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 9*8. viii. SEPT. 21, 1901.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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WHYTE-MELVILLE. Will some kind frien* oblige me with a correct copy of the inscrip tion over the grave of the late Major Whyte Melville, the well-known novelist? He wa killed by a fall from his horse on 5 Decembe 1878, and is buried in Tetbury Churchyard Gloucestershire. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

S. Du Bois, SEVENTEENTH - CENTURA PAINTER. I have two family portraits, life size, of the Rev. Dr. John Mapletoft, of St Lawrence Jewry, and his wife (nee Rebecca Knightley, of Fawsley). They are signed "S. du Bois fecit, 1685," and are artistically of a high order of merit, the faces almost speaking from their frames. Is anything known of this artist, or have any readers of 'N. & Q.' examples of his? In the year mentioned Dr. Mapletoft left the rectory of Braybrooke, Northants, for St. Lawrence (where he remained as rector till his death, in his ninetieth year, in 1720), and it is pos- sible that the portraits were presentation ones by his Brayorooke parishioners.

MICHAEL FERRAR. Little Gidding, Baling.

[The * D.N.B.' states that Du Bois came to Eng- land in 1685, and gives a long list of portraits painted by him. There is also a short notice in Bryan.]

GEORGE DAWE AND CHARLES LAMB. In Lamb's 'Recollections of a late Royal Aca- demician ' (George Da we) we read :

" If fate, as it was at one time nearly arranged,

had wafted D. to the shores of Hayti he would

have sate down for life to smutch in upon canvas the faces of blubber-lipped sultanas, or the whole male retinue of the dingy Court of Christophe."

Are particulars of the Haytian overtures to the artist extant ? R. L.

"OLD ORIGINAL." When and where was this absurd phrase first coined 1 In Sheffield quite recently there was a tavern with a sign "Old Original Grindstone," and in a busy thoroughfare called Button Lane there is a famous oatcake baker with a high reputation for excellent oatcakes, and over the shop window the sign is "Old Original Oatcake." These signs are not mentioned in the ' History of Signboards,' by Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten. H. J. B.

TOMBLAND. Is the exact origin of this piece of land in Norwich known ? I am told that it is said to be derived from a French knight to whom the Conqueror made a grant of this land the Sieur de Tomblaine, a name which probably afterwards underwent many corruptions. Can any reader of 1 N. & Q.'

tell me where information bearing on this is likely to be found ? ARTHUR GROVES. Stanley Cottage, Alperton, Wembley.

PLACE-NAMES IN THE ' JOURNAL OF GEORGE Fox.' May I be allowed the benefit of your readers' assistance in the identification of the following places for the purpose of the pro- duction of a map to accompany the ' Journal '? I give the form the names take in the first edition (1694).

Adingworth, associated with Northampton.

Bushel House, associated with Burton-on- Trent.

Causal, in Warwickshire ; also Cossel.

Eldreth, probably in the Settle district.

High Town, in Yorkshire.

Irbs Court, or Jubbs Court, in Somerset- shire, not far from Bristol.

Mendle, associated with Long Crendon, Dhesham, &c.

Patchgate, associated with Capel and Horsham.

The Slone (1 South Wales).

Whitehaugh (? Derbyshire or Staffs).

NORMAN PENNEY. Friends' Institute, Bishopsgate Without, E.C.

THE 'MARSEILLAISE.' (9 th S. viii. 61, 126, 187.) I READILY accept the courteous apology >f MR. JULIAN MARSHALL in the spirit in which it is written. As to his remark about he "plaintiff" and the " little judge in Pickwick,'" it certainly does not apply to his case.

First of all, let us not forget that it is not one plaintiff, but a majority of French writers, who have deeply investigated the matter, whose opinion goes against Rouget's uthorship. Secondly, there is a well-known loman legal maxim that "he who is silent n he ought to speak, and could speak, s held to consent." Now it has been pointed ut by ever so many French writers that rom the beginning, when the ' Marseillaise ' une was attributed to other origins, Rouget e 1'Isle remained strangely silent. The same thing happened with his so-called ephew at the decisive moment. Amedee louget de 1'Isle, who wrote 'LaVe'rite sur a Paternite de la Marseillaise,' began a law- uit against Fetis senior for defamation. Sut when M. Charles Vervoitte, the Musical )irector of St. Roch and President of the ociety of Sacred Music at Paris, had found he oratorio of Grisons at St. Omer, and