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work. In America as in England, men engaged in this pursuit were often Irishmen. In. No. 3 of the pictures in Punch to illus- trate Mr. Briggs's 'Pleasures of House- keeping,' Leech gave Irish features to several of the fifteen builder's men who crowd the roof, scaffold, and. ladders ; and the name which one of them is bawling is Kelly.

3. For the origin of " Je n'en vois pas la necessite," see Biichmann's ' Gefliigelte Worte ' and W. F. H. King's ' Classical and Foreign Quotations.' The story is given in Henault's -'Memo ires.' Count d'Argental made the retort in reply to the excuse of the Abbe Desfontaines, whom he had sum- moned to appear before him on the charge of writing libels, "II faut bien que je vive."* J. M. Quitard, according to King, referred the crigin to Tertullian, 'Idolatria,' vi., where "vivere ergo habes ? " is suggested as the right answer to make to the Christian maker of idols who pleads "Non habeo aliquid quo vivam."

7. On May 23, 1808, Coleridge wrote a- letter to Francis Jeffrey beginning :

" Without knowing me you have been, perhaps rather unwarrantably, severe on my morals and understanding."

He complains of the frequent introduction of his name in The Edinburgh Review, though for thirteen years he had, with one slight exception, published nothing under his name or known to be his.

" If you knew me," he says, " you would smile at some of the charges which you have fastened on me." He is uow writing " merely to entreat for the sake of mankind an honourable review of Mr. Clarkson's 'History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade.' " (See vol. ii.. p. 527 of S. T.Coleridge's
 * Letters,' edited by E. H. Coleridge, 1895.)

9. Nicholas Saunderson (1682-1739) who bad lost his sight in infancy was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cam- bridge in 1711.

11. George Granville Francis Egerton was the son of the first Earl of Ellesmere. He was born in 1823, styled Viscount Brackley, 1846-57, succeeded his father in 1857^ and died in 1862. From 1847-51 he was M.P. for North Staffordshire.

EDWARD BENSLY.

2. From the fact that a large^ proportion of unskilled labourers were Irishmen, the term Paddy was generally applied to them. This was an "English trait" which still

chief of the Paris police, and to Sart'ne, a lieutenant of police.
 * The retort has been attril uted to d'Argenson,

survives in the common expression " Paddy 's mail " for a workman's train.

9. Nicholas Saunderson, born " January f 1682, at Thurlston near Penniston in York- shire," in November, 1711 became Lucasiant. Professor of Mathematics in the University of Cambridge. Died Apr. 19, 1739.

E. G. B.

4. The mortuary chests in Winchester Cathedral contain the bones or what remains of them of eleven persons. Three- belong to the seventh century Kinegils,.. the first Christian King of Wessex (possibly "the Saxon King" of Emerson); his soo. Kenulph ; and Wina, the first Bishop of Winchester after the removal of the bishop's stool from Dorchester on Thames. Four- were kings of the House of C erdic Egbert ; his son Ethelwulf, Alfred's father ; Edmund,- who is said to have been a son of Alfred ; and King Edred, a grandson of Alfred- Three belong to the eleventh century King Cnut ; his wife Queen Emma ; and her- kinsman Bishop Alwyn of Winchester ; and one to the twelfth century, William Bufus.

5. Alfred's new minster was transferred to Hyde in 1110, when his bones and those-^ of his son, Edward the Elder, were also- removed and reburiecT in the new Abbey- church. Finally, in the eighteenth century ,. when the remains of Hyde Abbey were- pulled down by the Corporation of Win- chester, in order that a Bridewell might be- built on their site, the bones of these two- great kings disappeared for ever.

A. B. BAYLEY.

5. Whether Sharon Turner wrote as- quoted I cannot say ; but the facts are, I think, undoubted. ~B. B. Woodward in his- 'History of Winchester,' p. 282, says :

"The County Bridewell was erected on|the fite- of Hyde Abbey Church whilst Milner was writing; his history. It was taken down in 1850, and its site is now built over."

At p. 308 he writes :

"At the dissolution in April 1538, Hyde Abbey- was surrendered to the king It was soon after- wards pulled down ; and when Leland visited the place, nothing but ruins remained of this once- magnificent monastry. He states that in the- 'tumbe' of King Alfred and his son, which was- ' before the High Altare * ' was a late found 2 little- Tables of leade inscribed with theyr Names ' (His.

vol. iii. fol, 72) Milner (vol. ii. p. 250) inform*

us that a small stone, with the inscription ' .dSlfreffi rex Dccclxxxi' was found at this time, [i.e. the building of the Bridewell,] and passed into the- possession of Mr. Howard of Corby Castle ; a cast of it is in the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries.*"