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Thus Bailey has: "Slim naughty, crafty,

Lincolnsh." \ Halliwell, "(4) Sly, cunning, crafty, var. dial."; Skeat, " Orig. sense ' sloping ' ; thence weak, poor, thin, bad, slight ; prov. E. slim, crafty/' C. C. B.

DEDICATION BY AUTHOR TO HIMSELF (9 th S. v. 167). The instance given is literally " almost unique." I have a note, unfortu- nately without reference, that Mars ton dedi- cated a book "to his most esteemed and beloved Selfe." The 'D.N.B.' will perhaps give details. ARTHUR MAYALL.

[Marston dedicates his ' Scourge of Villainy' " to his most esteemed and best beloved Self" ('Works,' ed. Bullen, vol. iii. p. 298). He also dedicates his 'Antonio and Mellida' to "the only rewarder and most just poiser of virtuous merits, the most honourable renowned Nobody, bounteous Mecsenas of poetry and Lord Protector of oppressed innocence," and has similar dedications. Day dedicates his 'Honour out of Breath' to "Signior Nobody."]

PICTURE BY LAWRENCE (9 th S. v. 68, 138). Which picture of Miss Farren by Sir Thomas Lawrence is alluded to at the first reference? There was a half-length and also a whole- length picture, and both were engraved by Bartolozzi. Miss Gerard, in the appendix to her 'Irish Beauties of the Last Century,' says that the whole-length is in the collection of the Earl of Wilton, and the half-length, which was painted for Miss Farren's mother, is in that of Wentworth Beaumont, Esq. MR. COLEMAN at the last reference confirms the location of the former. SENGA.

No. 17, FLEET STREET (9 th S. iv. 378, 395, 481, 543 ; v. 131). I may point out that the Mr. Bennett, the owner of this house temp. James I., who rebuilt the gateway, was a Sergeant-at-Arms to the Inner Temple, that is to say,, an officer of the king's household, and not a Serjeant-at-Law, which will ac- count for his name not being found among the members of the Inner Temple.

JOHN HEBB.

Canonbury Mansions, N.

"GRIMGIBBER": " GRIMGRIBBER " (9 th S. v. 127). For an earlier use of this word than that by Home Tooke in 1786, see Sir Richard Steele's comedy of 'The Conscious Lovers,' 1722, Act III. sc. i.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

Wright's ' Provincial Dictionary ' gives " Grimgribber=a, lawyer." A. R. BAYLEY.

A SON OF GEORGE II. (9 th S. v. 106). The alleged Thomas Dunkerley was born in 1724,

and died in 1795. His mother's name was not traced to my knowledge. Dunkley is recorded by Burke as an armigerous patro- nymic. A. H.

WINSTANLEY'S WONDERS (9 th S. v. 128). No list of these can be presented such as the familiar one of the ' Century of Inventions ' of the Marquis of Worcester, whom Henry Winstanley appears to have resembled in the bent of mechanical genius.

In one of Winstanley's rooms was a par- ticularly comfortable-looking chair which, when sat upon, instantly closed its arms around the occupant, making him a firm prisoner. A seemingly old slipper when kicked immediately brought from the floor a ghost.

After the death of Winstanley his house for a long while appears to have been kept on as a museum for his curiosities. See 9 th S. ii. 466.

As no doubt H. T. B. is quite aware, William Winstanley was the projector of the first Eddystone Lighthouse, in which ill-fated structure he lost his life in 1703. . Winstanley figured also as an etcher, pro-' ducing a series of views of Audley End, also a very large plate of the Eddystone Light- house with an inscription that this " Draught was made and engraven by Henry Win- stanley of Littlebury ; Gent, and is sold at. his Waterworks ; where also is to be seen at any time y e rnodle of y e said Buildings and principal Rooms, for sixpence a piece."

Hamlet Winstanley, painter and engraver, was a nephew of Henry Winstanley, and in some editions of ' Anecdotes of Painters ' Wai- pole has confused the work of the one with that of the other. RICHARD LAWSON.

Urmston.

If H. T. B. will take a penny (any but one of the very last issue) out of his pocket he will find thereon a clue to the meaning of the above.

Until quite lately the Eddystone Light- house was represented on our copper coinage, appearing on the penny at the side of the Duchess of Richmond (as Britannia), engraved by Rotier perhaps in allusion to the penny per ton levied for this lighthouse on all ships passing (by the Act of 1708). The builder of the first Eddystone Lighthouse was Winstanley, who perished in its destruction in "the great storm" of November, 1703. (The representation on the penny was the third lighthouse, that of Smeaton.) R. B.

Upton.

CARRIAGE OF A SWORD-BELT (9 th S. iv. 286, 447). The term "carriage" is in ordinary