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aged seventy-seven, having brought into the world 9,730 children. The second I copy ver batim from a tombstone under the eas window of the old church of St. Etheldreda

Elizabeth Elvin, Died 5th January, 1849, cet. 73. Who, during 30 years' practice as a midwife in this City, brought into the world 8520_children. A loving wife lies buried here, A mother kind and tender ; But all our help and anxious care From death could not defend her.

There may be similar triumphant records elsewhere, but I have never met with any.

JAMES HOOPER. Norwich.

ADVERTISING IN LONDON A.D. 1607. On p. 14 of * The Surueyors Dialogue,' by I. N. (John Norden), there occurs a marginal note, " Surueyors Bills upon posts in London." The text is :

"For as I haue passed through London, I haue seene many of their Bils fixed ypon posts in the streetes, to solicite men to anoord them some seruice : which argueth, that either the trade de- cayeth, or they are not skilfull, that beg imploy- ment so publikely : for, Vino vendibili suspensa hedera non est opus, A good workeman needs not stand in the streetes."

RICHARD H. THORNTON. Portland, Oregon.

RECTANGULAR KEEPS. Following my com- munication on * Moated Mounds' (ante, p. 309), I now submit a few additions and notes to Mr. Clark's * List (approximative) of Rect- angular Keeps in England' ('Mediaeval Military Architecture,' i. 138).

Dorset.

Marshwood.

Sherborne is included by Mr. Clark, but I doubt if there be anything there that can be called a keep- tower.

Hants.

Merdon.

Wolvesey. Can any of the existing remains be called a keep ? Kent.

Thurnham. I saw no sign of a rectangular keep here, nor does Mr. Clark's detailed account ('Med. Mil. Arch.,' ii. 492) mention one. There appears to have been a shell- keep on the mound.

Salop.

Ludlow. I question the existence of a Norman keep here. The existing building called the keep, which seems to have puzzled manv observers (see, for instance, the visit of trie Archaeological Institute in 1894, as reported in the Athenaeum of 4 August), was,

I believe, originally built as a Norman gate- house, and brought to its present condition of a closed tower by successive alterations. 1 do not know that this suggestion has ever been made before, but it would account for all the anomalous features.

Somerset.

Taunton. The building called a keep here was pretty certainly nothing of the sort.

Castle Gary. This is mentioned in Clark's 'List of Moated Mounds,' but not among 'Rectangular Keeps.' The mound is still in evidence, but excavations made in 1890 proved that it had been thrown up over the foundations of a ruined rectangular- tower (see Somerset Archaeological Proceed- ings, xxxvi.). From the descriptions it appears evident the keep was an important one, and probably not early in the Norman style ; yet here is indisputable evidence of a mound raised after its destruction. The castle was taken by Stephen ; the mound may have been a hasty substitute for a keep levelled by him. The Norman ideal seems to have been a rectangular tower standing on a mound, but this is the only case 1 know of a mound raised over a tower.

Sussex. Knepp.

Wiltshire. Ludgershall. J. A. RUTTER.

P.S. With regard to MR. WOLFERSTAN'S comment (ante, p. 399) on ray previous com- munication, I may say that my reference was to the Archaeological Journal of the In- stitute, not to the Journal of the British Archaeological Association. Mr. Clark's paper in the former duly notes the moated mound at Seckington. A full description of it from lis pen may also be seen in the same Journal, vol. xxxix.

LORD ROBERTS AND SUWARROW. Lord

Roberts's telegram to the Queen announcing


 * he occupation of Bloemfontein "By God's

lelp and the bravery of your Majesty's

soldiers, I have taken possession of Bloem-

! ontein " has not the merit of originality,

ut recalls strongly the celebrated despatch


 * o the Empress Catherine of Russia on the

apture of Ismail :

A town which did a famous siege endure,

And was beleaguer'd both by land and water By Suvaroff, or anglice Suwarrow. Who loved blood as an alderman loves marrow.

The siege of Ismail is described by Byron

n the seventh and eighth cantos of 'Don

uan,' in which the poet, after depicting the

lorrors of the final assault and capture of