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on the tail of a bird, or laid about in an
ordinary way. It reminds me of the roasted
wonderful umbrella mounted on a strong
bamboo cane. It had copper springs and
cover of dark-brown Padua silk. That
and powdered mouse given in Derbyshire I a
for various childish ailments. Then why seems to identify Col. Cosmo Gordon with
ten crayfish? In folk-lore numbers are | the print. CONSTANCE SKELTON.
usually odd, and five, seven, or nine fish
would be more likely numbers. Can any
one locate this item of folk-lore?
THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop.
SWANS : RIGHT TO KEEP THEM. The
Dyers' Company have kept swans " time
out of mind," but seem to have no record
of the royal licence by which they obtained
the right to do so. Any early historical
ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL. I have for many mention of these swans would greatly oblige, years believed that " orthopaedic " ^ was as also references to similar permission derived from 6p06<s and TTOVS, like opOoirovs, granted to the Vintners and other public
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Please
Children Straight : Reflections after visiting
the Orthopedic Hospital. by H. Hamilton
Fyfe," in which (p. 3) is the following :- '
ITALIAN GENEALOGY. Can any one tell
me of some Italian book on genealogy,
to our Burke or Debrett, which
give me full and authentic geriea-
particulars of the principal families
straight, smdpais, a child. Here you have the main logical particulars oi the principal tamuies
business of the Hospital, to make children straight.'* of the Neapolitan aristocracy up to the
Is this the originally intended derivation? P res f nt da y? J f suc , h a book exists, at
It appears to be contradicted to some extent ^ples or anywhere else, I should be glad
by certain passages in a leaflet which accom- | to know how and where to Procure a copy,
panied the pamphlet :
" Since the foundation of the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in 1838, over 300,000 crippled and deformed children and adults have been relieved or cured by
NICHOLAS BREAKSPEAR, POPE ADRIAN IV. : CAUSE OF HIS DEATH. I remember reading s ave een reeve or cure y som ewhere, in days long gone by, that this
amalgamated and called the Orthopaedic Hospital ").
Pope (the only Englishman who ever occu-
Royal National | pid the papal chair) died from being choked
by a fly; but unfortunately I omitted
The Orthopaedic Hospital is for the cure of making any note of reference at the time,
cripples of alleges, but ^especially its aim is to and though I have since looked into most
- "ble, &c. o f ^ e encyclopaedias, I have been unable
speaks of " Orthopaedic | to find any confirmation of it. Ranke's
' History ' does not go so far back (1154-9).
Can any reader kindly guide me in the object of my search? OCTOGENARIAN. [The ' D.N.B.' says he died of quinsy.]
make those children able," &c.
The leaflet also
surgery."
Does this mean " straight child " or " straight foot " surgery? Is not the suggested derivation from Trais an ingenious afterthought? ROBERT PIERPOINT.
St. Austins, Warrington.
[The 'N.E.D.' gives "Relating to or concerned
HARRIS, SILVER-BUCKLE MAKER. Is any
list obtainable of the royal warrant-holders
with the care of deformities in children" as the under King George III., with their business
meaning, and derives the word from French usage.] address or private residence? The name
f * he
THE MACARONI MAGISTRATE. I have just
purchased an old print showing a buck
in a blue coat, with a huge umbrella under i M .
his arm. The print bears the inscription, I Ma J est y-
apparently in writing, " ri - 1 ^ - A1 - -
Macaroni Magistrate."
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A later hand has
spelt out the name to " Gordon." Am I right in believing that he was Col. the Hon. Cosmo Gordon (1737-1813), who killed Col. Thomas of the Guards in Hyde Park in 1783? I notice from a chapter dealing with him in 'The Gay Gordons,' by Mr. J. M. Bulloch (pp. 159-64), that he possessed a
in Hatton Garden between 1780 and
and was silver-buckle maker to his
FOOTGEAR.
Col. G n, the I SMITH FAMILY OF WEST KENNETT, WILTS.
I should be very glad to receive any in-
formation about the above family, whose
burial-place is at Avebury, Wilts. Is their
house still standing? The earliest record
I am able to find is in 1623, when Richard
Smith was in possession; and the earliest
legible inscription on a memorial stone in
the church is to Thomas Smith of West
