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town are, and for centuries have been, callec Todmorden Moor, and between these waste lands and the valley is Todmorden Edge. On the other side of the valley is Walsden Moor and all over the original parish of RochdaL (of which Todmorden formed a part) the high grounds on the hills are called moors, the valleys are denes, and the sites of lakes meres, as, for example, Hamer, Castlemere. and Marland. As to the prefix Tod I should hesitate to dogmatize, as it is capable of several interpretations. H. FISHWICK.

The natives pronounce this word Tor- morden, with the accent on the Tor. Fox- moor Valley sounds plausible, but Hill (Tor) Moor Valley, to those who know the place, exactly describes its peculiarity to-day.

G. DEAN, M.D.

Burnley.

ROBERT BURTON (9 th S. i. 42). The London edition of the ' Anatomy ' of 1836 (1 vol.) was

C 1 lished by B. Blake, 13, Bell Yard, Temple C. C. B.

WATCHMEN (8 th S. xii. 408, 490 ; 9 th S. i. 37). I perfectly remember two instances. In 1848-52 (and perhaps to a later date) there was one of the old Charleys in John Street, Bedford Row, also his box ; and in 1866-70 (and perhaps to a later date) there was another very old Charley who watched that part of New Bond Street about Bruton Street, and who, I was always informed, was retained by one or more of the jewellers in that locality. Perhaps application to those jewellers may elicit some detailed facts regarding this watchman. I have often heard

both cry out, " Past o'clock, and a

night " or morning, as the case might have been. C. MASON.

29, Emperor's Gate, S.W.

STAMP COLLECTING (8 th S. xii. 469). If it be permissible to refer to one's own articles, I should like to say that MR. ROBBINS will find collected together a few facts in a paper on "The Postage Stamp Mania,' which I con- tributed to the Fortnightly Revieiv of May 1894. Some further particulars were added to the article when it was republished in 'Rare Books and their Prices,' &c., 1895.

W. ROBERTS.

Klea Avenue, Clapham.

PAUL OF FOSSOMBRONE (8 th S. xi. 228). The observation which was made by the editors of ' Monurnenta Historica Britannica ' in ' Introductory Remarks on the Chronology of Mediaeval Historians ' (p. 103), and which occasioned my query respecting Paul the

observation, namely, that the era of the Incarnation according to the Gospel was "first used by Paul, Bishop of Fossombrone, and afterwards by Marianus Scotus " is erro- neous. The Paul referred to lived, I find, four hundred years later than Marianus : he was known as Paul of Middelburg, and was bishop of Fossombrone from 1494 to 1 534. He was one of the earliest writers to press for the reformation of Paschal computation, and in his work ' Of the Right Celebration of Easter and of the Day of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ ' (printed at Fossom- brone in 1513, and dedicated to Pope Leo X. and the Emperor Maximilian) he pointed out the errors of his own time, and examined many opinions, those of Marianus Scotus among others. He predicted (vii. i.; p. kiii) that the Easter of the Catholic Church would, in course of time, come to be celebrated in the summer, and, after that, in the autumn if the errors of the calendar were not cor- rected. He was opposed (ibid., p. k iiii) to the suggestion of Cardinal Nicholas Cusanus that, in some year to be predetermined, ten or eleven days should be omitted from the calendar, because he foresaw that such an expedient would cause confusion in the com- putation of time, and be perplexing and offensive to the common people. The sugges- tion is to be found in his book (viii. ii.; p. 1 ii verso) that as the vernal equinox was then falling on 10 March, the eleventh day of that month should be made the earliest possible Easter Day. A. ANSCOMBE.

Tottenham.

PORTRAIT OF NAPOLEON BY ROBERT LEFEVRE (9 th S. i. 7). That most useful work ' Painters and their Works,' by Ralph James, states a "small whole-length of Napoleon," by Robert Le Fevre, was disposed of at G. W. Taylor's sale in 1832 for 94/. 10s.

CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

LOCAL SILVERSMITHS (8 th S. xii. 347, 491 ; 9 th S. i. 18). On looking over the silver in general use in my household, I find a number
 * >f spoons made and marked in this city. For

instance, there are some very small tea- spoons, ornamentally chased on the face, and searing the letter "P." on the top of the landle. This capital letter stands for Press- well, the maiden name of my wife's mother, who died at a good old age in the sixties. The initial letters by the hall-mark are ' J. H.," evidently Joe Hicks, who flourished as a silversmith in this city in 1780-1790. We have also a number of teaspoons (the present ordinary size) engraved with a mono- gram "C, C. T." (Charlotte C, Turner) on the