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given by both Miss Baker and Stern berg ithout any explanation as to its meaning, always imagined that it indicated kings' rivileges, and that its use might have riginated at the time of the great Civil War. ,ike C. C. B., I have never seen it explained, nd shall look forward with interest to its iucidation. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

This has been mentioned in ' N. & Q.,' 3 rd S. v. 456. A king is not subject to the usual aws ; so the " kings " in chess and draughts. Vhen a schoolboy cries " Kings ! " the rules of he game are temporarily suspended with espect to him. W. C. B.

CALLINGS OF VARIOUS PERSONS (9 th S. ii' 24). In the parish registers of Newcastle- upon-Tyne the following occupations occur : Singing-man, 1578 ; sword slipper, 1579 ; vaite, 1581 ; grate maker, 1582 ; the towne's looll, 1589; armorer, 1592; parchment maker, 595 ; swordbearer, 1596 ; sergeante at the mace, 1597; one of the Customers, 1606; a poore old beagell, 1607; gracewife, 1627; tobacco seller, 1633 ; pursuivant, 1634 ; ower- man, 1636 ; auricient, 1644 ; seller of hot waters, 1644 ; osteman, 1647; musitioner, 1654 ; broad glass maker, 1656 ; water sargint, 1664 ; translator, 1667 ; limner, 1670 ; smoaker, 1671 ; boddies maker, 1683.

KICK. WELFORD.

TRETHOWAN (9 th S. iii. 28). Cornish and Welsh place-names which commence with " Tre," a homestead, nine times out of ten join to that particle the name of a person, and not a common noun or an adjective. I do not think that "thowan" can be satis- factorily explained except as a personal name. " Trethowan " is certainly Cornish, if genuine. JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Town Hall, Cardiff.

THE CAPTIVE STAG (9 th S. iii. 49). I ought to have remembered that 'The Tame [not Captive] Stag' is an adaptation of one of Gay's fables, and appears in * The First Book of Poetry for the Use of Schools,' by W. F. Mylius, a book famous in connexion with Charles and Mary Lamb. When I wrote, the origin had slipped from my memory. I apo- logize to the Editor of 'N. & Q.' and its readers. ANDREW W. TUER.

The Leadenhall Press, E.G.

ROYAL NAVAL CLUB (9 th S. ii. 327, 411 ; iii. 36). Since writing to MR. JULIAN MARSHALL on this subject I have looked up the where- abouts of the house formerly used by this club, and find that, as I thought, it was

4, Grafton Street, which had previously belonged to the Empire Club. The Royal Naval Club was started in 1886, and was closed in the early part of 1891.

J. MURRAY AYNSLEY.

HENRY ALKEN (9 th S. iii. 67). In addition to the 'Diet. Nat. Biog.,' suggested by the Editor, E. D. C. might refer to 'N. & Q.,' 3 rd S. xi. 516 ; xii. 155. I possess the titles of five works on sporting subjects published between 1824 and 1849, illustrated either by Henry Alken, sen., or his eldest son, who bore the same name. They are at the service of your correspondent should he require them.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

" PIP IN THE WEBE " (9 th S. iii. 49). There was an affection of the eye known as " the pin and the web," for which see Halliwell, under ' Pin.' There is much about it in Thomas de Gray's ' Compleat Horseman,' 1639, pp. 168-72. W. C. B.

THE SISTER CHURCHES (9 th S. iii. 48). A ship sailing from Newcastle to the coast of Norfolk would hardly get to Reculver. The most likely place is Withernsea, in Holder- ness, a little above Spurn, where wrecks are still, alas ! not unusual. The two churches of Withernsea and Owthorne were known as the "sister churches," but by the encroach- ment of the sea the latter was swallowed up long ago (see Poulson's ' Holderness.') At several places on this coast the picture drawn by Swinburne in his poem on 'Dunwich ' was literally true : corpse and coffin, Spurned and scourged of wind and sea like slaves,

Shrink and sink into the waste of waves.

Tombs, with bare white piteous bones protruded, Shroudless, down the loose collapsing banks,

Crumble, from their constant place detruded, That the sea devours and gives not thanks.

Graves where hope and prayer and sorrow brooded Gape and slide and perish, ranks on ranks.

Rows on rows and line by line they crumble.

Here, where Time brings pasture to the sea.

W. C. B.

The church at Reculvers forms the subject of more than one article in * N. & Q.' See 4 th S. ii. ; 7 th S. iii., iv.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

" THE POLICY OF PIN-PRICKS " (9 th S. iii. 46). This English form seems poor and weak, losing all the charm of its original. The expression and its application, however, seem