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was commenced in 1784, and completed in 1787 ; and the Queen's Pavilions in the gardens of Buckingham Palace, at the Royal Naval Exhibition, and on similar occasions are late instances of the superseded royal tent. The arms of the Company of Upholsterers are, On a chevron three roses, between three tents royal, two and one, the Company dating from 1627 ; and a tent royal, or pavilion Handle Holme thus uses the alternative appears to have been an appurtenance exclusively of royalty, whereas a "marquee" appertained to a French marquis, a title employed for the first time in the reign of Louis le Ddbonnaire, in the ninth century, so that it would be apropos of the question to learn when the marquee was first known in France. Randle Holme, in his 'Armory '(1688), certainly does not mention the term in his list of " several names given to these Moveing Houses" (bk. iii. ch. xii. p. 449). A marquise, Angli- cized " marquee," was originally, according to Littre, a marchioness's tent, and a marquis, an officer or prefect of the marches, would, doubtless, not expect the marquise to share the hardships of a " field-bed " life. A public- house sign of the " Royal Pavilion " occurs at No. 217, Vauxhall Bridge Road, and there is a "Royal Tent" in the Old Court suburb, while the " Royal Tent " again was the trade sign of an upholsterer in Red Cross Street, South wark, in 1780 (Banks Coll. Shop-Bills). The last, at all events, of these three had its birth probably in the frantic popular joy which attended the Restoration of Charles II. in 1660. On May 29 in that year a very magnificent tent was erected on St. George's Fields, when the Lord Mayor and Aldermen met the king, and the former, having delivered the City sword to his Majesty, had the same returned with the honour of knighthood. A sumptuous collation had been provided, in which the king participated (J. G. Gough, 4 London Pageants,' 1831, 8vo.). But on such occasions as this, within the period alluded to, we do not encounter the use, I think, of the word " marquee."

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

Under the date 1783 I find the form marquise, " under a marquise or tent, taken from the British" (Con way's 'Life of Paine,' 1892, vol. i. p. 197). What does this same word mean in the following ? " La voiture s'arretant sous la marquise du perron " (' Pere Goriot,' p. 78, my edition).

JAMES HOOPER.

AN UNCLAIMED POEM OF BEN JONSON (9 th S. iv. 491 ; v. 34). Dryden, in his pro- logue to 'The Tempest,' speaking of Fletcher

and Jonson as imitators of Shakspeare, says :

One imitates him most, the other best. If they have since out-writ all other men, 'Tis with the drops which fell from Shakspeare's pen.

This is not quite fair to Jonson, for Shak- speare has taken something from him. I think that Jonson shows most genius in ' Every Man in his Humour.' This play is conspicuous for humour and the drawing of character ; but its plot is so faint and feeble lis to be hardly perceptible. The style of the prose in which the play is chiefly written is simple and good, and in this respect often contrasts favourably with the turgidity of Shakspeare. 'Every Man in his Humour' was produced before 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' and 'Twelfth Night'; and any- body who reads the three plays must see the likeness between Master Stephen Slender and Sir Andrew Aguecheek. There are other resemblances. E. YARDLEY.

SALADIN AND THE CRUSADER'S WIFE (9 th S. iv. 538). The tomb of the Crusader and his devoted wife, referred to by MR. LAWSON, is in the chantry of a church at Cowarne, a market town and parish of Herefordshire, and near Pauncefort Court, a "fair house" built (says Carnden) temp. Henry III., at Hasfield, in Gloucestershire, by Richard Pauncefort, who in 1248 had a grant of the manor, where his ancestors were possessed of fair lands in the Conqueror's time. Burke opens the Pauncefort pedigree with Geoffrey or Galfrid de Pauncefort, steward of the household to King John, who married Sybilla, daughter of William de Cantelupe, Lord of Aston Cantelo, Barwick, and Chilton Cantelo, and sister of William Cantelupe, Lord Cantelupe, Seneschal Regis.

I have somewhere seen that it was a Sybilla who sent her couped hand to the infidels to ransom her husband, who was called Grimbald ; but even if he were really a Geoffrey or Galfrid if, as MR. LAWSON seems to show, tradition indicates Saladin as the infidel who held De Pauncefort prisoner the date of Saladin's death, 1193, and the date of marriage with Sybilla de Cantelupe, 1209, do away with the possibility of this being the Sybilla. And supposing a former wife of Geoffrey or Galfrid to have been the heroine of the story, why was the later wife left entirely unmemorialized, whilst the effigy of the former wife lay beside lis own?

Had it not been for that mention of Saladin, too, and in the absence of other