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enhance the gift, and the collar of the Golden Fleece denotes the Spanish cause. THORNE GEORGE.

For long articles on the Utrecht gun- founder Jan van Tolhuys, and the arms on the Dover monster gun, see 'N". & Q.,' 2 nd S. iv. 409 ; vii. 71, 525.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

"SURQUEDRY" : "OUTRECUIDANCE" (6 th S. xi. 387, 511). Godefroy, 'Diet, de 1'Ancienne Langue Francaise,' gives sourcuidance, with variations, sor., sour., sur., seur., surs- quidaunce, s.f., outrecuidance, arrogance, presomption ; also sourcuiderie, surq., sore., sorq., s.f., outrecuidance. With reference to their use in English literature (ante, p. 263), the following quotation may be of interest :

"Gallants of England, 5 ' said Front-de- Bceuf,

"how relish ye your entertainment at Torquilstone? Are ye yet aware what your surquedry and outrecuid- ance [insolence and presumption, foot-note] merit for scoffing at the entertainment of a Prince of the House of Anjou? Have ye forgotten how ye requited the unmerited hospitality of the royal John ? By God and St. Dennis, an ye pay not the richer ransom, I will hang ye up by the feet from the iron bars of these windows, till the kites and hooded crows have made skeletons of you ! Speak out, ye Saxon dogs, what bid ye for your worthless lives? How say you, you of Rotherwood?"
 * Ivanhoe,' chap, xxviii.

Halli well's ' Dictionary ' gives the spelling " surquedrie" and three quotations, one being from Lydgate. ADRIAN WHEELER.

WATERLOO : LAST SURVIVOR OF THE BATTLE {9 th S. xii. 34G). The following extract from

recent number of the /Sphere would seem to show that there is yet another survivor of this memorable battle :

"Dorsetshire and Norfolk claim the distinction of possessing the last living British eye-witness of Waterloo. Mrs. Barbara Moon was not, after all, the last British eye-witness of Waterloo, and must go down to posterity as the last but one, for there resides in ^Norwich a venerable lady, by name Elizabeth Watkins, who, beyond all manner of a doubt, was present in the women's camp within a 'Short distance of the field of battle, where she witnessed many striking incidents connected with it."

She was born on 31 January, 1810, at Beaminster, six miles from Bridport, her father being one Daniel Gale, who was pressed into the king's service just before Waterloo. Gale had married early in life one Mary Hallett, and she, with their child Elizabeth, followed him to the wars. Besides remembering that her father's uniform was bottle-green, with dark trousers, Mrs. Wat-

kins can also recollect sitting by her mother's side and shredding lint for the wounded soldiers, while the sight of some of the dead made an impression still vivid in her memory. FREDERICK T. HIBGAAIE.

ST. PETER'S, CHESTER (9 th S. xii. 207). In a little book called * Stranger's Companion in Chester,' by A. Batenham, published about 1830, is the following paragraph :

" The site of St. Peter's Church is generally sup- posed to be the spot on which the Prsetorium of the Romans stood, though this is to be understood only as the Governor's residence and his immediate officers. The further limits of their establishment, including the temple, tribunal, college, halls of entertainment, &c., are imagined to have extended a very considerable distance in each of the four principal streets."

I do not know Batenham's authority, but if the information is correct, does it not throw some light on the REV. F. T. STONEX'S question as to why St. Peter's is referred to in ' Domesday ' as " templum S. Petri " 1

A. H. ARKLE.

PLEASURE : ITS DEFINITION (9 th S. xii. 346). Perhaps the want of a definition of pleasure is not so surprising as Dr. Polidori supposed. Mill (' Logic,' book i. chap. viii. 2) says :

" The only names which are unsusceptible of defi- nition, because their meaning is unsusceptible of analysis, are the names of the simple feelings them- selves Words cannot unfold the signification of

this class of names, and we are obliged to make a direct appeal to the personal experience of the individual whom we address."

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

BERKSHIRE AND OXFORDSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS (9 th S. xii. 388, 431). Neither Bray, Henley -on-Thames, nor Great Hazeley has been printed, and probably not transcribed. Would it not be worth while to start a Berks and Oxon Parish Register Society, for the purpose of printing in extenso the registers of these two counties 1 Every year adds to the difficulty of transcribing the more faded portions of registers, and at any time a fire or carelessness may destroy for ever these unique records of the past. E. A. FRY.

Birmingham.

OLD PEWTER MARKS (9 th S. x. 328, 416 ; xi. 196). Pewter collectors will doubtless find much useful information in * Pewter Plate : a Handbook for Collectors,' by H. J. L. Masse, M.A., which Messrs. George Bell & Sons announce for publication shortly. The book will be imperial 8vo, and have " upwards of 70 illustrations.'' Curiously, no price is given. T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

Lancaster.