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But the term " Sarte " is used to distinguish the trader and shopkeeper from the nomadic Tadjik. One writer says, "Quand un Usbeg

est devenu completement sedentaire il

devient Sarte ; le mot * Sarte ' n 'est done pas une appellation ethnique." See 'Eucyc. Brit.' under * Tajak,' and Brockhaus's ' Kon- versations-Lexikon ' under ' Tadschik.'

ARTHUR MAYALL.

PAYING RENT AT A TOMB IN CHURCH (9 th S. viii. 302, 355). Some instances are men- tioned in Walcott's 'Traditions and Customs of Cathedrals,' 1872, p. 95. The tomb of Thomas Haxey, the treasurer, in York Minster, was commonly used for the payment of rents, &c. (Walcott misprints it Haxby). One of the most interesting cases is noted by the Deputy- Keeper of the Public Records, where 50/. was duly tendered on the tomb of " Jeffrey Chawcer" at Westminster, 28 Eliz. (Eighth Rep., 1847, app. ii. p. 169). An ancient rector of Easington, in Holderness, used to sit on a tombstone in the churchyard of Easington, and there receive dues from tenants whose lands had been washed away by the sea (Poulson, * Holderness,' ii. 372).

SWEENY TODD (9 th S. vii. 508; viii. 131' 168, 273, 348). I trust the Editor and readers of ' N. & Q.' will not think me too trouble- some if, before this subject is finally wound up, I venture, speaking as a "hack-artist (descended from a long line of artist-hacks), to say a few words in the hope of saving from total oblivion the name of W. Hornigold, who was the champion artist of the "penny dreadful," "penny plain and twopence coloured," school during the forties. In his day he was regarded as unequalled in this line. Vile drawing, extravagant attitudes, overdone action ; still there was life, spirit what you will let us say, the old Coburg method. Unfortunately he was even better known as a victim of the ubiquitous drink fiend than as an artist. He was, in short, a

remember hearing of him as an artist on active service during the winter of 1861-2, when he designed a record poster for Sanger's (Astley's) Christmas pantomime. It represented an elephant (the living original of which used to be trotted up and down the Westminster and Ken- nington roads during the season as an advertisement). The poster was cut on soft wood and roughly coloured by hand. I would like to add that it was not through ignorance, but through fear of giving offence, that I refrained from mentioning the rela- tionship between Saville Faucit and Lady Martin. Before concluding may I, as an enthusiast in old china, draw attention to what one might style "criminal crockery"? Some few months back there was a loan col- lection of old English china at Bethnal Green. I have stupidly forgotten the name of the collector, and the collection has since been removed. But one special feature was a glass case filled with specimens of crude, vulgar, coarsely coloured china-ware, repre- senting murder subjects, such as 'The Murder in the Red Barn,' 'Stanfield Hall and J. B. Rush,' and so on. Now and then one may see samples of this sort of old crockery in the shop windows ; sold for but a few pence fifty years ago; chiefly got-up to be hawked through villages, and usually swopped for old clothes. Nowadays specimens of this art fetch, I believe, far better prices than they did in the last century. In conclusion, I would wish to thank GNOMON for his kindly references to myself and to the late G. A. Sala. HERBERT B. CLAYTON.

The melodramatic actor referred to by GNOMON was named Edmund (not Edward) Faucit Saville. Mr. Truelove, unless I am very greatly mistaken, was in the British Museum Reading-Room a few days ago.

WM. DOUGLAS.

125, Helix Road, Brixton Hill.

HALSH

vulgar modern edition of Richard Savage or very sorry to have cast an undeserved slur

Mitford. But I prefer not to say too much about the career of this ill-starred genius. During the later fifties he was sent to the wall by the superior talents of the late Robert Prowse, who combined the dash of " Old Horny " with good drawing and a more brilliant style. Thirty or forty years ago publishers who could not afford to pay "Bob" Prowse's terms used to employ an artist of nearly equal talents named Clifton. Robert Prowse the Younger is, I am glad to say, still "in the thick of the fight." Hornigold died somewhere during the sixties. I last

upon MR. MAYALL'S industry. His words were (p. 81), " One wonders why the ' H.E.D.,' which gives 'halse,' did not also record ' halsh,' s. and v., as a main word." I ventured to point out that halsh does appear as a main word, but under the spelling hatch, a fact which seems to me to correct if not almost to contradict his statement. The first criticism he intended to make (as appears from his second note) was that the word should have been treated as a main word under halsh, with a mere cross- reference from halch; and in this criticism