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 12 s. vin. FEB. 5, 1921] NOTES AND QUERIES. 107 "Such a record, however, does exist, and has existed since December 1893 when a bronze tablet was placed by the Massachusetts Society, Sons of the Revolution, on a building at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Pearl Street the actual site of ' Griffins Wharf, ' long since reclaimed from the harbour and now effectually cut off by the elevated rail- way and opposite line of high warehouses. The tablet shows a sailing ship of the period and below it, within an appropriate border of tea leaves, runs the following inscription : Here formerly stood GRIFFINS WHARF, at -which lay moored on Dec. 16, 1773, three British, ships with cargoes of tea. To defeat King George's trivial but tyrannical tax of three pence a pound .about ninety citizens of Boston, partly disguised as Indians, boarded the ships, threv the cargoes, three hundred and forty-two chests in all, into the sea, -and made the world ring with the patriotic exploit of the BOSTON TEA PARTY. No I- ne'er was mingled such a draught, In palace, hall, or arbor, As freemen brewed and tyrants quaffed That night in Boston harbor. HUGH HURTING. 46 Grey Coat Gardens, S.W. THE SCHOOL OF SAMUEL BUTLER. Though Aibrey says that Samuel Butler, author of ''Hudibras,' went to school at Worcester, aid tradition has it that he was educated A: the King's School in that city under Henry Bright, one of the most celebrated S3hoolmasters of that age, many later writers lave disagreed as to the identity of Butler's .school, either assigning him to the Worcester Royal Grammar School (known previously AS the Free School, or Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School), or questioning whether he was educated at Worcester at all. Car- lisle in his ' Endowed Schools ' places Butler "at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Worcester,' and is followed by the writer in the 'D.NtB.' Chambers in his 'Bio- graphical Illustrations of Worcestershire,' writing of Lord Somers, says: " I am not acquainted that any register is in -existence to give to any school in this city the honour of educating Butler or Somers." However, as far as Butler is concerned, such not actually contain Butler's name, confirms the tradition that he was educated at the King's School, Worcester. In his ' Brief Life ' of Butler Aubrey states, "He went to schoole at Worcester from Mr. Hill," and adds in a note: " He was born in Worcestershire hard by Barbon-bridge half a mile from Worcester,' in the parish of St. John, Mr. Hill thinkes, who went to schoole with him." This Mr. Hill, as is seen from other references to him in the 'Brief Lives,' was the Rev. Richard Hill, incumbent of Stretton in Herefordshire. He matriculated at Oxford from Balliol College in July 1634 as "son of James, of Upton-on-Severn, co. Wore., pleb., aged 17." In the register of boys elected to King's scholarship, at the King's School, Worcester ('Wore. Cath. Mun.' A. xxi, printed in Mr. A. F. Leach's ' Early Education in Worcestershire ') there occurs the name of Richard Hill under the date November 1626. Thus the identification of this Richard Hill with Aubrey's Mr. Hill who went to school with Butler appears certain. Butler, who was baptized in February 1612-13, would be Hill's senior by about four years, and probably left the school soon after Hill entered it. Butler's name is not found in this register because he was never elected to a King's scholarship. This fact gives point to Aubrey's statement that " his father was a man but of slender fortune* and to breed him at schoole was as much educa- tion as he was able to reach to. . . .He never wag at the university for the reason alledged." C. V. HANCOCK. WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries in order that answers may be sent to them direct. VANESSA. DR. ELBINGTON BALL'S note on Swift's verse (p. 1) brings to mind a point which has often puzzled me. How did the German naturalist Johann Christian Faber or Fabricius (1745-1808), pupil of and collaborateur with the Swedish natura- list Carle von Linne, better known as Linnaeus (1707-1778), come to designpte a genus of butterflies as Vanessa, Linnaeus adding the specific names ? The British representatives of this species are the most brilliant of our native butterflies, viz., the Red Admiral, the Peacock, the Camberwell Beauty, the Large and Small Tortoiseshells and the Painted Lady. How did Fabricius
 * a register does exist, which, though it does