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 i2s. viii. APRIL 16, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 313 PASTORINI'S PROPHECY (12 S. viii. 251.) Pastorini was the nom-de-plume of Bishop Walmesley. The prophecj* is doubt- less taken from liis 'The General History of the Christian Church from her birth to her final triumphant state in Heaven : chiefly deduced from the Apocalypse of St. John, the Apostle and Evangelist.' My own copy of the fourth edition is printed by H. Fitzpatrick, 4, Capel Street, printer and bookseller to the R.C. College, Maynooth, 1805. The frontispiece is an engraving after the style of Bartolozzi, with the legend : " The Venble. & Rt. Rd. Charles Walmesley, Lord Bishop of Rama [his titular See], Vicar Apostolic of the Western District, O.S.B., D.D. of Sorbon, F.R.S. of London & Berlin. Ob. i, 1797. Act. 75. the 40th of his Epis- D. A. CRUSE. Leeds Library. Duke's Motto : I am here " the meaning, I understand, being that he would be found there when his clients came to draw their vinnings. He became so well known that he was nicknamed " Duke's Motto " White in consequence. With regard to " Flying Scud " I am inclined to think that ST. SWITHIN is right in tracing it to a racehorse. It may be added that in 1866 Dion Boticicault pro- duced a drama : ' Flying Sciid, or a Foiir- Legged Fortune,' and this may have helped to decide the tavern sign. R. S. PENGELLY. 12, Poynders Road. Clapham Park. S.W. My impression is there was no actual race- horse called the " Flying Scud," but that a popular piece of this name was produced at a London theatre (I think, at the Adelphi) many years ago, which might have sug- nobleman, the Due de Nevers, and his motto was : "I am here." ' The Duke's Motto ' was a play adapted by John Brougham from Paul Feval's ' Le Bossu ' and first produced at the Lyceum Theatre on January 10, 1863, with Charles Fechter as the hero, Henri de Lagardere, Due de Nevers. It was the " cloak and sword drama " at its best, and the Duke was a marvellous swords- man. He delighted to appear at critical moments to confound the bravoes and villains of the piece with hi* war-cry " I am here. " The play was extraordinarily successful and was revived by Fechter at the same theatre in March, 1867. It has been many times revived in this country and the United States, the last occasion being Mr. Lewis Waller's production at the Lyric Theatre ; in September, 1908, when he played the j Duke. A novel based on the play was written by Fechter and more recently another novel with the same title was written by Mr. j Justice Huntly McCarthy. The popularity of the title among the classes who would be most likely to frequent a publichouse in Brick Lane is illustrated by the success of the late Charlie White, a bookmaker, who nourished in the last two decades of the 19th century. His sign at racecourses was " The CECIL CLABKE. Junior Athenaeum Club. M. GORDON, MINOR POET (10 S. xi. 189). In answer to my own query, I think the external evidence goes to show that M. Gordon, who wrote a vojume of ' Poems ' in 1836 (it is elaborately reviewed in The Dublin University Magazine, August, 1837, vol. x., pp. 224-228) and an essay (not in the B.M.) on the 'Force of the ' Negative Particle,' was Michael Gordon, who won his B.A. at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1829, and his M.A. in 1832. J. M. BTJLLOCH. 37, Bedford Square, W.C. OLD INNS (12 S. viii. 228). The Dolphin, Dolphin Court, Ludgate Hill, London, was situated between 11 and 12, Ludgate Hill, in 1828. No. 11 was a pickle factory belong- ing to E. J. and R. Lambert. The pro- prietor of the Dolphin in 1828 was apparently named J. Smith (Robson's ' London Direc- tory,' 1828, does not designate the house as the' Dolphin). The 1832 Robson's London Directory ' gives J. S. White as the proprietor of the Dolphin. R. A. CUNNINGHAM. JAMES DRAYTON (12 S. iii. 231). Some of his letters to J. Petiver form Sloane MSS. 3322, ff. 33, 74, 80, 92, and 4066, f. 335. J. ARDAGH.