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'JACK SHEPPARD.' The following is th title of a volume in my possession :

" The/ History/ Of/ Jack Sheppard :/ His/ Won derful Exploits and Escapes./ A Romance,/ Foundec on Facts./ With Original Illustrations,/ From Draw ings by Jack Sketch./ [Here follows a vignette o F etters, burglars' implements, &c., under which 'Truth is Stranger than Fiction "/ London./ Johr Williams 44 Paternoster-Row,/ and 43 Aldersgate Street./ 1839."

Is this a genuine edition of W. Harrison Ainsworth's romance, and is Geo. Cruikshank known to have signed himself " Jack Sketch .Most of the twelve illustrations in this volume are quite in his style, and the figure of Bess in the representation of Jack and Bess escap- ing from the New Prison at Clerkenwell is one very frequently met with in his acknow- ledged pictures. I shall feel obliged to any reader of ' X. &, Q.' who will enlighten me upon these two points. CHAS. WISE.

Weekley, Kettering.

LATIN MOTTO. Can any of your readers give me the translation of the following motto from the title-page of a book published in 1652 " Efficiens et finis sunt sibi invicem causje"? The words may be a very simple statement of an obvious truth, but 1 confess inability to understand them. Whence are they derived ? JOHN WILLCOCK.

Lerwick. [It looks like a maxim from a book of logic.]

MENTEITH. What were the arms of the old Earls of Menteith prior to the marriage of the heiress with Walter Stewart (fi. 1258- 1294) ? A. C.

"PEASE EGGERS." In a weekly journal called the Rambler there was given lately as an illustration a photograph of a group of five boys, each dressed more absurdly than the other four, and it was stated that it was a typical group of " pease eggers " in the North- West Riding of Yorkshire. They appear in spring, travel in gangs amongst their native villages, and go through a regular (performance, during which there is a fierce encounter with wooden swords between two jof them, while a non-combatant makes a [collection. If the custom be an ancient one what does it represent, and what, is the meaning of the term "pease eggers " ?

R. HEDGER WALLACE.

I [We should suppose that this means pasque eggs, otherwise Easter eggs.]

SIMON GREEN, alias FODERBY, was one of
 * he canons of Lincoln Cathedral in the time

of Bishop Longland, and there seem to have been many cases in which men bore such

alias names. So late as 1635, John and Stephen Evered, alias Webb, both of Marl- borough, England, were immigrants in New England. What was the origin or meaning of these double surnames ? F. J. P.

Boston, Mass.

"VEIT" = GUY. Speaking of Veit Hirsch- vogel le Vieux and his namesake " le Jeune," M. Gerspach says in a foot-note to p. 257 of 'L'Art de la Verrerie,' "Le prenom Veit correspond au nom frangais Guy." Comment ?

ST. SWITHIN. .

" THREE POUND TWELVE." I have a thick token of brass, an inch and a sixteenth in dia- meter, nearly five-sixteenths thick, which on both sides is inscribed " Three Pound Twelve " within a floriated shield, crowned. Is it simply a weight 1 and, if so, for what 1 or was it issued as a token to represent the sum of 31. 12s., and where ? THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

'VOYAGES AND ADVENTURES OF JACK HALLIARD IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN.' Can any of your readers tell me anything about this book 1 I have a copy of an edition pub- lished in Boston by Ticknor &, Fields in 1854, and copyrighted in 1833. 1 believe that inquiry has been made about the book, but there seems to be divided opinion as to whether it is of English or American origin. I should like, if possible, to find out when and where it was first published, and who was the author. CHAS. WELSH.

Boston, U.S.

AGNES A FATEFUL NAME. Surely it is

desirable to make a special query as to the

Delief that those bearing the name of Agnes

will go mad. MR. PEACOCK, under the heading

Names: Saxon and Norman' (ante, p. 114),

asks if this is merely a local Lincolnshire

relief. I have never heard of this curious

ancy, and beg to renew the inquiry under

he name itself. JAMES HOOPER.

Norwich.

A TRANSLATION OF MARCUS AURELIUS, UBLISHED A.D. 1792. I have just acquired rom a second-hand bookseller, who has been urning out the fifty years' accumulations of lis cellar, a book of which the title-page runs s follows : "The Meditations of the Emperor -larcus Aurelius Antoninus. A new trans- ation from the great original, with a life, otes, &c., by R. Graves, M.A., Rector of }laverton, Somerset, late Fellow of All Saints' College, Oxon, and Chaplain to the Countess )owager of Chatham. Bath, printed by R. \uttwell for G. G. J. Robinson, Paternoster