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 332 NOTES AND QUERIES. [o» a VL <x*. w, MOO. There is a picturesque tavern in Cloth Fair, known to newspaper writers as "Ye Olde Dick Whittington, and at not unfre- quent intervals pronounced by them to be " the oldest licensed house in the City of London." There is no doubt about the anti- quity of the structure : but any one who takes the trouble to refer to portfolio xxvi. of the Crace Collection at the British Museum will find that in 1850, when it was drawn by T. H. Shepherd, the house was in the occupation of Reader, hairdresser, who, I see from a London directory, was already there in 1843. An older drawing in the same portfolio shows it as a butcher's shop. PHILIP NOKMAN. What is the root of " fewter," an idle person ? One would think it has some origin in a calling or pursuit; thus, a " fewterer" was a tracker, one who helu dogs in the leash for sporting.' Might not such persons hang about Fetter Lane, on the City out- skirts, waiting for a " job " ? If from fet=foot, they might be " tramps ": we have " fewter- locks " for fetlocks, and " fewter " in chivalry, Fr. voiture, Latin veho. Oh, for a light! But " 1815" for Sir Julius Caesar; query misprint. A. H. TOBACCO TONGS (9th S. vi. 210, 276).—Surely this is a misnomer. The correct name l- " ember tongs" ; and so they are describee in several museums, e.g., Reading. They even Quests—three Josephs and four Johns. ive of the name appear in my copy of Qraduati Cantabrigienses' (1823). There is Guest family of Tewkesbury in the Ulou- estershire Heraldic Visitations in the British luseuni. Two families of the name, at least, re found in Lancashire: one at Astley, in parish of Leigh, the other at Netherton, ear Liverpool. The Rev. George Guest died 1694; he was Rector of Pulford, near Chester. T. CANN HUGHES, M.A. Lancaster. MEDALLION OF WALTER SCOTT (9th S. vi. 29).—I think istro must be a blunder for or misreading of astro, dative of mediaeval Latin istrum, meaning, according to Du Ganges Glossarium,' "focus, foculare: undo postca x>ti domui nomen inditum." The English equivalent is therefore "hearth or home see the ' H.E.D.,' art. ' Astre'). Astrum was much used by the early English jurists, Bracton employing it alternatively with atrium. Its occurrence in the inscription oi the medallion would point to a man of la* were not used for handling tobacco, bul for picking up a live " ember" for lighti _ the tobacco, and all perfect specimens have a tobacco stopper riveted in near the axis o: the tongs, ana it is this stopper alone which clearly differentiates them from all other tongs. L. LLOYD. Is this not another name for " ember tongs, which were used, inter aim, for picking up i glowing ember to light a pipe with ? E. E. STREET. Chichester. GUEST FAMILY (9"' S. vi. 268).—This familj has several well-known members. The late Edwin Guest was Master of Caius College, Cambridge, from 1852 to 1880. The barony of Wimborne is held by Ivor Bertie Guesi His eldest son is M.P. for Plymouth. Th late William Hodpkinson Guest was for som years Registrar of the High Court at Man Chester, and a very popular member of th Manchester Literary Club and othe societies. He was a bachelor, and die< 12 October, 1894, and was buried in th Southern Cemetery, Manchester. The ' Cata logue of Oxfurd Graduates' (1851) contains as the author. F. ADAMS. I would suggest that istro is put by mis- take for cestro, in the sense of " inspiration. Even so it is not very easy to understand toe exact meaning which the seven words are intended to convey. " Who gave back the .utes of the bards to native inspiration is oaldly unsatisfactory and meaningless, rw- baps the general sense is " who gave back w Scottish poetry its native inspiration. HON. HENBY PAGET (9th S. vi. 8).—It seems that correspondents of ' SlSfcQ.' are unable to answer my queries regarding Hon. Lieu Henry Paget. If we take up^H'Vj 2° numerous works on the peerage v>> "",,", descent of the Anglesey family dedutpo ln, Brigadier-General Thomas Paget, so> °r * Hon.HenryPagetandAnneSandford*11^" if we refer to the Irish records we firA'"* "Anne, daughter of Robert Sandford, Esq., was buried in St. Michan's Church, on 15th of December, 1683, and her only chi,ne by Lieut. Henry Paget then living were HDut Paget, second son, and Charles James Fagot, s^hlc son, and that all her other children died — We further find that the "Hon. Henry Facet was married, second Dublin Diocesan Marriage Licence Bond 29th March, 1684, in St. Kevin's Church, Dublin Mary Rourke, Spinster, and by this lady had a s> Thomas Paget, baptized 6"1 Sep', 1686," and very probably other children. Can it be that the present Pagets are de- scended from the ancient Celtic race ot lier-