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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. VIL j K 22, 1901.

hold appointment? The "staff" and the "gold Key" have such meanings. Is* there in 'N. & Q.' a list of badges of office whose names are used in ordinary language to designate the offices themselves 1 O. O. H.

GLADSTONE VOLUME. I am anxious to procure a little volume by Mr. Gladstone, the substance of some articles on Arthur Henry Hallam, which were contributed to the Daily Telegraph, were afterwards reprinted by an American periodical called the Youth's Magazine, and finally issued in book (or pamphlet) form in U.S. Having failed to trace this by the ordinary trade channels, I am writing in the hope that you can further my search by putting me on the right track if known to you.

NORMAN MACLEOD. 25, George IV. Bridge, Edinburgh.

A SCOTS HEIRESS AS A RECLUSE IN BOLOGNA. Is anything known of a succession case to the estates of Auchannachie in the parish of Glass, Aberdeenshire, at the beginning of last century ? The heir-at-law was discovered to be a religious recluse in a garret at Bologna, where she was living all ignorant of her oirthright, to which she was in due course served heiress. The Gordons owned Auchan- nachie for many generations.

J. M. BULLOCH.

118, Pall Mall.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY. Can any one inform me whether there is any reference book in existence containing separate lists of the works historic, poetic, dramatic, fictional, &c. written on all the principal events of universal history ? If not, is there any book of approximate description 1

J. M.

New College, Oxford.

"CANNY": "CHEVAUX." In some letters home written by a midshipman from the Mediterranean in 1798 I fmct the expression " to be on short canny," clearly meaning " on ship's provisions," and possibly also on two- thirds allowance, or "six upon four." Can any one explain the word canny, which, in this sense, .is new to me 1

Also "Sir John Orde gave a grand chevaux, to which he was so good as to invite me." Chevaux is, of course, what is still spoken of as a "sheave-o." Can any one suggest the derivation and proper spelling ?

J. K. LAUGHTON.

KIPLING STORIES. In what magazines have the following appeared 1 ' Bitters Neat," Pit that they Digged,' ' Track of a Lie,' ' Legs

of Sister Ursula,' * Lamentable Comedy of Willow Wood.' ELLIOT STOCK.

62, Paternoster Row.

" CHEVAUX ORYNGES " : " FEUILLES DE LATTIER." What is the meaning of "chevaux orynges" (Flaubert, * Salammbd,' p. 145, ed. definitive), " etalon orynge " (ib., p. 250) ? Also of "feuilles de lattier noir" (ib., p. 121)?

CECILIA.

CORNISH PLACE-NAMES. What are the meaning and derivation of the names (fre- quent in Cornwall) Bolitho, Vingoe, Bosanko, Bosustow (also Bosista and Bosusta) 1 Is there any relation between the terminal o in each name ? YGREC.

POWDERING SLIPPERS. A discussion upon powdering gowns has recently taken place in ' N. & Q.' In Miss Edgeworth's story of the basket-woman in the 'Parent's Assistant' mention is made of powdering slippers. Can you give any information about them ?

GEORGE H. COURTENAY.

"FALL BELOW PAR." It is said that on Kaiser Wilhelm's ninetieth birthday, when callers wished him "many happy returns," the emperor answered them, "I have no hope of seeing another." Thereupon Roth- schild's repartee was, "Your majesty must have a dozen returns, for we bankers cannot afford to let you fall below par." What his- torical ground is there for this bon mot ?

JAMES D. BUTLER.

Madison, Wis.

IDENTIFICATION OF ARMS. When Coates wrote 'The History of Reading' there was in St. Mary's Church in that town the achieve- ment of arms of Thomas Buckeridge Noyes, of Southcot, Reading :

Quarterly, 1, Arg., three cross-crosslets in bend dexter sable (Noyes) ;

2, Gules, a fesse or between eight billets of the same (May, co. Hants) ;

3, Sable, three pallets or charged with six cross-crosslets fi tehee of the first (query) ;

4, Or, on a fesse sable three chess rooks of the first between three leopards' faces gules (Noyes).

Impaling, Arg., a chevron azure between three owls, two and one, of the same (Hucks).

The first, second, and fourth quarters and the impalement are explainable. The above Thomas Noyes's father married an heiress of May, and his wife was a daughter of Robert Hucks, of Aldenham, Herts. The third quarter is my difficulty. Thomas Noyes's grandmother was a Buckeridge, and his father, George Noyes, on the death of Thomas