY. University College, Aberystwyth.

RICHARD I. IN CAPTIVITY (12 S. iv. 303). Lingard in his ' History of England,' ii. 268-70, says that Richard " was" driven, by a storm to the coast of Istria, between Aquileia and Venice, and proceeded towards Goritz (Gorizia), the residence of Maynard r a nephew of Conrad." He got as far as Erperg, a suburb of Vienna, where he was captured and imprisoned by the Duke of Austria. Later he was delivered over to the Emperor Henry VI., who confined him in a castle in the Tyrol till Queen Eleanor, his mother, obtained his release through the mediation of the Pope.

N. W. HILL.

W. E. Flaherty in the ' Annals of England ' 1858), vol. i. pp. 275-6, writes :

" A.D. 1192 The king's fleet reaches Sicily,.

Ut his own vessel is driven to Corfu, Nov. 11 t e is soon after shipwrecked in the upper part of disguise as Hugh the merchant. He at length- reaches Erperg, near Vienna, where, being recognized, he is seized by Leopold, duke of" Austria, Dec. 20. The emperor (Henry VI.) claims the custody of Richard, Dec. 28, and confines him in a castle in the Tyrol.
 * he Adriatic, and attempts to make his way in

A.T>. 1193. Richard's prison is discovered by Longchamp ; the queen-mother appeals to the )ope (Celestine III.), who excommunicates hi oppressors, but fails to obtain his freedom., lichard is brought before the diet at Hagenau,. ibout Easter (Mar. 28), when he clears himself by >ath from the murder of Conrad ; a heavy sum w ettled for his ransom, June 28. ...

" A.D. 1194. . . .The German princes compel the- mperor, against his will, to release Richard, who s set at liberty, Feb. 4."

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

CRAGGS AND NICHOLSON FAMILIES (12 S. v. 220, 310). There is a pedigree of the Craggs and Eliot family in Hasted' s ' History of Kent,' i. 138, which was communicated by the Earl of St. Germains. This shows no connexion between the Craggs and Nicholson families. I have a pedigree of the Craggs family, much fuller than the above, from local (Durham) records and registers, and it has no connexions with the-