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 i<2 s. TIII. 19, mi.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 237 CURTIS: LATHBOP: WILLOUGHBY (12 S. vlii. 132). In 1802 Ann Lathrop of Vest- husband's family owned F el to a Hail, near Shrewsbury. There is some account of the family in 'A History of the Families of Skeet, Somer scales, Widdrington and others.' Perhaps your correspondent would like to write to me direct, when I could give him still further particulars. FRANCIS SKEET. Syon House, Angmering. (ROBERT) GASCOIGNE AND WALTHAM- STOW (12 S. viii. 130). Gascoigne the poet, the subject of this inquiry, was named George, and not Robert, and the inquirer is further in error in referring to him as " this forgotten soldier and poet " ; for in the parish in which he made his home his name is still held in remembrance, and he is regarded as one of the famous gallery of Walthamstow worthies. Information con- cerning his work, with some details of his Jife, is, or was, communicated to the children in the elementary schools, and although his poems are probably but little read in the neighbourhood in which they were written yet I venture to assert his name is more widely known in Walthamstow than it is outside. The exact place of his " poore house at Walthamstow in the Forest " is unknown, but it is believed to have been in that portion of the parish known as Hale End. STEPHEN J. BARNS. Frating, Woodside Road, Woodford Wells. COWPER : PRONUNCIATION OF NAME (12 S. viii. 110, 179). I am acquainted with a family descended from connexions of the poet's family ; the son's Christian name is spelt Cowper, and I am informed that the traditional pronunciation has always been something between Cowper and Cooper, but much nearer the latter, the first syllable being spell, like " cup " pronounced somewhat 'broadly, not quite so long as in " trooper." RUSSELL MARKLAND. Dryersley, Link's Gate, St. Anne's-on-the-Sea. BOTTLE-SLIDERS : COASTERS (12 S. vii., 471, 516; viii. 37, 53, 96). Some thirty or forty years ago I dined at Corpus Christi "College Cambridge, and after the dinner retired to an adjoining room where from end to end of a long table facing the fire was a miniature railway the decanters being dragged along it from one end to the other as necessity arose. R. B R. SIB ROBERT BELL OF BEAUPR& (12 S. vi. 39 ; vii. 178, 414, 475 ; viii. 175). Capt. WILBERFORCE BELL may say, if he wishes, that the College of Arms Robert Bell was not the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, but he cannot suggest that a man admitted to the Inner Temple in 1571 could be described as being "of the Temple" in 1560. It is difficult to be at all sure, but I think that it would be possible at that period for a man to be " of the Temple," and yet not a Member of either Inn and it is even more likely that he may have been admitted to the Middle Temple during the period for which the records are missing 1524 to 1551. C. E. A. BEDWELL. Middle Temple Library, London, E.C. PHAESTOS DISK (12 S. viii. 151). Un- fortunately the inscription on this seems to be capable of more than one explanation ; see the two entirely different translations quoted by the Rev. James Baikie in ' The Sea-Kings of Crete,' 2nd edn., p. 264 (A, & C. Black, 1913). On these he remarks that " Professor Hempl maintains that the disk is the record of a dedication of oxen at a shrine in Phaestos, in atonement of a robbery perpe- trated by Cretan sea-rovers on some shrine of the great goddess in Asia Minor. Miss Stawell, on the other hand, believes that the disk is the matrix for casting a pair of cymbals, and that the inscription is the invocation which the wor- shippers had to chant to the goddess." But perhaps the puzzle has been solved since the above appeared. The disk is described on p. 121 of Mr. Baikie 1 s book. G. H. WHITE. 23 Weighton Road, Anerley. GEORGE FRANK OF FRANKENAU (12 S. viii. 189). Georg Frank von Frankenau (1643-1704) was a distinguished German physician. He was born at Naumburg and studied at Jena and Strassburg. In 1671 he became Professor of Medicine at Heidel- berg and physician to the Elector Karl Ludwig. He was afterwards at Frankfurt, and then went to Wittenberg on the in- vitation of Johann Georg III., Elector of Saxony. Finally he settled in Denmark, where he was physician to the King and Queen. His son Georg Friedrich was Professor of Medicine at Copenhagen. The elder Frank von Frankenau was the author of numerous medical works, among them' a treatise ' De Morbo Q. Ennii poetae,' which reminds one of the paper in which Mr. D'Arcy Power discussed Samuel Pepys's
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