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is asking about. In point of fact, I have searched for and, I oelieve, found every allusion in 'N. & Q.' to the word "Tory"; and it is because not one of them affected the special point I have now raised that I

Sit a perfectly legitimate query, to which R. PL ATT has clearly replied. POLITICIAN.

ZOLA'S * ROME ' (9 th S. xii. 68). There is an unfortunate misprint in my query at this reference, due probably to my hieroglyphic calligraphy. " Dr. Gumming " was not what I certainly wrote. It should be " De Lam- menais," who, in Mr. Gladstone's surmise, was the model of Pierre Froment.

J. B. McGovERN.

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

KING'S CHAMPION (9 th S. ix. 507: x. 58. 116).

" A ludicrous circumstance occurred at the coro- nation of William and Mary. Charles Dymock, Esq., who then exercised his right (Champion), cast his gauntlet in the usual form, and the challenge was proclaimed, when an old woman, who had entered the Hall on crutches, took it up and quitted the spot with extraordinary ability, leaving her crutches, arid a glove, with a challenge in it, to meet the Champion, next day, at Hyde Park. Accord- ingly, the old woman or, as is generally supposed, a good swordsman in disguise attended at the hour and place named, but the Champion did not make his appearance; nor is it recorded whether any measures were taken to discover who had passed so disloyal a joke/' 'Railway Anecdote Book,' p. 42.

The above book was published without date by W. H. Smith & Son about 1850, and again in 1852. I have not seen the story ascribed to the time of William and Mary in any other place ; perhaps some reader can trace it to a much earlier published book. ADRIAN WHEELER.

HOLBEIN PORTRAITS (9 th S. xii. 48). A por- trait of Erasmus, by Holbein, is in Grey- stoke Castle, Penrith, Cumberland ; another of King Edward VI. in the Court- room of Christ's Hospital ; and a third of Anne of Cleves in the gallery of the Louvre.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

"INGEMINATE" (9 th S. xii. 49). Charles Annandale, in his 'Imperial Dictionary,' explains this word to mean redoubled, re- peated : "An ingeminate expression'"' (Jer. Taylor) ; " He would often ingeminate peace, peace" (Clarendon).

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

To " ingeminate peace," I think, can have but one meaning, i.e., to act or speak in such a manner as to promote her benign interests.

Nathaniel Bailey says "to in geminate "= to double or repeat often, and "ingeminated flowers," among florists = when one flower grows out of another (' Diet.,' 1740). Elisha Coles says, " Jngeminatus--= doubled. Nobilitas ingeminata = nobility on father's and mother's side" ('Diet. Eng.-Lat. and Lat.-Eng.,' 1755). J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

CESSION OF WELSH COUNTIES TO ENGLAND (9 th S. xii. 106). M. E. S. has probably found a mare's nest, but Shropshire and Hereford- shire were once ruled by Welsh princes ; and Monmouthshire, which was English, has recently been treated as Welsh for some purposes. C. O. W.

RICHARD NASH (9 th S. xi. 445 ; xii, 15, 116). As the following brief extract from the 'D.N.B.' contains certainly three, and pro- bably four errors, and as it has misled SIR HERBERT MAXWELL at the second of the above references, perhaps the matter had better be set straight :

" He long occupied a house in St. John's Court, known as the Garrick's Head, and subsequently rented by Mrs. Delany, but moved to a smaller house near to it in Gascoyne Place before his death, at the age of eighty-seven, on 3 Feb., 1762. The Corporation having voted 50. towards his funeral, he was buried with great pomp on 8 Feb. in Bath Abbey." Vol. xl. pp. 100, 101.

Now Nash did not die on 3 February, he was not buried on the 8th, and he did not die in 1762. The correct year is

1761. How this error came to be made in the 'D.N.B.' does not appear: but the mis- take as to the day of Nash's death is easily accounted for. In his ' Life of Richard Nash,'

1762, Goldsmith says : "He died at his house in St. John's Court, Bath, on the 3d of Feb- ruary, 1761, aged eighty-seven years, three months, and some days " (p. 175) ; but in the errata at p. 234 the 3rd is declared to be a misprint for the 12th. Mr. T. Seccombe, who wrote the account in the 'D.N.B.,' failed to note this correction. Curiously enough, however, at p. 182, Goldsmith gives the epitaph written by Dr. Oliver, which begins as follows : "Bath, February 13, 1761, This morning died Richard Nash, Esq., Aged eighty-eight." Here, then, in the same book we have two different dates assigned. Now in the London Chronicle of 14-17 February, 1761, we are informed that "on Friday morning [i.e., 13 February], about four o'clock, died at Bath, Richard Nash, Esq." (ix. 166) ; but in the same paper of 17-19 February we read: "Bath, Feb. 16. About eight o'clock last Thursday evening [i.e., 12 February] died, aged 88, at his House in St. John's Court in this city, Richard Nash, Esq." (ix. 173). This,