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The Windsor Magazine of May, 1899, ' The L.ast Term' appears as 'Stalky & Co.,' tained a parfc which did not appear in The Windsor Magazine.
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ROBERT PIERPOINT.

ADMIRAL DE LA CLUE. Wishing to refer .to the birth date of this well-known French Admiral who was defeated by Boscawen in 1759 I made reference to a large number of biographical dictionaries, French, English, and even American and one German one. Contemporary French admirals appear, but De la Clue (or De La Clue Gabran) is not to be found in any of these dictionaries. Some, no doubt, based upon others, repeat their errors and omissions, but it is curious <to find a man of such eminence so com- pletely " boycotted." Does he appear under some other name ? R. B.

Upton.

QUEEN or ENGLAND AND POPE. A friend has a china pomatum pot, given her over sixty years ago. The top of the lid is occupied by a coloured picture, entitled ' A False Move,' which represents John Bull and the Pope playing chess. Scrolls issuing from the players' mouths bear the following legends : (Pope) " Check to your Queen, John " and (John Bull) " Pooh- pooh ! Your Bishop is out of his place, man ! " What is the incident alluded to ?

L. L. K.

OLD SEMAPHORE TOWERS. Information is desired concerning the history, positions and appearances of these disused signal stations, with particular references to the London-Portsmouth Line of signals. Can readers mention any books and maps dealing with them ? ENQUIRER.

A SECRET TIDE.

iten say it was a secret tide., "What did men mean ? The line comes from Jean Ingelow's poem on the ' High Tide on the Lincolnshire Coast ' in 1571, to which the recent disaster at Louth has recalled my attention. .Not having much knowledge of the sea I should like to learn what con- stitutes a "secret tide." I do not remember that such a thing has yet been brought to the notice of ' N. & Q.' though the " eygre " lias entered there, and ' Brides of Enderby ' .has rung up. " Melick " (last verse but two), I may as well say, is defined in Britten -and Holland's ' Dictionary of English Plant

Names ' as "a book-name for the genus J\falva." If it be so, I wish the poet had not used it. The verses strike me as being too full of unconcealed art and out of character with the narrator. There is nothing more genuine throughout than Sweeter woman ne'er drew breath Than my sonnes wife Elizabeth.

ST. SWITHIN.

A DESCENDANT OF PONTIUS PILATE AF ROVERETO. Writing of " Roveredo (in Latin Raboretum) " in 1707, De Blainville mentions the Podestat's House, and says ('.Travels,' vol. i. p. 427) :

" On the Front of the House there is a Marble, whereon is carved the Arms of a Gentleman of Trent, who has thrice been Podestat of Roveredo. His Name is Hieronimus Pilatus, and [he] thinks it no Dishonour to derive the Origine of his Family from the celebrated Pontius Pilate, who condemned Christ in the Reign of Tiberius."

Are these arms still to be seen ?

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

THE MOSTYN HOUSE RIFLES. Who and what were these rifles for which a piano march entitled ' Atalanta ' was composed by D'Arcv Gordon in 1903 ?

J. M. BULLOCH.

37 Bedford Square, W.C.I.

YOUNGER OF HAGGERSTON, NORTHUMBER- LAND. In the ' Autobiography ' of John Younger of St. Goswell's (W. Brockie, published 1881) a reference occurs to the above family as having been of some repute. Can any reader kindly furnish information on the subject ? It seems to me to be possible that this is the family referred to in Font's MS as the Youngers of "Hopper- ston " Scotland, a place which, so far as I am aware, nobody has been able to trace. My inquiry relates to the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries. G. W. YOUNGER.

MARMADUKE PLACE IN X<ANGDALE STREET. E. There were five Marmaduke Langdales, Barons Langdale of Holme in Spalding- more, and the last died in 1777. The pro- perty described as above was built much later than that year. I should be glad to know by whom and why it had the Lang- dale names conferred upon it.

ALFRED ANSCOMBE.

CALVERLEY'S (CHARLES STUART) PARO- DIES. Can I find anywhere a key to the parodies in Calverley's ' Verses and Transla- tions ' and 'Flyleaves ' ?

ARNOLD HAULTAIN.