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 402 NOTES AND QUERIES. p»» s. iv. NOV. 11, m or Cromwell's soldiers having either part or lot in any of it, excepting only Peterborough. Nearly all the damage, so far as I have been able to find, was wrought in the first year of the war (1642), when Cromwell was only a captain over sixty horse, a man unknown to public fame, and quite uninfluential. It would be just as reasonable to blame some cavalry captain stationed in India or Canada for not " doing his best to hinder, to remedy, and to disavow " the treatment of the Mahdi's corpse by Lord Kitchener as it is to blame Cromwell for not preventing the deeds of the armies under the Earl of Essex and Sir William Waller, a hundred miles and more away from Cromwell and his little band. A troop-cap- tain stationed at Cambridge ought, forsooth, to have prevented the deeds of armies at Chichester or Winchester ! W. C. B.'s mistake has arisen through Ms falling into the habit of treating Cromwell at) a pseudonym for anybody and everybody who fought for the Parliament. Such a figure of speech may suffice for ex- cursionists at cathedrals ; but historical stu- dents might be expected to show greater accuracy. Readers of 'N. & Q.' have now seen that a contributor asserted that "a mass of evidence " existed implicating Cromwell in the " destruction " of organs, but that when asked to produce the evidence he could pro- duce not one jot or tittle. H. DAVEY. TOPOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS FOR COUNTIES (8th S. ix. 361, 497; x. 32).—The fact should be noted that the Fifteenth Report of the Historical MSS. Commission (1899 [C. 9295], price 'id.) contains a list, classified by counties, of all the collections reported on from 1869 to 1899. KOBT. J. WHITWELL. U.U.C., Oxford. " UGLY MUG" (9th S. iv. 268).—If such mugs ever existed, surely some relic of them would be extant to-day. Such evidence of their use and existence I have never either heard of or seen. Is it not probable that George Daniel refers somewhat loosely to the stone- ware jugs of that period, upon the neck of which is depicted an ugly mask, the mouth being especially ugly and repulsive? Has any one seen an example of the mugs which gave their name to the mug-houses of Whig and Jacobite times 1 Daniel s note was, perhaps, inspired by a similar allusion among the ' Letters and Despatches of the Earl of Strafforde' (vol. i. p. 161), as follows :— " There never appeared a worse Face under a Cork upon a Bottle than your Lordahip hath caused some to make in disgorging such Church Livings as their Zeal hath eaten up."—20 Nov., 1633. To this peculiar mask on the neck of the Dutch jug, Bellartnine, or Greybeard is traceable another vulgar expression, viz., " a big pot," which doubtless originated with the elaborately figulated beard upon the "gal- lonier." Thus Cartwright, in the old play of 'Lady Errant':— The greater sort they say Are like stone pots, with beards that do reach down Even to the knees. J. HOLDEN MAcMlCHAEL. ' A STATELY DANCE ' (9th S. iv. 329).—1 do not know this song as by the late W. Michael Watson but possibly 'The Old Oak HalL' words by Dorothy Blomfield, music by P. Neale, is the song wanted. It will be found in ' Modern Ballads,' published by Boosey. The final lines of the first two verses are as follows :— Stately measure, hand in hand, To the graceful minuet. Blushing at the touch of hands In the stately minuet. WM. H. PEET. The ' Stately Dance' by Michael Watson, lately inquired for. is probably a piece the copyright of which has been acquired by Leonard & Co., 311, Oxford Street, W. I may be permitted to suggest that purely musical queries might be addressed to the musical journals, several of which have an ' Answers' department. H. DAVEY. PLUTO IN SHAKESPEARE AS GOD OP WEALTH (9th S. iv. 265).—In the small pocket edition of Dante which I possess I find in the argument to'Inferno,'canto vii., that the poets encounter "il signore delle ricchezze Pluto" at the entrance to the fourth circle. This "male- detto lupo " utters the mysterious cry :— Pape Satan, pape Satan, aleppe. This demon is not Dite, "1'imperador del doloroso regno." whose aspect fills the_brave Florentine with such terror (canto xxxiv.). In this connexion might I ask why the fiery "citta dolente " is the city of Dis, who does not dwell there?— S' appressa la citta, che ha nome Dite, Co'gravi cittadin, col grande stuolo. Canto viii. 11. 68, 69. An Italian friend and I were at cross-pur- poses recently ; when I spoke of Dite (Dis) he maintained that that was the name of a place, and did not know what to make of the occurrence of the name at the end of the poem. FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. LUTON TRINITY GILD (9th S. iv. 307).—The register of this fraternity (1475-1546) has been printed for some years, together with