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 i2s.Yiii.APiLi8,i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 309 OLD GENEALOGIES. Are any of these THE YEAR'S BOUND OF CHILDREN'S published in book form ? GAMES. I remember reading some years Is there any complete index of pedigrees ago that children's games follow a regular in the Harleian Society's Visitations, i.e., an system month by month, the suggestion index volume of the series ? being that they are thus a survival of an Is Padworth's ' Ordinary ' or Berry's old pagan cult. Can any of your readers ' Encyclopedia ' the best for identification enlighten me or give a reference to where of coats of arms ? E E COPE *^ s * s discussed ? I remember reading as Pinchampstead, Berks. a ^ ' The Child ' s W1 Book of P et y ' and there a sequence of games is alluded ENGRAVING ON SNUFF-BOX LID. I shall to '> bllt the book has long since gone. Cer- be verv much obliged if any reader can I tainl y to P s are alwa y s the 8 ame in February, and kindly will help me to identify the as I a g ain notl > d **&***? on a. journey building represented on the lid of a silver- covering some 600 miles gilt snuff-box in my possession. It is b. Jr. 1. KRIDEAUX. very like the river-front of Chelsea Hospital, st - Boniface College, Wai-minster. but that has not, and, as far as I can find out, never has had, pediments and columns TRIBAL HIDAGES. Will the writer of the on the ends of the two wings. Also the note on the Province of Sonnmg, at 12 S. upper storey windows in the main front are, vii - 401 ' Mr - J - BROWNBILL, or some other in the Royal Hospital, higher than in the student of this subject, kindly supply engraving, and there is none of the parapet me with references to critical papers or which, in the representation, runs along books dealing with the Tribal Hidages, other the whole top of the building and the wings, thai * Maitland'js ' Domesday and Beyond ' hiding from view all the roof except the anc * Corbett's paper in Trans. Royal His- chimneys. toric. Soc., 1900. ^ WILLIAMSON. Another fact which seems to prove that, Museum and Art Gallery, Derby. in spite of a great similarity, it cannot be the Royal Hospital, Chelsea,' is that on the ( A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY COMPASS.- bottom^ of the box is engraved the following I have an old flat compass bearing the TRUSTEES. 1661 " (which, by the way, appears to be Mr. C. II. Clifford. Mr. L. Pugh. j ^ accurate as whe n ^ firs t left the maker's A. IT. Tumor. G. Shepherd. i Sn P 0- ,, M. Wallace. ,. T. Reynolds. The curious thing about it, however, is GOVERNORS ihat " West " and the variations are shown on the right of " North " and " South, " T. Clench. G. Edwards. J. Thompson. H. CulHngford. ?/ i that is, ithe East, and ^e rersa. J. Partridge. Can any reader explain this apparent W. Harris. lapse on Mr. Slit-ton's part ? W. Tayler. ELSIE GERMAN. F. M^rritt 52 ' St " Charles S< * uare ' North Kensington, W. 1 0. Mr. D. Pattle. THE MERMAID AT HER TOILET. Included 1 am informed by the kindness of Major- : among illustrations of Mr. Percival D. General W. D. Bird, C.B., &c., &c., the | Griffiths's collection of Old English needle- leut.-Governor of Chelsea Royal Hospital, j wor k, given in The Connoisseur for March, that the governing body of that hospital has is one of a mirror, lately on loan at the always consisted of. 'Commissioners" and j London Museum, and bearing date 1672. Here are no "Trustees" specifically Tn e frame, which is of needlework, has at >d ; also that none of the above its base a representation of a mermaid at 5s is to be found among the records ! her toilet, bearing in the right hand a mirror of the Royal Hospital. j and in the le f t a comb. She is floating on the snutt-box, which is a very beautiful j sea, and surrounded by coral islands. What of silversmith's craftsmanship, was j are the earliest date and origin of this nade in Birmingham in 1851, but I have: figure, so employed ? been able to discover who was the J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. lnaker - R. S. 101 Piccadillv.
 * t of " Trustees and Governors ": inscription " Henricus Sutton, Londini,