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 12 s. vin. JAN. i,i92ii NOTES AND QUERIES. 17 downe'for a prnt (i. e., present) given to the Earl of Shrew.sburie, at Ashburne. fur two gallons of claret wine 5s. iiiid. To Gregory Bircumshaw for a cake xviijd. To Thomas Taylor for sugar iis.' Two Talbots or Mastiffs are to this day the sup- porters of the Shrewsbury arms. The inn itself was evidently a place of note, and the arms in its windows were noted by the Herald when visiting Ashbourne in 1611. It is thus mentioned in Walton & Cotton's ' Angler,' where Piseator says : ' We will only call and drink a glass on horseback at the Talbot and away,' and the travellers order ale, in spite of the warning given later on, that 'Ashbourne has. whioh is a kind of riddle, always in it the best malt, and the worst ale in England.' The following notices of this famous house appear in the register; ' Buried 1639, P^dmund Buxton, of the Taibot. Baptized June 15, 1 7 15. Ann, daughter of Mr. Rob. Law, at the Talbot. Received July 24, 1717, to church, Richard, son of Mr. Rob. Law, of the Talbot, which child was baptized by Mr. Dakin above a month ago. Baptized March 8. H'2'2-2, Gilbert, son of Mr. Jeremiah Groves (Talbot), Ashburne.' " This should prove of interest. CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club. DEATH OF QUEEN ANNE (12 S. vii. 508). There seems to have been another "white handkerchief " incident connected with this event. I have seen it related that on that memorable Aug. 1 Bishop Burnet, driving to court, met near Sinithfield Mr. John Bradford whom he stopped to speak to, and to whom he promised that should the Queen have passed away he would send a messenger to Mr. Bradford's chapel, who should announce the event by dropping a white handkerchief from the gallery. This was duly done, but Bradford took no notice until in his closing prayer he invoked bless- ings on the head of our rightful Sovereign King George the First ! It is matter of liistory how profoundly the Queen's death at that moment affected the fortunes of Nonconformity. SURREY. ANCIENT HISTORY OF ASSAM (12 S. vii. 110). If J. S. can see William Robin- son's 'Assam,' Calcutta, 1841, I think he' will find something to his purpose in chap. iv. J. W. FAWCETT. Templetown House, Consett. HOYAL ARMS IN CHURCHES (12S. vii. 470, 517). In my communication at the second reference, 1. 11, "It would seem thatiu 1614 it was unusual " should read it was usual. The church of Groombridge in Kent, "built by John Packer, Clerk of the Privy Seal to Charles I., in fulfilment of a vow, as -a thanksgiving for the safe return of the Prince of Wales from Spain, has in stone over the entrance porch a representation -of the Prince of Wales 's feathers and below it an inscription reading " D.O.M.S. ob felicissi- mum Caroli Principis ex Hispanijs reditum hoc Sacellum d.d. 1625, J. P." A house in Gold Street, Saffron, Walden, Essex, on the east side, has in plaster work the feathers and motto of the Prince of Wales, with the initials P. A., of probably early seventeenth-century date ; and in the oriel window of the great hall of Horham Hall, also in Essex, is a panel of glass dating probably from the early sixteenth century which also bears the motto and feathers. STEPHEN J. BARNS. Frating, Woodside Road, Woodford Wells. "Now THEN ! " (12 S. vii. 469, 512). This expression was used in Anglo-Saxon times and is found in sentences indicating a command. There is no temporal signification attached to the "now " and the "then " is unemphatic and enclitic. A somewhat similar French expression is or $a, which is used to imply that something begins, or being synonymous with maintenant and fd an interjection that is intended as an enc o uragement. T. PERCY ARMSTRONG. DOMESTIC HISTORY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (12 S. vii. 191, 216, 257, 295, 399, 452). The late Rhoda Broughton, in her last novel, 'A Fool in Her Folly,' when writing about a matter which appears to have taken place soon after the Indian Mutiny had been suppressed, states, in chap. xiii. : " Afternoon tea was still an upstart struggling for recognition ; born indeed and with a great future, but in many oases to be indulged in privately like dram-drinking, smuggled into bedrooms durin? visits, and sometimes shared with confidential servants in housekeeper's rooms." I presume that she refers to about the year 1860. I do not think that afternoon-tea came into general use until about 1874; I think it was about this time that the late King Edward, when Prince of Wales, started the fashion of dining at a much later hour than the then recognized time. Afternoon -tea must have been a very rare thing in 1860 ; friends of mine, who are old enough to remember their daily life at that period, tell me that this date is far too early. I know that when visitors called, in the afternoon, at my father's house, they were offered