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Blayney, Gough, or Heylin. The design is well executed, far differently from many of the obviously sham heraldic devices, intended to represent or imitate arms of peers, which can be seen everywhere. Primd facie the articles are genuine, and yet, as I bought, cheaply enough, three specimens with these arms a fluted coffee-pot, a quart mug, and a sugar-basin (?) in three different places, I have doubts. Can some one throw light

upon the obscurity ?

W. C. J.

FACTORS OF PROGRESS. I want to identify two short articles on the following themes : 1. " That England owes more to the middle classes than to the aristocracy"; 2. "That the cult of healthy-mindedness is a factor for progress." A. S.

LELY'S PORTRAIT OF MADAME MARY KIRKE.

I much desire to find out where the original painting by Sir Peter Lely of Madame Mary Kirke, mentioned in Granger's 'Biographical History of England,' vol. iv. p. 180, is at present. I have an engraving of this picture, " Sold by Alex. Brown of y c Blew Balcony, Little Queen S fc ," in which the lady is repre- sented with her right arm holding a lamb.

By my family records I believe that this picture was painted for Charles II. and was at Hampton Court Palace, but am unable to trace it. ALGERNON HEBER PERCY.

Hodnet Hall, Hodnet.

'A GALLANT CAPTAIN/' &C. After C011-

siderable research in likely quarters, I am quite unable to place the strategist referred to, and should be most grateful for an exact reference :

A gallant captain

In battles oft delighting,

Who lied full soon on the first of June,

But bade the rest keep fighting.

L. I. GUINEY. 57, St. John's Road, Oxford.

" As MERRY AS GRiGGS." Josiah Wedgwood wrote to Bentley about Christmas time in 1775 : "We have a housefull of children, al as merry as Griggs," ' Letters of J. Wedg- wood ' (printed for private circulation), 1903 Who was Griggs ? L. L. K.

[Griggs was not a personage. See 'N.E.D.' Wt wonder whether the word has any connexion with the wriggling of young eels, supposed to be indica tive of enjoyment.]

COTTISWOLD. What is meant by " tin lists at Cottiswold" in Scott's ' Marmion, i. 12? Is there any Cots wold out of Gloucester shire? H. N. ELLACOMBE.

4 USES OF OUR HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS.' I have a note that in 1863 there was printed

or the Library of Political Economy at Westminster a pamphlet entitled " The Uses f our Historical Manuscripts for the last 174 Fears from 1688, by a Master of Arts, Queen's College, Oxford ." Where can a copy of it be leen ; and who was the author ?

W. P. COURTNEY.

"ANSER, APIS, VITULUS," &c. I should be quotation :
 * lad to know the author of the following

Anser, apis, vitulus, populos et regna gubernant.

Pen, wax, and parchment govern the world. The line is to be found in Ho well's 'Letters' letter 2 in book ii.). JOHN GATES.

Rutland House, 10, Saltouri Road, S.W.

" THE CONSUL OF GOD." On which of the Church Fathers was this sobriquet bestowed? (Mrs.) GERTRUDE CLINTON.

"CONSTANTINE PEBBLE." Where was this prehistoric monument situated in Cornwall ? When was it destroyed, and under what cir- cumstances ? Where can any illustrated ac- count of it be met with ? Whence its name ? T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

Lancaster.

MARAT IN YORK. (See ' Marat in London,' ante, pp. 7, 109, 175, 235, 293, 451.) I have been told that there exists a pamphlet, printed in York, in which it is stated that Marat practised for a short time in that city as an aurist. My informant cannot recollect the title of the pamphlet, and I should be glad to know whether there is any confirmatory evidence of Marat's residence in York. If there is truth in the statement, it was presumably between the years 1775 and 1776, shortly before Marat visited Edinburgh, and received the degree of M.D. from the University of St. Andrews.

GEORGE A. AUDEN.

PERCIVAL HASLAM. In an obituary notice of this gentleman in the Gentleman's Magazine for December, 1800, it is stated that when at Bath he printed for the use of his friends ' A Few Hints to Whist-Players,' the proceeds of which he gave to a private charity. If a copy of this work is known to any reader of 'N. & Q.,' I shall be glad to have a descrip- tion of it. F. JESSEL.

BRIGHTLINGSEA : ITS DEPUTY - MAYOR. What further is known of the custom at Brightlingsea reported in the Standard of 8 December? It does not appear to have been noticed in * N. & Q. ! :

"Brightlingsea, a limb of the Cinque Ports, and the home of England's best yachtsmen, enjoys the novelty of electing its deputy-mayor in the belfry