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make a good pot until the Frenchman taught them how, and got a flogging in the Stone Jug for his wages." The witness to this saying is the mutilated vase in the Holburne Museum at Bath, of which a photograph may be found in Chaffers's ' Ceramic Gallery.' It bears date 1769, and is signed "I. Voyez," with Pal- mer's stamp upon the material of the base, and is thus witness to the mastership of the designer and the incompetence of the manu- facturer. 1769 is the year in which Voyez was imprisoned for three months in Stone (?) Gaol, after his flogging. The semi-nude figure of a girl (for the making of which during work hours, in the company of a model and a stone jug of London stout, he obtained wage of whip and imprisonment upon Wedgwood's complaint) is utilized in this design. A glance at the " pot which failed in the baking " shows its superiority to anything produced in Staffordshire at an earlier date, and also that, in outline at any rate, all Wedgwood's later productions suffer beside it. A very fine bas-relief of Prometheus carved in ivory by Voyez is shown in the same case, and is reproduced upon the sides of this master vase. Other work of even greater interest, and by the same hand, is to be seen at the v Holburne. I should be glad of information as to the parentage and career of Voyez, other than the partisan statements of Wedgwood's biographers. Also I should be glad to know where specimens of his skill in ivory, wood, gem-engraving, and gold- smith's work are to be seen outside the Holburne Museum. J. A. GOODCHILD.

Bordighera.

AUTHOR OF SAYING. Who was it who said, in speaking of a herald, "The silly man did not know even his own silly business " 1 I need hardly say that it is not from any sympathy with the sentiment that I ask the question. C. S. H.

[Something resembling it is in ' Rob Roy,' where the elder Osbaldistone says to the younger, apropos of poetry, " Why, Frank, you do not even under- stand the beggarly trade you have chosen," vol. i. p. 21, "Border Edition."]

STRAWBERRY LEAVES. What is the deriva- tion of the strawberry leaves in the coronets of certain ranks of peers 1 The ordinary books of reference, as well as the ' Encyclo- paedia Britannica,' have been consulted in vain. A. N.

ATWELL AND MAIN FAMILIES. Many early colonists of the present state of Maine were Devonshire men, and some effort is now being made to trace their places of

birth. John Main came to Maine between 1630 and 1640, and with him came one John Atwell, who married Main's daughter. They settled at Falmouth and Nortn Yarmouth (the present town of York, Maine), having for neighbours Battens, Felts, Carrals, Prebles, and Corbins. Associated with them were the noted colonists Richard Cleaves, a Devonian ; Richard Martin, son of a mayor of Plymouth ; and one John Tucker, who named his home Stpgumber, after his birthplace in Somerset- shire. Richard Corbin and one of the Atwells were killed by the Indians, 11 August, 1676. John Atwell is perhaps the child aged one year in the Visitation of Devonshire in 1620 (Harleian Society's Publications, p. 12), and as such from Kenton and Mamhead. Can any one place John Main, his wife Elizabeth, or any of his children, as born in Devon- shire *? Any information thankfully received and acknowledged as of great value for a contemplated genealogy.

STUART C. WADE. 308, West 33rd Street, New York.

CHAPLAINS. Information requested as to the earliest approximate mention of Speaker's, Lord Mayor's, Court, naval, military, domes- tic, and institutions' chaplains.

(Rev.) H. HAWKINS.

23, Parkhurst Road, Colney Hatch, N.

"EVE STOOD AT THE GARDEN GATE." Who

is the author of the following, or in what collection of poems may it be found ? Eve stood at the Garden gate In the hush of an Eastern spring.

The last word may read "morn."

M. JACOMB-HOOD. Broadwater House, Tunbridge Wells.

EPITAPH AT STRATFORD-UPON-AVON. On a tombstone bearing the date 1700, on the pavement of the parish church at Stratford- upon-Avon, there is an epitaph which reads thus :

Oft spreading trees malignant winds do blast And blustring stormes do rend, root out at last The earths turn'd up the shatterd branches by Thus throu deaths rage things in disorders ly. Have these lines been included in any pub- lished collection of epitaphs ? Are they a quotation from any printed book which was in vogue at their date ? By whom were they composed 1 The position of " by " is notable, and "disorder" in the plural.

E. S. DODGSON.

A SURVIVAL OF PAGANISM. There is a common belief amongst the country folk in Herefordshire that it is unlucky to kill a pig during the waning moon. It must always be