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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. TO JAN. 5, 1901.

The professor was one of N. & Q.'s' most esteemed contributors, and was, above all things, mathematical, logical, and exact; therefore it is the more fitting that his un- answered query should receive a complete reply, and that his stray sheet should be restored to its rightful home. It belongs to Dr. Adam Littleton's * Latin Dictionary ' ; in my copy (4th ed., 1715) the signatures do not correspond, so that the professor's sheet must be of another edition. This sheet, however, forms the last few leaves of the volume. The inscription in memory of the Great Fire is mentioned in Southey's 'Doctor,' 1848, p. 547.

W. C. B.

" ENGLISH - SPEAKING " (9 th S. vi. 486). Bentham, I think, suggested the phrase to me, and I used it freely in ' Greater Britain ' before "the seventies," viz., in 1868.

CHARLES W. DILKE.

HEALING STONE (9 th S. vi. 370, 477). MR. CARTER does not say what especial diseases the tomb at Christchurch, Mon., had the reputation of curing. There are, I believe, other examples of healing tombs scattered up and down the kingdom. One thirteenth- century specimen I have a note upon is to be found at Newington, Kent. Usually the tomb or stone indicated the site of the shrine of some local saint or anchorite. May not this be the case at Christchurch ?

W. B. GERISH. Bishop s Stortford.

LATIN MOTTO (9* S. vi. 469).-In the

Glossary of Latin Words' in the 'Record

Interpreter,' by Charles Trice Martin, the

filiations given as meaning "sonship,

subjection, obedience; used of monastic

S ' t ARTHUR

lankerton-on-Sea.

IshrnH h LlN f i ( th i 8 ' vi " 410 )Like WHIM

should be glad to know the source whence

1 got some lines now

Bonum vinum cum sapore, Jiibit abbas cum priore ged conventus de pejore. oeraper solet bibere.

Barnstaple.

hH' ( 9th S- vi. 269, 397)-

Lhe History of the South Notts Yeomanrv

Notts. M E. DEUKY certainly should pubffi

the records he possesses of the Derbyshire Yeomanry. With a little trouble and research, and with a good index, he could make them interesting and very valuable for the county historian and genealogist. He, like Mr. Fellows, will be surprised at the same families and names continuing even in these days of changes. He will probably find the old com- missions preserved ; and the old uniforms are not unlikely to be found in family portraits.

HANDFORD.

'The Earl of Chester's Regiment of Yeo- manry Cavalry : its Formation and Services, 1797 to 1897,' written by Frederick Leary, was privately printed for the officers of the regiment in 1898. It is a valuable record, well illustrated. I find the following titles in Mr. Fortescue's ' Subject Index of Modern Works in the Library of the British Museum ':

Cooper (W. S.), 'A History of the Ayrshire Yeo- manry.' Edin., 1881.

Fellows (G.), 'History of the South Notts Yeo- manry Cavalry.' Notts, 1895.

Thomson (J. A.), 'History of the Fife Light Horse.' Edin., 1892.

C. W. S.

CHARLES LAMB AND 'THE CHAMPION' (9 th S. vi. 442). The key to the first epigram quoted is to be found in Solomon's " Balm of Gilead," an empiric preparation much advertised in the early years of the present century. Samuel Solomon was a quack doctor residing in Liverpool. Taking the few old directories I happen to possess, I find in 1796 he is described as "surgeon," in 1803 as "doctor," while in 1811 he is styled "Samuel Solomon, M.D." He lived in various parts of the town, finally building for himself a large house, with extensive and beautiful gardens, in Kensington, about 100 yards from where I now write. He called his house "Gilead House." He advertised extensively, and found his profit. His name and specific are commemorated in three mean streets, near to his former abode Gilead, Balm, and Solomon streets, in the order of their importance. J. H. K.

Liverpool.

The epigram ' On a late Empiric of " Balmy " Memory' relates to Dr. Solomon and his Balm of Gilead. Concerning them, see IS. & Q.,' 2 nd S. iii. 187, 236 ; 3 rd S. ii. 36.

W. C. B.

PETITION TO PARLIAMENT (9 th S. vi. 470). The first of such petitions in 1780 was presented by Sir George Savile to the House ot Commons on 8 February, 1780, on behalf of the gentlemen, clergy, and freeholders of the county of York. After referring to the