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question, ignoring all ulterior considerations, flatly refused to entertain the idea of any reduction on the legal fee of sixpence per year for searching over a period of 200 years, totalling to about bl. Further, whether wilfully ignorant or not 1 will not presume to say,' but he insisted that my irresponsible extracts would be valueless, and that he was legally entitled to an additional half-a-crown for a certificate in connexion with every entry I copied ! And there were fifty of them. As I happened to be doing the work on behalf of another, I was luckily in a position to say, as authorized, that legal claims would be met by the party concerned. Otherwise I should not have been allowed a sight of the register without consenting to fees amounting to between III. and I2l. ! The search itself occupied, so far as I remember, about two hours, during which the clergyman carefully looked over my shoulder to see that I did not copy anything additional. I may add that this period was split in half by the lunch hour, when I was turned into the village street, with the intimation that there was an alehouse further on. After the intervention of a friendly neighbouring clergyman had been secured, the incumbent in question gave way so far as to accept three guineas in liquidation of all claims. A. STAPLETON. 524, Woodborough Road, Nottingham.

PAINT-BRUSH (9 th S. xii. 307). Through the kindness of the Librarian of the Patent Office, Mr. E. W. Hulme, to whom the ' Dictionary ' is indebted for so many past examples of technical words and names of inventions, we have been furnished with instances of paint- brush going back to 1825.

J. A. H. MURRAY.

PANJANDRUM (9 th S. xii. 247). No answer has come to ray inquiry about Mr. P. H. Fitz- gerald's transferred use of " Panjandrum," although, owing to the well-meaning stupidity of a London evening paper, which informed its readers that I attributed the invention of Fpote's well-known string of nonsense to Mr. Fitzgerald (!), I have been deluged with letters benevolently enlightening my ignorance. After these, I should greatly esteem one reply to my own straight question : Where does Mr. Fitzgerald use the words, " He was the great Panjandrum of the place"? The author himself tells me that he has quite forgotten, which, in the writer of more than a hundred books, is hardly to be wondered at. J. A. H. MURRAY.

EVIL SPIRITS AND INKBOTTLES (9 th S. xii. 106, 297). That prince of storytellers F. Anstey has recently worked up the idea of

open. The laughable results which are detailed by F. Anstey in his inimitable manner. The story first

Jinnee emerging from a bottle after a journ therein since the days of King Solomon, in a novel bearing the title of ' The Brass Bottle.' The bottle in question is obtained at a sale of curios, and the pur- chaser, little recking of the troubles m store by his action, breaks the seal and forces the bottle follow usual

appeared in serial form in the Strand Maga- zine in 1900. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH (9 th S. xii. 308). 'The Account' from time to time occurs in second-hand catalogues. My copy, which includes 'A Keview' and 'A Continuation of the Review,' both 1742, by Britannicus, was priced 3s. in calf, and is as fresh, inside and out, as a new book. C. S. WARD.

"HONEST" EPITAPHS (9 th S. x. 306, 375; xi. 178, 397).

" This refreshes my memory with a story of Ben Jonson, who, as he was walking through a church in Surrey, saw a company of poor people weeping over a grave. Ben asked one of the women what the occasion should be. She answered, ' Ah, alas ! Sir, we have lost our precious good Lawyer, Justice Randal He kept us all in peace and from going to Law. Certainly he was the best man that ever lived.' ' Well,' said Ben, 'I Avillsend you an epitaph for his tombstone ' ; which was,

God works Wonders now and then : Here lies a Lawyer, an Honest Man." John Dunton's ' Life and Errors,' edited by J. B. Nichols (1818), p. 149.

WM. H. PEET.

THE REBELLION OF 1745 (9 th S. xii. 169, 314). I am greatly obliged to MR. PICKFORD for his reference to Dr. Renaud's 'Ancient Parish of Prestbury.' The letter of John Stafford's there given is one of the batch of Macclesfield papers which have come into my hands ; it has, however, been inaccurately and incompletely copied or else the original which I have is the first draft of the letter. Its many corrections and interlineations suggest that that may be the case, although the fact that my letters are marked as having belonged to a " P. Browne, Esq.," and the one which Dr. Renaud copied is said to have belonged to a David Browne, points to their being identical. WALTER JERROLD.

Hampton-on-Thames.

DONHEAD ST. MARY (9 th S. xii. 205, 293). From the institution registers of Salisbury it appears that John Fezarde was instituted to the rectory of Donhead St. Mary in 1555, and Nicholas Rogers was instituted in 1565/6 upon the deprivation of John Fezarde.