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Liverpool District,' by saying that it is "disappointing from the fact that many interesting names are not noticed." I fear that MR. BOYLE is likely to remain dis- appointed if will - o' - the - wisp names like Stonby Green are types of those which he would like to see in the volume. Little wonder that an old resident in Wirral should write asking where the place was ! The book did not pretend to deal with the fancy or hap- hazard names of modern villas or new bowling greens ; nor was it deemed necessary to insult the reader's intelligence and waste space by explaining such names as Ashfield, Westwood, Woodchurch, Red Brow, High- field, Knotty Ash, &c. It is, however, possible that two or three names in the com- paratively wide district covered are omitted, which ought to be added to the two hundred odd places included in the volume, and the defect will probably be remedied in due course.

I am afraid that ME. BOYLE'S interest in place-names is much greater than the trouble which he has taken to keep himself posted with regard to their etymological and his- torical treatment, or he would know to mention one instance only that Prof. Tait, of Victoria University, dealt at some length in the Athenceum for 1895 with the extra- ordinary passage on p. 86 of 'Feudal England ' relative to Wirral place-names. The author, Mr. Round, must think that he is never going to hear the last of his unfor- tunate slip. The blunder, like some others, was, however, so transparent that I did not mention it in the above-named onomasticon.

HY. HARRISON.

" KING OF BANTAM" (9 th S. iv. 419, 488, 526, v. 18). In Hudleston's * Notes and Extracts of the Proceedings of the Council of For1 St. George,' published 1871, there is printec a letter from the Hon. Court of Directors o: the East India Company to the Presiden and Council of Fort St. George, datec 15 December, 1676, in which complaint i made of the practice of private trading b the Company's servants. It is rnentionec that this unlawful trading was carried on under assumed names, one man trading under the title of the "King of Bantam. As a matter of fact there was no such person Does this assist your correspondent ?

FRANK PENNY, LL.M.

Fort St. George.

PRIME MINISTER (8 th S. x. 357, 438 ; xi. 69 151, 510 ; xii. 55, 431 ; 9 th S. ii. 99 ; iii. 15, 52 109, 273, 476). The original question unde this heading was as to why, in the table o

recedence, no place was assigned to the 'rime Minister ; and the editorial reply was nmediately made :

" The precedence of the Prime Minister is given ccording to the office he may hold in conjunction ith the Premiership."

An anecdote is told concerning Lord 'almerston which strikingly illustrates this nswer. When he was visiting Glasgow in he spring of 1863, during his last Premiership, o be installed as Lord Rector of the Uni-

ersity,

the captain of the Guard-ship [on the Clyde], nxious to do honour to the occasion, was hindered )y the fact that a Prime Minister was not recognized >y the code of naval salutes ; but he found an escape rom his dilemma in the discovery that Lord 'almerston was not only First Lord of the Treasury, )ut also Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, for

hich great officer a salute of nineteen guns was Described." Evelyn Ashley, ' Life of Lord Palmer- ton,' vol. ii. p. 422'.

When Mr. Gladstone as Prime Minister Attended the opening of the new Law Courts oy the Queen, in December, 1882, he took pre- cedence as Chancellor of the Exchequer, which office he at that time held.

As to the general question of the origin of the term u Prime Minister,"! would note that a correspondent (9 th S. iii. 273) describes my statement (ibid., p. 109) that it was first applied to Harley as incorrect, because lie has found it in a book translated from the French, which has an introduction dated 8 May, 1711, and "consequently made before the term could with any pro- priety have been applied to Harley." But (8 th 3. xi. 510) I had previously proved that it was so applied, and in the month named, while it was indicated seven years before on 29 Aug., 1704 in a prophetic utterance destined to be fulfilled.

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

CHURCH IN CANTERBURY OLDER THAN ST. MARTIN'S (9 fch S. v. 26). Surely the existence of old St. Pancras's Church has been long known to your readers familiar with Canterbury and its antiquities. I have not Mr. Brent's 'Canterbury in the Olden Time' beside me (Simpkin & Marshall, about 1880), but, if I am right, it gives an account of it. Certainly such an account exists. It is from association with this saint that the London church of St. Pancras takes its name. Is his day in the calendar not 12 May 1

J. L. ANDERSON.

Edinburgh.

HENRY CAVENDISH (9 th S. v. 4). In the Tyssen Library, at the Town Hall, Mare Street, Hackney, there is preserved an account