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 9" s. vi. DEO. is, i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 475 Crawley called " Josiah " and " Joshua." Th Hon. George de Courcy is in one place pro moted to " Lord" George, while nis siste Lady Amelia descends to " Mrs." Gazebee o one occasion. Lady Julia de Guest loudlj proclaims in ' The Small House at Allington that the Dales are not connected with her an assertion untrue, and contradicted by her self afterwards in the same volume. In ' Th Eustace Diamonds' the Christian name o Lady Linlithgow is generally Penelope, bu once Susanna. In ' Marion Fay' we find th family seat of Lord Kingsbury once in York shire, afterwards in Shropshire. There i some confusion about the Palliser olive branches, as in 'The Prime Minister' there seem to be several, with a little Lady Glen cora, but in ' The Duke's Children' the; dwindle down to one daughter, Mary, anc two sons, and very poor creatures they are And in ' Can You Forgive Her ?' Sir Cosmo Monk appears once as Sir Charles. The duke's secretary is sometimes Mr. Morton and sometimes Mr. Mpreton. And in 'Sir Harry Hotspur' " Cousin George" greets his " uncle," who could not refuse his cousin's ' hand ; while Framley Court is sometimes Framley Hall. GEORGE ANGUS. St. Andrews, N.B. The errors pointed put by your correspond ent are probaoly attributable to the fact that proper names, both personal and local, writter in the manuscript of the novel were changed after it had passed into the printers' hands. I make this assertion on the evidence of my own eyes,having seen the author's instructions to the printer in this regard ; but after thirty years I am unable to specialize, and maybe one or two names underwent a second muta- tion—a likely consequence of such vacil- lation. I have read only a small portion of the story, but those who have followed it from beginning to end will perhaps be able to judge for what reason the personages were renamed. The late Lord Beaconsfield is not the only novelist who has made a like change of mind ; but the practice is unsafe, author as well as printer being apt to overlook a name here and there, as evidently happened with regard to " Capel." F. ADAMS. ANCIENT CARTHUSIAN MONASTERIES IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND (9th S. vi. 389).—In the appendix to Sir Thomas Hope's 'Minor Practicks,' Edin., 1734, it is mentioned that the Charterhouse at Perth was founded in 1429 by James I. of Scotland. It was called the monasterium vallis virtutis, and the building was " of a very fine structure." It was destroyed by the " rascall multitude " in 1559. John Knox calls it "a building o wondrous cost and greatness." In a charter of 1569 (after it had been battered) it is described as still having orchards, gardens, and a fishpond. Its church contained the tomb of its founder, as well as that of his queen, and of Margaret, mother of James V., sister of Henry VIII. J. L. ANDERSON. Edinburgh. MR. THORNTON will find, as regards the London Charterhouse, an excellent plan in 'The London Charterhouse,' by D. Lawrence Hendriks (Kegan Paul). JERQUE POLLARD-URQUHART, O.S.B. Some assistance might be gained from Walcott's 'Church and Conventual Arrange- ment,' 1861. There is a history of Mount Grace in the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal. vol. vii. W. C. B. By the Editor's note to an inquiry in ' N. <fe Q.,' 4th S. ix. 536, no trace of Sheen Priory now exists. A representation of it in its ancient state is comprised in one of the views of Richmond Palace, drawn in the time of King Philip and Queen Mary by Anthony van Wyngaarde. See also 3rd S. v. 379, 406, for similar information. Some in- teresting articles on Carthusian monasteries, more particularly Mount Grace, appeared in 8th S. ix. 22, 133. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. " MAX ": SLANG FOR GIN (9th S. vi. 161, 233, 353 ; see also p. 286).—As I conjectured at the irst reference, "royal bob" takes its origin 'rom Walpole's Christian name. In 1729, the rear when the Parliamentary war against gin >egan, an effusion in verse, entitled ' Geneva,' was addressed to Sir Robert Walpole tyr Alexander Blunt, a distiller, in which this >oetaster observes:— Fame reports That Hi"", with zeal assiduous, does attempt, Superior to Canary or Champagne, Geneva, salutiferous to enhance ; To rescue it from hand of porter vile And basket woman, and to the Buffet Of lady delicate and courtier grand Exalt it; well from thee may it assume The glorious modern name of Royal Bob. * I have already said that 6o6=gin is ignored iy the ' H.E.D.,' and have instanced its use n a quotation from the Gentleman's Magazine. ' would now add that a play by John Kelly, uWished in 1736, bore the title 'The Fall of Job, or the Oracle of Gin' (see ' D.N.B.,' xxx. 53 a). With such credentials this term, as pints,' 1864, p. 68,
 * Quoted from Tovey's ' British and Foreign