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 i2s.vm.ApBn,9,i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 299 Another replica in the possession of^Mrs. Kay and Miss Drummond, 18 Hyde Park Gardens. Bust ; showing both hands, which he holds up as if enforcing an argument ; no wig ; profile to the left : books in background. Painted 1770. 30 by 25." ARCHIBALD SPARKE. TAVERN SIGN : CASTLE AND WHEEL- BARROW (12 S. viii. 250). Larwood and Hotten casually mention this sign, in con- junction with the Castle in the Air, saying there is a house at Rouse Lench called The Castle and Wheelbarrow, and is doubtless an innkeeper's notion of suggestive humour. ARCHIBALD SPARKE. LEG OF MUTTON CLUBS (12. S. viii. 250). Some account of eating houses and taverns frequented by Members of the House of Commons will be found in ' A Career in the Commons ' and in Timbs' ' Club Life in London.' In the latter book is given a sketch of Bellamy's kitchen in the vicinity of the (old) House, where the statesmen of England often dined. ARCHIBALD SPARKE. TURNER FAMILY (12 S. v. 94, 249 ; viii. 238). As the Shrigley property was purchased by William Turner, M.P., for Blackburn, it will be rather in Lancashire that searches should be made. I suggest that inspection of the wills of William Turner of Martholm, yeoman, 1782, and William Turner of Martholm, woollen manufacturer, 1796, would give information; both proved at Chester. Abstracts could be obtained for a few shillings from Mr. W. H. Price of 10 Chapel Terrace, Tarvin Road, Chester. ' R. S. B. JAMES PEAKE (12 S. viii. 250). He was of St. John's College, master at Hawkshead, 1766-1781 ; Vicar of Cartmel, 1781, and also, at some time, of Edensor, Derbyshire. Perhaps a descendant of the Rev. James Peake, a curate at Wigan, Vicar of Bowdon, Cheshire, deprived as a non- juror in 1690. R. S. B. In Romilly's ' Graduati Cantabrigienses,' MDCCLX-MDCCCLVI. appears the name of a James Peake, of St. John's College ; B.A., 1767 ; M.A., 1775. Possibly Wordsworth's schoolmaster ? F. P. L.-Y. "LoxE" (12 S. i. 510; ii. 18, 56). In ' Highways and Byways in Northumbria,' by 1*. Anderson Graham, 1920, the local meaning of " a small quantity " is given to this word. W. B. H. OLD SONG WANTED (12 S. viii. 250). The verse quoted is one of a long series we used to sing as children to a somewhat tuneless tune which I remember better than the words. The first verse began : Christ was born in Bethlehem, Christ was born in Bethlehem, And in a manger laid. Two other verses that I remember, perhaps imperfectly, ran : The Jews crucified Him, The Jews crucified Him, And nailed Him to a tree ; and Joseph begged His body, Joseph begged His body, And laid it in the tomb. Others followed, of which that quoted by your correspondent " Mary she came weep- ing" &c. is the only one of which I have any distinct recollection. C. C. B. COWPER : PRONUNCIATION OF NAME (12 S. viii. 110, 179, 237). Cowper's Court, on the southern side of Cornhill which is, or was, owned by a family of that name, is always spoken of as " Cowper's Court," not -. pronounced after Stephenson's fashion ! CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club. THE HONOURABLE MR. (12 S. viii. 110, 176);. In 1801 my great-grandfather entered the sponsors of his son Arthur Rodon in his Prayer Book as follows : "Mr. Serjt. Onslow, the Honble. Mr. Rodon and Miss Stubbs." The Hon. Mr. Rodon was John, one of His Majesty's Honourable Privy Council of. Jamaica. A. H. W. FYNMORE. Arundel. EMERSON'S 'ENGLISH TRAITS' (12 S.. v. 234). 8. Chestnut Street is the chief thoroughfare of Philadelphia, and blends; somewhat the characteristics of Throg- morton Street and of Park Lane. But Emerson apparently meant that Chestnut Street was to devout Philadelphians, what Beacon Street is to Bostonians, the centre of the universe. THOMAS FLINT. Brooklyn, New York. Repertory of British Archives. Part I. England. Edited by Hubert Hall. (London: Royal Historical Society.) THE Royal Historical Society deserves the heartiest thanks of all students of history for the undertaking before us. There is no need either to point out how vast is the mass of records left to us from the past, or to expatiate on the