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 12 s. viii. MAY 7, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 375 remain, also Mrs. Fitzherbert's private oval chapel. This latter feature would appear to be conclusive. During the war the Y.M.C.A. devoted it to the Services and built a temporary hall over the forecourt, which has now been demolished. JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT. JOHN WILLIAM ROSE (12 S. vii. 249, 374). He was elected Recorder of the City of London, June 31, 1789, at a salary of 600 | per annum. On Jan. 6, 1799, when he was | at Dover, the mansion occupied by him at j Walworth was burnt to the ground. He ! married a daughter of Mr. Sheriff James i Fenn. He died suddenly of gout in the ! stomach at Peckham, Oct. 11, 1803, and was buried on the 16th at Horsell, Surrey, where his monument and that of his father-in-law are to be seen. JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT. TAVERN SIGNS: THE QUIET WOMAN (12S. viii. 170, 236, 276, 335, 354). The Quiet j Woman Inn at Earl Sterndale, referred to j at the fourth reference, has as its sign a { decapitated female bust. The origin of the j name is thus given in an advertisement of j the inn which appeared in a local guide i book published in 1897 : A former occupant of this wayside inn used to attend Longnor market weekly, and being a man of regular habits always returned punctually at the same hour. On one occasion, however, he ; was by some means delayed, and his wife becoming ; anxious sent to inquire after him. This gave ! him great annoyance, and on his arrival home he j found that his better half was also equally annoyed, and the consequence was a hot debate, so hot ; that he left the house vowing that if he could ' not have a Quiet Woman inside he would outside. He went and ordered the sign to be painted and put up over the door. The paragraph is between quotation marks i in the advertisement, so was probably taken j from some printed source, but its origin is I not stated. The inn is about a mile from I Hindlow station on the railway between j Buxton and Ashbourne and near the Stafford- shire border. F. H. CHEETHAM. 54, Sussex Road, Southport. LANCASHIRE SETTLERS IN AMERICA (12 S. i viii. 227). Robert Vose, -with sons William} and Edward and other children, settled in Milton, Massachusetts, and became the! ancestor of a numerous family, still promi- ! nent in Milton and widely scattered through- J out the United States. Robert died in October, 1683, aged 84) years ; Jane, his wife, in October, 1675. ! William died Aug. 1, 1669, and Edward, Jan. 29, 1716, in his 80th year. Tradition in this family gives Lancashire as its place of origin, and the many descend- ants who are interested in the family history will be very grateful to Mr. J. BROWN - BILL for the clue to a more exact location contained in his note so thoughtfully sup- plied. There is a strong desire on the part of most New England families to locate the district which was the early home of their ancestors in England, and any clues tend- ing to establish such locations will be brought to the attention of some interested descend- ant or noted in some genealogical publica- tion, if they are furnished to N. & Q.' or forwarded directly to the undersigned. M. RAY SANBORN. Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn. WAR PORTENTS (12 S. viii. 329). The waxwing, alias " silk-tail," alias " chatterer," alias " Bohemian chatterer," the Ampelis garrulus of Linnaeus and Bombycilla garrulus of some modern systema- tists, is doubtless the bird referred to by ST. SWITHIN. The Rev. Charles Swainson, in his ' Folk Lore and Provincial Names of British Birds ' (1886), p. 45, states : In German Switzerland the country people give this bird the names of Pest- and Sterbe- vogel (i.e., Pest- or Death-bird) ; and say that the Waxwing is only seen in their country every seven years, and that war, pestilence, and famine are inseparable from its visits. (Schinz, ' Fauna Helvetica.') The waxwing is an irregular winter visitor to the British Isles and has occurred in considerable numbers in 1686, 1834-5, 1849-50, 1866-7, 1872-3, 1892-3, 1903-4, 1913-14, and during the past winter wax- wings seem to have been more numerous than in most years, though in nothing like the numbers of 1913-14. It is certainly a curious coincidence that a large irruption of this species to Great Britain should have taken place in 1913-14. HUGH S. GLADSTONE. The second year of the war two curious grey birds arrived here. They apparently nested in a big oak-tree, but no one could see them, though their call was incessant and peculiar. They arrived again in early spring, 1921, but have now disappeared. I believed them to be chatterers or wax- wings. E. E. COPE. Finchampstead Place, Barks.