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the original portrait by Cornelius Janssen at Chequers Court. By permission of Mrs. Frankland - Russell - Astley. C.M ., October, 1900, p. 874.

Elizabeth Cromwell (Mrs. Claypole). From a miniature by Crosse at Windsor. By special permission of Her Majesty the Queen. C.M., October, 1900, p. 875.

Frances Cromwell (Mrs: Rich, afterward Lady Russell). From the original portrait by John Riley in the collection of the Rev. T. Cromwell Bush. C.M., October, 1900, p. 876.

Tabulated particulars concerning Oliver's children may be seen on p. 60, vol. i. of Carlyle's ' Cromwell.' JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

"EMBARRAS DES RICHESSES" (9 th S. x. 367). I have referred to L. J. C. Soulas d'Allainval's play of 'L'Embarras des Richesses,' and find that Arlequin, a gardener, is one of the characters repre- sented, but (looking through it rather hastily) do not find that he uses the ex- pression himself, so that Scott seems scarcely correct in saying " What Harlequin calls," &c., unless some other Arlequin in another play uses the phrase. The play was first acted 9 July, 1725, and an English translation, called ' The Plague of Riches,' was published in London in 1735. EDWARD LATHAM.

61, Friends' Road, East Croydon.

[The translation is by Ozell, and was printed with French and English on opposite sides, and was acted in French at the Haymarket, " by autho- rity," in October, 1738, by a French company, when it bred a riot.]

CHARLES II, IN WEST DORSET (9 th S. x. 141, 236, 293). I am very much obliged to MR. MACRAY for calling my attention to the mistake I made in saying that Capt. Elles- dpn's narrative of the king's escape was given in the eighteenth book of Clarendon's ' History of the Rebellion,' instead of in the Clarendon State Papers.

The oversight is all the more inexcusable because in my pamphlet published in 1887, and referred to in my contribution at the first reference, in citing my authorities for the paper, I say : " In addition there are the extracts from Lord Clarendon's 'History of the Rebellion,' and Capt. Ellesdon's memoir to be found in the folio edition of the- Cla-

rendon Papers." Antigua, W.I.

J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.

SATHALIA (9 th S. viii. 423 ; ix. 250 ; x. 256, 336). Though I made a note that the stories of Sir Lybius and Sire Libeux were the same, I have some doubt now on the subject. The

only reference to Sire Libeux that I find by no means confirms what I said as to their identity. I have, however, correctly related the story of Sir Lybius. I have no oppor- tunity at present of reading any of the legends which I mentioned. I should be glad to know whether the story of Sire Libeux is about a dragon which was changed to a woman.

Gibbon and Prof. Skeat believe that Stam- boul represents es TO.V TrdAiv. It is rash to go against them ; but I have thought that Stamboul might be a corruption of Con- stantinopolis. Knock off the first syllable, and the two words are similar. As for the / in Istambol, I myself have observed that natives of India Mussulmans and others not unfrequently preface a word with an un- necessary vowel. E. YARDLEY.

DR. BREWER'S MONUMENT (9 th S. x. 285). - His memorial (quoted) says, " Died March 8th, 1897." Jfa the preface to the 1898 edition of ' The Reader's Handbook,' &c., his daughter says, "My father died on March 6." There may be a printer's error in one of the two places. MICHAEL FERRAR.

" LEE OERS FOR MEDDLERS, AND CRUTCHES

FOR WILD DUCKS " (9 th S. x. 307). Almost every county has its variation probably of this phrase. The most common form in which it survives, however, is " Layers for meddlers," and it is generally, though not exclusively so, addressed to over-inquisitive children. " Layer-overs," " lare-overs " in Sheffield " lay ors- over," in Derbyshire "lee -ores" or "lee-oers," in Norfolk " lar-o-for-med- dlers," and in Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and Gloucestershire " lay-o's " refer to the " laying on " of a stick, a dose of "hazel oil" or "oil of holly" (^"larrup- ing," as another common provincialism has it), in chastising a child for undue curiosity, with a view to impress the young mind with the truth of the proverb that " Of little meddling comes great ease." " Lare-overs," says Forby in his ' Vocabulary,' is a gentle term in East Anglia for some instrument of chastisement. As to the latter part of the saying, it would be impossible to light upon a more futile task than the provision of crutches for wild ducks. It would be equally silly and futile to attempt the k ' shoeing of a goose." " He that will meddle with all things may go shoe the goslings." One of the most curious carvings in the church formerly belonging to the monastery of St. John at Beverley, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, represents a blacksmith in the absurd act of hammering a shoe on a goose's foot. As to