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-as 0. Kendall & Sons, the head of the firm being
Orrin Kendall. This firm immediately began the
manufacture of army biscuits, and stamped them
' 0. K.' to represent the firm. These biscuits, it is
said, came to be preferred by the soldiers, who
thought them a little better than the ordinary army
bread. Soon '0. K.' became a cant term of approval
in the army, and after the war it was carried into
civil life and peace occupations."
ETJGENE F. McPiKE.
Chicago, U.S.
WE must request corresppndents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
COBBETT AT KENSINGTON AND BARN
ELMS FARM. Where exactly did William obbett live in Kensington in 1821 ? Where exactly was Bam. Elms Farm, to which he removed soon after ?
LEWIS MELVILLE.
' NINE TAILORS OF TOOLEY STREET,' 1832-5. Can any of your correspondents tell me the author of the ' Nine Tailors of Tooley Street,' a skit written about 1832-5 ?
C. T. HAGBERG WRIGHT. London Library, St. James's Square, S.W.
MEDIEVAL " OBERAMMERGATJS." In Pecock's 'Represser' (1457), vol. i. p. 221, we read :
"No Cristen man now lyuyng hath these iij condicions anentis the persoon of Crist in his man- hode, as hath a stok or a stoon graued into the
cenes ot Unst hanging on a cros nakid and woundid...... except whanne a quyk man is sett in
a pley to be hangid nakid on a cros and to be in semyng woundid and scourdd. And this bifallith
1 seelde and in fewe placis and cuntrees." Where in the fifteenth century ?
W. F. P. STOCKLEY. Univ. Coll., Cork.
PERCTVAL BANKS. I am anxious to Iiscover the genealogy of Percival Banks, who left Aylesbury, Kent, in the seven- teenth century, and settled in Ardee, co. Louth, Ireland, later moving to Ennis, co Clare. C. BOWKER.
Barton, Mass.
SIR RICHARD HOTHAM : MARY H. CHOL- MONDELEY. Can any reader tell me who is now the possessor of the portrait, painted by Romney, of Sir Richard Hotham (M.P. for Southwark in 1780, died 1799) or perhaps of some other picture of him ?
I am also anxious to find a picture of
Mary Henrietta Cholmondeley, the eldest
daughter of the Rev. Robert Cholmondeley.
She was killed in a carriage accident near
Dorking in 1806. LEVERTON HARRIS.
70, Grosvenor Street, W.
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS' s POCKET-BOOKS. Where are Reynolds' s MS. notebooks, which were used by Leslie and Taylor in their life of the painter ?
HORACE BLEACKLEY.
MAN IN THE IRON MASK DRAMATIZED. Can any readers of ' N. & Q.' tell me whether the subject of the Man in the Iron Mask has ever been treated dramatically ? If so, what are the names of the authors ?
G. W. MORTON.
PORTRAIT IN PITTI GALLERY. I have in my possession a portrait (copy) of a young man in armour. The original is in the Pitti Gallery, Florence, and is said to represent a son of Frederick III., King of Denmark. Can any of your readers inform me what was his name, and the dates of his birth and death ?
T. ARNOLL DAVIS, Colonel.
Weston Park House, Bath.
' HAMLET ' IN 1585. Is it an established fact that a play called ' Hamlet ' was acted at Cambridge in 1585 ? I should be much obliged fcr the name of any book dealing with this : I see no mention of it in Halliwell- Phillipps's works. IONIA.
' PICKWICK ' DIFFICULTIES. I shall be glad to learn the meaning of the following obscure expressions in ' Pickwick.' My references below are to the edition published by Chapman & Hall and Frowde :
Chap, xvi., p. 279, 1. 6. Punch and " the flatheaded comedian with the tin box of music."
Chap, xxv., p. 411, 1. 36." Old Strike a Light."
Chap, xl., p. 657, 11. 18-19. " Guillo- tined cabriolet."
PHILIP F. STEPHENSON.
C. H. SPURGEON'S KNOWLEDGE OF GREEK. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' kindly inform me who it was that criticized a sermon of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and recorded in a diary or letter that it proved conclusively that Spurgeon was unacquainted with the Greek language at that period of his life ?
Direct replies will greatly oblige.
FREDK. CHARLES WHITE. 26, Arran Street, Roath Park, Cardiff.
