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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vii. NOV. 27, 192*.

and wrote the weekly sporting articles in The Morning Herald. He died in June, 1856. But Sylvanus, the author of the well- known 'Bye Lanes and Downs of England,' 'Rambles in Sweden and Gottland,' and ' Legends of Calais ' was a Mr. Robert BelJ Calton. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

MR. SERJEANT BALLANTINE'S FEE (12 S. vii. 348). In The Law Journal of Jan. 30, 1875, vol. x. p. 85, there is the following paragraph ;

"The Guicowar of Barod*. Messrs. Latley & Hart, of Gresham House, Solicitors, have written to The Times to state that the fee paid by them to Serjeant Ballaritine, as retaining him to defend the Guicowar on the charge of attempting to poison Colonel Phayne, the President, was 5,000 guineas. They have arranged a further scale of fees depend- ing somewhat on the time the Serjeant will be absent from England, but which may be estimated at not less than a further sum of 5,000 guineas."

I knew Serjeant Ballantine intimately, and I have always understood that he did receive on the whole 10,000 guineas.

HARRY B. POLAND.

Inner Temple.

PARLIAMENTARY PETITIONS, &c. (12 S. vii. 270, 338, 417). In 'Words, Facts and Phrases,' by Edwards (Chatto & Windus. 1901), p. 630, it is stated; "Your peti- tioners shall ever pray, &c." The "&c." of this phrase was formerly written at full length. In the case of a petition to a sovereign it ran ; " For your Majesty's most prosperous reign." Where the petition was to Parliament, the form was; "For the prosperous successe of this highe and honourable Court of Parliament." Acts of Parliament are still in the form of petitions, but the prayer is now omitted, though ante Henry VI. the "&c." meant; "For God's sake and as an act of charity," the exact words used being ; " vos povers com- munes prient et supplient, par Dieu et en oeuvre de charite ! Rot. Parl. 2 Hen. V., No. 22." BARRULE.

GREEK LETTERS ON "ADAM" CEILING (12 S. vii. 390). If A^HE instead of AOI represented the true reading, or the intention of the designer, the letters would record the appropriate date of 1785.

EDWARD BENSLY.

DR. JOHNSON AT CHESTER, 1774 (12 S vii. 351). The account of the Roman hypo- ca-ist to which R. S. B. refers is not part of Johnson's text in Duppa's edition of the 1 Diary of a Journey into North Whales,' but

s given in Appendix, No. V., where it is ntroduced, but not closed, by quotation narks. Possibly the note is taken, from aix macknowledged source, or the inverted commas at the beginning may have got in, >y mistake, the preceding and the following

.ppendix being both marked as quotations.

,nd assigned to other writers. In Croker's first edition (1831) of Boswell's 'Life,' the- account is printed in a foot-note over 3uppa's name. The editor dropped it at some later time. It does not appear in the one- volume edition of 1876.

EDWARD BE^TSLY.

THE " GOOSE CLUB" (12 S. vii. 310, 354 r 396). Sometime between 1856-58, my, curiosity was roused by a notice in a public - louse window in a street attached to- Leicester Square, that a Goose Club was one of the amenities of the establishment.

ST. SWITHIN...

BEDFORDSHIRE CHURCHYARD INSCRIP- TIONS (12 S. vii. 270, 298). I have made- extensive notes from the undermentioned churchyards, most of them being transcribed' between 1895 and 1910. I should not like- to say that any single churchyard is com- plete as in those days the oldest tombs- received my first attention, and if time did not permit only the names of the nineteenth century ones were noted ; Arlesey, Barton- in-the-Clay, Biddenham, Biggleswade, Bed- ford (St. Peter's, St. Mary's, St. John's, St. Paul's), Campton, Carjlton, Caddingtori, Clop- hill, Cople, Chalgrave, Chellington, Dun- stable, Elstow, Eaton Socon, Everton,, Felmersharn, Flitton, L T pper and Lower Gravenhurst, Goldington, Harrold, Hock- liffe, Henlow, Houghton Conquest, Houghtoa Regis, Husborne Crawley, Kempston, Lang- ford, Luton, Lidlington, Maulden, Markyate, Odell, Pulloxhill, Potton, Roxton, Shefford^ Stagsden, Stevington Stotfold, SonthilU Silsoe, Sandy, Sharnbrook, Truvey, Temps- ford, Toddington, Wrest! ingworth, Whips- nade, Woburn and Willington.

Occasionally, I have made notes from the interiors, also from cemeteries and non- conformist burial-grounds.

CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

BENZON, CELEBRATED GAMBLER (12 V S. vii. 349, 411). I have the book-plate of Ernest L. S. Benzon, a crest within a garter, upon which a former owner has written in pencil; "Father of the Jubilee Plunger." CHAS. HALL CROUCH- 204 Hermon Hill, South Wood ford-