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 94 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vn. JULY si, 1920. ^running 24 pages to the part. I have No. 2, May 1865 and No. 4, May 1866 ; the contents hardly to be described as very outstanding, and perhaps the most amusing of them <being a list of subjects discussed at the .school Debating Society; viz., that 1. Pockets are not things to be discouraged. 2. Teetotalism is a beneficial thing both to Vbody and mind. 3. The general character of Cromwell is not to be admired. 4. Smoking is not an obnoxious and dis- . advantageous habit. It may be worth noting that resolutions 1 and 3 were carried and 2 and 4 negatived For Adversaria, see 11 S. xii. 231, 270. W. B. H. Lewisham and District. The South- East London Journal f a magazine for the home and up-to-date advertiser, issued at irregular intervals, and circulated gra- tuitously. Contained local news and short stories, and was illustrated with reproduc- tions of views of old Lewisham, Lee, &e., published by Richardson & Parr, Lewisham, Kent. The earliest copy I have is No. 19, Aug. 4, 1894, No. 22 is dated Sept. 1. 1894 ; No. 26, Nov. 10 ; No. 30, Dec. 15 : No. 34, Jan. 19 ; 1895 : No. 38, Apr. 6 : No. 43, Oct. ; No. 44, Nov.; No. 45, Jan. 1896; No. 46, March 1896. In No. 26, and subsequent issues the '.title was changed to London and County Journal. In No. 43 the price is stated to be one penny, but the paper was still " Delivered in 20,000 houses in the district." T. W. TYRRELL. St. Elmo, Sidmouth. THE USE or THE ROYAL ARMS ON WAR MEMORIAL BUILDINGS (12 S. vi. 312; vii. 19). I do not think that the assertion,: -.at the last reference, that "for a guinea a year a man may commandeer any blazon he pleases without being reproached by the law," should be allowed to pass unchal- lenged. The term "reproached" is some-: what ambiguous, but I presume means that, if any one assumes arms to which he is not entitled, the law will not interfere. As a matter of fact the law is only interested in the the use of arms, for which it charges one on two guineas a year, according to the manner in which they are used. It is not the case, however, that this payment authorizes the: "assumption of a blazon that belongs to some! -other person, and although the law may not "reproach" the usurper it will grant 1 redress to the person whose Arms have been filched, if he chooses to take steps to protect his interests. See 'Heraldry in Scotland,' by I. H. Stevenson, vol. ii. app. viii., and also ' The Right to bear Arms,' by " X.," p. 111. T. F. D. PRISONERS WHO HAVE SURVIVED HANG- ING (12 S. vii. 68). The case of Anne Green (hanged at Oxford in 1650, and subsequently recovered), quoted by MR. FREDERICK C. WHITE, is mentioned in Plot's ' Natural History of Oxfordshire.' Plot gives as his authorities James Heath, ' History of the Civil Wars of England, Scotland and Ireland,' and ' Append, ad Hist. D. Petavii.' He also mentions a similar case, that of Elizabeth, servant of one Mrs. Cope of Magdalene Parish, Oxford, who, in 1658, was condemned at the City Sessions and hanged for a similar crime. When the body was brought to the George Inn she was found to be alive, but not having any friends as Anne Green had to help her, " she was barbarously dragg'd the Night following by the Order of one Mai lory then one of the Bayliffs of the City to Gloucester-Green, and there drawn up over one of the Arms of the Trees and hanged a second time ' till *?he was Dead ' ' (Plot, 2nd. Edn., 170",, pp. 203-1). E. ST. JOHN BROOKS. Clevedon, Grove Road, Sutton. MR. WHITE will find several instances referred to in Sydney Young's ' Annals of the Barber-Surgeons,' together with the regulations of the Barber-Surgeons Company for dealing with such cases. S. D. CLIPPINGDALE, M.D. 36 Holland Park Avenue, W. ' HISTORY OF THE NAVY ' : H. M. S. COVENTRY (12 S. vii. 47). I think Sir Wm. Laird Clowes has made a lip. Norie in his ' Naval Gazetteer ' says that Capt. Mitchell whilst in command of the Coventry fell in with the Bellona on Aug. 8, and after an action of two hours and a half compelled her to sheer off. That was in 1782. Charnock in his ' Biographia Navalis ' says that Capt. Wolseley in the Coventry had the misfortune to be captured by the French fleet, in Ganjam Roads, on Jan. 10, 1783. Steel's Navy List "corrected to July 31, 1783 " has the Coventry as "taken by M. Suffrein in the E. Indies " that year* With regard to the question "What happened to her captain, Wolseley ? "-he was exchanged, returned to England, ( .but