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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [* s. m. JAN. u, m

"Thairfore y l wise prince King James y e first, quhen he com to Dauidis sepulture at Dunferme- lyng, said, he was ane soir sanct for the crown, as he wald mene y fc Kyng Dauid left ye kirk ouir riche, and ye crown ouir pure."

A. G. KEID. Auchterarder.

JEW'S HARP (8 th S. xii. 322, 410, 495). In "The rates of the custome house bothe

inwarde and outwarde 1545," I find a

duty noted thus : " lues trounks the grose, ins. iiiid." Can these have been Jew's harps ? ROBT. J. WHITWELL.

70, Banbury Road, Oxford.

PILLAR DOLLAR (9 th S. ii. 347, 435). This interesting series of Spanish dollars was issued first at Mexico in 1732, and in 1772 was given up in favour of a new design bearing the head of the sovereign. During this period the issues of the pillar dollar from the Mexican mint were upwards of ten millions annually. The world's use of them since 1772 has almost got rid of them, so that specimens left in brilliant condition would sell for six or seven shillings each. Those with date of 1760, and bearing still the name of Ferdinand VI, (who died August, 1759), are scarce, and in America would com- mand a higher price. W. S. C. . Manchester.

SHELDON : WRIGHT (9 th S. ii. 468). Consult the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' Hi. 23, for the medals of Ralph Sheldon, who died in June, 1684.

W. C. B.

PAUL JONES (9 th S. ii. 306, 353, 495). Is there good authority for the story that Jones shot his first lieutenant, Grubb, for striking the flag ? I have not read Preble's ' Life of Jones,' but only a short biography of fifty or sixty pages, and also four accounts of the battle ; but in none is there mention of Jones shooting any one for striking, though of course he was perfectly capable of doing it. The first lieutenant of the Bon Homme Richard was named Dale, and he lived many years after the battle. The story is told in Dumas 's novel called 'Paul Jones'; but was not the fact furnished by Dumas's imagination 1 ? It is true that some of Jones's men were so cowed by the fire of the Serapis that they called for quarter. Capt. Pierson hailed to know if they had struck, when Jones is said to have .answered, "I have not yet begun to fight." The reckless hardihood of the speech is cha- racteristic of the notorious adventurer.

M. N. G.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION (9 th S. ii. 227, 292). 'Les Sciences Occultes' of Salverte was

translated with notes by A. T. Thomson, and published under the title ' The Philosophy of Magic,' in 2 vols. 8vo., in 1846. I do not know the date of the first French edition, but the second, which I have, was published in 1843. E. E. STREET.

CECIL (9 th S. ii. 168, 238, 275, 512). Any connexion of the Cecils with the Cecilian gens of Rome must be given up as mythical and impossible. The pedigree at Hatfield traces the name to Richard Sitsilt, who pos- sessed estates in Monmouthshire and Here- fordshire. Sitsilt was an ancient Welsh family, and the name is doubtless Welsh, not impossibly derived from the female baptismal name Cecilia. ISAAC TAYLOR.

BROTHERS BEARING THE SAME CHRISTIAN NAME (9 th S. i. 446 ; ii. 51, 217, 276, 535). My grandfather, Rev. Isaac Taylor, of Ongar, had three sons named Isaac : my father, born 1787, died 1865, and two others who died in infancy. HENRY TAYLOR.

Birklands, Southport.

EVELYN'S ' DIARY ' (9 th S. ii. 428, 510). No doubt Evelyn had in mind the account given in William Harrison's 'Description of Eng- land' (1587 edition, book ii. en. xi.) of the beheading engine used at Halifax, which was manifestly a precursor of the guillotine.

WILLIAM FOSTER.

The " a guillotine " is a marginal note in the four- volume edition of 1872. But "in Rome " is in the text.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

Hastings.

MARY BOWLES (9 th S. ii. 348, 413). No doubt related to Bowles the engraver, who was brother to the ancestor of the Bowleses of North Aston, being descended from Ralph Bowles of Abingdon. They were originally descended from the Lincolnshire Bowleses. Only one brother married, namely, the ancestor of the Bowleses of North Aston, co. Oxon. EMMA ELIZ. THOYTS.

JACOBITES (9 th S. ii. 508). In Pearson's Magazine for February, 1898, R. L. B. will find a complete answer to his question.

C. E. CLARK.

GILBERT GLOSSIN (9 th S. ii. 465, 500, 527). In response to MR. RANDALL'S appeal to me at the last reference, I can only say that "Guilbert" is certainly an error, and that the usual form " Gilbert " is correct. There is no authority, so far as I am aware, for writing Glossin's Christian name as "Guil- bert." ' The Waverley Dictionary ' is not to