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 12 s. ix. DEC. si, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 533 by Dr. Mandeville, the author of ' The NOTES ON EIGHTEENTH- CENTURY WAPP- Fable of the Bees,' " is surely in the most; ING (12 S. ix. 485). Dr. Johnson, it may be emphatic negative. One need only think j interesting to note, has also been claimed as of Steele's personal references and of the ' a member of St. Thomas's Lodge, No. 142, difference between the two writers in point which now meets at the Hotel Cecil. When of character and antecedents. If so absurd, endeavouring, about two years since v , to a legend had ever any hold, the following trace the Masonic connexions, if any, of the note in Aitken's Life of Steele (vol. ii., great lexicographer, I applied to the secre- p. 81, ed. 1889) might help to account for tary of this Lodge for information, and he its origin : wrote me, inter alia, as follows : Steele's claim to the authorship of Town- I can find no entry of his name in our old Talk did not go undisputed. Lady Cowper notes! Minute Books, dating back to 1775. Other in her Diary for February 1, 1716 : *' Mr. Hor- j names are incidentally entered as having attended neck, who wrote ' The High German Doctor,' j Lodge, as I think in those days, an Attendance came here. . . . He told me that Sir Richard i Book was not imperative, but, if so, they are no Steele had no hand in writing the Town-Talk, longer in existence. It is highly probable he was which was attributed to him ; that it was one a member. The Lodge at that time was named Dr. Mandeville and an apothecary of his ac- i St. David's, and with four or five other Lodges, quaintance that wrote that paper ; and that i consisting principally of Scotsmen, met and some passages were wrote on purpose to make j formed and designated themselves ' ; The Scotch believe it was Sir R. Steele.' " j Grand Lodge," the object, I think, being to intro- EDWARD BENSLY ! duce Mark Masonry into England, as we have iu i the earliest of these Minute Books the first entry DANTE'S BEARD (12 S. ix. 271, 315, 378, in writing of names, having met and each member 436). As regards Dante's chin it is i attachin g his Mason's mark, important to remember that Boccaccio DUDLEY vv RIGHT. credited it with a beard. According to Mr. Charles E. Norton (see Longfellow's 'Dante's EDWARD LAMPLUGH (1 2 S. ix. 491) had Divme Comedy,' p. 200) he testified that ft brother wmianl) who entered Winchester ' College, aged 10, from the parish of St. face was long, his nose aquiline, his eyes rather Miro-ni^t T rmrlrvn in 1711 ftrirlvir ' Win large than small, his jaw heavy, and his under Margaret, .London, m 1711 (lUrby, Win- lip prominent, his complexion was dark and his Chester Scholars, p. 223). When he matri- hair and beard thick, black and crisp. culated at Oxford, July 15, 1719, aged 19, Is it possible that some change of fashion his father was described as Thomas Lamp- in Dante's day brought about the dis- high of Kensington, Middlesex, doctor appearance of his beard ? Such a thing has (Foster, * Alumni Oxonienses '). If this made many a hirsute face smooth in recent Dr. Thomas Lamplugh was the rector of times. ST. SWITHIN. St. Andrew-under-Shaft, London, who took the degree of D.D. at Oxford, Dec. 27, CHEESES AS AMMUNITION (12 S. ix. 387). 1701, then Edward and William were It is cheering that many fresh workers are grandsons of the Archbishop of York, coming into the vast and virgin field of who died May 5, 1691. William, who took cheese-lore. the degree of B.A. in 1723, and that of M.A. An older instance of the use of cheeses as in 1726, ceased to be Fellow of New College missiles is quoted and translated, from a in 1729. Is anything more known of him ? " most precious " Corsican chronicle of the JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. sixteenth century, in La Chronique Medicate (1912), xix., at p. 455. Alphonso V. of Aragon A NEWLY-DISCOVERED MAP OF SURREY was besieging a town to its dire extremity, (12 S. ix. 488). Under the above heading the extent of which he did not know ; to MR. PRESCOTT Row refers to the map as mislead him further, caseus recens, ex muli- " an unknown engraved map of Surrey " by erum lacte coagulatus, Regi dono, was thrown John Norden. over the walls and convinced him that, since That is not quite correct, though the map the inhabitants had such vast resources of is, undoubtedly, very rare, provision that they could thus afford to, A copy of it was acquired not long since by waste it, nothing was left to him but to raise the Royal Geographical Society, which was the siege. then stated to be " the only one brought to This Chronique should be better known to light in modern times." The Society date ' N. & Q.' readers. ROCKINGHAM. : it 1594. Boston, Mass. It is fully described by Gough in his