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land belonged to a monastery, surely the rent was not- limited to a tenth of the pro- duce. WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK. Ramoyle, Dowanhill, Glasgow.

BOTTLED ALE : ITS INVENTION. Alexander No well, Dean of St. Paul's in the sixteenth century, is credited by Fuller with the in- vention of the above. The 'Dictionary of National Biography' (xli. 245) states that Nowell

" fished much in the Ash, and is said to have acci- dentally invented bottled ale, for he unwittingly left a bottle of ale in the grass by the riverside, and was surprised to find, a few days later, its contents effervescent."

R. B.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

" SPERANZA " AND SWEDENBOKG. There was published in 1888 a one- volume edition of 'Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland,' by Lady Wilde (" Speranza "). Facing the title-page of this volume appears a list of eight other works by the same author. The last but one of these titles reads thus : " The Future Life. Swedenborg." Can any of your readers explain this mysterious piece of information 1 In the year 1853 Mr. John Simms, of Belfast, issued a translation of Swedenborg's 'De Ccelo et de Inferno,' renaming it ' The Future Life.' Had Lady Wilde any hand in this publi- cation ? I know of no other work by Sweden- borg published in Ireland, save the very rarely found edition of ' The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine,' printed at Cork in 1813, and "published by a Society of Christian Friends, for the Benefit of the Institutions of Sunday Schools and the Hibernian Bible Society."

CHAKLES HIGHAM.

169, Grove Lane, London, S.E.

PERELLE'S ETCHINGS. I recently bought a number of Perelle's etchings of landscape scenery. In some of the plates a portion of the foreground appears to have been scraped away and figures introduced ; these for the most part consist of an amorous couple in costumes of the first half of the eighteenth century. They are gracefully drawn, much after Watteau's style, and delicately executed. In most cases the background to these figures seems to have been re-etched and pieced to

the original work, although the junction is almost always noticeable ; out in one case the principal lines only of the background are etched in behind the figures, while a horse tethered to a tree close oy is left simply in outline against the white surface where the plate has never been retouched. When were these plates altered, and of what date are these impressions'? I may add that one or two have French verses below in allusion to the love scenes. CHARLES L. BELL.

73, Chesterton Road, Cambridge.

'* CURTSEY-BENDERS." An aged aunt of mine, in speaking of her having been bed- ridden for many years, said one day, " Oh ! dear, no ! I haven't used my curtsey-benders in so long, I don't believe I would know how to be polite if I should be able to walk again " meaning that she had not bent her knees in so many years. Has the term " curtsey - benders " any English, Saxon, or continental origin "?

WM. CUSHING BAMBURGH.

Elizabeth, N.J., U.S.

BURNHAM FAMILY. I should be glad to obtain information as to the ancestry or parentage of Jonathan Burnham, of Blooms- bury and Ely Place, Holborn, who died in 1797 at Shirland, co. Derby, and is described in the Gent. Mag. as " an eminent distiller in London." He belonged probably to the firm of Burnham, Lush & Simpson, of 155, High Holborn, as he made a bequest to a Mrs. Sarah Lush. G. W. WRIGLEY.

South Hackney, N.E.

TRANSVAAL DUTCH. A list of words used by the Boers with their English meanings appeared in some of the London daily news- papers during 1899-1900. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' furnish me with the names and dates of the papers which contained such lists? A. THOMAS.

4, Marius Mansions, Balham, S.W.

OATH OF ALLEGIANCE. The oath book of the Corporation of Wigan, which covers the period from Queen Anne to Queen Victoria, contains between the years 1799 and 1802 memoranda of the making of the following declaration : "I do declare that I profess the Roman Catholic religion." Why was it necessary to make the above declaration separate from, but in addition to, taking the oath of alle- giance 1 M. N.

WATCH BELONGING TO SIR C. SHOVELL. Can any of the readers of * N. & Q.' inform me how the watch belonging to Sir Cloudesley Shovell came into the hands of one of the