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rules and by-laws, under the name of Royal Navy Club, with list of members, were issued in November, 1886. His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh was president. There were fifty -four vice-presidents, and an execu- tive committee of twenty members. The honorary members numbered twenty-seven, and there were five hundred and ninety members. The club was proprietary, and

4, Graf ton Street, Piccadilly, was the club- house. Commissioned officers in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, officers of the late Indian Navy, of colonial navies and of the Indian Marine, of the Royal Naval Reserve and Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers, and Elder Brethren of the Trinity House were eligible as members. The name of the club was again changed in 1887 to the Royal Navy and Army Club.

JOHN P. STILWELL.

' AYLWIN ' (9 th S. iii. 124). The Old English Christian name Ay 1 win, Alwyn, Ailwyne, or Alwine, has never, I suppose, become at all a common patronymic. With so many sur- names to choose from, one may perhaps be permitted to regret the fact that writers seem fond of using such names as Mr. Watts- Dunton's Henry Aylwin or Tennyson's Mr. Philip Edgar (afterwards Mr. Harold), "a surface man of theories, true to none," in 'The Promise of May.' A. R. BAYLEY.

St. Margaret's, Malvern.

OLIVER CROMWELL AND CHRISTMAS (9 th

5. iii. 104). If Cromwell himself did not attempt to abolish Christmas, the Parliament that he controlled did. A mass of evidence has been accumulated in ' N. & Q.' and else- where : see 3 rd S. i. 246, 458 ; 6 th S. vi. 506, 513 ; viii. 491 ; x. 490 ; 7 th S. ii. 503, 504 ; iv. 503 ; vi. 483 ; xii. 126 ; 8 th S. vi. 483. W. C. B.

HEPTONSTALL (9 th S. iii. 61). Will the author of the interesting article on 'Hepton- stall ' at the above reference kindly give me, either personally or through your journal, the names of the numerous crosses with which he states the neighbourhood was studded 1

On the Long Causeway, which is a portion of a great highway from Clitheroe Castle, by Whalley Abbey, Burnley, Heptonstall, and Halifax, to Wakefield, and perhaps beyond, numerous crosses were placed on the hill- tops as guides to travellers over the moors, or in memory of those who perished in the snow or were murdered by robbers. Crosses existed at Burnley, and east of it on the Long Causeway we find Stump Cross (950 ft. above the sea), Robin Cross, Maiden Cross,

Duke's Cross, Stiperden Cross, Reaps Cross^ Abel Cross, and others. This road was used for regal, ecclesiastical, and mercantile pur- poses from an early period. The woollen manufacture, CANON ISAAC TAYLOR has recently told us in 'N. & Q.,' was in full force in the West Riding in the fourteenth century, and doubtless there was much traffic between East Lancashire and West Yorkshire. HENRY TAYLOR.

Birklands, Southport.

MONTAIGNE (9 th S. ii. 468). It is Montaigrae himself who passes this depreciatory judg- ment, as he does repeatedly, on his own writings : " Si philosopher c'est doubter, a plus forte raison niaiser et fantastiquer, comme je foys (fais), doibt estre doubter." This quotation, for which I am indebted to the courtesy of a friend, is found in Littre under the word ' Fantastiquer,' with reference to book ii. ch. 23, which, however, does not agree with my copy (Paris, 1844, edition of Le Clerc). Either there is an error somewhere, or the edition referred to by Littre must have been differently divided. The verb fantastiquer seems to be a word of rare occurrence. It is not, as I am informed by the same friend, in the Academy's diction- ary. I have found it in Bescherelle, Trevoux, Laveaux, Mole (French-German), Villeneuve (French-Italian), and Von Aphelen (French- Danish). C. LAWRENCE FORD, B.A.

Bath.

PERTH (8 th S. xii. 508 ; 9 th S. i. 173). At a recent meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland it was stated that the origin of the Roman's exclamation is to be found not in any classical author, but in 'The Muses' Threnodie,' by Henry Adamson (a native of Perth), printed at Edinburgh in 1638, a small quarto of rhyming dialogue. Here, it was said, the famous " Ecce Tiber ! Ecce Campus Martius ! " attributed to Agricola's soldiers, first appeared ; and although in a second edition, published in 1774, the story was called a poetical fable, it had already won its way into books professedly historical, and was too fondly regarded in the popular- imagination to be discarded as mere fiction.

W. S.

CHARLES I. RINGS (9 th S. ii. 448). There were at least a dozen Charles I. memorial rings on view at the Stuart Exhibition in 1889. As the names were in each case given in the catalogue, the owners could pro- bably be still communicated with. I may say that amongst the rings exhibited was the one "given by Charles I. to Bishop Juxon just before his death." Two others were