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eighteen years old. When the day came our hostess presented her at breakfast with a arge sponge-cake, in which eighteen lighted candles of various colours were stuck. This, she said, is a common custom in Germany, but she could not say how it originated, or what was the precise meaning of the candles, except that they showed the person's age. Can any one enlighten me 1 C. C. B.

THE GODMOTHERS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. Dr. Creighton in his 'Queen Elizabeth ' states that the godmothers at her baptism in Sep- tember, 1533, were the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk and the Dowager Marchioness of Dorset. Was this latter Margaret Wotton, who married the second Marquis of Dorset, and who was sister to Sir Edward Wotton, the treasurer of Calais, and to Nicholas Wotton, who is said to have been the only man ever dean of both Canterbury and York 1 ? I have no means of obtaining the date of the death of her husband, Thomas Grey, and shall be very grateful for the information. M. E. W.

SARTEN. Will somebody help me to classify this language? It is spoken in Kokant, on the eastern side of the Caspian Sea, and is apparently a connexion of Turkish. The plurals of nouns are formed by adding -lar, "and the words seem mainly to be Turkish. In the course of the next two months I hope to have a grammar (in Russian, alas !), but meanwhile am I to place this tongue as Turanian under the same heading as Osmanli, Kirghiz, Kossak, and the like 1 References to Sarten in English philological books would be interesting.

FRED. G. ACKERLEY.

Seemansheim, Libau, Russia.

CHARLES KINGSLEY: CHRISTMAS CAROL. What is the date (approximately) of the carol in * Westward Ho !' chap. ix. ] The author, I presume, is not known. It cannot, I imagine, be Kingsley's own, as it is not included in his collected poems, ed. 1895. The carol consists of seven verses, and begins : As Joseph was a- walking He heard an angel sing " This night shall be the birth-night Of Christ, our heavenly King."

Where did Kingsley meet with it ?

JONATHAN BOUCHIER.

CAPT. CRADOCK. Where can I find a refer- ence to the Capt. Cradock who arrested King Charles 1. 1 Is anything known as to the origin of this Roundhead, who seems to have figured conspicuously in the Civil War ? Was he related to the Cavalier Capt.

Cradock who was killed or taken prisoner at the battle of St. Fagan's 1

JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS. Town Hall, Cardiff.

LONDON COFFEE-HOUSES AND TAVERNS.

(9 th S. viii. 224.)

THE "Antwerp" Coffee-house, which was situated "behind the Royal Exchange" (Bagford Bills, Harl. Coll. 5996), doubt- less originated, like its neighbour the " Amsterdam," with the patronage of foreign merchants who frequented 'Change in con- nexion with the Flanders trade, and whose picturesque costumes are exhibited in Wen- ceslaus Hollar's view of the first or Gresham Exchange in 1644. The "Antwerp," which Mr. H. B. Wheatley (Wheatley's ' Cunning- ham ') says did not survive the Great Fire, must, however, either have been rebuilt or have had its sign revived, for it is described so late as 1815, in the ' Epicure's Almanack ' of that date, as being situated at 58, Thread- needle Street, when it was celebrated for " the superior goodness of its wines." The tokens extant which relate to it represent a river view of Amsterdam's famous seventeenth- century rival in commerce. It was also known as " the Ship at the Exchange," being thus described among well-known taverns particularized in ' Newes from Bartholomew Fay re,' and a tavern token exhibits a three- masted ship in the field (Burn's 'Beaufoy Tokens,' No. 1157). There is also a token extant of the " King's Arms " in Threadneedle Street ('Beaufoy Tokens,' No. 1160). The " King's Arms " was the sign of " Mr. Bo wen, at Mrs. Raw's Old Shop, at the North Gate of the Royal Exchange, facing Bartholomew- Lane," where was sold " The Elixir Stiptico- Balsamicum " (Daily Advertiser, 1 October, 1741); and there was a " King's Arms " Tavern in Cornhill, where, among many other coffee- houses, tickets might be had for the " Feast of the Sons of the Clergy " ( Whitehall Even- ing Post, 29 April, 1756). But that which your correspondent's inquiry concerns is perhaps the " King's Arms " in Lombard Street, since that tavern is coupled with "Grigsby's" in an advertisement inviting buyers to meet the wholesale dealer at these places in connexion with the sale of " Mineral Spirits and other Chemical Preparations carefully elaborated by Zacharias Nieman, at his Laboratory, at the Copperas-House the lower End of Poplar" (Daily Advertiser, 26 February, 1742). This can hardly be