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the Additional MSS. for 1897 at the British Museum. In relation to this subject I ask, Is there any published list of the English ambassadors, envoys, <fec., to foreign courts prior to A.D. 1700? I know of none. Such a list (say, in Haydn's ' Book of Dignities ' in a future edition) would be of very great use.

C. MASON. 29, Emperor's Gate, S.W.

'PICKWICKIAN STUDIES' (9 th S. iv. 492, 525; v. 10). The colour of the turban is not an important point. I was aware of the slender authority for "blue"; but Dickens was re- sponsible for the later colour, and in such a case the author's second thoughts are more acceptable. Surely we have grown out of talking about the few slips "Sun Court," and the rest of the hackneyed list in the original edition. I certainly never ventured to " explain that Sam Weller was called one of Frederick William's big grenadiers." I leave an explanation of that kind to HIPPO- CLIDES and to Mr. Fitzgerald, of whom it is quite worthy. Since it seems to be necessary to return to preliminaries, I may mention that " Prooshan Blue" occurs in chap, xxxiii.; and that it did not refer to Sam, but to his father. Every idea we have of old Weller, including Dickens's description, only tends to prove how applicable a simple explanation would be. England had acquired, through troublesome experience, some knowledge of Frederick William's recruiting methods. It should not be possible to mix the sayings of Sam with those of his father. They are quite separate ; but HIPPOCLIDES in his note shows how easily they may be confounded for pur- poses of " correction." GEORGE MARSHALL.

Sefton Park, Liverpool.

"BOER" (9 th S. v. 3). May I direct SIR HERBERT MAXWELL'S attention to the articles 4 Bower,' sb. 7, and 'Bowing,' sb., in the 'New English Dictionary ' 1 He will there find the real origin of the words to which he refers, as well as evidence of the fact that they occur in Jamieson. Q. V.

STATUE IN BERGEN, NORWAY (9 th S. iv. 514). The statue as to which MR. PICKFORD in- quires is that of a member of a well-known family of Bergen which still exists, and is represented at present or was a few years since by a distinguished architect of the name. The statue is probably that of Wilhelm Frimann Karen Christie, born in 1778, died in 1849, who was president of the Storthing, and as such was very popular. His name was some years since well known to tourists
 * n Norway from that of the steamboat Presi-

dent Christie, which plied between Bergen and (I think) Hull. The family springs from Andrew Christie, born at Montrose in 1620, who died at Bergen in 1694, and several of whose descendants were men of distinction, especially his great-great-grandson, the presi- dent aforesaid. JOHN CREE.

The " Christie " referred to by MR. PICK- FORD is, no doubt, "Stiftamund Christie," as he is called in Norway. He was born in 1778, and was the president of the first Norwegian Storthing, which negotiated with Sweden the constitution of Eidsvold passed in 1814. T. P. ARMSTRONG.

A PASQUIL (9 th S. v. 5). Please to correct an error in my note on the above subject. The pamphlet in question, printed in 1533, like those earlier pasquinades printed 1512- 1526, and described by Brunet, belongs, of course, not to the fifteenth, but to the six- teenth century, unless the fifteenth century were understood to be identical with the Italian " Cinquecento," or the period from 1501 to 1600. H. KREBS.

"TH BEURR" (9 th S. v. 9). In Hue's 'Travels in Tartary,' &c., there is frequent mention of "buttered tea" as a common beverage in Tibet. I know this book only in Hazlitt's translation (London, office of the "Illustrated London Library," 2 vols., n.d.), but I presume that the beurre must be the original of " buttered tea," i. e., tea with butter in it (vol. i. pp. 39, 49). Possibly M. Auzias- Turenne reasons thus : The Tibetans and the English are barbarous tea-drinking nations ; the Tibetans put butter in their tea ; there- fore, so do the English. S. G. HAMILTON.

THE OLD CHURCH AT CHINGFORD (9 th S. iv. 537). While staying at Buckhurst Hill in the autumn of 1898 I was conducted to this old church, as one of the sights of the neighbour- hood, but could obtain no local information relating to it. I have no access to any works on Essex, and if the matter has not already been treated of in 'N. & Q.,' in which case a repetition would perhaps only take up valu- able space, I shall feel obliged for some particulars as to the history of the edifice. At what date was it erected 1

S. A. D'ARCY, L.R.C.P. and S.I.

Rosslea, Clones, co. Fermanagh.

JAMES Cox's MUSEUM (9 th S. ii. 7, 78 ; iv. 275, 337 ; v. 17). MR. JOHN HEBB says I am mistaken in thinking that Wigley's Room in Spring Gardens stood on the site now occu- pied by the offices of the London County Council, offices of which, by the way, MR.,