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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. vn. MAY 11, 1901.

pied that it was introduced by Hogarth into nis famous picture * Noon.' This relic of old London was demolished, in order to make way for "modern improvements," during the summer of 1898. HARRY HEMS.

[A long article on the Greek Church in Soho appeared 9 th S. ii. 2.]

AUTHOR OF VERSES WANTED (9 th S. vii. 228, 315, 358). MR. CURRY may like to see the complete verses on Queen Elizabeth in the ' Example Book,' which are as follows :

Spainis Rod, Romis Rowin, natherlandis Relief, heavinis jem, erthis joy, worldis wonder, naturis chief.

A bodie chast, a werteu's mynd, A temporit tong, a hu'mblad hart, Secrit and wys, faithfu'll and kynd, Trewe without gyll, niyld without airt, A friend to peaice, a fo to stryf, A spotles maid, a matchles wyf.

B. K. L.

RICHARD HERNE, SHERIFF OF LONDON, 1618-19 (9 th S. vii. 309). A MS. note in my copy of Mr. Cokayne's 'Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of London, 1601-1625,' states that this sheriff was a " Merchant-Taylor." It is singular that the names of the two sheriffs as well as that of the Lord Mayor of London (my ancestor) of this year began with H.

W. I. R, V.

"Wn5M" = HOME (9 th S. vii. 286). Although "wh6m" continually greets the ear in the west of England, its employment as a rime is perhaps unusual enough to deserve record. A very quaint epitaph of 1686, which I noted at Churchill, Somerset, some years ago, con- tains the sturdy injunction :

And when thy dying day is come Goe like the man y l is w-alking whome.

CHAS. GILLMAN. Church Fields, Salisbury.

POWDERING GOWN (9 th S. vii. 268). Powder- ing cupboards are, I believe, to be found in houses of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The person whose hair was to be powdered sat within arrayed in powdering gown, the object of which was, of course, to prevent soiling of the clothes. If I mistake not, I have seen a powdering cup- board at Little Dean Hall on the borders of the Forest of Dean, near Newnham, the old seat of the Pyrke family.

LIONEL CRKSSWETT Wood Hall, Calverley, Yorks.

Is this a misprint for " pondering gown " ? I have some recollection of my mother saying that on an occasion when slie was a girl at the beginning of last century, she sat in her

" nightcap " and " ponder gown " to think the matter over. She did not explain, but I understood she meant a bedgown.

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

I think there can be no doubt that the " powdering gown " mentioned by your cor- respondent at the above reference was a gown or wrapper (probably of cotton or linen) in which one sat to have the hair powdered. Many old mansions contain a chamber known as " the powdering room " or- " powdering closet," specially intended for such use. W. I. R. V.

WORCESTERSHIRE FOLK-LORE (9 th S. vi. 410, 496 ; vii. 54,^255). By the " husk " of Indian corn IBAGUE, of course, means the central, husky spike, core, or " cob " in which the grain is bedded, and not the "husk" properly so called, which is the outer wrappage corre- sponding to the "chaff" of ordinary grain. About twenty years ago I heard the principal farmer of Chateauneuf relate how he had re- ceived anonymously by post a large rabbit's tail in a matchbox, which he made out to have been sent by a former boon companion, and which he forthwith reciprocated with a toad. I did not gather that any particular meaning attached to these sendings, but that they were mere exuberances of rustic wit. Here is one from Central America : ' Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan,' by John L. Stephens, vol. ii., twelfth edition (London, John Murray, 1846, p. 365) :

" Don Santiago sent me a farewell letter, en- closing, according to the custom of the country, a piece of silk, the meaning of which I did not under- stand, but learned that it was meant as a pledge of friendship, which I reciprocated with a penknife."

The letter, in the appendix, p. 473, reads :

" I send you, together with my gratitude and affection, this raw silk from the ruins to keep for my sake."

Raw filatures are used in different cere- monies in different countries, East and West, implying the wish that a long and happy life may be spun out. THOMAS J. JEAKES.

FRANCIS THROGMORTON (9 th S. vii. 89, 216) was probably a son of Anthony Throck- morton, who was the second son of Sir Thos. Throckmorton, of Coss Court and Tortworth, Gloucestershire, Knt., and his wife Margaret, daughter and heir of Thos. Whittington, Esq., lord of Upton, Gloucestershire.

Sir Thomas's eldest son was Sir Thos. Throckmorton, of Coss Court, Tortworth, and Turley, Glouc. ; High Sheriff of Gloucester- shire 30 and 43 Queen Elizabeth ; died 1607. He married first Elizabeth, daughter of Sir