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 i2s.vm.APBii.23,i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 335 THE EMPIRE"' (12 S. viii., 191, 258,^ " H. K.," MEMBER FOR MALDOX (12 S. 315). Here is a use of the word which de- ; viii. 169, 217). John Huske, Esq., was serves notice. On an unpretentious build- returned for Maldon, 26 April, 1763, ing in the city of Philadelphia, just across (vice Bamber Gascoyne, Esq., appointed the way from the cemetery where Benjamin one of the Commissioners for Trade and Franklin lies buried, there is a tablet with Plantations). He was born at Portsmouth, this inscription:- ; New Hampshire, 3 July, 1724; was a Erected by General Subscription for the merchant in Boston, Massachusetts, and Free Quakers in the Year of our Lord 1783, of! removed to England, where he died about the Empire 8. j 1773 He was son o f Ellis Huske (Coun- Going back to the days of the American Revolution the Quakers or Society of Friends, of whom there were many in Philadelphia, cillor of the Province from 1733 to his death in 1755), and his wife, Mary Plaisted. The poem, ' Oppression,' was twice re- preferred peace to war, but many of the | printed in America in the same year, 1765, younger members thought thepractice of a t Boston and at New York. patriotism preferable to the pursuit of pelf' The identity of the "American" author, and they entered the army. For this they ! w ho speaks so scornfully of the regenade were disciplined, expelled from fellowship. | " Yankey," is unknown to American biblio- The war over, independence won, they | graphers, as is that of the North Briton sought to worship as before, but the Society i editor. M. RAY SANBORN. would not receive them For them a meet- : Yale Univer8 ity Library, New Haven, Conn. mg -house was built, as the tablet states, by i general subscription; and there they wor- 1 'THE TOMAHAWK' (US. vii. 369, 413). shipped until the last of them died, fifty One is glad to find the following announce - years after. They were known as Free ment in the book catalogue issued by Messrs. Quakers. The use of the word " Empire " j T. and M. Kennard, 22, Regent -street, is strictly correct, for at that time the thirteen | Leamington Spa : independent States were under the Confedera- I Lot 517. TOMAHAWK (The), a Saturday tion, with the Continental Congress as the ! Journal of Satire, with the celebrated series of supreme head. The inscription would ! cartoons in colour, 6 vote. 4to, original cloth cases, ft the date of erection between July 4, 1 l^hSnTo, US, sUfo^e 1783, and the close of that year. That was, Dishonest, by the Wigwams of the Heartless and before the adoption of the Constitution, the Faithless Tomahawk pursues his way which converted the loose Confederation into fearlessly." the more perfect Union which has become ' The dates given definitely fix the period a Nation. JOHN E. NORCROSS. of existence of this sledge-hammer publica- Brooklyn, U.S., tion, as sought by your numerous querists. CECIL CLARKE. CAPTAIN COOK: MEMORIALS (12 S. viii. Junior Athent&um Club. 2 S : ' 1.70, 236, 276) - it was formerly called) South Pacific Ocean, e, re f a *? the ^ -TX? 8 Slgn T anen * * hl 1 there is a monument to commemorate the g^ 6 ? : The Quiet Woman Inn, at Earl observation of the passing of Venus over Sterndale, in Derbyshire. CECIL CLARKE. the sun's disc in 1769 by Captain Cook. J^ 10 r. Athenaeum Club. There are rails encircling it, and a plate SIR ROBERT BELL OF BEAUPRE (12 S. vi. bears the following inscription : j 39 ; vii. 178, 414, 475 ; viii. 175, 237). On This memorial, erected by Captain James Cook, looking through a list of ' Administrations of to inaugurate the observation of the transit of j the Prerogative Court of Canterbury ' in Venus, June 3rd, 1709, was restored and event! an old number of The Archaeologist I have Z^BS^J3^J^l2tE& i STS ad " istrati f T the - tate, of Society, 1910. ' ! Robert Bell, gentleman, of the Inner Temple, T. H. BANKIER. was granted to his widow, Susanna Bell, on December 1, 1573. Sir Robert Bell did EPITAPHS DESIRED (12 S. viii. 211,! not die until 1577, and so there were two 260). J. ARDAGH will find the epitaph to Robert Bells of the Temple about that William Billings, aet. 102, of Fairfield, time. Presumably the Robert Bell referred Staffs, in E. R. Suffling's ' Epitaphia,' to above was he of Leighton. 1909, p. 243. W. J. M. H. WILBERFORCE-BELL.