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 114 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.vni.FE B .6,i9si. Madame Vestris, and Harriet Mellon, who married Mr. Child the banker, and afterwards the Duke of 8t. Albans. In her memoirs she makes frequent references to this and particularly to the Green Man Hotel, and narrates how she always looked forward to a favourite dish of hers which was served there." Burton Chronicle. Firth's ' Highways and Byways in Derby- shire ' (1908), says : " The Green Man still survives .... though, as the sign declares, which projects a long arm towards the opposite houses, it has taken to itself the addi- tional name of the ' Black's Head '. . . the original "* Black's Head' was an old posting house a little higher up the street, and its business was taken over by the ' Green Man.' " Hobson's 'History and Topography of Ashbourn,' 1839, at p. 96, sets out a letter of invitation, Sept. 9, 1741, from Jo. Allsop, Recorder, for the annual feast at the Black's Head, to dine with the mayor, Sir Nathaniel Curzon, and assist in choosing his successor. Ashbourne was never a corporate town ; but the holding of the gathering at the inn named suggests its one-time importance. W. B. H. CHATTERTON'S APPRENTICESHIP TO LAM- BERT (12 S. viii. 31). 'Homes and Haunts of the British Poets,' by William Howitt (1847), has concerning the above period : " Here Chatterton's life was the life of insult and degradation . . . .Twelve hours he was chained to the office, i.e., from 8 in the morning to 8 at night, dinner hour only excepted ; and in the house he was confined to the Kitchen, slept with the foot-boy, and was subjected to indignities of a like nature, at which bis pride rebelled, and by which his temper was embittered." This corrobates the account in the ' D.N.B. ' W. B. H. PORTRAIT OF LORD MONTE AGLE (12 S. vii. 509). This portrait is No. 431 in the Catalogue of the first special exhibition of National Portraits to James II., on loan to the South Kensington Museum, April, 1866 : painter, Van Somer ; lent by Mr. John Webb. Mr. Webb lent three other portraits, the subjects being of somewhat earlier dates. jNb address appears, nor does the owner's name occur as having lent to the later exhibitions in May, 1867, and April, 1868. W. B. H. LORETTO (12 S. viii. 48). There is a Loretto in Styria, Austria, but it is better <known as Maria Zell. It lies in the valley of th,e Salza amid the N. Styrian Alps. Its entire claim tc notice lies in the fact that it is the most venerated and most frequented sanctuary in Austria, being visited annually by some 200,000 pilgrims. The object of veneration is a miracle-working image of the Virgin, carved in limewood and. about 18 in. high. This was presented in 1157 and is now enshrined in a chapel or loretto lavishly adorned with silver and many costly marbles. The large church of which this shrine or loretto forms part, was built in 1644, and the shrine-chapel was incor- porated in it. See M. M. Rabenlehrer 'Maria Zell, Oesterreich's Loreto (Austria's Loreto),' Vienna, 1900. The name " loretto" or "lorets " is bestowed on several places, that in Italy being "The Holy House" (" Santa Casa ") said to be the actual house of the Virgin transported thither by super- natural means. All the other lorettos are places where statues (more or less celebrated and visited) of the Virgin are preserved. Maria Zell is the place name and loretto is the title of the shrine or chapel itself. F. J. ELLIS. COUNTESS MACNAMARA (12 S. viii. 49). She was a Scotch lady and generally under- stood tc have been the mistress of Charles X. (of France). Her title of Countess was a ' ' creation ' ' of the King of Naples. She followed .Charles X. in his exile after the revolution of 1830, and lived with him at Holyrood. During the early part of the reign of the Orleanist King Louis Philippe it was frequently asserted in the Parisian newspapers that she was secretly married (morganatiquement) to the last Legitimist King of France. There are some of her autograph letters (in English and French) in existence written on behalf of Charles X. ANDREW DE TERNANT. 36 Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S.W. " OVER AGAINST CATHERINE STREET IN THE STRAND " (12 S. vii. 321, 378). Since contributing the note at the first reference I have remarked the following advertisement in The London Journal of Feb. 2, 1722/3 : "The Cambrick Chamber is removed from St. Martin's the Grand to Mr. Tho. Atkins up one pair of stairs at the sign of the Buchanan Head, a book- seller's shop, the corner of Milford Lane over against St. Clement's Church in the Strand where there is to be sold the finest cambrick " The 'D.N.B.' states that Andrew Millar came to London about 1729. It would seem therefore that Millar not only tcok the sign with him when he removed to premises west of Somerset House but had acquired it from a predecessor in business. J. P. DE C.