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the mortified recipient. Mediaeval humour was apt to be somewhat poignant on occasion.

J. DOEMER.

HORSE WITH FOUR WHITE STOCKINGS TOLL FREE (9 th S. vi. 507; vii. Ill, 193). See further, as to this odd exemption, L'lnter- mddiaire. xxvi. 601 : xxvii. 173 : xliv. 241.

O. O. H.

FLINT-GLASS TRADE (9 th S. ix. 365, 473). Those who have witnessed the operation of glass-blowing can have no difficulty about the word " chair," as they will remember that the operator sits on a chair of special con- struction, using the arms as supports for the pontil as he rolls it backwards and forwards. By a very natural extension the word "chair" came to mean the gang of men who work in and about a chair. The "chair- system " of working is thoroughly explained in Apsley Pellatt's 'Curiosities of Glass- making,' pp. 83, 86-9. R. B. P.

WILLIAM BAXTER, OF AUSTRALIA (9 th S. ix. 486 ; x. 38). At the kind suggestion of MR. C. MASON I wrote to the secretary of Lloyd's, and I have had a reply to the effect that the ship England, Capt. Thomson, is reported to have sailed from Liverpool for Port Phillip on 4 April, 1841, and is also reported in ' Lloyd's List ' of 7 December, 1841, as having arrived at her destination, but without date of arrival. William Baxter no doubt landed at Port Phillip or in the neighbourhood, and if any of the Australian readers of ' N. & Q.' can give me any information about him or his descendants (if any) I shall be much obliged. RONALD DIXON.

46, Maryborough Avenue, Hull.

CHI-RHO MONOGRAM (9 th S. x. 49). There is a most elaborate article on this subject, 4 L' Origine del la Leggenda del Monogramma e del Labaro,' by Prof. Amadeo Crivellucci, in vol. ii. of 'Studi Storici ' (Pisa, 1893), pp. 88- 104, 222-60. See also the article by Bratke noticed at p. 275. Whether these would add to MR. McGoyERN's information on the special point raised by him I do not know ; but the articles are well worth study.

Q. V.

I am able in part to reply to my own query on this monogram. Shortly after it was penned I received the May number of the Journal of the Isle of Man Antiquarian Society, containing a very interesting article by Mr. P. M. C. Kermode on some recent archaeological discoveries in the island, one of which presented distinct evidence of the presence of the monogram in Man. This is

the information I sought, but in part only. I have, so far, discovered no trace of the monogram in Ireland. When found my quest will be complete. J. B. McGovERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

STATISTICAL DATA (9 th S. x. 29). A book in my possession bears the following explicit title :

" Popular Statistics | and | Universal Geography, containing the | length, breadth, population, chief cities, produce, government, | revenue, military and naval strength, arts, religion, &c. | of every state in the world ; | a Distance Table | of England, Scot- land, Ireland and Wales, | With the Principal Travelling Stations of France and the Netherlands ; land, Ireland and Wales ; | Chronological Tables of Ancient and Modern History, Biography and Geo-
 * %, perpetual companion to all the Almanacs ; |
 * together with | Distinct Distance Tables | of Scot-

Saphical | Discovery, Names and Value in British oney of all Foreign Coins, Height of the | prin- cipal Mountains, and Length of the principal Rivers, Bridges, Piers, &c. | Tables | Showing any Day of the Week in any Month in any Year of the Nineteenth Century, | and the Expectation of Life according to the Law of Mortality at Carlisle. | Also | a general introduction to a knowledge of Geo-

?-aphy and | Statistics, illustrated with Tables of opulation for the | Great Divisions of the Globe, | many other curious and useful tables, and an En- graved | Chart of the World, | after Mercator's Projection. | London : | Joseph Thomas, 1, Finch Lane. | M.DCCC.XXXV."

I have often found this little book of 100 pp. very useful, and were it brought up to date I imagine it would exactly suit the require- ments of SIGMA. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

Some of the measurements asked for are

given in "London Exhibited in 1851

Edited and published by John Weale. Lon- don" e. g., on p. 181 are "sections through the transept and dome of St. Peter's, Florence Cathedral, London ditto, and St. Genevieve, Paris, showing their comparative widths and heights," according to scales in English feet and Roman palms. This book has, I think, been repubhshed by Messrs. Bell & Sons under the title of 'Pictorial Handbook of London,' being one of "Bohn's Illustrated Library." See also Peter Cunningham's ' Handbook of London ' (John Murray).

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

KING'S CHAMPION (9 th S. ix. 507 ^ x. 58). Though the account given by Sir Walter Scott in ' Redgauntlet ' of Lilias, the niece of Hugh Redgauntlet, called in the novel " Green Mantle," taking up the Champion's gauntlet, and replacing it by another, is purely fictitious, yet some part of the account of the coronation of George III. in 1761 is accurate enough. Lord Errol, the High Con-