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of none effect." The title of "Defender of the Faith " has not been revived iu any English Act. Mr. Sidney Gibson, of Newcastle, stated iu Notes and Queries that the Act of King Henry was revived by Elizabeth, c. 1, but that is a mistake. The 13th section of that Act enacted that no statutes were revived except those specially mentioned. The 35 Henry is not mentioned. If the Act had been revived Queen Elizabeth would have claimed her father's style of " Supreme Head." The condi- tion of the times was such that she did not dare to resume that title. But, notwithstanding the repeal of the statute which conferred the title, it is interesting to note that the title of " Defender of the Faith* has never been dropped.

It was customary in those old times to print the whole of the Acts of a session in one continuous roll, and preface them with the full styles and titles of the King. Strange as it may appear, the title crops up in the preface to the Acts of the very session in which the Act of King Henry was repealed. King Philip and Queen Mary are styled 4f Defenders of the Faith." The resumption of the title, immediately after its repeal by an English statute, and its continuous use ever after, seem to show that the Pope's bar to the use of the title was one of the "censures, judgments, and pains " referred to, and removed, by the Lord Cardinal Pole when he pronounced the notable absolution over the kneeling King, Queen, and entire Parliament : for which see the Act of Philip and Mary above mentioned. I am, &c., S. K.

Gosforth, March 19, 1901.

RICHD. WELFORD.

Coco DE MER OR DOUBLE COCO-NUT (9 th S. vii. 349). " Je lui offris une piece de coco marin avec son fruit, pour augmenter sa collection de graines ; et il me fit le plaisir de 1'accepter" (Bernardin de Saint Pierre, 'Essai sur J. J. Rousseau').

' The Last New Thin - in the Plant World/ in Once a Week, No. 311, 10 June, 1865, vol. xii. pp. 693-6, is an essay on this tree, with two woodcuts, and including some of the myths concerning it. The twentieth century is rather late to be taking the story of the Fall literally. Thirty or forty years ago I used to see a pamphlet on 'Salt the Forbidden Fruit and the Source of All Evil.' I should rather incline to that view. Who was the author ? THOMAS J. JEAKES.

Tower House, New Hampton.

Some memoranda of " Chinese " Gordon on the identity of the forbidden fruit with the coco de mer are given in facsimile, with com- ments by that excellent botanist Mr. James Britten, F.L.S., in the Universal Review for 1888 (vol. ii. p. 567).

WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

TOWNS WHICH HAVE CHANGED THEIR SlTES

(9 th S. vii. 206, 273,359). There should, I think, be instances of these in Central America, South America, and other regions where volcanoes are active, Thus new Guatemala

has superseded old Guatemala, which was destroyed by an eruption in 1774, and old Guatemala in its turn had taken the place of an ancient town which had been carried away by an inundation. T. P. ARMSTRONG.

"MORNING GLORY "(9 th S. vii. 209, 292). The following, taken from the ' New Ameri- can Gardener,' by Thomas G. Fessenden, editor of the New England Farmer (Boston, 1833), will, I think, answer C. C. B.'s ques- tion :

"CONVOLVULUS. Many species annual. Con- volvulus major is commonly called morning glory. It is a vine, and a great runner many colours. Convolvulus minor, called beauty of the night, because it blooms at evening many colours."

KNOWLER.

THE "CROWN" BEHIND THE ROYAL EX- CHANGE (9 th S. vii. 309). The "Crown" in Thread needle Street was one of the most famous of a large group of taverns and coffee-houses situated in the heart of the City, immediately round "the 'Change," during the first half of the eighteenth cen- tury. It was a meeting - place for every conceivable occasion : meetings of creditors : committee meetings of " the Merchants and Traders of this City to consider a proper Application for the Security of the Trade and Navigation of these Kingdoms " (Daily Adv., 22 December, 1742); meetings of the proprietors of the South Sea Company, at one of which King George was " let in " for stock to the value of 10,000^. ( Weekly Journal, 1 February, 1718); of " the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of Surry, residing in Lon- don," in the electioneering interest of George Woodroffe, Esq., "to promote a Parliament- ary Enquiry into Publick Offences" (Daily Adv., 20 March, 1742), &c. Owing to the Bank of England part of whose present chief entrance in Threadneedle Street occu- pies its site possessing " a lease of the Crown for about fifteen years (we hear they intend to fit it up for a Transfer Office)," it escaped destruction when in 1732 the direc- tors "built a house on their estate in Thread- needle Street" (Lond. Eve. Post, 26 February, 1732). In Burn's ' Beaufoy Tokens ' two land- lords are mentioned. On the Lord's Day Pepys went to Mr. Williamson's at the " Crown ' in quest of some members of the Royal Society. After being burnt down in the Great Fire it was rebuilt and occupied by Mr. Blagrove from the "Old King's Head" in New Fish Street. A third landlord is mentioned in the St. James's Evening Post of 14 September, 1736, under circumstances which exhibit the well-accustomed" trade of which Sir John