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d. at Baronston, co. Westmeath, April 16, 1816; married 1778 Dorothea Philippa, eld. dau of Godolphin Rooperof Berkhampstead, Herts. ; no issue. The Sunderlins were in Switzerland on their honeymoon.

F. J. ELLIS.

SAILORS' CHANTIES (12 S. vii. 48, 95, 114, 138). S.C. will find the words of some chanties, and, if my memory serves me aright, the airs to some of thorn, in ' The Story of the Sea,' a two-volume work, which was published probably as a reprint, in parts some time between the years 1895 and 1901. J. B. WHITMOKE.

41 Thurloe Square, S. Kensington, S.W.7.

SlB POLLYCARPUS WHARTON (12 S. vii.

129, 158.) The principal facts relating to this unfortunate projector are summarised in a broadside entitled ' The Hard Case of Sir P. W.' written apparently from prison in the year 1710. Wharton had works both at Chilworth and Windsor. His so-called invention was based on the German practice of gunpowder -making. The above broadside was reprinted some years ago by the late Mr. Edward Kraftmeier of the Chilworth Gun- powder Mills.

E. WYNDHAM HULME. Seven oaks.

MACATJLAY QUERIES (12 S. vii. 130, 151). Boswell's attitude to Goldsmith is dealt with in illuminative fashion in one of the Chapters of Mr. Frankfort Moore's delightful book 'A Georgian Pageant.'

W. E. WILSON.

5 Oliver Place, Hawick, Scotland.

WARWICKSHIRE SAYINGS (12 S. vii. 67, 156). There is a monition

Friday's hair and Sunday's horn, Go to the Devil on Monday morn.

I am afraid that this, like most other things > has already appeared in ' N. & Q.' but I give it for the good of modern readers.

ST. SWITHIN.

EXTED (12 S. vii. 149). I know of no Birmingham artist of this name. Probably John Eckstein is meant. He painted in 1792, a portrait group of the so-called picture, representing twelve frequenters of Freeth's Coffee -House in Bell Street. The artist was the son of Johannes Eckstein of Poppenreuth, near Nuremberg, and married and settled in England, where he exhibited at the Royal Academy. He afterwards
 * Twelve Apostles, ' a well-known Birmingham

went to the West Indies, where he died. His painting of Sir Sidney Smith at the siege of Acre is in the National Portrait Gallery. There is a privately printed genea- logical account of the family, which has numerous and widely scattered ramifications ; and notes on Eckstein have appeared in ' N & Q.' in 4 S. xi. 429.

HOWARD S. PEARSON.

WIDEAWAKE HATS (12 S. vii. 28, 157, 171). George Augustus Sala, once wrote a little advertising booklet for a Manchester hatter under amusing circumstances. It was called ' The Hats of Humanity, Historically, Humourously and ^sthetically Considered,' and seems likely to contain the information, sought for. ARTHUR BOWES.

Wargrave, Newton-le- Willows, Lanes.

RAWLINS (12 S. vii. 150). See pedigree in-' ' Caribbeana,' vol. v. V. L. O.

MAHOGANY AND THE DICTIONARIES (12 S. vii. 90, 157). The liquor referred to by Boswell was no doubt rum, as I have fre- quently, and quite recently, heard this called; mahogany in the London Docks district. The name presumably refers to its colour. In the same locality Hollands gin is often called square-face, a well-known brand being put up in square bottles.

WILLIAM GILBERT, F.R.N.S.

In ' Our English Home : its Early History and Progress' (1860), there is a brief account of the introduction of mahogany furniture into this country. From this we learn that :

" The mahogany of Jamaica which, was intro- duced in the reign of Queen Anne, superseded' walnut-tree and oak. A hundred and fifty years ago this wood was almost unknown to English, commerce. In 1724, the Prince of Wales, after- wards George II. ordered the staircases of Marble hall, Twickenham, to be constructed of mahogany, which was perhaps its first application to homQ embellishment. "

It was in this same year that a West Indian captain presented a few planks of the wood 1 to Dr. Gibbon as is narrated in the full account of the anecdote already mentioned,, and which is given in the course of this work. From this it appears that the use of the wood in the construction of furniture was popularized by Woolaston, a cabinet- maker, who, instructed by Dr. Gibbons, made a bureau for the latter 's drawing-room. The result was a fine piece of work and the- bureau became famous. People of taste,..