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 9"> S. IV. Sept. 2, '99.] 183 NOTES AND QUERIES. different directions to try to capture the runaway prince, and when he is found he will probably be disciplined as severely as it is permitted to dis- cipline a prince of the royal blood. Prince Henry is only about nineteen years of ago, and when he is twenty-one he will be crowned king of the Jaffrey tribe with much pomp and ceremony—that is, pro- viding he can be found at the time. The Jaffrey tribe visited Xenia a day or two ago, and the mother of the missing young man talked pathetically of the absent son, saying that she was almost crazed from anxiety and worry over his disappearance." The same paper contains an advertisement for the apprehension of the missing prince : " Lost, or run-away, my son, Henry Jeffery. He is five feet, six inches tall, weighs 135 pounds; dark hair, dark eyes, broad features and light com- plexion. By birth English Gypsy. Thin dark mustache and 18 years old. Will pay $10 for his capture and return to Waynesville, Ohio. He is slightly powder burnt. If captured notify Mayor of Waynesville." Two pounds sterling is not an excessive value to set upon a scion of royalty, the heir apparent of the tribe of Jeffery. William E. A. Axon. The Society of the Gregories. — The existence of this association seems to have escaped the notice of contributors. On 19 June, 1673, a sermon entitled 'The Gre- gorian Account; or, the Spiritual Watch,' was preached by Francis Gregory, D.D., of Hambleton, Bucks, at St. Michael's, CornhiU, to "the Society of the Gregories dwelling in and about the City of London." The dedica- tion of the printed discourse is " To my esteemed Friends, Capt. Jeremie Gregory, Citizen and Gold-smith of London, and Mr. Philip Gregory, Citizen and Mercer, Stewards of the Gre- gories Feast the Nineteenth of June 1673, and to the rest of that Loving Society." Dr. Gregory says:— " I am one of your Number, and have the honour to wear vour Arms, and bear your Name. For the hearers being Gregories, methought it would be handsome if the Preacher were so too ; and there being a young Gregory to be Baptized, methought it would not bo unsuteable, since the Godfathers and Godmothers were Gregories, that some Gregory or other should wash the Infant s Face, and (though no Pope, nor Papist) sign its Forehead too." Kichard H. Thornton. Portland, Oregon. " Funny " vice " Dhoney."—In ' Travels on Foot through the Island of Ceylon,' by J. Haafner, translated from the Dutch, and printed in vol. v. of Sir E. Phillips's 'New Voyages and Travels' (1821), on pp. 6 and 79 the words " thonij," " thony's " of the original are rendered "funny," funnies." As a " funny " and a " dhoney " have very little in common (see ' H.E.D.,' s.w.), at first sight one would suppose that the anonymous trans- lator, who has taken great liberties in many other places, has here blundered ridiculously; but as on p. 66 we have " tunnies " as the rendering of "thonij's," we may in charity suppose that in the other two instances the printer is to blame for substituting an / for a t. If so, we have in "tunny" a form of " dhoney " not recorded by the 'H.E.D.' Donald Ferguson. Croydon. John Bacon, K.A.—On 4 August the Daily Chronicle contained the following paragraph : "To-day is the centenary of the death of John Bacon, R.A., the sculptor. There are several of his works in London—where, by-the-by, he was born. The monuments to Pitt in the Guildhall and the Abbey, and to Dr. Johnson and Howard in St. Paul's, are all from his chisel." All the books I have consulted agree with the Chronicle as to the date of Bacon's death, 4 August, 1799, with the exception of Cansick, who copies the inscription from the tablet in Whitefield's Tabernacle, Tottenham Court Koad, as follows :— Near this place lies John Bacon, R.A., Sculptor; Who Died Aug. 7th, 1799; aged 59 years; and left The Following Inscription For this Tablet:— What I was as an Artist seemed to me of some importance While I lived ; But What I really was, as a Believer in Christ Jesus, is the Only Thing of Importance to me now ! Bacon was, I believe, buried in the vaults beneath the organ in the old Whitefield's Tabernacle. I presume these vaults are still intact, and that the bodies were not removed therefrom at the time the churchyard was emptied. Will some one kindly say if the date given by Cansick is correctly copied from the tablet, which ought to be still near the place of sepulture 1 A plate of Bacon's statue of John Howard was issued with the Gentleman's Magazine for March, 1796. It was accompanied by a letter from the sculptor, in which he sets forth the ideas which predominated in his mind whilst forming the statues of Howard and Johnson. John T. Page. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. Leo of Modena's Hebrew-Italian Son- nets.—In the notice of Jehuda Arjeh (Leo of Modena) in Hergenrother's' Kirchenlexicon he is said to have written some sonnets which