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the rowdy and drunken behaviour of G. F. Cooke, who, with Thomas Dibdin, dined with Britton one Saturday night. On the following Monday morning his landlord and next-door neighbour, a zealous Huntingtoman, served him with notice to quit as soon as possible.
Samuel Prout lodged with Britton for a time, and his second and third exhibits in the Royal Academy (1803 and 1804) are dated from 21, Wilderness Row, Clerkenwell. Margaret Lavington.
THE YOUNGER VAN HELMONT : " FAH-
NENSCHWINGEN " : LAMBOURN (US. vii. 307,
378, 467). The infantry colours of the six- teenth and seventeenth centuries are shown in a large number of contemporary prints (e.g., purer, B. 87, H. S. Beham, B. 170, H. Goltzius, " Signifer," also anon, woodcut in the Germ. Mus. of 1660-1700, Infantry Soldiers, reprod. in G. Liebe, ' Der Soldat.' 1899) as pieces of cloth three to five and even more feet square. The staff is very short, extending only about a foot beyond the cloth. Owing to this the colours, grasped in one hand, had to be continually swung about the colour-bearer's head to keep them displayed. The resulting exer- cise is comparable to swinging dumbbells, only considerably harder work. " Fahnen- schwingen" may still at times be seen in Switzerland at pageants and parades.
D. L. GALBREATH. Montreux.
In a series of questions about Van Helmont your correspondent MR. F. S. DARROW quotes a statement that places Lambourn in the county of Wilts, which is given in my
- Gazetteer ' as in Berks, not in Wilts. Why
this variance in topography ? It is simply an error : Lambourn is in Berks, but only -about three miles from the border of the two counties. It is on the direct road to Rams- bury in Wilts a road I know well, having often walked both ways, a distance of seven miles. C. S. JERRAM.
Oxford.
THE TWELVE GOOD RULES (11 S. vii. 509). A reference to any annotated edition of ' The Deserted Village ' would have answered MR. G. J. DEW'S query. I quote from Mr. G. G. Whiskard's edition (Claren- don Press, 1912) :
" The so-called rules of King Charles I., said to have been found in his study after his death. They were: '(1) Urge no healths; (2) Profane no divine ordinances ; (3 ) Touch no state matters ; <4) Reveal no secrets ; (5) Pick no quarrels ; <6) Make no comparisons ; (7) Maintain no
ill opinions ; (8) Keep no bad company ; (9)
Encourage no vice ; (10) Make no long meals ;
(11) Repeat no grievances ; (12) Lay no wagers.'
These rules, printed on a placard and sur-
mounted by a picture of the King's execution,
were commonly hung on the wall, especially in
taverns."
C. B. WHEELER. 80, Hamilton Terrace, N.W.
I quote the following from Goldsmith's ' Deserted Village,' annotated by Walter McLeod, F.R.G.S., F.C.P., London, Long- mans, Green & Co., n.d. [1858].
" Line 232. Royal game of goose :
"This game originated, I believe, in Germany, and is well calculated to make children ready at
reckoning the produce of two given numbers It
is called the game of goose, because at every fourth and fifth compartment* in succession a goose ia depicted ; and if the cast thrown by the player falls upon a g9ose, he moves forward double ths number of his throw.' Strutt's ' Sports and Pastimes,' p. 336.
"Line 232. See nearly the same language in 4 The Citizen of the World,' Letter XXX."
FRANK CURRY.
In his notes to ' The Deserted Village ' in 'Longer English Poems' (1892), p. 353, Mr. J. W. Hales says :
"See Crabbe's 'Parish Register,' Parti, of the pictures possessed by ' the industrious swain ' :
There is King Charles and all his golden rules,
Who proved Misfortune's was the best of schools
[The rules are printed above.] Jonson wrote
rules for the Devil Tavern (close by Temple Bar on the river side)."
A. R. BAYLEY.
[MR. W. B. KINOSFORD also thanked for reply.]
GEORGE WALKER, GOVERNOR OF LON- DONDERRY (11 S. vii. 348). It may help MR. F. B. McCREA in his quest for the Scottish ancestry of the famous Governor to know that, according to Canon Philip Dwyer's book on the siege of Londonderry, Walker was educated at Glasgow University. He alludes to his love of Scotland and her people in warm terms (see Preface to ' Walker's Vindication'). Researches made by Mr. George W r alker of Waddington are cited by Canon Dwyer to show that the Governor's father took refuge in England (it is not stated from where he came) during the early troubles of the Revolution (see Kirk Deighton Registries, Yorkshire), and obtained the livings of Kirk Deighton and Wighill, probably through the influence of the Stanhope family. He may have come from Scotland. WILLIAM MACARTHUR.
79, Talbot Street, Dublin.
- "Played on a table which is divided into sixty-
three compartments."
