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 12 s. ix. SEPT. io, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 217 oiieiit for the collecting and levying the revenue owing, as herein certified and sworn to by the Justices of the Peace at the General Sessions of the Peace holden for the County of Pembroke the tenth day of January in the two and twentieth year of his said Majesty's reign and there ap- proved of by the Justices of the Peace of the said county whose names are underwritten and their authority and to be certified to his Majesty's Remembrancer in the Exchequer according to the stated Acts of Parliament. The names of the various hundreds, parishes and inhabitants follow, giving the number of hearths for which they were liable. Those too poor to pay are de- scribed as " Paupers certified," and probably consisted of the old and infirm. G. H. W. In 1662 a tax of two shillings was levied on every hearth or stone in all dwelling- houses (see Palgrave's ' Dictionary of Political Economy ' ). A duty proportioned to the number of fireplaces in a house (see ' N.E.D.'). ABCHIBALD SPABKE. WILLIAM HEBSEE (12 S. ix. 168). This author was born at Coldwaltham, Sussex, in 1786. Boase says he was a ploughman ; then a bookseller with Cooper at Bunhill Row, London, 1813 ; an accountant in the Inland Revenue Office, London, 1809-26 ; and edited The Warwick Advertiser, 1831 to March. 1852. According to the British Museum Catalogue he published ' Poems, Rural and Domestic,' from Chichester in 1810, and if it is this book that Hay ley thanks him for in 1808, there must have been an earlier edition, but I find no record of anything by Hersee earlier than 1810. He issued ' The Battle of Vittoria,' a poem, in 1813, and other books later, and died at Warwick, Aug. 6, 1854. ABCHIBALD SPABKE. SCHOOL MAGAZINES (12 S. viii. 325; ix. 54, 96, 175. The famous old school (after- wards college) at Chatham House, Rams- gate, had its Chatham House Magazine about the years 1864 or 1865. It was run entirely by the scholars, and a serial, quite of the blood- and-thunder type, had the place of honour within its pages. I have sought in vain for a number of our beloved periodical and should be deeply grateful to any reader of ' N. & Q.' who could put me upon the track of a copy. . The magazine enjoyed only a short existence, but in later years the more sober Chatham House Review nourished exceedingly. Now, alas ! the old school has gone. CECIL CLABKE. Junior Athenaeum Club. SIB THOMAS MILLEB OF CHICHESTEB (12 S. ix. 92, 173). Le Neve was not altogether well informed. The Millers were a substantial family, maltsters and clothiers in Chichester from the sixteenth century, churchwardens of St. Olave's and so forth. Richard Miller, " sepult. xxviii. Junii 1603 " (St. Peter the Great alias the Subdeanery Register), was great-grandfather to Sir Thomas. His father was Mark Miller, Mayor in 1662, who married Mary, heir of her .brother John, last of the Combers of Shermanbury, High Sheriff for Sussex and Hants, and Lord of the Manor of Donington. His grandfather, John Comber, had a grant of arms dated June 16, 1571, and died 1595. Mark Miller (" old Alderman Miller ") was buried in the cathedral churchyard, Oct. 29, 1672 (Subdeanery Reg.), having apparently " covetiously " heaped together a fortune by trade and marriage. I am very glad to have the date of Sir Thomas's knighthood. Can anyone further oblige with the date of the granting of arms to the Millers ? UVEDALE LAMBEBT. " A FBOG HE WOULD A-WOOING co " (12 S. ix. 51, 95, 135). I have been much interested in the answers on this subject, but what I still want to know is, who was the author of the doggerel and what it had to do with the ancient family of Rowley of Rowley in Shropshire (Bridg orth), whose doggerel verse it was and still is ? The poem is much earlier than Charles's reign. A LANCASHIRE WITCH. TOMOHBIT (TOMEBIT) : AVATAB (12 S. IX. 151). The correct pronunciation of avatar is that as written by Browning. The word is of Sanskrit origin and means " an incarna- tion." The second a is inherent in the pre- ceding letter, and so is short in sound. The letter represented in English by v is not pronounced altogether like the English v, but is really a compromise in sound be- tween v and w. H. WILBEBFOBCE-BELL. Reference to a Sanskrit or Hindi dic- tionary will show that the second a of avatar is short, but the last a is long. Thus, avatar ; and the stress accent is on the final syllable. N. POWLETT, Colonel. The ' N.E.D.' appears to accentuate the last syllable of avatar with Browning, and not the middle syllable with Campbell. Avatar is an adaptation of the Sanskrit avatara. A. R. BAYLEY.