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 12 s. vm. JUNE 4. i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 457 It is fairly fully illustrated with engravings, NAPOLEON AND LONDON (12 S. viii. mostly by Deeble, and contains an un- 369, 412). SIR WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK at coloured map similar to that in ' The the latter reference states that " a practi- Modern British Traveller.' Another edition, cally unanimous conclusion was reached not dated, from internal evidence would that Napoleon never saw the English coast seem to have appeared in 1800, or before, until he arrived in the harbour of Plymouth and contains a map similar to that in the on July 22, 1815." For historical accuracy 1819 edition, but coloured. H. A. H. it may be well to state that Napoleon left the French coast at 2 p.m. on July 15, . have the tollo wing : A Topographical and after a ted i ous voyage owing to the and Statistical Description of the County prev ailing wind, or lack of it, reached of Middlesex,' by George Alexander Cooke, Torbay (not Plymouth) on July 24, 1815. Editor of the Universal System of Geography, A comp i e te description of what transpired and printed for C. Cooke, 17, Paternoster cu]led from eye-witnesses and local reports Row ; coloured map, eight engraved views, ma be read in < The History of Torquay,' index, and comprises 336pages. Also, Hertford, ^y j -p White Printed by assignment from the executors It ' W as in Torbay that Napoleon, was of the late C. Cooke for Sherwood, Gilbert, transferred from the Bellerophon to the and Piper; uncoloured map, four engraved Northumberland ; and from the same anchor- views, index 180 pages Sussex Tin- age he set sail for St. Helena, accompanied by coloured map, four engraved views, index, the Weymouth and other ships, on Aug. 11. 180 pages Kent Coloured map, two The Bellerophon, accompanied by the coloured plates showing steamboat route Tonnant, sailed on Wednesday, Aug. 2, for trom London to Ramsgate, dated 1830, Plymouth Sound, where it was at first eight engravings, a folding plate of Margate i ntende d that the transhipment should be &c. ; index, 248 pages, fssex. Engraved made but retu rned to Torbay again on frontispiece St. Johns Abbey Gate, Col- Aug< 4> j^ the acco unt quoted (p. 144) it Chester, by Storer, 1830; coloured map of j s stated- county, four engraved views index, 1 80. When he firet came near the land about pages. burrey. Engraved frontispiece, ! Torbay he is reported to have exclaimed, " Enfin Lambeth Palace, by Storer, 1830; coloured map, four engraved views, index, 180 pages. The backs of the volumes are lettered WILLIAM GILBERT, F.R.N.S. TAVERN SIGNS ( 12 S. viii. 170,236,276,335, GRAY'S ELEGY (12 S. viii. 294, 319, 339, 354, 375,417,436). In reference to inn signs, 358). I think there is often a second I may state that a picture of the sign of the misquotation in the same line, " The even Fox and Hounds at .Barley is represented tenour of his way " being substituted for in The Cyclists' Touring Club Gazette for " the noiseless tenour of their way." April, 1921, No. 4, vol. xl., p. 75. We are told, There is a parallel case in a quotation under the heading 'Current Notes of the from ' The Jackdaw of Rheims.' have voila ce beau pays," adding that he had never seen it except from Calais and Boulogne. HUGH R. WATKIN. Chelston Hall, Torquay. ("Kuklos" of the Daily News) men- had made the same mistake till I was tioned the Fox and Hounds at Barley, corrected. J. FOSTER PALMER. on the eastern border of Hertfordshire. The sign of this inn, which stretched across ! ROBERT PARR, CENTENARIAN (11 S. iv. the road, is such a realistic representation 309, 378). He died at Kinver, Staffordshire, of a hunting party in full cry that when Sept. 21, 1757, according to Toone's ' Chrono- " Kuklos " waggishly assured a north- logical Historian,' ii. 87, not in August of country man that his photograph was an that year, as stated at the first reference, actual snap-shot of hounds and huntsmen His great-grandfather, Thomas Parr, " Old chasing a fox over a beam laid from roof Parr," has a notice in the ' D.N.B.' Are to roof, his statement was regarded as the names and burial-places of his father solemn fact ! FREDK. L. TAVARE. and grandfather known ? 22, Trentham Street, Pendleton, Manchester. JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.
 * Cooke's Travelling Guide.'