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some of them have assured me that he took the opportunity of formally renouncing the Roman Catholic religion under his own name of Charles Stuart in the New Church in the Strand ; and that this is the reason of the bad treatment he met with at the Court of Rome. I own that I am a sceptic with regard to the last particulars."

Is there any record of such an act in the books of the New Church in the Strand ?

SCOTUS.

KING OF JERUSALEM. In the ' Life of the late Empress Elizabeth,' by A. De Burgh, the Emperor Francis Joseph, at p. 41, is described along with other titles as the above. How and when did he acquire this title ? What does it carry with it 1

CHAS. INMAN.

[Many monarchs have at different times claimed to be Kings of Jerusalem. The Emperor of Austria and the King of Italy still do so. The title is neces- sarily meaningless.]

"MARCANTIUS VEL AUTHOR FIRMAMENTI." Who was he ? He is mentioned in Parkin- son's ' Collectanea Anglo-Minoritica,' 1727.

A. S. B.

COUNTY NICKNAMES. Will any of your readers kindly help me to tabulate a list of county nicknames ? May I give a list of those I have already ascertained ? and where I am wrong I hope to be promptly corrected :

Buckinghamshire Bulldog.

Cambridgeshire Camel.

Cheshire " Chief of Men."

Devonshire Prowe (proud ?).

Dorsetshire Gobbler.

Essex Calf.

Gloucestershire: a Cotswold Lion, i.e., sheep.

Hampshire Hog.

Herefordshire Broadhorn.

Hertfordshire Hedgehog.

Huntingdon Sturgeon.

Kentish Long-tail. Man of Kent.

Leicestershire : Bean Belly Leicestershire.

Lincolnshire Bagpipes.

London Cockney.

Middlesex Haydigger, or Clown.

Norfolk Dumpling.

Northamptonshire Snob.

Nottingham (Ram?).

Rutland (White Hare or Rutland Gaol?).

Somersetshire (a Chewton Bunny ?).

Suffolk : Silly Suffolk.

Wiltshire Moonraker.

Yorkshire Tyke, &c.

I want also Irish, Welsh, arid Scotch nick- names. J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

[The Outlook began a correspondence on the subject on 3 Dec., 1898, which lasted into this year.]

CHURCH OP ALLHALLOWS THE GREAT, LONDON. The church of Allhallows the Great, in Upper Thames Street, which was demolished a few years ago, contained some

magnificent wood-carvings, which were, like most other work of the kind, popularly attri- buted to Grinling Gibbons. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' tell me what became of these carvings, and whether there is any separate printed account of them extant ? I may say that I am well acquainted with what Mait- land, Hugh son, and the other comprehensive London historians have written on the sub- ject. I have an impression that a monograph on the carvings was written a year or two ago. K. CLARK.

13, Stanhope Road, Walthamstow.

LORD NELSON'S DIARY. I have lately bought what appears to be a page from Lord Nelson's private diary. On one side only is written the following sentence in his handwriting :

" Sunday, Oct r . 20 th, 1805. Cadiz N.E. 9 leagues. in the afternoon Cap 1 . Blackwood telegraphed that the Enemy seemed determined to go to the West- ward and that they shall not do if in the power of Nelson & Bronte to prevent them."

On referring to Sir N. Nicolas's ' Dispatches and Letters,' edition 1846, vol. vii. pp. 136-7, I find this sentence comes in an extract from the ' Private Diary,' an autograph manuscript in the possession of J. Wild, Esq. It appears that Nicolas met with a portion only of the autograph diary (which, however, included and terminated with the sentence in ques- tion), as subsequent extracts are given from a facsimile copy in the possession of Philip Toker, Esq. After reading this last fact I re- examined my page with some anxiety. There can, however, be no question that it is ori- ginal. The left (in this case the binding side) of the page has been cut close to the writing, which, together with the fact that the por- tion seen by Nicolas ended with this page, would seem to point to the work of a thief. Is the original diary in existence? Failing this, can the facsimile copy be seen ? There is a very distinct watermark in the paper, which, if compared with other portions of the original, would no doubt settle the matter. CHARLES L. LINDSAY.

97, Cadogan Gardens, S.W.

' PEPYSIANA.' On p. 75 of his delightful volume thus styled Mr. Wheatley writes that " the first decipherer of the ' Diary' was an under- graduate of St. John's College, Cambridge, the Rev.

John Smith (B.A. 1822, M.A. 1836) He was

Deputy Esquire Bedell of the University from 18 to 1824."

Is not this a mistake for William John Smith, of St. John's, who took his B.A. degree in 1819? A man who had not yet taken h degree would not have been eligible for the appointment of Deputy Esquire Bedell, and