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has been cancelled by his payment of twenty shillings in the pound. Y.

"PENNY IN THE FOREHEAD." In Burton's ' Diary,' 9 March, 1658/9, it is said :

"Sir A. Haslerigge turned from the chair, and they called him to speak to the chair. He said, ' 1 am not bound always to look you in the face, like children, to see if you have a penny in your fore- head.'"

The phrase, apparently proverbial, is also used by Roger North, ' Examen,' II. v., "to be wheedled as children with a penny in the forehead." What is the meaning ? It seems to have wholly died out of remembrance, for I find no reference to it in the indexes of 1 N. & Q.' C. B. MOUNT.

KOGER RACKET, D.D., 1559-1621. Is the 'Diet. Nat. Biog.' (vol. xxiii. p. 421) correct in saying that this " eminent preacher," who was rector of North Crawley, Bucks, from 1590 until his death in 1621, was "son of !Sir Cuthbert Racket, Lord Mayor of London " ? Sir Cuthbert Racket, of the Drapers' Com- pany, was Lord Mayor in 1626-7, and, accord- ing to the Racket pedigree taken at the Visitation of London, 1634 (Harl. Soc. Pub., vol. xv. p. 339), his second son was named Roger ; but the dates make one hesitate to believe that this Roger was the rector of North Crawley. H. C.

OLD SONGS. What is the old song 'The Lamentations of a Sinner "I Where can I find the text of ' The Beggar's Petition ' 1 In what song do the days call the sun their "dad"? A. F. T.

MALABARIAN HYMN. A hymn written at the end of the seventeenth century by Johann Jakob Schiitz, beginning "Sei Lob und Ehr dem hochsten Gut," is now found in most German collections as a "Hymn of Thanks- giving." A translation, beginning "All glory to the Sov'reign Good," was made by John Christian Jacobi, the keeper of the Royal German Chapel, St. James's Palace, London, from 1708 to 1750, for his ' Psalmodia Ger- manica,' and there entitled 'The Malabarian Hymn.' Why was this title chosen?

M. C. L.

CHARLES LAMB AND THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

"It would be no incurious inquiry to ascertain what the minimum of the faculty of imagination, ever supposed essential to painters along with poets, is that, in these days of complaints of want of patronage towards the tine arts, sulHces to dub a man an R.A."

This is Charles Lamb's remark a propos of G. D., painter of portraits of the Empress of Russia, buried in St. Paul's Cathedral

(Englishman s Magazine, September, 1831). Who was G. D. ? Was he an R.A. ?

JOHN HEBB.

CREST AND MOTTO. I recently purchased a fine copy of Collinson's ' History of Somerset' (3 vols.), bound in leather, with a bull's head erased pierced by an arrow, within a garter on which is stamped the motto, "Prodesse quam conspici." To what family do the crest and motto belong ?

CURIO.

BROSELEY PIPES. The late Richard Thurs- field, Esq., of Bridgnorth, possessed a fine collection of Broseley pipes, of which the owner and the late Llewellynn Jewitt, F.S.A., wrote excellent descriptions in the Reliquary of October, 1862. It has been said that this collection was sold to Mr. Mayer, of Liver- pool, or to Mr. Blagg, of Sheffield, soon after those descriptions were printed. The curator of the Liverpool Museum informs me it is not there ; neither can I find it at the Sheffield Museum or at South Kensington. Can any of your numerous readers kindly inform me of its present possessor 1 T. H. T.

PLESSY COLLEGE, ESSEX. Has any history or information about this college been pub- lished since the ' History of Plessy ' by Gough (which has been consulted) 1 This college had given to it in 1394, by Thomas of Woodstock, the rectory of Whitstable, in Kent; and Plessy College was patron of Whitstable Church until 1535. Any information as to Plessy College and Whitstable would be most acceptable. ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Tankerton-on-Sea, Kent.

" RACING." The Sheffield Independent dated Saturday, 22 June, contains an account of an inquest concerning the death of a grinder who sustained fatal injuries by the breaking of a grindstone, and the report says :

' ' Deceased was racing a grindstone which had been

hung a short time previously arid the stone was

only revolving at half the usual working speed

Whilst deceased was racing it, it suddenly broke in two, and the back part of it hit deceased on the head, and knocked the tool with which he was working against his chest."

This word is in continual use by grinders, and by them is understood to mean to get the grindstone to run true round. The pro- cess is similar to turning at a lathe. Does the word " racing " with this meaning appear in any dictionary or glossary 1 H. J. B.

QUOTATIONS IN ' POLICRATICUS.' Can any reader of * N. & Q.' help me to the sources of the following quotations and proverbs, which