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quest after one or more of such friends, named Paice or Peace, which practically arises from the identity of that friend who gave Charles Lamb his first lift in mercantile life.

Elia describes one such as Joseph Paice, a director of the South Sea Company, "who took me under his shelter at an early age and bestowed some pains upon, me"; see the essay on * Modern Gallantry.' A deceased rela- tive of " Joseph Paice " defines this as giving Lamb " the run of his counting-house," a nice opening for a young clerk on leaving school, as preparatory for something better that might be found for him. Canon Ainger discredits the supposed value of Mr. Paice's patronage.

However. Walter Savage Landor presented one of his books, dated 1840, to a Mr. Peace, as "from the author" to a friend of Charles Lamb. Joseph Paice died in 1810, and well deserves a niche in the 'Dictionary of National Biography.' Was there a later genuine friend of Elia who can be identified ; or is there some confusion in similar names 1 A. HALL.

Highbury, N.

SAFFORD FAMILY IN SOMERSETSHIRE (9 th S. vii. 88). The following description of the book-plate of "Joseph Safford, Surgeon," in my collection, may afford a clue. Style ; wreath and ribbon. Arras : Lozengy (1 Fusilly) or and vert, a lion rampant arg., a label for difference (eldest surviving son). Crest : A derai-lion rampant arg. Motto : " Omnibus fidelis." The approximate date would be 1780. I shall be glad to know if the owner was identical with the Bristol surgeon and coroner, 1807-11. GEORGE C. PEACHEY.

Bright walton, Wantage.

The Rev. James Cutting Safford was B.A. Caius College, Cambridge, 1822, and was ordained deacon in 1823 by the Bishop of Lincoln, and priest the following year by the Bishop of Norwich. He was appointed vicar of Mettingham, in the diocese of Norwich, in 1824, and perpetual curate of Ilketshall St. Lawrence, Suffolk, in 1840.

The Rev. William Chartres Safford was late scholar of C.C.C., Cambridge, B.A. 1852, M.A. 1855. He was ordained deacon in 1852, and priest in 1853, by the Bishop of Chester. He was rector of Christ Church with St. E wen's, Bristol, from 1855 to 1859, and perpetual curate of Stoven, Suffolk, from 1859 to 1866, when he was appointed rector of Attleborough, which living he held about thirty years. CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.

Bradford.

CHISEL MARKS (9 th S. vii. 149). Among the editorial references under this head nothing

occurs to indicate the work done by Tynesicle antiquaries in the elucidation of masons' marks. Permit me to add the publications of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle to the lists already given. The Archoeolofjia jEliana, vol. xiv., contains a plate of over one hundred and fifty marks found on the castles of Northumberland, while numerous descriptions and pictorial illustrations of these curious symbols occur in the society's Proceedings. For example, in vol. i. p. 120 is a plate of thirty-six marks found on the walls of the Castle of Newcastle ; vol. ii. p. 247 shows marks at Rose Castle, the palace of the Bishop of Carlisle; vol. iii. pp. 122 and 144 reproduce marks at Aln- wick, Morpeth, Corbridge, and Northaller- ton churches, Newminster Abbey, Dinsdale Manor House, Kirkoswald, and Pontefract Castle ; vol. iv. p. 34, marks at Chillingham Castle ; vol. vii. p. 97, marks on the walls of Newcastle. The fifth volume of the new ' History of Northumberland ' has an appen- dix of eight quarto pages depicting masons' marks found at Warkworth Castle.

RICHARD WELFORD.

The late Mr. George Godwin, F.S.A., editor of the Builder, collected a number of these marks and published a volume on the sub- ject. For a list of authors consult the the Architectural Publication Society, and the Interme'diaire or French ' N. & Q.'
 * Dictionary of Architecture/ published by

JOHN HEBB.

FOOTPRINTS OF GODS, &c. (9 th S. vi. 163, 223, 322, 391). San Luis Beltran (Luis de Granada), one of the early Spanish mission- aries to what is now the Republic of Colombia, is said to have left his footmarks on a great stone in the river Magdelena. This stone, however, cannot be recognized now, the excuse being that the water has turned the stone upside down, and that the footmarks are (no doubt) on the side next the ground.

IBAGUE.

[In Dr. Murray's play of ' Andromache ' Thetis is supposed to have left her footprint near her shrine.]

" So LONG " (9 th S. vii. 129). There seems to be a consensus of opinion at the references given that this is peculiarly a sailor's phrase; ind as one correspondent points out, it can lardly be a salutation, as it is used only at parting. Mr. Frank Bullen, at the conclusion of his 'Cruise of the Cachalot,' says, "And low, as the sailor says at parting, * So long ; and it would appear to be a farewell pecu- iarly appropriate to the vicissitudes of a sailor's life, used as it is instead of " good-