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Miss Parsons' portrait one of these gratui- tous ones ?

I shall also be glad to hear the dates of birth and death of this lady, how long her intimacy with the third Duke of Grafton lasted, and whether there are any sources of information to be found, anywhere, of her life after her marriage with the second Viscount Maynard? FBEDEBICK C. WHITE.

[Information about Nancy Parsons will be found at 2 S. x. 27. 77 and 10 S. x. 447.]

ROOK FAMILY. Was there at any time a family of the name of Rook residing at Shoreditch, which was descendant from Lord Wilmot ? WENDELL HEBBBUCK.

Canton, Ohio.

THE AQUA VITA MAN. In one of the Account Books of St. Peter's Church, Sheffield, Yorks, occurs the entry :

' 1573. Paid at the burying of Eodger Sikes the Aqua Vita Man xxd."

What was this man's trade ?

I. F.

RUDYABD KIPLING : REFEBENCE WANTED. In one of his works Kipling blames the custom of placing the material things of this life before, and in preference to. people, i.e. ideals. Can any reader give the exact reference and context ? E. R. M. G.

TAILLEAB DTJBH NA TUAIGHE. " The Black Tailor of the Axe " said to have been a famous warrior of Clan Cameron. W 7 hat particular exploits rendered him famous ? Where can an account of his life be found ? Whom did he marry and are any descendants known ? A. W. WALLIS-TAYLEB.

RAWLINS. Stedman Rawlins (d. 1793) married Elizabeth Taylor (d. 1797) daughter of William Wharton (d. 1798) of St. Kitts, W.I. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give me the date of the marriage ?

There were issue of the marriage two sons and two daughters : what were their names ? J. B. W T HITMOBE.

THE JEWS' WAY. Very little appears to be known about this road, which is stated to have connected the Roman camp at Brancaster near Lynn with that of Caister near Yarmouth. It was said to have been patrolled by the cavalry stationed at these camps, the Dalmatian Horse at Brancaster and the Stablesian Horse (I have never discovered the whereabouts of Stablesia) at Caister. The road ran along the Norfolk coast, but its course at this date is not easy to define. It reappeared in Suffolk, just

south of Burgh Castle but its route and destination are uncertain.

I am inclined to think the area of the

camp at Caister, situated at the junction of

he Filby and Ormesby roads, was about

even acres, the same as at Brancaster, but

no plan of it seems to b*e in existence.

Any references or suggestions regarding he road or camps will be welcomed.

WILLIAM DE CASTBE.

FBANCISCLTS TTJBBETTINUS. I desire to discover the date of the following work by this author :

' De Necessaria Secessione Nostra ab Ecclesia Romana, et Impossibili cum Ea Syncretismp, Disputationes. Auctore Francisco Turrettino, in Ecclesia et Academi?i Genevensi Pastore, et S.S. Theologies Professore. Accessit Ejusdem Dis- putationum Miscellanearum Deces. Editio altera Aucba et Recognita. Genevae. Apud Samuelem De Tournes."

Turrettinus seems to have merely edited the work, for the eight disputations con- tained therein bear the names of eight different writers. It is the date of publica- tion I am desirous of ascertaining, which I take to have been sometime in the seven- teenth century. My copy is a quarto bound in grey card-board, backed and tipped at the corners in leather, with the title-page in alternate black and red lettering, and is in tolerably good condition despite the wear and tear of two or three centuries.

J. B. McGOVEBN.

THE WOBD " PBEMIEB." In the Memoirs compiled by Sir Charles Dilke from his private diaries, occur these words :

" Mr. (afterwards Sir) Graham Berry, Prime Minister, or, as they call it in the Colonies, ' Premier ' of Victoria (Life, i. 280)."

The incident referred to happened in 1879, but the Memoir was written some ten or eleven years later. Whether the word "Premier" in double quotation marks belongs to the diary is not quite clear. But it is evident that Sir Charles did not consider the term Premier as quite legitimate, and to him it appears to have been considered as a colonial colloquialism. Yet the 'N.E.D.' gives instances of its use with the meaning of ' ' the first minister of the crown, the Prime Minister of Great Britain or one of its Colonies" as far back as 1726 and 1727. Madame D'Arblay wrote in 1799 "How can the Premier (Pitt) be so much his own enmy ? " When did the term in the sense of Prime Minister become of common use ?

F. H. C.