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12 s. ix. JULY so, 1921.] NOTES AND. QUERIES. 89 Dam, a freedman, remarks: "Tamen calda potio vestiarius est."="Still a warm drink is the best clothier." Seleucus takes him up with objections to bathing, and adds, "Sed cum mulsi pultarium obduxi, frigori laecasin dico," i.e., "But when I have drunk a good pot of mead, I bid the cold go and be hanged."

Thus Rome in Nero's day supplies a precedent for a twentieth-century advertisement.

—Some time ago a correspondant asked me for information about this family which I was unable to give. I have found a passage which may be useful, but I have lost my correspondent's name and address. If 'N. & Q.' will kindly print the following, it may meet the right eyes:—

John Aske, Esq., d. 1605. His son Richard Aske, of London, sergeant-at-law, Counsel to the Regicides and Master of the Crown Office, d. 1656, leaving by Joan his wife, daughter of Thomas Heber, of Marton, Yorks, and widow of Thomas Lister, of Arnoldsbiggin:

1. Richard, a barrister, whose son Conan was living in 1714.

2. Thomas.

3. Rev. Nathaniel Aske, rector at Somerford Magna, Wilts, d. 1674, leaving a son, Richard, a minor.

4. Mary.

5. Elizabeth, m. —Shaw.

Trans. of the East Riding Antiquarian Society, vol. vi. (1898), p. 51n.

(12 S. x. 41).—There are two other modern works which W. Alack Abrahams might well have included in his list, viz: 'Clubs and Clubmen,' by Major Arthur Griffiths (Hutchinson and Co., 1907), and 'London Clubs, their History and Treasures.' by Ralph Nevill (Chatto and Windus, 1911).

Readers of ' N. & Q.' generally will share Mr. Aleck Abr.ihams's opinion that the future complete Bibliography of London must include fts one of its sub-headings ' Clubs and Coteries,' for, among other reasons, that these are a distinctive feature of London history and topography, and will be grateful to him for the interesting preliminary list he has given us at the above reference. I feel that all who can do so will help him to make the list as exhaustive as possible so that it may be of real assist- ance to the compilers of the much-needed Bibliography. At the present moment I can offer but two additions to Mr. Abrahams's list. ' The Kennel Club. A History and Record of Its Work,' 1873-1905; 4to, pp. 429 ; and " The Political Economy Club.' Founded in 1821. Centenary volume. Vol. vi., Macmillaji, 1921, 21s. net. P. A. RUSSELL. 116, Arran Road, S.E.6. IT may interest Mr. Aleck Abrahams to know that * Notes and Jottings on Hanover Square and the St. George's Club ' was written by J. B. Payen-Payne, about 1886. DE V. PAYEN-PAYNE. WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries in order that answers may be sent to them direct. WHYTE -MELVILLE AND ADAM LINDSAY GORDON. In Miss Humphris and Mr. Douglas Sladen's ' Adam Lindsay Gordon ' (1912) someone, unnamed, is stated (p. 203) to have said that Why te -Melville praised Adam Lindsay Gordon's well-known poem ' How we beat the favourite.' When did Whyfce-Melville appraise Gordon's work ? Mr. Sladen tells me he does not know. Further, in what English paper was Gordon's verse first noticed ? In Baily's Magazine of Mar., 1870, H. A. Leveson, " the old shekarry," eulogized it. J. M. BULLOCH. 37, Bedford Square, W.C. APPOINTMENT OF THE MAYOR BY AN ABBOT. -The Abbot of Reading enjoyed the privilege of appointing the Warden of the Guild Merchant, afterwards the Mayor, out of three burghers submitted to him by the Guild. What other abbots possessed a similar privilege, and what formalities were observed on the occasion of the appointment ? JAMIESON B. HURRY, M. D. Westfield. Reading.