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There is no further light on the question in Fairholt's ' Tobacco : its History and Associations.' Fairholt, however (in the 1859 edition) quotes some extracts from x The Shrubs of Parnassus' (1760) as by James Boswell, "under an assumed name." I have this book containing the poems quoted, written under the pseudonym of James Copywell, and it will be seen in the 1 D.N.B.,' under the name of William Woty, that it was written by Woty, and not Boswell ; what is Fairholt's authority for attributing the lines to Bozzy ?

RUSSELL MARKLAND.

BAMAGE. Can any correspondent tell me anything about a telescope constructor called Ramage ? In no reference book can I find this name. M. Y. W.

ASTRONOMICAL TABLE. Can any one give any information as to an old French satin- wood table, 45 in. diameter, revolving, and having the constellations and planets inlaid in brass all over it, and signs of the Zodiac round the edge, the names in French ? It was bought by Messrs. Mallet of Bath from Hampton, Pall Mall, and came out of a house in Great Cumberland Place.

The name of the astronomer Herschel is on the table. It has Herschel's telescope under Uranus, near Castor and Pollux.

M. Y. W.

TORPHICHEN, SCOTLAND : TORFECKAN, IRE- LAND. In West Lothian is the village of Torphichen, in which was a Hospital of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, of which Sir James Sandilands (created Lord Tor- phichen) was the last preceptor. It was called Torphichen Priory. See Cough's Camden's 'Britannia,' 1789, vol. iii., p. 318, and Sir James Balfour Paul's ' Scots Peerage,' vol. iii. (1911), p. 386. Inco. Louth is or was the town of Torfeckan, where was, according to Camden as above (p. 602), " a house of Regular canons, founded A.D. 665, and another of canonesses regular 1195." Xear by was Torfeckan Castle, belonging to the see of Armagh, in which " the primates used to reside three months in the year." In ' The Irish Tourist or Excursions through Ireland ' (anon., not dated, circa 1825), vol. ii., p. 80, Torfeckan Castle is said to be "" in the centre of a mean village, where when the place was of greater note, there existed an Abbey of Regular Canonesses which was confirmed by Pope Celestine [sic] III. in 1195."

"The author goes on to say :

" Torfeckan is stated by Ledwich to be a contraction from Termonfechan, ' the Sanctuary of St. Fechin,' who was abbot of Fowre, in the

county of Westmeath ; and that the manor be- longed to the see of Armagh, the primates usually resided three months in the year in the castle ; Archbishop Usher being the last who did so."

In Murray's 'Handbook for Ireland,' 1864, p. 29, and in various modern maps, Termon- f eckin appears for Torfeckan. How the name is now pronounced by the people of co. Louth I do not know. The pronunciation of the name in the title of Lord Torphichen is exactly represented by the Irish Torfeckan.

What was the connexion, if any, between the two religious houses, Torphichen and Torfeckan ? ROBERT PIERPOINT.

UNANNOTATED MARRIAGES AT WEST- MINSTER. (See ante, pp. 65 and 129.) The remaining unannotated marriage entries are :

19. June3, 1727. John Preston, of St. Martin's,

Vintry, London, bachelor, and Elizabeth Stracey of Woodford, co. Essex, spinster.

20. June 24, 1731. Thomas Brian of St. An-

drew's, Holborn, widower, and Mary Dewell of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, widow.

21. Nov. 10, 1733. William Kogers of St.

George's, Hanover Square, and Barbara Harrmound of St. James's, Westminster, both single.

22. Oct. 22, 1737. John Hopley of St. Catherine

Cree Church, bachelor, and Anne Harris of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, London, widow.

23. Sept. 8, 1748. George Goldiiig of Cheyening,

Kent, widower, and Elizabeth Warr of
 * St. Margaret's, Westminster, spinster.

24. April 6, 1749. Samuel Milner, widower, and

Sarah Crookenden, widow, both of St. John's, Hackney.

25. Oct. 19, 1749. Thomas Test of St. Mary at

Hill, London, and Mary Haskins of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, Surrey, both single.

26. Sept. 16, 1751. James Wickes of St. Gabriel,

Fenchurch, widower, and Elizabeth Waters of St. George's-in-the-East, widow.

27. Aug. 3, 1871. William-James Morris, Major

in Her Majesty's Army (son of Henry Morris, Esq.), of the Cloisters, bachelor, of full age, and Alice-Phillips Wood (dau. of Western Wood, Esq.), of Onslow Gardens, South Kensington, Midx., spinster, of full age.

28. Mar. 12, 1872. William-Carr Sidgwick, M.A.,

Fellow of Merton College, Oxford (son of William Sidgwick, Clerk in Holy Orders), of 16 Dean's Yard, bachelor, of full age, and Sarah-Isabella Thompson (daughter of John-Vincent Thompson, Serjeant-at- Law) of 21 South Street, Park Lane, Midx., spinster, of full age.

29. Jan. 5, 1875. Montagu-Cecil Broun, late

of the 15th Hussars (son of George Broun, Post Captain B.N.), of 36 Bury Street, St. James, Westminster, bachelor, aged 34, and Caroline- Alice- Jane Leighton (daughter of Francis- Knyvett Leighton, Clerk, D.D., Warden of All Souls' College, Oxford), of 20 Dean's Yard, spinster, aged 18.

GERTRUDE FLEWKER.