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consorted with the deceased, and the murder remained an undiscovered crime like, un- fortunately, so many others.

EDWARD M. BORRAJO. The Library, Guildhall, E.G.

THOMAS LLOYD, REPUBLICAN (9 th S. xii. 324). It may be worth adding to MR. A. T. WRIGHT'S interesting note that an engraving of the memorial tablet appears in the Phono- graphic Magazine (Cincinnati) for October of the present year. It does not appear what system of shorthand Thomas Lloyd used. Can MR. WRIGHT say 1

WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

Manchester.

GIN- PAL ACES (9 th S. xii. 249). As regards country districts, at any rate, it is not quite correct to say that the drinking of gin " has almost ceased." In comparison with whisky, gin has undoubtedly lost ground in public estimation, but it is still largely drunk by the lower classes in country places ; partly because it is credited with valuable medicinal properties, but also as a beverage merely. Gin and hiera-picra (a compound of aloes and canella bark) are much used by women at a critical period of their lives, and gin alone by people in general in various urinary disorders. For the latter purpose "compon gin" (which means, I suppose, that having the strongest flavour of turpentine) is pre- ferred ; and Hollands, flavoured with juniper, is in considerable demand. But apart alto- gether from its semi-therapeutical reputation, many people actually prefer gin to the more popular whisky, and it is also cheaper. Whisky itself is included in the popular materia medica, being reputed good for rheumatism and neuralgia. Brandy, among the class of which I am speaking, is almost whollj 7 a medicine ; they " like to have a drop in the house " in case of an emergency, and " when in doubt give brandy " is almost an axiom of domestic practice. Rum, too, which has declined in popularity much more than gin has, is given for colds, sometimes in con- junction with butter or with black beer.

C. C. B.

"O. C. 1651 " (9 th S. xii. 329). These initials probably refer to Oriel College, to which society King Edward III. (the founder's son) had granted the hospital in 1329. But it is worth remembering that Oliver Cromwell was in 1651 Chancellor of the University of Oxford. The hospital itself was originally founded in 1128 or 1132 by Edward's ancestor, King Henry I., who often resided at Beau- mont (his palace outside the north wall of Oxford), where his two great-grandsons

Richard Cceur-de-Lion and John Lackland were subsequently born. A. R. BAYLEY. Malvern.

PUBLICATION BY SUBSCRIPTION (9 th S. xii. 327). The earliest book containing a list of subscribers is, I think, Minsheu's ' The Guide into the Languages,' published in 1617. The copy for which James I. subscribed is in this library. EDWARD M. BORRAJO.

The Library, Guildhall, E.G.

One of the earliest books issued by this method was Richard Blorne's 'Britannia,' folio, 1673, which contains a ' List of Bene- factors of this Work.' G. L. APPERSON.

Wimbledon.

JAMES HEATH, ENGRAVER, 1757-1834 (9 th 8. x. 268 ; xii. 30). Mr. James Ward, of Notting- ham, tells me that Mr. Dunn was never in partnership with the Heaths, but that he purchased the bookselling business from the executors of a Mr. Wilson, who had bought it from Joseph Heath's widow. The shop is now the property of Mr. Ward's firm.

Mr. Ward also sends me an interesting account of the tragic death of Joseph Heath, the engraver's uncle, extracted from Cres- well's ' History of Printing in Notts ' (p. 37) :

" 1789. Jan. 1. Died Mr. Heath, some years a bookseller in Nottingham. He had been at the Methodist meeting the last night of the year, where he staid till past twelve. On his return home he found Mrs. Heath in bed, and after informing her that the clock had struck twelve, and wishing her many happy new years, he fell back upon the floor and died without a groan."

ALEYN LYELL READE.

Park Corner, Blundellsands.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Great Masters, 1JUO-1800. With Introduction and

Descriptive Text by Sir Martin Conway. Part I.

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