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 is s. viii. MAY 21. 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 417 do not seem to be any examples in either Germany, 'PERICLES' ON THE STAGE (12 S. viii. France or Spain. 361). This play was presented at the Me- The Basilica Palladiana at Vicenza was mo rial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, for the begun in 1549, but not finished until 1614. nrs t time in 1900. It was shown three The Libreria Vecchia at Venice was begun times, on April 24, 25, and" 28 in that year, in 1536 and finished in 1553. by Sir Frank Benson's company. I fancy JOHN B. WATNEWBIGHT. your correspondent errs in thinking it was " only once revived during the nineteenth BOOK BORROWERS (12 S. vm. 208, 253, centurv ." From old playbills in my collec- 278, 296, 314, 350, 377 394) In the tion f feel sure it ^ gven by various Leech Book of Bald, an Anglo-baxon Mfe. itinerant companies, towards the end of the of an early date, now in the British Museum, eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth there is a set of Latin verses, quoted, in centu ries. I cannot give dates from memory the following English translation, by Mrs nor have j these bills at hand> but could TOTi'f.lf7 rMi KliC! r>ri rn~n~*lr A i, i . Rohde in her recently published book, ' A search and ascertain, when time permits. Garden of Herbs,' which is probably one yy JAGGARD, Capt. of the earliest of such inscriptions : Bald is the owner of this book which he TAVERN SlGNS : ' QuiET WOMAN' (12 S. ordered Cild to write, viii 170 2 36, 276, 335, 354, 375). This of 4L P t y ^^ m "^ si?* also occurs at Pershore, about twenty That no treacherous person take this book miles from here. A variant is the ' Good from me, Woman.' In each case the pictorial sign Neither by force nor by theft nor by any represents a headless female, bearing her As my dear books which the grace of Christ 454, for supposed source of the picture.) attends. This " Epiccene " sign appears to be a C. C. B. favourite with oilmen, with satiric reference PICTURES OF COVENT GARDEN (12 S. viii. to the Foolish Virgins, lacking oil when the 348). The Grace Collection in the British Bridegroom arrived. Where is your Museum should be consulted. Several old head ? is a common query put to forget- pictures of the Market are reproduced in my ^ * . book, 'The Romance and History of *-*e sign is common on the Continent. Covent Garden,' published in 1913. At Widford near Chelmsford is or was, REGINALD JACOBS. some y ears a S) a curious example of it, On the obverse, a half-length portrait of ARCHBISHOP TILLOTSON AND THE King Henry VIII. On reverse, a headless LAST SACRAMENTS (12 S. viii. 331, 373). woman, over the legend, Forte bonne. This The fault lies with me. The Cornhill led to popular belief that the woman was writer set down ' Tenison,' which my Anne Boleyn, though probably it repre- uiilucky pen transmuted to Tillotson. ' Last sented the King's arms and Good woman. Sacraments ' may be the slip of something W. JAGGARD, Capt. or somebody else. ST. SWITHIN. Stratford-on-Avon. SMALLEST PIG OF A LITTER (12 S. viii. Cycling through the Midlands many 331, 376). " Reckling " is the Lincolnshire y ea f a .g I came a cross a public-house term for the smallest pig in a litter, one that with this sign in one of the Wheatleys in has not a pap from which to suck. Also, Nottinghamshire (North Wheatley, I believe) anything weak or deformed, or, again, the a ^ d fas reminded, of course, of the inn in youngest in a family. I once heard the Mr. Hardy s novel, The Return of the remark, " He's a fine lad for a reckling." Dative. C. C. B. Vinterton Lines "MAGDALEN" OR " MAWDLEN " (12 S. viii. 366). Thomas Audley was Lord Chan- In the New Forest, the smallest pig is cellor to King Henry VIII. It was he who known as the " doll." A " wosset " is a tooled for the King in the matter of the small ill-favoured pig. (See Glossary of Provincialisms in Wise's * History of the Boleyn divorce, and who was the great opponent of Sir Thomas More. He re- Now Forest.') F. CROOKS. j founded Buckingham College, Cambridge ;