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 12 s. ix. SEPT. 10, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 201 LONDON, SEPTEMBER 10, 1921. CONTENTS. No. 178. NOTES : Joseph Elshalfoon. a Prince of Mount Lybanus, 201 A Webster-Middleton Play : ' Anything for a Quiet Life,' 202 Glass-painters of York : Gyles, 204 Statues and Memorials in the British Isles, 206 New Year Cards in the Eighteenth Century, 207 Oddment Virement Curious Christian Name Curious Surnames William Collins, 208. QUERIES : Dickens : Page-headings, 208 Reprints of Old Newspapers Allusions by Keats Revival of Old English Marriage Custom Marriage (Surname) Army Lists : ' A Succession of Colonels ' Bible of James I. : tse of Hexameter Lines, 209 Marquess of Down Curteis (Curtis) of Enfleld, Middlesex William Collins The Margate Grotto Allusion in ' London Lyrics ' The Sea-serpent Walter Blandford, " postea Oxoniensis," 210 Burial-places of Royal Academicians Burial-places of Ecclesiastics Hafod Press Robert Jones Portrait of John Bunyan " Kate Ramsay " Mustard Family Pewsey : Proverbial Saying Revans Thomas Hibbins, 211 Aztec Calendar Church of St. Mary, Little Oakley, Essex Mermannus : Palma Morden Family Norris and Eyre Families Cheshire Cheese Song, 212. REPLIES : " Mixed Train." 212 Sabine Greenhouse. 213 The Sentry at Pompeii De Brus Tomb at Hartle- pool Campbell Shield of Arms Tournay Font at Boulge Milk, Butter and Cheese Streets, 214 Trewthe Family Valentine Green Anger. Aungier. Angler The Rev. Charles Ashton Domenick Angelo's Burial- place, 215 Duke of Monmouth : Burial-place ' Miss Croker,' by Sir Thomas Lawrence Gleaning by the Poor An Omission in Mrs. Cowden Clarke's Concordance Hearth Tax, 216 William Hersee School Magazines- Sir Thomas Miller of Chichester "A Frog he would a-wooing go " Tomohrit : Avatar, 217 Rebecca God- salve The Oldest London Statue Fabius Segnius and Raph. Placentinus American English Authors Wanted, 218. NOTES ON BOOKS: ' Mithraism and Christianity' ' The Origin and Evolution of the Human Race ' ' Old Works and Past Days in Rural Buckinghamshire.' OBITUARY : Henry Austin Dobson. Notices to Correspondents. JOSEPH ELSHALFOON, A PRINCE OF MOUNT LYBANUS. THE subjoined certificate was found amongst the Home Office Papers, 42/130. [Endorsed] 1812, Dec. 27. It is printed upon half a sheet of foolscap and at the top is addressed (in manu- script) : To the Right Honorable Viscount Sidmouth. [Secretary of the Home Department.] Perhaps one of the readers of ' N. & Q.' can furnish further information on the subject. Joseph Elshalfoon, a Prince of Lybanus, is now arrived in this Country, on account of the Turks having killed his Father and a Brother, seized upon all the Property, and are now keeping the st of the Family as Hostages, until a heavy Fine is paid, as will more fully appear from the follow- ing Certificate : and if the Reader pleases to assist him, he will wait upon him. We JOHN PETER, Patriarch of Antioch and of All the Eastern Countries, To all who shall see and read these Presents, do certify, That the most illustrious Signer Giuseppe, our beloved Son in God, is a Prince, and descended from a Noble Family, of the Name of Elshalfoon, the first and the greatest of our Countries, and is the Son of the first Minister of Mount Lybanus, which Family, from time immemorial, were Ministers of these States and Countries, their House being always open, and they ever ready and disposed to receive all Christians and Strangers, particularly the Legates from the Holy Apostolic See, offering them money, and what- ever they stood in need of ; afterwards, by means of their benevolent and meritorious Acts, the governing Princes of these Countries, being here- tofore Mahometans, became Christians. The said Family ever protected all the Christians of these Oriental Cities. That the Melkite Greek Catholics being continually persecuted by the Schismatics, through the Power of the Mahometan Government, they took refuge in our Countries, and through the means of our aforesaid Sons, built Convents, established religious Communities, ordained Bishops, and elected a Patriarch ; by so doing they became wholly protected. The Syrians, likewise, arriving from the Parts of Nineveh and Montalto, to extricate themselves from the Persecution of the Heretics who are inimical to the Catholic Religion, had recourse to our said Sons, who granted them a Spot of Ground, whereon they built Convents, established religious Communities, ordained Bishops, and elected a Patriarch. Also the Armenians having been compelled to fly from Angora and Babylon, to rid themselves from the many Persecutions of the Mahometan Governors, had recourse to the aforesaid Family, by whom they were cheerfully received and sheltered, and had a Spot of Ground granted to them to build Convents, ordain Bishops, and elect a Patriarch. Therefore the said Family having been envied by the Turks, their Enemies, and to those of the Catholic Religion, were sud- denly surprised by them, who killed the Father and Brother of our aforesaid Son Giuseppe, confis- cated all their Property, and condemned the Family to pay a very heavy Fine. As to our said Son, Signer Giuseppe, he made his escape, and departed for Europe. The aforesaid Person being well known to us, and sprung from the first Maronite Family, and a Son of the Catholic Church, and viewing the State to which he has recently been reduced, we were moved by a paternal Zeal to grant him the present authentic Certificate, declaring his Nobility and Misfortunes to all to whom he may present himself, imploring, by the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ, every Emperor, King, Prince, Gar- rison, and all the Sons of the Holy Church amongst