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 90 NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 s. vii. JULY 31, 1020. at St. Edmunds' Abbey in Suffolk. Not having access to Dugdale's ' Monas- ticon,' Weever's ' Funeral Monuments,' the may have been penned by Cardinal Gasquet I am unable to gather chain of facts. I should be glad of any citations. The Kemeys family are said to have derived from Kemeys Commander near Usk, Monmouthshire, and not to be mixed up with the Baronia de Kemeys of North Pembrokeshire. ANEURIN WILLIAMS. Menai View, Carnarvon. MAHOGANY AND THE DICTIONARIES. John Adams (1750 ? 1814) -as to whom see the 'D.N.B. ' in 'A Second Volume of Curious Anecdotes, &c.,' (London, 1792), at the close of his account of how mahogany came to be popularized in England by William Gibbons (1649-1728) as to whom see the 'D.N.B.' says : "It is remarkable that the word mahogany is to bo found in no English dictionary whatever. ' ' Is its first occurrence in John Walker' JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. PARIS v. PARADISE. I seem to have read of a cardinal who "preferred Paris to Paradise.' Will someone kindly supply the reference ? G. G. L. PUSSYFOOT. When was this term origi nated, and by whom ? Two Scandinavian diplomatists, on a Pacific liner, one day some thirteen year ago, were discussing with an American literary friend of mine, the meanings o pussyfootism. J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. CRIMEAN WAR IN FICTION. Can any eader or contributor supply a moderate list f stories dealing mainly or altogether with he Crimean War and its three great battles f Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman ? Two nly are known to me : ' Clifton Grey ' by think) Pierce Egan, published in the xties of last century, and ' The Interpreter ' G. J. Whyte Melville date of publication nknowri to me, but bearing as sub-title A Tale of the War,' and treating of that n the Crimea. J. B. McGovERN. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. AUTHOR OP QUOTATION WANTED. Who wrote ' Santa Cruz : Blake's Last Vic- tory,' a poem of which the first lines run? raised be the Lord Who hath done most mar- vellous things for us, lur help by night and day ; Who hath made straight paths for our feet on land, and wings for us Across the ocean way. . . . [Length 128 lines.] The poem relates how Blake on April 20, 1657. estroyed the Spanish silver fleet in the bay of anta Crux, an island of the Canaries. F. H. BOYD. West Mailing, Kent. PLACE . ; OF . GRANGER'S, . any. of your, rea^lfers recall the: controversy at the time of the unveiling of the Martyrs Memorial at Oxford, as to the actual site o Cranmer 'g -.death ? With regard to Ridle and Latimer no question arose, but it was nJ so with Cranmer. The site of the preteen Cornmarket and an open space in front o St. Mary's, where the mock trial had bee held, have both been put forward, but wit what amount of authority in ' either cap I cannot remember. Geikie in his 'History of the Reformation ' says that after th sentence " Cranmer was hustled away to th place', a quarter of a mile from 'the churfc to the spot where Ridley and Latimer ha suffered martyrdom." L. G. R. Bournemouth. BLACK MASS. (12 S. vii. 48.) THE Pall Mall Gazette of Dec. 13, 1895, mentions. an action for libel brought by a Mdlle. Lucie Claraz, of Fribourg, Switzerland, against a perio- dical entitled Le Diable au Dix-neuvieme Siecle, which exists for the purpose of attacking the worshippers of Satan and the so-called priests, who celebrat.e whaib are. known as " black masses," ceremonies not only impious but immoral and obscene." In this action which was brought before " the Tribunal of Correctional Police in Paris," Maitre Clunet who appeared for the Plaintiff, "quoted from Le Bulletin du Diable, the periodical of the sect." Maitre Mack appeared for Le Diable au Dix-neuvime Si&cle. Unfortunately I have no note as to the result of the trial. In an article in the > Westminster Gazette of Dec. 17, 1895 the following 'occurs : - " The case of a nun, which caused such excite- ment in 1865, is a strange one. This nun who had been corrupted by a Satanistic priest, When 15 years. , of age, was placed in a convent, and soon began to make her influence felt. Frightful scandals occurred .... Eventually she was ex- pelled, and a certain priest undertook to control
 * Breviary of Suffolk ' or anything that
 * Pronouncing Dictionary,' 2nd edn., 1797 ?