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 154 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i 2 s.ix. AUG. 20, 1921. SUSSEX AND SUBBEY DIALECT WOBDS j AND PHBASES. (12 S. viii. 481 ; ix. 69). Your correspondent C. C. B. remarks that , the flower names of " lady's smock " and | "milkmaids" are both in the ' O.E.D.' j Perhaps he will kindly say if the botanical I names are appended, and, if so, whether j they are the same that I have given, viz., j Cardamine pratensis. Parish's ' Dictionary of the Sussex Dia- | lect ' gives the botanical names of both as | Convolvulus sepium, a species of bindweed. j Halliwell says lady's smock is Canterbury bell. Gordon and Bailey say lady's smock is a herb otherwise called cuckoo-flower, j lady's smock is a kind of water-cress. Neither of these authorities describes the plant Cardamine pratensis. STEPHEN ROWLAND. P.S. At p. 483, for " scruttie " read scruttic or scruttick. BABON RICASOLI (12 S. ix. 91). That | there are two portraits of the baron in The Illustrated Times may interest MB. GLENNY. The references are vol. x., p. 214, April 7, 1860, and vol. xiii., p. 69, Aug. 3, 1861. They have the appearance of having been taken from photographs. Following his death at his castle of Broglio, Oct. 23, 1880, there are notices of him in The Times, Oct. 25, pp. 5 and 9 ; Oct. 26, p. 5 ; and of a funeral ceremony in the church of Santa Croce, Florence, The Times, Nov. 23, p. 5, the coffined body being represented by a catafalque. Presumably one of his family, two hundred and fifty years ago, gave his name to Point and Fort Ricasoli at the south side of the entrance to the Grand Harbour, Valetta, Malta. In 1670 the Commander Gio. Fran. Ricasoli ex- j pended 3,000 on the erection of the present fort, endowing it with all his property, to the j amount of 300 per annum. For this act of i generosity he was publicly thanked by the Grand Master and the Council, and it was ordered that the fort should in future bear his name. ('A Guide to the Maltese Island,' by the Rev. G. N. Godwin, chaplain to the Forces, 2nd ed., Malta, 1890, p. 163.) ROBEBT PlEBPOINT. A good short sketch of Baron Bettino Ricasoli is given in an excellent book entitled Patriotti Italiani,' by Contessa Evelina Martinengo-Cesaresco, an English woman, married to an Italian, who has written many books on Italian history, notably on Italy's struggle for unity and independence from Austrian sway. GEBABD THABP, Lt.-Col. DB. JOHN MISAUBIN (12 S. viii. 511 ; ix. 35, 90). I cannot tell G. F. R. B. when Dr. Misaubin 's son was murdered, but as he seems to be searching for information about the Misaubin family, the following advertise- ments from The London Evening Post of 1746 may perhaps be of some use to him. The first appeared in the issue of April 24-26, the second in that of May 3-6 1. ISAAC MISAUBIN. The only Nephew of the late Doctor John Misaubin continues to prepare. His Family Nostrum for the Venereal Disease & Scorbutic Disorders, which he administers in the same Method his late Uncle did. N.B. He is to be met with any Day, from Twelve to Two o'clock, at the Rainbow Coffee House in Lancaster Court in the Strand ; or yill attend anyone who will be pleased to leave a Line for him at the Bar of the said Coffee House. 2. This is to inform the Pxiblick That I Martha Misaubin, Widow of the late Dr. John Misaubin continues making & selling his famous Anti-Venereal Pills. As I am the only Person that prepar'd them during his Life & since his Death, nobody else having the Secret but myself ; have now taken in my House in St. Martin's Lane, near Slaughter's Coffee House, my Nephew Charles Angibaud, Surgeon, to attend ray Patients, & to whom I intend to leave my Secret & to nobody else. T. WHITLEY. HEABTH TAX (12 S. viii. 471, 518 ; ix. 78). In ' Oxford City Documents, Finan- cial and Judicial, 1268-1665,' published by the Oxford Historical Society in 1891, there is the following : Hearth tax borrowed from French finance and was introduced after the Restoration to help to create a revenue for the King ; payable every six months 2 payments per annum, 2s. for every fireplace. Was repealed at the Revolution. Not imposed on houses below 20s. yearly value. I made the above extract nearly 30 years ago ; I think it is fairly correct. Was there a chimney tax at any time before 1665 ? The ' Exchequer Lay Subsidies ' give the names of inhabitant, or head of house, the number of hearths, and the amount of the half-yearly tax paid. HEBBEBT SOUTHAM.
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