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 196 rv. SMT. 2, NOTES AND QUERIES. notes, supplies the reference to "Joinville, 'Hist, de St. Louis,' p. 93, fol., Par., 1761." ED. MARSHALL. In Eden's edition of Bishop Jeremy Taylor's works (' Sermons,' vol. iv. p. 477) a foot-note gives, as a reference to this legend of Ivo, Bishop of Chartres : " Joinville, ' Hist, de St. Louis, p. 93, fol., Par., 1761." W. G. BOSWELL-STONE. The saint referred to is not St. Ivo, but St. Louis of France, and the origin of the legend is no doubt to be found in Joinville's ' Life of St. Louis.' Joinville is referred to by Dean Stanley in his 'History of the Jewish Church' (ed. 1879), vol. iii. p. 337 ; but Stanley, while quoting the legend, unfortunately does not give chapter and verse. Neither can I find that the legend is given or referred to in Alban Butler's ' Lives of the Saints.' GILBERT H. F. VANE. The Rectory, Wem, Salop. "SIX-SHILLING BEER" (9th S. iv. 128).— Archdeacon Nares, in his 'Glossary to the Works of English Authors,' under the head of a ' Cup of feix,' describes it to be a cup of beer sold at six shillings the barrel. Grose says: " Small beer, formerly sold at six shillings the barrel." Mr. Steevens also says that small beer still goes by the cant name of "sixes." Probably it was a strong beer, as the sub- sequent examples seem to imply; and six shillings, now very low, was a good price when most of these passages were written. Now, indeed, it must be very small :— " Look if he be not drunk ! The very look of him makes one long for a cup of six."—' Match at Midnight,' Dodsley'a ' Old Plays,' vii. 350. "How this threede-bare philosopher shruggs, shiffs, and shuffles for a cuppe of six."—'Clitus Whimzies,' p. 97. "Give me the man that can start up a justice of wit, out of six shillings beer."—Benj. Jonson, 'Bartholo- mew Fayre,' I. (1614). EVERABD HOME COLEMAN. GATE : SIGN OF INN (9th S. ii. 526 ; iii. 216, 315, 398; iv. 33, 95V—There are several inns in this neighbourhood with the sign of a gate. The inscription is always as follows :— This gate hangs well, And hinders none; Refresh and pay, And travel on. With a little trouble I could make a list of these inns for any one desiring it. W. H. QUARRELL. Ashby-de-la-Zonoh. THE HANNAYS OF KIRKDALE (9th S. iv. 69). —According to Burke's ' Peerage,' 1842, Alex- ander, John, and William Robert, brothers of Sir Samuel Hannay, of Mochrum, Bart, (d. ».p., 1841), all died unmarried. The patent was to Sir Robert Hannay, Knt., and his heirs male whatsoever, so if one of the three brothers of Sir Samuel had left-issue they would be entitled to the baronetcy. George Hannay, of Kingsmuir, claims the title. See Burke's 'Gentry,' 1898. JOHN RADCLIFFE. CHIMNEYS IN ANCIENT HOUSES (9th S. iv. 64).—I should much question, without seeing it, the fact of the Jews' House having its chimney originally. The convent kitchen at Durham must be one of the earliest with successful smoke outlets, but the necessity of carrying them above the roofs was not acknowledged anywhere, I believe, earlier than at Venice, where they were invented in the thirteenth century. T*he domestic part of St. Cross Hospital, near Winchester, by Cardinal Beaufort about 1450, has stone shafts from the front wall. But I suppose they were then common everywhere. E. L. GARBETT. 'PADRE FRANCISCO' (9th S. iv. 147).—The lines thus entitled are to be found in ' The Spanish Student,' Act I. scene v., by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and were first pub- lished in 1845. They are an exact trans- lation from an Italian popular song, as may be seen by looking at the original, which is given by the poet in a note at the end of his somewhat namby-pamby drama. JOHN T. CURRY. This song is in Longfellow's ' Spanish Student,' and is said in a note to be from an Italian popular song. F. J. CANDY. Norwood. Two QUARTOS OF BEN JONSON (9th S. iv. 87, 152).—I am obliged to VISCOUNT MELVILLE for his reply; but it was the original quarto of 'The Silent Woman' about which I in- quired. Gifford is probably correct in dating it 1612, but I wished to trace a copy. It appears to be a scarce book. VISCOUNT MELVILLE would notice that his two citations from the folio of 1616 contradict one another as to the date of the play and the company who acted it. The first citation, however, refers to the preceding play, viz., ' The Fox." With regard to the second, giving 1609 as the date of'The Silent Woman,'it is important to note that this is reckoned in the old style, and therefore means 1C10. The " Children of her Majesty's Revels " did not get their patent till 4 January, 1610, and they must, there- fore, have acted the play at once. I ought