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a id the butnp was made eventually. The flag fl ;w proudly at the head of all those of othei c >lleges on the university barge.

Since that date at least two-thirds " have g me down into silence," and the survivors n ay well say :

The tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. wbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

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WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

" GEESE." This is a Cornish word for a saddle-girth (see Jago's * Glossary,' 1882, and the glossary attached to Couch's 'Hist, of Polperro,' 1871). The word also occurs in the forms giss, geist,in Courtney's ' West Cornwall Glossary' (1880). Can any one who knows the dialect of West Cornwall tell me which is the best historical spelling? I should also like to know the original language whence this very obscure word has come down to us. A. L. MAYHEW.

Oxford.

CM. What is this contraction in anthro- pological measurement 1 ? "The average of the calf in circumference in its widest part being 31 '5 cm." As the letters seem derived from ithe 'Instructions Generates pour les Re- icherches Anthropologiques ' of M. P. Broca, I suppose they may mean centimetres, but I wish to be sure on the point. H. T.

I EXPULSIONS FROM OXFORD. In the St. James's Chronicle of somewhere between 11740 and 1750 there appeared the following : f On Saturday last six young men were ex- pelled the University of Oxford for praying, preaching, and expounding the Scriptures." Dan any of your readers supply the names of these young men ? P. TERRY.

22, Hornsey Rise, N.

I CORONATIONS ON ST. GEORGE'S DAY. Elisha Smith, M.A., " lecturer of Wisbeech," preached i sermon at that place, 8 Aug., 1714, on the lieath of Queen Anne, wherein, after corn- baring King George I. to St. George killing he dragon (i. e., Popery), he stated that our overeigns were usually crowned on 23 April, Bt. George's Day. Is there any foundation or this statement? In 'Kosemary & Bayes' ja reply by Henry Stubbes to Andrew Mar- fell's 'Rehearsal Transprosed '), 1672, p. 9, we

read : " If Mr. Rosemary had assisted at the Coronation, he might have seen his Majesty [Charles II.] vested in Sacerdotal habili- ments." This refers no doubt to the diaconal dalmatic. Did Queen Anne or Queen Victoria wear anything corresponding with this ?

W. C. B.

'THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM.' I am at present engaged in collecting material for a work on the well-known "Gotham" tales and all relating to them. I have already noted the various references hereto in the earlier series of ' N. & O,,'and shall be pleased to meet with any additions to the same. Allusions to Gotham or the Gothamites in old literature, poetry, or plays will be very acceptable to me (if not previously recorded in well-known works), and, indeed, anything bearing on the matter. I am specially desir- ous of noting all London and provincial im- pressions of the tales, whatever be their date, so far as I am enabled to do so. I have notices of issues hailing from Coventry and Hull, and shall be greatly pleased to learn of others (with dates, wherever possible). I shall be glad to be brought into communi- cation with owners of any issue of the tales. Any information, whether sent to ' N. & Q.' or to my private address, will be gratefully received. A. STAPLETON.

30, Notintone Place, Sneinton, Nottingham.

BERKSHIRE CAROL. Between fifty and sixty years ago, when I was a boy at Reading, I remember the waits used to sing on several consecutive evenings (I fancy from Christmas bo New Year's Day) a song which increased a line or two each evening. All I can recall of it was the refrain

my true love came to me,

two turtle doves, a partridge, and a pear tree.

Can any reader supply the blanks, or give an account of the song 1 W. J. B. R.

EGYPTIAN FLAG. What is the blazon of
 * he Egyptian flag, and that of the Khedive's

lag, if different ? One or other was hoisted with the British flag after Omdurman.

ROBT. GUY.

The Wern. Pollokshaws.

BESS OF HARD WICK. In Murdin's 'Burghley State Papers' (pp. 558-60) there are state- ments, in a letter from Mary Stuart, upon the authority of Bess of Hardwick, made against he good name of Queen Elizabeth. Is this etter thought genuine, or is there any reason enow of views of Chatsworth as it was in the days of Bess of Hardwick ; and, if so, where are they to be found ? In writing to his wife
 * o doubt its authenticity? Do any readers