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measures 6^ in. by 3 in., and is headed by a woodcut, 3 in. square, of a raven (?) stand- ing on a stump of a tree or seizing a large fish in water, its head not seen. Above the bird is a sun's face surrounded by rays, the whole enclosed in an oval geometrical border. The motto one word in each corner is, " No Trust At All." The advertisement beneath runs thus :

"Mark Gregory,

At the Raven and Sun in Drury-Lane, sells several Sorts of Haberdashery Ware, viz. Canvass, Buckram. Whalebone, Pe.rriwig-Ribbon, Raw and Dyed Silks, Cauls and Weaving Thread, and all Sorts of fine Gilders and Coloured Threads, Crapes and Scotch Muslin, Quality-Bindings, Boot-Strap- ping and Gallows ; Webb-Cane and Leather Hoop- ing ; Gartering of all Sorts, Nonesopretties, Pins and Needles, Inkle and Spinnel, and Scotch Yarn, Golooms and Breeds of all Sorts, Ferrits, Ribbons and Girdles ; Tapes and Laceings of all Sorts, Dimity and Waddings, Printed and Dyed Linnens, and Flannels ; fine Dutch Twine for Patridge [sic] Nets, and Twine for Fishing Nets, and several Sorts of Yard-wide Linnen, Stuffs, Russels, Persians and Tabbies, &c. Wholesale and Retail, very cheap for ready Money."

Can any of your correspondents give an ex- planation of " nonesopretties"and "spinnel" ? They are not known to the editors of the ' New English Dictionary.' " Gallows," I understand, is an old term for braces, and "ferrit " for a narrow cord to tie up wigs and queues. HORACE MARK GREGORY.

Ynysyngharad, Pontypridd.

[Webster's ' International ' defines spinel as " bleached yarn used in making the linen tape called inkle ; unwrought inkle. For ferret see 5 th S. xi. 247 ; xii. 292 ; 6 th S. i. 205 ; 7 th S. xii. 252 : for gallows= braces, 9 th S. vi. 330, 393 ; vii. 155 ; and the 'H.E.D.' for both of these words.]

HOLME OF HOLME HALL. The Heralds' Visitations of Cheshire and Yorkshire both contain pedigrees of branches of the family of Holme (or Hulme) of Holme (or Hulme) Hall, Lancashire. Can any one refer me to a pedigree of the early Holmes or Hulmes? There is an account of them in Burke's ' Commoners,' vol. iv. (under ' Bankes of Win- stanley '), but I do not know upon what autho- rity it rests. FRANCIS P. MARCHANT.

51, Medora Road, Brixton Hill.

DUNLOP. The Rev. Sam. Dunlop was a Presbyterian minister who led the band of first settlers to Cherry Valley, New York State, in 1741. The families he gathered together were from the region of Londonderry, ' Scotch-Irish." It is affirmed that he was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. He was driven out from Cherry Vallev by the massacre in 1778, and is be- lieved to have died somewhere in New Jersey.

Can any correspondent help me to news of him, his birthplace, &c.?

C. SWYNNERTON.

REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE. The accom panying cutting from the Daily Chronicle of 14 May surely records a very strange coinci- dence as regards the Chicago fire; but can it be authenticated 1

"The finding of the hospital clock alone intact among the ruins of St. Pierre recalls the even more remarkable survival of the destruction of Chicago. When that city was burnt out in 1871, the only relic of more than a million volumes in Booksellers' Row was the charred leaf of a Bible. It was the first chapter of Lamentations, and the only verse dis- tinctly legible read, ' How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! how is she become as a

widow ! she weepeth sore in the night, and her

tears are on her cheeks.' Preachers in search of a text appropriate to the present calamity may find this to supply their needs."

JAMES HOOPER. Norwich.

" ROBERT, D.G. PRISTINENSIS EPISCOPUS."- Can any of your readers identify the digni- tary referred to in the British Museum Additional Charter 15,200, to wit, Robert, D.g. Pristinensis Episcopus, who grants to a Bristol burgess a tenement in one of the principal streets of that town in July, 1368 1 rristina is stated to be in Upper Mcesia; but the bishop was doubtless an Englishman, and probably the son of a Bristolian.

JOHN LATIMER.

[Was Robert a bishop in partibu* infidelium ?]

BAKER FAMILY. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' inform me concerning the ancestry of Father Augustin Baker, the author of 'Sancta Sophia,' &c. ? There are monu- ments of relatives in Abergavenny Church ; the family seem _ to have at one time been large landowners there. I wish also to learn the ancestry of Admiral John Baker, promi- nent in Queen Anne's reign, whose family lived for generations at Deal. C. BAKER.

ST. ERNULPHUS. Who was St. Ernulphus? Huxley, in the 1894 preface to the reissue of 'Man's Place in Nature,' alludes to "the barking of the dogs of St. Ernulphus " and " Ernulphine advertisements." I can find nothing to the point in notices of St. Arnul- phus. R. B. B.

[For St. Ernulphus see 7 th S. vii. 160, 197, 258.]

THE WATERLOO BALLROOM. I should be glad to know whether the discovery by Sir William Fraser of the room at Brussels in which the famous ball was held is usually accepted as settling the dispute. In his 4 Words on Wellington ' the late baronet cer-