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of visitors. The inscription is both erudite and prolix, and I hardly feel equal to in- cluding it in this note. Suffice it to say it is couched in the Latin tongue, with a few Hebrew and Greek words introduced here and there, apparently by way of decoration. About twelve years ago it was translated into English verse by the then rector of Bow, the Kev. W. P. Insley, M.A. The monu- ment is surmounted by a bust of Miss Coburne, and I have a note that beneath it are the following arms : On a chevron, between three bugle horns stringed and garnished, as many mullets. As I made no reference to the tinctures, I imagine that they were never introduced or had become obliterated. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

"CHILD-BED PEW" (9 th S. ii. 5, 255). Another name for this was " uprising seat." See the extracts from parish registers, at p. 78 of my 'History of St. Ives': "1773, July 30. To p d Tho 8 Rogers's bill for building the reprising seat, 17s."

JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Town Hall, Cardiff.

PARLIAMENT CAKES (9 th S. iii. 149). During my schooldays in Christ's Hospital (1827-34) we could obtain " parliament cakes " at the two shops within the precincts of the school, where such and similar delicacies were

Surchasable. The cakes are mentioned by . and H. Smith in their * Rejected Addresses ' (1810):

Roll, roll thy hoop, and twirl thy tops, And buy, to glad thy smiling chops, Crisp parliament with lollypops, And fingers of the Lady.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

I met with these cakes at Sevenoaks about two years ago, the first I had seen since my schooldays, over sixty years since, when a good dame from the village used to bring them for sale to us boys. The shop at Seven - oaks is in the upper part of the town, nearly opposite the church. I have been told they were to be had formerly in the Minories.

DOSSETOR.

SCANDAL CONCERNING WALPOLE (9 th S. ii. 529 ; iii. 156). When I wrote I had mislaid the reference. The " creed " supplies no further information than I gave. I. S. LEADAM.

GODFREY Box AND THE SLITTING MILL (9 th S. iii. 48). It seems to be generally accepted that Godfrey Box or Bochs, of Liege, in Brabant, first introduced into England and erected at Dartford a slitting

machine for cutting plate metal into slips for nail-rods, &c., in 1590.

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

ARMORIAL (9 th S. iii. 6). Are they not the arms of one of the towns in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg ? I think they are on one of the shields round the pedestal of the eques- trian statue of the King - Grand - Duke William II. in the city of Luxemburg.

ALFRED MOLONY.

Argent, guttee gules, two swords in saltire, blades proper, hilts gules, over all a lion rampant sable. Crest, A stork proper, dipping his beak into a whelk shell erect or Walter of Broxbourne, co. Herts, Harl. MS. 1546, 20. See also same coat and family in Harl. MSS. 1551, 8, and 1534, 14. Pap- worth gives no clue to the escutcheon of pretence. J. G. BRADFORD.

EAST INDIA COMPANY (9 th S. iii. 128). Does Miss THOYTS'S query refer to the officers in the naval or military establishment of the Company 1

Some years ago, when the Jerusalem Coffee- House was in Cowper's Court, Cornhill, I saw a volume entitled, so far as I recollect, 'A Register of the Ships and Officers employed in the East India Company from 1760 to 1810,' by Horatio Hardy. Mr. Hardy was, I believe, the proprietor of the establishment, which was removed in 1892 to Billiter Buildings, and assumed the title of Jerusalem Shipping Exchange.

When the East India House in Leadenhall Street was pulled down in 1862, the priceless library, with all the Oriental MSS., was removed to the India Office, Whitehall, where doubtless Miss THOYTS would obtain the in- formation she requires.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

'Alphabetical List of the Officers of the Indian Army from 1760 to 1837,' compiled by Dodwell and Miles, 8vo. 1838. KILLIGREW.

I find in the Library of the British Museum (in case 2121) a copy of Dodwell and Miles's 'Indian Army List,' ranging over the y 1760-1834. E. J. LUCK.

"SwEEN" OR "SwEAN" (9 th S. iii. 69). This interesting word is the O.N. svina (ori- ginally a strong verb smna\ to subside. Cognate forms are O.E. stvindan, to waste away ; O.H.G. swinan, to take away ; Ger. schwinden, to disappear.

I believe I am right in saying that the dialect of Nottinghamshire has not yet been collected. If this word is an average specimen,

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