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They were, of course, two distinct publishers. Next to Harris, 1 think, came Grant & Griffith, whence Griffith & Farran. Then again, I think, but am not in this case quite sure, that it is the ** Bible and Sun " again, and not the "Bible and Crown," "near Devereux Court," where Newbery first opened when he came to London. The " Bible and Sun " was certainly " near Devereux Court," for it was "next the Kose tavern without Temple Bar," where in 1738 James Hutton hung out his sign and sold a "Metzotinto of the Rev. Mr. White- field, from a picture of Mr. Beard's, to whom he sat for it, and to no other person whatever." Whitefield's sermons were also " printed for James Hutton at the ' Bible and

Sun,' and sold by J. Wilson in Bristol,

J. Leale in Bath, and Messrs. Harris, sen. and jun., in Gloucester" (London Evening Post, 4 and 14 Feb., 1738).

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

IMAGINARY OR INVENTED SAINTS (9 th S. xii. 127). I see in a Swedish calendar published at Stockholm 1898, 3 January is dedicated to Enoch. Those learned in these matters can say who he was, whether or no the Enoch of the Bible or another. I think it was when Napoleon I. was confirmed the bishop said he had never heard of St. Napoleon ; but the boy said, " There are many saints in Paradise, but only 365 days in the year." In the above calendar Martin Luther is com- memorated 10 November. R. B. B.

Though I have no doubt your correspondent writing from Glasgow is perfectly well ac- ouainted with the following note, yet others may not be so. Let me, therefore, mention an allusion to St. Enoch in ' Rob Roy ':

"Full of sinister augury, for which, however, I could assign no satisfactory cause, I shut myself up in my apartment at the inn, and having dismissed Andrew, after resisting his importunity to accom- pany him to St. Enoch's Kirk, where he said ' a soul - searching divine was to haud forth,' I set myself seriously to consider what were [sic] best to be done." Chap. xxi.

An appended note in the " Centenary Edi- tion " observes :

" This I believe to be an anachronism, as St. Enoch's Church was not built at the date of the story [i.e., 1715]. It was founded in 1780, and has since been rebuilt."

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

ROSCOMMON AND POPE (9 th S. xii. 126).

Perhaps in attributing the couplet to Pope William Bell Scott had in mind an early passage in the ' Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin,' where the same attribution is

made. Franklin, by the way, suggests, not unreasonably I think, that a more logical x>rm would be :

Immodest words admit but this defence, That want of modesty is want of sense.

WALTER JERROLD. Hampton-on-Thames.

BANNS OF MARRIAGE (9 th S. xii. 107). The Act concerning the solemnization of marriages, 4 George IV., of which your correspondent speaks, was repealed by Act 6 & 7 William IV., which is now in force, when an entirely new set of register books in dupli- cate had to be provided for every parish church. This, of course, needed properly a different banns book, which was printed in small 4to, and is usually the one in use, though in a small country parish like this the old banns book suffices. Strictly speaking, an entry is to be made in triplicate, for which the sum of sixpence is given.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

MINERALOGIST AND BOTANIST TO GEORGE III. (9 th S. xii. 89). If there was any such appointment the names of the holders of this post should be found in the old ' Royal Kalen- dars'of the time. G. F. R. B.

LUSHINGTON (9 th S. xii. 7, 76). There is more than one theory as to the origin of lush. In the second volume (1890) of the Journal of the Gipsy Lore Society, p. 217, it is derived from "Shelta lush, to eat or drink." It is some support of this that there are several other English cant or slang terms which have been traced to Shelta. Blofa. of which Dr. Murray says "origin unknown," is almost certainly Shelta ; and so are probably burerk, ken, mauley, moniker, monkery, mizzle, rum, toby. JAS. PLATT, Jun.

LONGFELLOW'S ' WRECK OF THE HESPERUS ' (9 th S. xii. 129). The following (quoted from the ' Ency. Brit.,' vol. x. p. 692a) replies to the first question :

" About two miles from it [i.e., Gloucester, Essex county, Massachusetts] is Norman's Woe, the scene of the wreck of the ' Hesperus,' celebrated in Longfellow's poem."

The answer to the second question, seeing that the " White Ship " was lost off the coast of Normandy, is, obviously, " No."

No doubt your correspondent is acquainted with Mrs. Hemans's poem on the subject of the " White Ship," 'He Never Smiled Again.' With regard to Longfellow's poem, the following particulars may be interesting, taken from 'Voices of the Night,'&c., "River- side Edition " (Routledge, 1886). According to