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Orrne, Brown, Green & Longman ; and M. Robinson, Leeds. 1837."

I learn from the preface that it was the work of a lady, and that the illustrations were drawn by herself. They seem to be coloured by hand, but of this I am not quite certain. EDWARD PEACOCK.

Wickentree House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

[Halkett and Laing state that Mrs. Hey is the author.j

LATIN QUOTATION. I shall be glad if some kind reader will refer me to the source of the following lines :

Cui pudor et Justitise soror Incorrupta Fides, nudaque Veritas. Quando ullum irivenient parem ?

JOHN T. PAGE. [Horace, 'Od.' I. 24,6.]

"MALA STAMINA VIT^E." Said of the Stuarts by Willis, the Court physician to James II. (Burnet's ' History of his Own Time,' p. 252, book ii. v. 1). What Latin poet wrote this 1 It sounds very like Martial.

RICHARD HEMMING.

CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS. I should be obliged for references to books that might assist me to unravel some of the puzzles pre- sented by certain churchwardens' accounts beginning 1524, and touching not only on matters ecclesiastical, but on the collection and distribution of civil and military rates. E. LEGA-WEEKES.

ENGRAVING OF CLEOPATRA. Can any one inform me whether an engraving in my possession is of value? It is oblong in form, and entitled " Cleopatre Qui Montre A Auguste Le Buste de lules Csesar. Peint par Pompeo Battoni. Grave' par Q. Mark a Vienne." The date 1781 is upon it. Augustus holds the left hand of Cleopatra, who with her right hand points to a large bust of Julius Caesar on a pedestal.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

PAMELA, MARCHIONESS OF SLIGO. I find the following entry in a traveller's diary :

" Sept. 21, 1815. My birthday. I dined at Rocher de Cancale [in Paris] with the brothers Parish and with Sligo, who is now Pamela's husband."

According to the usual books of reference, however, the second Marquess of Sligo was a single man in 1815, and married the follow- ing year Hester Catherine, eldest daughter of the thirteenth Earl of Clanricarde. Who was Pamela? L. L. K.

THE BISHOP IN THE GAME OF CHESS. As we learn from the 'Oxford Historical Dic-

tionary,' there are three older and obsolete names given to the well-known figure in the game of chess which may move across the diagonal of a chessboard, now commonly called bishop -viz., "fool" (= F. fou\ "archer," and "alfin" (= O.F. aufin, or alfin). It may, perhaps, be worth adding whence the latter Old English and Old French name has probably taken its origin. The fullest light which is thrown upon it, as well as upon its cognate Italian alfiere, comes from fhe Spanish alfil, derived from Arabic and Persian al-fil, and from the Russian and Slavonic equivalent slon, both meaning originally also an elephant. May it be right to suppose that this piece in the game of chess presented, perhaps, at first (in Eastern countries'?) an archer seated upon an elephant, and that the elephant was dropped with us, after the analogy of the castle or rook, which likewise was placed at first upon an elephant? (See Prof. Skeat's 'Etymological Dictionary,' sub 'Rook 2 .')

H. KREBS.

BULL PLAIN, HERTFORD. Is Bull Plain, as a synonym for Bull Ring, a common name in English towns'? Is "Plain" connected with the Flemish "Plein" as a synonym for square or place 1 H.

COON SONG. When did this term, now frequently to be heard in connexion with musical farces, pantomimes, and the like, come into use 1 Neither ' H.E.D.' nor the 'Century Dictionary' has it, though Emerson is quoted in the former to illustrate coon story. It might be suggested that it dates from 'The Little Alabama Coon,' a favourite song of some ten years ago ; and though, previous to that, Mr. Eugene Stratton had made popular * The Dandy Coloured Coon,' the coon song, as usually understood, was of the former rather than the latter type.

A. F. R.

GALLINI. Francis and John, the twin sons of Giovanni Andrea Battista Gallini, better known as Sir John Gallini, were admitted to Westminster School 21 January, 1782. Par- ticulars of their careers and the dates of their respective deaths are desired. Francis appears to have been admitted to Lincoln's Inn 15 November, 1787, but was not called to the Bar by that Inn. G. F. R. B.

CELLINI'S HAMMER. I have a quasi-silver hammer which was brought from Italy and given to me by a friend, who called it Cellini's, but could tell me nothing of an original of which it is presumably a copy. The note about the Camerlengo's silver hammer (ante,