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Rev. Peter Sibley, of Somersetshire. (See also the Davy MS., British Museum, which con- tains an account of the Kivett and other Suffolk families.) My correspondent, how- ever, mentions that, according to some authorities, the lady was the daughter of the Rev. James Sibley, of Derby. She was the mother of Elizabeth Rivett, who married General Carnac, M.P., Commander-in-Chief in India (whose name the Rivetts sub- sequently took), and is known by Sir J. Reynolds's picture of her as Mrs. Carnac. Information on the above points will be of interest to my correspondent and to myself.

J. H. RIVETT-CARNAC, Colonel and Aide-de-Camp to the Queen. Schloss Wildeck, Aargau, Switzerland.

" PIP IN THE WEBE." What is the meaning of this as it occurs in this sentence?

" The northern lads be up, and they begin to take pip in the webe [sic], and say plainly that they will have no more abbeys suppressed in their country."

From the Calendar for 1539, as in Gasquet's one-volume 'Henry VIII. and the English Monasteries,' 1899, p. 393.

ED. MARSHALL, F.S.A.

A SAYING OP JOHN BRIGHT. I cut the enclosed from the Sunday School Chronicle :

" John Bright once playfully suggested that the appointment of a certain gentleman to the Chief Secretaryship of Ireland was intended as a punish- ment to that country for some of its offences. What the politician said half in jest, the sacred writer states here in all seriousness: 'That such a prince as Zedekiah was raised to the throne was itself a token of divine displeasure, for his character was such as to hasten the final catastrophe 'that which came to pass was ' through the anger of the Lord.'"

When did John Bright use the expression referred to, and where are the words quoted ?

D. M. R.

FLEET PRISONERS. Where were the burials of prisoners and officials of the Fleet Prison registered during the rebuilding of St. Bride's Church after the Great Fire 1

E. LEGA-WEEKES.

PUZZLE JUG. Can any correspondent sup- ply information with regard to a curious jug which I have lately seen, and which is, I believe, known as a puzzle jug ] The neck is perforated so as to prevent any liquid con- tained in the jug from being poured out in the usual way. At the bottom of the jug a small pipe, passing through the handle, which is hollow, communicates with a band round the top. In this band are three small nozzles, and the only way to empty the jug with- out spilling its contents is to close two of the

nozzles and to suck through the third. It bears above the perforated portion of the neck the date 1705 placed round the jug. Are such jugs common ; and are they of English make 1 Any information will oblige.

Hutton Rectory.

Lo SPENDORE. To a work entitled 'Giuoco d'Armi dei Sovrani e Stati d'Europa,' pub- lished in Naples by Antonio Bulifon, in 1677, there is stated to be appended a letter of Alessandro Partenio, in which there is mentioned a game played by the Neapolitan nobility called Lo Spendpre. I have seen a copy of this book, but failed to discover the letter in it. However, on a closer inspection I found the copy to be defective. The body of the work is paged 1-360, having the signatures A, B, &c. There is a number of preliminary pages, containing the title, &c., unpaged, with the signatures a and b, of which a seems to be all right, containing twelve leaves. But in this copy b has only two leaves, and the catchword at the end of its second page does not correspond with the top word of the next page this second leaf of b bearing no signature. Do any of your correspondents possess or know of the work, and can any of them tell me how many pages b should have, and whether the missing leaves contain the above-mentioned letter 1 Is Lo Spendore a card game"? Does Par- tenio's letter describe it, or is there a de- scription to be found anywhere else 1

J. S. M. T.

THE CAPTIVE STAG. There is a child's story in verse relating to a captive stag, whereto I should be very glad to be referred.

As a young stag the thicket pass'd The branches held his antlers fast ; A clown who saw the captive hung, Across the horns his halter flung.

Munches the linen on the lines, And on a hood or apron dines.

Steals my little master's bread, Follows the servants to be fed.

Probable date, end of last century.

ANDREW W. TUER. The Leadenhall Press, E.C.

MRS. YATES, 1728-87, the second wife of Richard Yates, comedian, was the daughter of William and Mary Graham, of Richmond, the former a captain's steward on H.M.S. Ariel, buried at Richmond Church, 19 Sept., 1779. His will, dated 6 Aug., 1777, was proved 29 Nov., 1779. His wife was buried at Rich-