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 50 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. JtJLT 17, 1920. taking out a brace of pistols, he offered one to the astonished counsellor ; and protested that, before he quitted the room, he would have either his money or satisfatcion. The money was accord- ingly returned : but the justice of his cause prevented not the failure of his application." Who was the candidate ? Who was the barrister ? J OHN B WAINEWRIGHT. JOB HEATH'S POSSET CUP. (See 12 S. iii. 9, 314). As I am still without any definite information as to the parentage and marriage of the assumed possessor of this cup, I should be grateful tor the least light that can be thrown upon it. Since these two above communications to 'N. & Q.' I have been informed of one more Job Heath The >-ame was the son of John Heath of Oamaount Side, Bursiem whose Will is dated Dec. 3, 1697, and proved at Lichfield, May 19, 1698. Three sons are mentioned John, Job and Joshua. The two last are described as minors. The first and last became cele- brated potters What Job became is doubtful. Did he marry Hannah ? Did he migrate to London ? JOHN W. BROWN. Ty Hedd, North Road, Aberystwyth. YE ANTING -STONE. Martha Whately of Banbury by her will elated Dec. 2, "1641, expresses a wish that certain articles should be left in a certain house and devolve with it. She calls these articles "standards"; and includes in them "the garners for mault, the yeantinge stone, the dresser boards, the spense in the kitchin, with such things else that be usually left in freeholds, that the houses be not defaced." Can any one explain the word " yeantinge-stone " ? A. D. T. MILITIA ACTS. Can any reader indicate a source of information regarding com- pulsorv service (i.e., militia, press-gangs, &c.) ot men of Essex county prior to and including the institution of Pitt's Militia Acts of 1756-7 ? T^ TT A K H. ALLEN. ) Ravenswood Road, Walthamstow, E.17. LITTLE WILD STREET BAPTIST CHAPEL. May I inquire whether any reader of ' "N" & Q ' kno-A's the whereabouts of the Minute Books and other records, prior to 1800, of the above chapel, of which Dr. Stennet was at one time pa Q S !'^ ' W. H. CHALLEN. 9 Eldon Bark, South Norwood, S.E. AUTHORS^ OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. 1. Can any one tell me where the following lines come from, and if they are correctly quoted ? We have no glory great enough for you I lay this tribute at thy feet. R. S. 2. Can any correspondent tell me where the following verse is to be found ? I quote from memory. My heart is like a rusty lock, Lord oil it with Thy Grace, And rub, and rub, and rub it, Lord, TIntil I see Thy Face. M. L. M. BRITISH COFFEE-HOUSE. (12 S. vi. 31.) IN the Lists of Eighteenth Century Taverns this house is stated by me to have been situate " in Cockspur Street almost opposite the Cannon Coffee-house, and adjoining the Court of Requests." More precisely defined it stood on the site of the premises occupied at the end of the nineteenth century by Stanford, the map-seller. The " British " was a famous house asso- ciated among other noted names with Smollett, Garrick, Johnson, Wedderburn, William and John Hunter, Dr. Pitcairn and Robert Adam. The last named was commissioned as architect when the house was rebuilt in 1770. and Adam's delicately designed facade is reproduced in Shelley's ' Inns and Taverns of Old London. ' Mr. J. Holden Macmichael gives a graphic description of the social history of the "British" at pp.3 538 of his 'Charing Cross.' At p. 282, however, Mr. Macmichael makes a further reference to the " British " in which I now find I followed him too closely. He sets out an advertise- ment taken from The Daily Advertiser of May 20, 1742, running : " To be sold by Auction by Mr. Pinchbeck, senior, this day and to-morrow at the British Coffee-house, adjoining to his shop in the Court of Bequest the entire collection of original pictures of the late Captain John Mitchell. ..." Mr. Macmichael then adds the comment : " The Courts of Bequest for the recovery of small debts were superseded in 18467 . . . by the County Courts of which there are now over 500. One of these courts [of Bequest] was in Cockspur Street." I fancy the last sentence is an inference only from the advertisement, which in fact is not