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or anglicize it more or less completely. Thus the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica' employs in one place Cettinye and in another Tsettinye. Mr. Bourchier, in the December Fortnightly, has Tzetinye ; another variant I have met with is Tsetinie. JAS. PLATT, Jun.

" PARAGON." Could any of your readers tell me what in London street-nomenclature is meant by a " paragon," as used by Lord Lytton in ' What Will He do with It?' bk. ii. chap. v. ?

" And I found that so rapid in a few years has been the prosperity of this great commercial country, that if one did buy them [the relics of the property] back, one would buy twelve villas, several streets, two squares, and & paragon!"

Can Lord Lytton have meant what is more usually, I think, called a "crescent" 1 ? I am aware that in the New Kent Koad, not far from the Elephant and Castle, there is " The Paragon." C. STOFFEL.

THOMAS CAMPBELL'S 'WALLACE.' Why is this not included in the Aldine edition of Campbell's 'Poems,' 1875? One would ex- pect an Aldine edition to be complete. Is it in the later editions, or in editions other than the Aldine ? It is in ' The Songs of Scotland Chronologically Arranged,' 1893, p. 463. It contains the fine stanza quoted in ' N. & Q.,' 2 nd S. iv. 420 :

Oh ! it was not thus when his oaken spear, &c. In this stanza, as it is quoted in 'N. & Q.,' the seventh line reads

For his lance was not shivered on helmet or shield ; but in ' The Songs of Scotland ' above men- tioned it is : For his lance was not shivered, or helmet, or shield.

Which is correct 1 According to the writer in 'N. & Q.' the full title of the poem is ' The Dirge of Wallace.' JONATHAN BOUCHIER.

[The poem is not in Moxon's edition, with Tur- ner's plates, 1837.]

WILLIAM III. Have any writers, other than Bishop Burnet and Charles Blount, maintained that the Prince of Orange ac- quired by conquest a right to the English throne? WM. UNDERBILL.

"A WIG OF BREAD." In Delpino's ' Spanish- English Dictionary' one finds "A wig of bread, bollico" In Seoane's edition of Neu- mann and Baretti the second meaning of wig is given as " Especie de torta." From the other part of Delpino bollico is omitted, but Seoane's book defines it as a " small loaf of flour, sugar, milk, and eggs." Seoane, how- ever, does not put ivig among the meanings of torta. It is a common defect in dictionaries

that they use a word in defining others without giving any definition of that word itself.

What is the history of the word wig on parch- ment or paper ? Is it still used in any part of the English-speaking world ?

PALAMEDES.

["Cotgrave gives ivig-si small cake" (Wright). We have not been able to trace this. Under 'Eschaude",' however, Cotgrave has, "A kind of wig, or Symnel, fashioned something like a Hart, a three-cornered Symnel"; and M. Gasc gives us the meaning of echaudd, cracknel, bird-cake.]

ELIAS MARTIN, A.R.A., AND JOHANN FRIED- RICH MARTIN, Swedish artists, circa 1739-1818, mentioned in Eedgrave, Graves, and other English, German, and Swedish biographical dictionaries. Information is sought with respect to their lives, their brother Charles, arid the present homes of their pictures and engravings. Amongst the paintings were views from the Duke of Montagu's at Rich- mond ; Paine's Hill, Cobham ; the seat of the Earl of Upper Ossory, Woburn Abbey, &c. E. L. MARTIN.

St. Stythyans, Kingston Hill, Surrey.

[Consult ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' We have too often to give such advice. Many of our correspondents seem to ignore the existence of such a work.]

VELTON ABBEY. I seek information as to the whereabouts of Velton Abbey (I cannot find it in Dugdale or Tanner). I have seen a process print from a photo, and it appears to be a very important ruin as to size and remains, and is a beautiful specimen of thir- teenth-century work, with parts very like Net-ley transept. What is the best work in which to find the history of Velton Abbey 1 Replies may be sent direct to me.

JOHN A. RANDOLPH.

2, Halsey Street, Cadogan Square, S. W.

MARY ELEANOR BOWES, LADY STRATHMORE. Does any portrait or book illustration exist of the beautiful and unfortunate Countess Mary Eleanor Bowes, Lady Strath- more, who " was buried among poets on account of her wit and extraordinary mental accomplishments " ? She died 28 April, 1799. Has she any living descendants ?

M. B. W.

Cambridge, U.S.

CHRISTOPHER LISTER. Being interested in the pedigree of the Listers of Gisburn (same stock as the Barons Ribblesdale), I should be glad if any reader could give me information about one Christopher Lister, born in 1757 in the Clitheroe (Lanes) and Gisburn district. He is said to have belonged to a junior branch of this family, and had property in Colne