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t > me, and doubtless to many other of your i )aders, if you would kindly indicate the e <act locality of this mill. A visit to the spot i.i these days of the unfurling of the flag i much to be desired. A. D. H.

' DIRECTIONS FOR HEALTH.' Will you k'ndly inform me of the value of a work vhich I possess? It is in an excellent state oc preservation, and is entitled :

" Directions for Health, Natural and Artificiall : Eerived from the best Physicians, as well Moderne as Antient. Divided into six sections. Whereunto is annexed Two Treatises of approved Medicines for all Diseases of the Eyes, and preservation of the Eye Sight. The 1 st written by Doctor Bailey, and the other collected out of those two famous Physicians, Fernelius and Riolanus."

It is printed by Thomas Harper, London, for John Harrison, and sold at his shop in Pater- noster How, at the " signe of the Vnicorne," 1633. The preface is dedicated to "Earle Pembroke," and signed " William Vavghan." My copy is the seventh edition.

J. CARLILL SAVILL.

[Supposing the work to be, as seems probable, by Walter Bailey, M.D., Physician to Queen Elizabeth, it is uncommon ; all Bailey's works are. There is no probability that it has great mercantile value. Many of Bailey's works are in the Brit. Mus.j

FIRMAN OR FIRMIN FAMILY, SUFFOLK. I seek genealogical information about the ! family of Firman or Firmin, of Suffolk. I (coat of arms, which has descended to me from, I presume, my ancestor (in a female iline) William Firman, of Wiston, Suffolk, yeoman, whose will was proved at Bury St. Edmunds 10 December, 1746. The coat is tricked in colour, and is, I am told, seven- teenth - century work or probably so, and 'below it is written : " These Armes doe ap- pertaine to the Antient family of Firmin of jSuffolk & is thus Blazon'd. The feild is Argent, a Salter engrail'd Gules, on a cheife the second a Lyon passant guardant Or." The shield is surmounted by a plain steel lelmet without crest or motto.
 * have in my possession a representation of a

Hcannah, a daughter of the above-mentioned vVilliarn Firman, was my great-great-grand- mother by her marriage at Wiston, 20 Decem- ber, 1733, with my great-great-grandfather fohn Josselyn, of Horkesley, Essex.

1 am desirous of tracing the member of

the Antient family of Firmin of Suffolk" to v'hom the above-mentioned coat of arms was riginally granted. I find no pedigree of the arnily in Harl. ' Vis. Suffolk,' nor any men- ton of it in Burke's ' General Armory.'

JOHN H. JOSSELYN. I Ipswich.

"BEEN TO." (9 th S. iii. 227.)

IN the issue of the New York Nation for 17 April, 1890, I devoted upwards of three columns to the consideration of this ex- pression when followed by a verb or by a substantive, showing that^ followed by the latter, it has been in print since 1776, as witness quotations given from S. J. Pratt, Jeremy Bentham, Lord Broughton, Southey, Dr. Whewell, Lord Macaulay, A. J. Clough, the Rev. F. E. Paget, Sir G. W. Dasent, the Rev. James Pycroft, Lady Duff Gordon, the Rev. Charles Kingsley, and others.

The quotations for it which I have since collected being two hundred and more, all of them from writers at least of education, where not approved stylists include forty or fifty belonging to the last century, from the pens of Mrs. James Harris, Thomas Hull, James Harris, jun., Thomas Hutchinson, jun., Frances Burney, Mrs. Maria Rishton, Char- lotte Ann Burney, Ann Hilditch, William Combe, Mrs. Ann Radcliffe, James Lacking- ton, Mrs. Charlotte Smith, Mrs. Eliza Parsons, Mrs. Burton, Mrs. A. M. Bennett, Jane Austen, Edward Du Bois, Thomas Moore, and a large number of anonyms.

Earlier, however, by twelve years, than the earliest of the uses just referred to, is that seen below :

"I have been to the other End of the Town, to provide Masons and Joiners."' Beau-Philosopher ' (1751), p. 146.

Coming to the present century, in addition to what is stated at the beginning of this note, I find the phrase in question employed by Thomas Bellamy, Elizabeth Helme, Emily Clark, Richard Cumberland, Shelley, Joseph Jekyll, Mrs. Eliza Nathan, the Rev. R. H. Froude, the Rev. John Keble, Bishop Heber, Cardinal Newman, the Rev. Sydney Smith, Henry Angelo, Sir G. C. Lewis, J. R. Hope- Scott, C. Whitehead, George Eliot, Long- fellow, Lord Canning, Lord Beaconsfield, the Rev. John Mitford, Lord Malmesbury, T. L. Peacock, L. Oliphant, E. A. Freeman, Mr. Ruskin, and a host of authors who have with- held their names.

Since, just as is the case with/etfcA, been to economically implies a combination of two constantly occurring actions, it seems singular that its evolution was so long delayed.

According to the last edition of the Dic- tionary of the French Academy :

" Eire, dans les temps ou ce verbe prend 1'auxi- liaire Avoir, se dit quelquefois pour Alter; mais