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of Cumberland was alluded to in the Nor w'n'h Mercury is correct, as it is stated in th Sportsman's Magazine that "the late Duk of Cumberland was present at one of thes huntings." W. T. SPENCER.

'ESSENCE OF MALONE' (9 th S. vi. 488). " Another Essence of Malone ; or, th

Part. By George Hardinge. Lond., 1801, 8vo pp. 186." George Hardinge (1744-1816) wa the son of Nicholas Hardinge ; educated a Trinity College, Cambridge ; made senio: justice of the counties of Brecon, Glamor gan, and Radnor ; and in 1789 appointee Attorney-General to the Queen. His life i. given in his miscellaneous works, publishec by John Nichols in 1818.
 * Beauties ' of Shakespear's Editor. Seconc

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

"JURY" IN NAUTICAL TERMS (9 th S. v. 267 426). In ' Peregrine Pickle,' published in 1751, the grim commander Commodore Trunnion addresses his lieutenant Hatchway, who ha* a wooden leg, as a "jury-legged dog." In

in the quarrel on board the pirate schooner the carpenter observes :
 * The Pirate,' the date of which may be 1702

" ' Jack Jenkins was not a chip the worse,' saic the carpenter ; ' I took the leg off with my saw as well as any loblolly-boy in the land could have done heated my broad axe, and seared the stump av by ! and made a jury-leg that he shambles about with, as well as he ever did for Jack could never cut a feather.' "Chap, xxxiv.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

" MANECANTERIE " (9 th S. vi. 169).

" Manecanterie, s.f. (du lat. mane, matin; can- tare, chanter). Ecole speciale qui etait attachee aux paroisses, et dans laquelle on instruisait les enfants de choeur." 'Grand Dictionnaire,' par Napoleon Landais, 14 e dit., Paris, 1862. In the 'Comple- ment.'

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

THE ABBOT OF WESTMINSTER'S PLOT (9 th S. vii. 84). It is curious to reflect, on a review of the circumstances connected with this formidable conspiracy against Henry IV., that the same sanguinary practices in regard to the collection and thereafter the display of " human heads "on a milder scale, it is true were being carried out in England under the first king of the house of Lan- caster, in 1400 and 1401, as were occurring at the same time in Syria under Timour, Emperor of the East. Thus at the sack of Aleppo, 11 November, 1400, while Timour was conversing with the doctors of law and the cad his of the city, the streets of Aleppo streamed with blood through Timour's per-

emptory command to his soldiers that they were to produce an adequate number of heads, which, according to his custom, were curiously piled in columns and pyramids. Again, at Bagdad in the following year, 22 July, 1401, he erected a pyramid of ninety thousand heads on the ruins of the city. It is of Timour that Gibbon observes:

" The conquest and monarchy of the world was the first object of the ambition of Timour. To live in the memory and esteem of future ages was the second wish of his magnanimous spirit."' Decline and Pall,' chap. Ixv.

The comparison was then, as it is now, ' ' Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay." F. E. MANLEY.

LAY CANON (9 th S. vii. 148). A minor or petty canon, or a vicar choral, is not a layman, but a lay vicar, or, in other words, a songman, is. Mr. Orby Shipley thus defines lay vicar (' Glossary of Ecclesiastical Terms ') :

"A deputy, in a cathedral, of a canon or pre- bendary, to perform those duties which a layman may do, such as singing in the choir. They were originally in minor orders. They are sometimes members of the inferior college in a cathedral, and sometimes merely part of the foundation at large."

Possibly a lay canon may be a variety of the lay impropriator. ST. SWTTHIN.

INSTALLATION OF A MIDWIFE (9 th S. v. 475 ; vi. 9, 177, 274,336,438). Would MR. PEACHEY

C good enough to inform me if the so-called

himerical "Opinicus" was the crest of the Barber-Surgeons, and the only one known ? ' The head and wings of an eagle, the fore Dart of a lion, the hind part of an ass, and
 * he tail of a camel." Other combinations are

ven by various persons. The meaning is said to be " the eagle to represent swiftness,
 * he lion courage, the ass patience, and the
 * ainel endurance." Were there any arms

r motto attached to the Barber-Surgeons ; md are they still in existence? I believe .hey were first known as " chirurgeons " in he style of the period.

RICHARD HEMMING.

[The Barber-Surgeons still possess their hall in VLonkwell Street.]

OLD LEGEND (9 fch S. vii. 107). Oberon gave o Huon of Bordeaux a magic horn, which, ounded gently, had the power of making eople dance in voluntarily; and the elf-king's une is said in popular tradition to have that fleet. When the horn was sounded loudly, t brought Oberon, though he were a thou- and miles away, to the assistance of Huon. ee Wieland's ' Oberon,' canto ii. stanzas 49, 0. Oberon was afterwards angry with luon, but did not abandon him entirely ;