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 12 S. IX. SEPT. 3, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 189 DOUBLE FLOWERS IN JAPAN. To the list given at 12 S. vi. 310, allow me again to add the name of Deutzea scabra. KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA. Tanabe Kii, Japan. SNUFF-BOX : RELIC OF THE VICTORY. Amongst the regalia of a Lancashire con- vivial club formed in Preston in 1771, and existing for 70 years under the name of " The Oyster and Parched Pea Club," was a silver snuff-box in the lid of which was set a piece o f oak, part of the quarter-deck of Nelson's ship Victory. We know that this box was in regular use at the club, as we find that the Master of the Jewels was fined a bottle of port wine for omitting to refill the box with snuff. If there is anything more known of this relic I should be placed to hear of it. R. D. WHITTENBTJRY-KAYE. Newchurch, Culcheth. "A BOLD PEASANTRY, THEIR- COUNTRY'S PRIDE." A burlesque by G. A. Sala, en- titled ' Wat Tyler, M.P.,' produced in 1869, contained a humorous election speech, de- livered by J. L. Toole in the character of Wat Tyler, in which these lines occurred : Here's what you shall see : Wealth, splendour, carriages and four, that's what. The strongest ale a halfpenny a pot, Taxes abolished, grievances amended, And all the theatres' free-lists ne'er suspended. Then a bold peasantry, their country's pride Shall live on eggs and bacon neatly fried. The workhouse poor shall live on buttered crum- pets, And eat roast mutton to the sound of trumpets. The beggar smoke the best Bengal cheroots, And have another man to clean his boots. It may be of some interest to note that the line, "But a bold peasantry, their country's pride," occurs in Edward Fitz- gerald's ' Polonius : A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances,' included in vol. i. of the Works of Fitzgerald, published in 1887 in New York and Boston by Hough- ton and Mifflin, and in London by Bernard Quaritch. I quote from p. 364 : On a rock-side in one of Bewick's vignettes we see inscribed what should never be erased from any Englishman's heart : " Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath may make thgm, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, . When once destroyed, can never be supplied." Is this coincidence, or did Sala " lift " the line from Bewick ? J. R. H. 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. NAMING OF PUBLIC ROOMS IN INNS. Can anyone say whether there was a custom at any time in England, in observance of which innkeepers called their public room or rooms by distinctive names ? In ' The Pickwick Papers,' the host of the inn at Towcester, when he finds that the rain- drowned party will stop at his house, calls out to his servant : " Lights in the Sun, John." H. MAXWELL PRIDEAUT. Oreston, Plymouth. SIR JAMES HACKET was Lieut enant- Colonel in Dumbarton's Regiment (Royal Regiment of Foot) in 1684. To what family did he belong ? Is anything known of his history ? A James Hacket, jr., of Pitfirrin, is given in W. A. Shaw's ' The Knights of England,' vol. i., p. Ixii., as having been knighted in June, 1633. Is this the same person ? J. H. LESLIE. " SWERD or THE HooPE," Calendar of Close Rolls, 5 Richard II., May 22, 1382. Richard Waldegrave states that on May 8 he came to the house of Thomas Taillour " hostiler," dwelling at the " Swerd of the Hoope" in Fletestrete. What is the mean- ing of this tavern sign ? J. H. LESLIE. BLACKSTONE : REFERENCE W T ANTED. I shall be most grateful to any reader who can help me to find the passage in the writings of Blackstone, in which he states that, when a young man, he attended a number of churches in London, but was not able to distinguish the teaching in the sermons from that of Cicero or Mahomet. This statement is quoted by Ryle ('Chris- tian Leaders'), Balleine ('History of the Evangelical Party '), and a number of writers, but I have not been able to trace it. ALFRED LEEDES HUNT. St. John's College, Cambridge. LORAINE. Information is desired about the parentage of William Loraine, of the firm of Loraine and Broderick, shipwrights, of South Shields, who died in that place in 1833, aged 92 years. A. G.