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 9* S. IV. Sept. 16,'99.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 235 ayaient jure sa perte, ils tenterent un autre moyen d'attendre le but qu'ils se proposaient. Une feninie d'une rare beaute fut adressee des pays exotiquea a M. Bacciochi. Le soir ou elle fut mtroduite aux Tuileries, le basard permit que l'enipereur souffrant reniit a un autre jour le plaisir sur lequel il comp- tait. La femme, peu soucieuse de perdre son temps, fut recueillie par M. de, qui, tombe promple- ment malade, mourut dans le plus triste etat de decomposition." W. H. QUARRELL. Great Britain was so called by Napoleon I. Eveeard Home Coleman. 71, Brecknock Road. i' Boule de Suif' appeared some years ago in es Soirees de M^dan,' of which the twenty-fifth thousand was issued this year.] Scarlet in the Hunting Field (9th S. iv. 48, 96, 137).—Two pictures by Stubbs, painted in 1775, now at Annesley Park, Nottingham- shire, contain portraits of Mr. Musters, of Colwick, and his whipper-in, in red frock coats much like those worn at the present time. The whip wears a velvet cap, but Mr. Musters, then a young man of twenty-one, wears a low broad-brimmed hat. Was not green always worn with harriers ? Mes. Chaworth Mustees. Wiverton, Bingham, Notts. I have a miniature of my great-great-grand- mother in her scarlet hunting coat. E. E. Thoyts. Rolling-pins as Chaems (9th S. iii. 245,337, 392, 438 ; iv. 155).—When I said that charms were checks to most supernatural power, I referred merely to the power that witches and evil, or mischievous, spirits are supposed to have. Charms are thought to be a protection against rheumatism and other diseases, be- cause it was held that diseases were produced by evil spirits. Lactantius says that diseases are caused by devils; but he does not sup- pose that they can be cured by charms. The Chaldwans thought that diseases were caused by evil demons, and that the influence of these bad spirits could be counteracted by charms and talismans. E. Yaedley. Beevor Family (9th S. iv. 144).—The state- ment in the Mu~ror is not absolutely accurate. Mary Ann, daughter of Dr. Henry Beevor, was born 7 March, 1797; Miles, son of Miles Beevor, was born 28 April, 1797; Arthur Branthwayt, son of George Beevor, was born 5 May, 1797 (according to the Newton Flot- roan parish register, but 28 April, 1797, according to a memorandum-book in the handwriting of his mother, of which I pos- sess a copy); Jane, daughter of James Beevor, was born 28 April, 1797. I cannot identify Thomas Hipper Beevor, and shall bo grateful for information about him. Ralph J. Beevoe. The Limes, Weybridge. Usury (9th S. iv. 169).—Reference should first be made to 'Usury' in the excellent Index to the ' Publications of the Parker Society.' Selden, in his ' Table Talk,' Lond., 1689, s.v. ' Usury,' implies the existence of objections against it, sect. 2 :— " Would it not look oddly to a stranger that should come into this land, and hear in our pulpits usury preached against, and yet the law allows it ? Many men use it, perhaps some Churchmen them- selves," with more. Donne has remarks against usury, 'Sermons,' Lond., 1640, pp. 753E, 754A. Bacon, ' Essays,' treats of the objections to it — ' Usury.' The examination of these is the subject of 'The Rights of Things' in Black- stone's ' Commentaries,' book ii., part of chap. xxx. :— "There is one species of this price or reward, the most usual of any, which many good and learned men have in former times very much perplexed themselves and other people by raising doubts about its legality inforo conxienticc," with much more. There is reference to Grotius, 'De Jure Belli et Pacis,' who ex- amines the question at length. A more recent book is :— " Usury ; or, Lending at Interest; also the Exac- tion and Payment of Church Fees all proved to be repugnant to the divine and ecclesiastical law. To which is added a narrative of the contro- versy between the author and Bishop Coppinger. W. Cobbett, Lond., 1828." Ed. Marshall. See the bibliography in ' N. & Q.,' 5th S. x., xi., Index, under ' Usury.' There has been a recent publication on the subject. See a note in 'Cistercian Statutes,' by the Rev. J. T. Fowler, 1890, p. 62. The late Rev. James Skinner's' Synopsis of Moral Theology' might be consulted. Andrew Willet, in his Hexapla in Exodum,' 1608, discusses the point at some length, pp. 508-14, and sets out "certaine cases " and " certaine considerations " which make him allow that "a moderate gaine aboue the principall is not vnlawfull." W. C. B. " The uneaened increment " (9th S. iv. 109, 153).—The term, very slightly varying in one word, will be found in Mill's ' Political Economy,' book v. chap. ii. sec. 5, thus :— "This would not properly be taking anything from anybody; it would be merely applying an accession of wealth, or part of it, created by circumstances, to the benefit of society, instead of allowing it to become an unearned appendage to the riches of a particular class."