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 9»"S. IV. Sept. 9,'99.] 201 NOTES AND QUERIES. LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1899. CONTENTS.-No. 89. NOTES :—Identifying Junius, 201—Modern Zodiacs, 203— Pope : a Misstatement—Albert Gate, 204—" Marsouin "— " Silver-cooper "=Crimp—Sun drawing Water—Pinaseed— " Housen," 205—" Onto "—Russian Word—Miss Di Bertie —" As mean as tongs "—Cyclopaedia of Domestic Archaeo- logy, 208. QUERIES :—" Grlsky " : " Grissy "—" Gribble " — Passage in Thackeray — Sunken Lanes — Stephen's ' World of Wonders'—Calvert Family — NIcolson Family—Cornish Armoury —Churchyard in 'Bleak House,' 207—Mango Family—Author of Poem—Dyddian'r Cwn—Bull Races— Jack Birkenhead—" Welcher "—" Soam of Hay "—Clock- case Inscription, 208—" Wardrobe - book " — Harrogate Engraving — Harley Family — Feature in Macready's ' Hamlet '—Knuckle, 209. REPLIES :—Daniel's 'Sonnets to Delia,' 209-Parish Re- gisters, 210 — Marriages of Persons already married — National Nicknames, 212—"Lurid"—Tonghes—Archajo- logical Rarity —Brick dated 1383—Polkinghorn, 214— "Smoak"=to "twig"—Antiquities of East London, 215 — Peat—"The Infant's Library"—Welsh Surnames—  Inde-baudias  — Bastardy, 216 — Bumble-puppy — The Hell of the Poets—"London " and " Lonnon "—Bligh, 217—The Devil's Door—"Three Pound Twelve "—Anglo- Saxon Speech—Authors Wanted, 218. NOTES ON BOOKS :—Kluge and Lute's ' English Ety- mology ' — 'Antiquary' — 'Genealogical Magazine' — • Journal of the Ex-Libris Society'—Reviews and Maga- zines. Notices to Correspondents. §tottg. IDENTIFYING JUNIUS. Will the following evidences identify Junius? They have convinced me that he was Earl Temple. 1. A secret known only to Lords Camden, Temple, and Chatham was known to Junius. 2. Mr. Justice Harding said that many circumstances had convinced his uncle, Lord Camden, that Junius was prompted by Lord Temple. 3. Junius was bitter against Lords Chatham and Camden while Lord Temple was op- posed to them, and eulogized Lord Chatham after they were reconciled. 4. Junius did not write in a disguised hand ; the writing was too uniform throughout. 5. Junius desired Woodfall to copy his letter to Garrick lest the observing actor should recognize the writing of the original. If Junius could disguise his habitual hand so well he could also disguise the disguised. 6. Sir Philip Francis was not a neat or accomplished scribe ; Lady Temple was. He could no more imitate the writing of Junius than Junius could that of Mr. Vincent, the Record Office expert. Francis declared it " a silly, malignant falsehood " to call him Junius. Liord Coleridge said; "If Francis really was Junius, a scoundrel he was of the deepest dye. I feel morally sure that Sir P. Francis was not Junius." 7. Junius was behind the scenes on the political stage, and knew the backstairs of the palace. He wrote to Woodfall: " Depend on the assurance I give you that every man in the administration looks upon war as in- evitable." Temple could write thus. Garrick told Mr. Ramus, the king's page, that Junius would write no more, and Junius heard of it the next morning. His minatory letter to Garrick has a feminine ring about it. 8. Junius agreed with Mr. Grenville on the American question and the Middlesex elec- tion : "None but the Grenvilles combined these two opinions." 9. Junius, as Poplicola (when Lord Temple was at feud with his brother-in law, Lord Chatham), wrote 28 April, 1767 : " Has he a brother ? That brother must be sacrificed," <fec. Mr. George Grenville (brother of Lord Temple) wrote that, in promoting his sister's union with William Pitt (Lord Chatham), he did not imagine it " was to bring an enemy, instead of a friend, into our family." 10. Junius wrote to Woodfall:— " In point of money be assured you shall never suffer." " Should you be found guilty let me know what expense falls particularly on yourself; some way or other you shall be reimbursed." " Be assured I am above all pecuniary views." " You, I think, sir, may be satisfied that my rank and fortune place me above a common bribe.' All pitched in too high a key for Sir P. Francis. 11. Pitt told the Earl of Aberdeen that he and his father (Lord Chatham) knew who Junius was, and that he was not Francis. Surely they knew the handwriting of Lady Temple. 12. Lord Grenville declared to Lord Sid- mouth that he knew who Junius was, and also at a dinner table, in 1805, where Francis was present, and that the secret should not transpire in his (Lord G.'s) lifetime. Would he have said this in the presence of Junius ? 13. Lady Grenville told Sir Henry Hol- land and Dr. James Fergusson that she had heard Lord Grenville state that he knew who Junius was, and that he was not Francis. 14. Lady Grenville showed her steward, at Dropmore, a packet containing the secret of Junius, and instructed him to have it opened at a certain date for public information. 15. Some thought the story of the packet a hoax, when it became known that the Duke of Buckingham had found it at Stowe and carried it to Dropmore. Though en-