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 9"S. IV. Nov. 11, '99.] 403 NOTES AND QUERIES. the annual accounts, of which only one volume is known to be extant, extending from 1526 to 1547. One year of these ac- counts is printed in full; of the rest sum- maries are given, avoiding mere repetitions, but including everything likely to be deemed of interest or importance. An introduction has long been in preparation, comprising the manorial history of Luton, a description of the church with its monuments, and various other matters. All the brasses are repre- sented, of which many commemorate members of the gild. Various other very pressing engagements have hitherto prevented me from completing this portion of the work, but I hope to see it finished very shortly. H. Gouoh. Sandcroft, Redbill, Surrey. Henbane (9th S. iv. 226, 274, 310).-S. L. P. will find the' Alphita,' a medico-botanical glos- sary, edited by Mr. J. L. Q. Mowat from the Bodleian MS. Seld. B. 35 (written about 1465), in the Fourth Series of the ' Anecdota Oxoui- ensia' (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1887). IIobt. J. Whitwell. C.C.C., Oxford. Epitaph (9th S. iv. 230).—May I send you a curious " parody " of this epitaph 1 I copied it from a massive pyramidal structure in an old graveyard at Delhi (near the fort):— Silent grave, to thee I trust This precious Pile of Worthy Dust; Keep it safe in the Sacred Tomb, Until a Wife shall ask for room. The monument is to the memory of Capt. and Bt.-Major Eagle, 3rd Regiment of Native Infantry, who died 29 June, 1811. H. S. Muib, Surgeon-General A.M.S. Army and Navy Club. "A REEL IN A BOTTLE "(9th S. IV. 129,232, 318).—Similar puzzles are not uncommon ornaments in cottages in this district. The model (ship or cross, ifcc.) is carefully made up; it is then taken down, and built up again in the bottle (usually a clear glass brandy bottle) by the aid of oent wires. The water with which the bottle is filled swells the wood, and thus fixes the different joints of the model. J. G. Wallace-James, M.B. Haddington. C. C. B. may rest assured that he has not been wilfully deceived, as I did at last what I ought to have done at first, namely, wrote to the daughter of the captain who showed me the ship made by one of his men. I quote her words :— " The model my father showed you was made hy one of his men. The bottles are not blown over the articles in question. I only know about the ship models, which are loosely constructed, all the parts being attached U> each other by threads, which have rather long ends left hanging. Then the model, with all its masts and yards lying Hat, is pushed through the neck of the bottle; the threads are drawn tight, which pulls the whole into posi- tion. 1 have not described quite all the process, as sealing-wax and gum are also used to secure the model properly before the bottle is finally sc.iled up." While thus owning my mistake, I have the consolation of knowing that it was only a suggestion, and that I have never profaned the pages of ' N. & Q.' by any actual state- ment capable of being disproved by any con- tributor. Matilda Pollaiid. Belle Vue, Bengeo. Calvert Family (9th S. iv. 207, 317).—I should think that Mr. Edmund Percy Cal- vert, of the Junior Carlton Club, would give your correspondent any information in his power. W. II. Under this heading Mr. John Hebb, by a lapsus memories of course, quotes Goldsmith's lines, Where Calvert's butt and Parsons' black chatnp igne Regalo the drabs and bloods of Drury Lane, as being from Gay's'Trivia.' They will be found in three places in Goldsmith's works, viz., in the letter to the author's brother Henry (1759); in the 'Poems'; and in Letter XXX. of the ' Citizen of the World' (1760). Goldsmith also has another reference to "Calvert's butt" — i.e., "entire butt," otherwise "porter"—in his 'Stroller's Story' (No. 21 in the 'Essays,' editions 1765 and 1766). It may be, however, that Gay refers to the brewery firm mentioned (I at present am not able to look into ' Trivia'), though, of course, not in the above lines. If, too, there is a reference in 'Trivia,' it must apply more than thirty years earlier, Gay having died in 1732, and the linos of Goldsmith above having been first published about 1760. I may add that I have found that at the latter date there were two Calvert firms of brewers. In a return of the beer brewed by about fifty of the leading London brewers in 1759- 1760, the firm, of Calvert & Seward stands at the top of the list, with 71,734 barrels; and five or six lower down we have " Sir William Calvert" figuring as having produced 52,785 barrels. J. W. M. Grens. The Mint (9th S. iv. 348).—The Mint was not situated in the City of London, but in the borough of Southwark, in the county of Surrey. Strype says :— " The Mint generally so taken is very 1 irge, containing several streets and alleys ; in this tract