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10 s. vm. OCT. 12, 1907.] NOTES AND QUERIES.


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Baron Neuman. Baron Forchetta.

Alexander Dunn. The Scotch Damien.

Welbore Ellis. Guy Faux of 1770.

Nancy Parsons. The Female Pilot.

Marquis of Granby. Germanicus.

Sir Robert Lad broke. The Father of the City.

Due de Nivernois. Barebones.

Arthur Murphy. The Irish Owl.

J. J. Rousseau. The Savage Man.

George Townshend, Marquis To wnshend. Sulky.

Rev. Dr. John Burton. Parson Surly.

Lord George Lyttelton. Cassius ; Gudgeon.

John Wilkes. Col. Sedition ; Col. Cataline.

William Hogarth. The Panel Painter.

Rev. Charles Churchill. The Bruiser.

Duke of Newcastle. Goody Mahon : The Goose ; Goody Old Castle.

Earl of Barrymore (?). The Noble Gambler.

Robert Henley, Earl of Northington. Surly Bob ; Surly.

Charles Townshend. The Weathercock.

Edmund Burke. The Jesuit ; Loyola.

Sir Robert Walpole. Sejanus ; Robin.

William Pitt, 1st Lord Chatham. The Political Redeemer; Will Honest; West-Country Will; Heaven-Born Minister.

Tobias Smollett. Dr. Small Wit.

George Grenville. George Stamp ; The Stamper ; The Great Financier.

Charles James Fox. Reynard ; The Word- Eater ; a Sansculotte ; a Democrat ; Citizen Vol- pone ; Republican Hercules ; Worn-Out Patriot ; Champion of the People ; Westminster Watchman ; Ahitophel ; Carlo Khan : His Highness the Pro- tector ; Black Charley ; The Coal Heaver ; Charley Black beard; Demosthenes; Loader.

Lord Mansfield. Judas Iscariot ; Lord Chief Justice Jeffries [sic] ; Strix.

Dowager Princess of Wales. The Wanton Widow.

George III. The Button-Maker; The Sleepy Shepherd ; The Royal Dupe ; David Simple of Noodle Hall ; Uncle Dick ; Farmer George.

Frederick, 2nd Earl of Guilford, Lord North. Boreas ; The Badger ; The Washerwoman ; The State Watchman ; Mother Cole.

Augustus Henry, 3rd Duke of Grafton. The Turf Macaroni ; Capt. Macheath ; The Balance Master.

John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford. Bloomsbury Jack; Old Miser Grappall; Covent Garden Cob- bler ; Jack Rustle ; The Leviathan ; The Great Bedfordshire Ox ; The Bloomsbury Farmer.

John Stuart, Earl of Bute. The Wire Master ; The Scottish Pilot; The Northern Grinder; The Scotch Colossus ; The Northern Dancing Master ; Roger Mortimer ; John a Boot'; False Joseph ; The Mountebank ; The Political Bagpiper ; The State Quack ; Cousin Johnny ; His Northern Lordship ; The Thane ; Sawney ; Gisbal, Lord of Hebron ; Johnny Boot.

Rev. John Home Tooke. The Parson of Brent- ford ; The Old Brentford Shuttlecock.

Henry Fox, 1st Lord Holland. Volpone ; Rey nard; The Sturdy Beggar; The Lying Hydra; The Bawd of the Nation ; The Toy- Woman. General Henry Seymour Conway. Prudence. Richard Grenville Temple, 2nd Earl Temple. Dick the Templar.

William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot. Lord Dripping; Mother Tor buck. Rev. George Whitefield. The Field Preacher.


William Petty, Lord Shelburne, created 1st Mar- quis of Lansdowne. Crafty ; Judas Iscariot.

Dr. William Scott. Anti-Sejanus.

John Henley. Orator Humbug ; Orator Henley.

Sir John Barnard. Sir John Steady.

George Frederick Handel. The Charming Brute.

Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holdernesse. The Patriot of Patriots.

George Anson, 1st Baron Anson. Little Ben ; Admiral Amadis.

Edward Augustus, Duke of York, Prince Ed- ward. Ned Worthy.

William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. Will Jolly ; The Butcher ; The Cleaver ; The Scourge of Rebellion.

William Pitt, son of Earl of Chatham. The Infant Hercules; Billy Lackbeard ; The Vulture of the Constitution ; The British Butcher ; The Sleep- Walker ; The Ministerial Tippler ; The Giant Factotum.

Francis Rawdon Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira. Lord Longbow the Alarmist ; a Man of Import- ance ; Lord Stiletto.

Sir Cecil Wray. The Westminster Mendicant; The Westminster Deserter ; Judas Iscariot.

Jack Robinson. The Political Rat-Catcher.

Major John Cartwright. The Drum-Major of Sedition.

Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe. Themistocles ; Black Dick.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Sherry.

Lord Salisbury. Polonius.

William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, b. 1776, d. 1834. A Single Slice of Gloster.

Mrs. Billington the Singer. The Bulstrode Siren.

Napoleon I. Corsican Tiger ; Corsican Spider ; Corsican Nurse ; Corsican Fox ; Tiddy Doll, the Great French Gingerbread Maker.

Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth. The State Waggoner.

Michael Angelo Taylor. The Law Chick.

Edward, Lord Thurlow. The Shuffler ; The Thunderer ; The Rat.

Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope. The Sansculotte Peer.

Duke of Clarence (William IV.). A True British Tar; Nauticus.

Lord Nelson. The Hero of the Nile.

Thomas, Lord Erskine. Counsellor Ego.

Miss Farren, Countess of Derby. Nimeney Pimeney [sic].

Lady Buckinghamshire. Madame Blubber.

George IV. Prince Florizel.

Warren Hastings. The Saviour of India.

Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk. The Jockey.

Dr. 'Samuel Johnson. Old Wisdom.

ALFRED BOWDITCH.

Boston, Mass.


"BALZO," ' PUBGATORIO,' iv. 47 J ix. 50,

68 (10 S. viii. 226). There is a Neapolitan family the Dukes del Balzo. They took their title, I believe, to indicate their descent from the great Provencal family of De Baux, who claimed to be titular Em- perors of Constantinople. How did this latter family get its name ? We have the baussi roussi, or baux roux (red rocks), just