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 90 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vin. JAN. 29, mi. of the Mahometans, and of the visit he paid to Mecca. I have a copy of the second edition dated Oxford, MDCCVII, and I have compared two copies, dated London, 1810 ; one of which is said to be the eighth and the other the tenth ! I should like to be informed when and where the first was issued, and also the ninth ? W. S. B. H. TOBACCO: "BIRD'S EYE." We know why certain kinds of tobacco are called Returns. Why was "Bird's Eye" so called ? I am not learned in tobaccos, but I believe "Bird's Eye " has "knots " in it. How are they made ? M. L. R. BRESLAR. 'THOMAS DANN AND ALICE LTJCAS.' I have an etching by W. J. White, 1818, named as above. Can any reader inform me as to its origin ? A. E. BOWDEN. 8 Bloom Grove, West Norwood, S.E. "A MISS IS AS GOOD AS A MAN." In a lecture delivered at Toulouse on July 10, 1918, by M. Emile Boutroux of the Academie Fran^aise, the eminent Academician said : "Les fe"ministes n'oubliereut pas, toutefois, queleur ambition essentiellee'taitdefaire admettre que, dans une foule de professions, la on Ton croit que 1'homme seul peut re"ussir, la femme, en re'alite', peut rendre les mmes services, a miss is as good as a man.'* Did M. Boutroux invent this perversion of the old proverb, or did he take it from some comic paper ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. THE TURBTJLINES. Any source of infor- mation regarding this sect would oblige. Schaff-Herzog in ' A Religious Encyclo psedia,' vol. iii. p. 1994, 3rd edition, 1894, compares them to the " Ranters, An Anti nomian sect of the Commonwealth Period,' whom Fuller in his ' Church History ' associates with the Familists. " They are described as believing themselves in capable of sinning, and fancying themselves in Adam 's state as he was in Paradise before the fall, as stripping themselves naked (like the Turbulines, &o.) at their public meetings." FREDERICK CHARLES WHITE. BOOK WANTED. Can any one tell me the author's name or title of a book, written as an autobiography, describing how a young man, living in London, goes into the country to his father's funeral and finds his estate was mortgaged and wrecked. He returns to London, seeks work, becomes secretary to Lord, and has a varied career, landing at last in Newgate. Thence escapes with a pal to sea, acting as super- cargo in trips to France, and eventually goes to the South Seas, a description of which covers more than half the story. Date, say, eighteenth or early nineteenth century. " E. H. C. STANIER. Wanted particulars of the marriage of John Stanier and Bridget, 1716-1727 ; probably in Shropshire (not in printed registers) or Oxfordshire, or North- amptonshire. H. ST. JOHN DAWSON. TAVERN SIGN: "NONE THE WISER." The other day I noticed an inn in Edmonton bearing the above sign. Can any reader inform me what is the origin of it ? It is not mentioned in Larwood. WALTER B. PATON. 10 Stanhope Gardens, Queen's Gate, S.W.7. WILLIAM HOLDER was admitted to West- minster School in April 1733, aged 11. Was he one of the Holders of Gloucester (See 12 S. vii. 510) ? Any information about his parentage and career would be useful. G. F. R. B. CHIPPENDALE. Is anything known of the* parentage of Thomas Chippendale, the cabinet maker ? The 'D.N.B.' simply says that he was "a native of Worcestershire who came to London in the reign of George I." Mr. J. P. Blake, in his little book 'Chippendale and his School,' says : whom were carvers or craftsmen, or both. The second of the three was the great Thomas Chippen- dale. The first Chippendale is said to have been a well-known cabinet-maker at Worcester at the beginning of the eighteenth century. It is believed that father and son came to London about 1727 and started business together." The same authority states that he was buried at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields on Nov. 13, 1779. In the Register of the Cathedral Church, Sheffield, is the following entry : "Married 11 Nov. 1707 Thos. Chippendale and Martha Hudson ot Hallam." Can this be the father of the great Thomas ? Did he come to Sheffield for his wife ? I have not met with any other instance of the name in the Register. CHARLES DRURY. 12 Ranmoor Cliffe Road, Sheffield. [Our correspondent might consult 11 S. vi. 407 ; vii. 10,54, 94, 153,216.]
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