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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. vm. DEC. 21, 1901.

The eucalyptus family has also the pro- perty of driving away mosquitos ; as the leaves of these plants are very fragrant, their perfume might also drive away flies. I would recommend your friend to purchase a plant of Eucalyptus citrodorus, or globulus, to place in his study; the scent of the citro- dorus is by far the more pleasant, but the globulus might be more efficacious. Some years ago I saw plants of this genus for sale at Mr. Bull's in Chelsea. M. M. L.

Costa Rica.

SWEENY TODD (9 th S. vii. 508 ; viii. 131, 168, 273, 348, 411). The collection of pottery and porcelain to which MR. HERBERT B. CLAY- TON refers as having been lately on view at the Bethnal Green Museum was lent by Mr. Henry Willett, of Brighton. There were eighteen specimens of " criminal " crockery included in the catalogue. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

W. Hornegold (pronounced Horneygold), referred to at the last reference, is in Boase's ' Modern English Biography.' I have hun- dreds of prints drawn by him. The Willett collection of art pottery is the one MR. CLAY- TON refers to. Before it was at the Bethnal Green Museum it was at Brighton. It is probably unique, and is, from an historical point of view, most interesting ; and Mr. Willett can feel assured that his liberality in allowing it to be exhibited is fully appre- ciated. RALPH THOMAS.

SIR ISAAC PENNINGTON, LORD MAYOR OF LONDON, 1643 (9 th S. viii. 263, 429). Your correspondent MR. W. D. PINK is in error as to the date of death of the father of this Mayor, which should be 1627 (instead of 1628). On 26 April of that year, as we learn from the parish register, he was buried at St. Andrew Undershaft, London, as " Mr. Rob fc ^ Penington, householder." Sir Isaac Pennington's eldest son was baptized in the same parish, 8 Dec., 1616, as "Izaacc [sic] s Mr. Izaacc Pennyngton " (Par. Keg.).

W. I. R. V.

BIRTHPLACE OF LORD BEACONSFIELD (9 th S. viii. 317, 426).-In P. Boyle's 'General London Guide,' 1794, p. 4, there is the follow- ing entry under the head of 'Merchants'- Disraeli Ben. 26, Broad-st.-buildings "

W. C. B.

' THE TEMPEST ' ANAGRAM (9 th S. viii 442) At the age of six I used to be rather a don at what we called " the letter game," and should have thought scorn of myself if I had ottered a solution which required a letter

beyond the confused heap handed to me by a playfellow. MR. SIBREE does not " play fair." Let me try. "E. S., D.,* University College, found Bacon's freedom t prematurely worm'd." There you have every letter and the apostrophe.

To quote Autolycus, " I '11 anagrammatize " you so eight years together, dinners and suppers and sleeping-hours excepted ; it is the right " Bacon- woman's rank to" mania. Next, please ! Q. V.

The anagram is ingenious ; and doubtless Bacon would have been delighted to make it or discover it, had he been able. But, un- fortunately, he was prevented. 'The Tempest' was put on the stage, probably in 1610, certainly before 1614, in which year Ben Jonson brought out 'Bartholomew Fair,' the induction of which contains a manifest allusion to 'The Tempest.' But Bacon was not created Lord Verulam till 1618. If, therefore, he wrote the concluding lines of the Epilogue, he must either have prophesied, or (perilous supposition !) have got at Heminge and Condell, and persuaded them to add those lines when they were bringing out the folio. C. B. MOUNT.

This anagram occurs in Act III. sc. v. of ' Romeo and Juliet ' :

Now by Saint Peter's church, and Peter too, He shall not make me there a joyful bride.

On transposing the letters we get

William Shakspeare. Not another poet could be author.

Your correspondent has taken the liberty of adding a letter. I have taken the liberty of discarding a dozen letters. We can get any meaning that we please through ana- grams, especially when we can choose out of a hundred thousand lines such as are most convenient for .our purpose. E. YARDLEY.

" BEN-CLERK " (9 th S. viii. 325). This word as quoted by MR. DEEDES, although practic- ally the same as "Beauclerk"( = fine scholar), is not, I have good reason to believe, a mis- print for the latter. W. I. R. V.

PARIS CATACOMBS (9 th S. viii. 422). Pre- cisely the same question was asked thirty years ago (4 th S. vi. 369), to which a reply was

or otherhow), so ingenious a person deserves the sixteenth and seventeenth century contraction for that title.
 * If MR. SIBREE is not a Doctor (of Literature,

t Freedom, obviously used in the sense of " frank- ness, outspokenness, self-disclosure," as in Addison's ' Italy' (1705, p. 86) : " They are generally too dis- trustful of one another for the Freedoms that are us'd in such kind of Conversations."