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It does not, however, seem to have been
- a habit with him to conclude with this word.
The only other instance I have found during the session of 1876 is in a speech on the Royal Titles Bill (March 9), when he said :
" It will be an act, to my mind, that will add splendour even to her Throne, and security even to her Empire." Hansard, 3rd Series, vol. ccxxvii. -col. 1727.
F. W. READ.
THE ROYAL ARMS : A METRICAL, DE- SCRIPTION (12 S. ii. 502). Refer to Burke's ' General Armory,' 3rd edition :
" ' The Royal Ensigns deduced metrically from the Northmen, or Normans, who vanquished Eng- land in the year of our Lord 1066, with observations thereupon.'
" This paper, endorsed as above, was found in the bureau of an Amateur Herald of some con- sideration .recently deceased."
It commences with the lines :
The Norman standard and the shield,
That Norman William wore, Two golden leopards on a field
Of royal ruby bore ;
- and consists of thirty verses, ending with
The Stewarts fell the leaves do fall,
As withering on the stem, They fly before each passing squall,
And so it was with them.
Each change of arms is not depicted, as
- a previous article had done so, but there are
notes, and at the end there are the initials R. R. Perhaps from this the author may be traced. My copy does not give the date of publication of the ' General Armory.'
R. J. FYNMORE. Sahdgate.
' THE REGAL RAMBLER ' : THOMAS HAST- INGS (12 S. ii. 530). The 'D.N.B.' has an account of this author, obtained from The Gentleman's Magazine of 1801, p. 859. His birth-date is uncertain, and given in the former as 1740, and his death as Aug. 12, 1801, at a lodging in New Court, Moor Lane, Cripplegate. He was a native of Durham and a carpenter by trade, was engaged in various parts of the kingdom, and finally went to London, where he interested him- self in " Mr. Fox's election for Westminster," publishing a quarto pamphlet entitled ' The Wars of Westminster.' This was followed by others in the style of Oriental apologues, and he got considerable sums by hawking them about the town. The Gentleman's Magazine says his last publications were
- The Devil in London ' and ' The Regal
Rambler ; or, Lucifer's Travels,' and this is copied into Nichols's ' Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century,' 1812. The
' D.N.B.' calls the work ' The Regal Ram-
bler ; or, The Eccentrical Adventures of the
Devil in London.' Were there two pam-
phlets, as indicated in The Gentleman's
Magazine, or only one ? The B.M. evi-
dently does not contain either this pamphlet
or anything else by this author, though he
was known to have published for some years
a voluntary "ode" on Aug. 12, the Prince
of Wales's birthday, for " which he annually
received some small emolument at Carlton
House," until he was ordered to discontinue
the publication. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
" GRAY'S INN PIECES " (12 S. ii. 509). The purlieus of Gray's Inn were formerly frequented by women of loose character, which fact has been set on record by the old rime :
Inner Temple, rich ;
Middle Temple, poor ;
Lincoln's Inn for gentlemen,
And Gray's Inn for a whore.
Evidently the lady's-maid in question was not unacquainted with the gallants of Gray's Inn and their practice of making their quittance in base coin, a practice which has ever been a subject for jest why, I do not know. Hence her remark.
REGINALD ATKINSON. Forest Hill, S.E.
PHILIP WINTON, v. sub' PHILIP WINTER (12 S. ii. 266,416). I cannot find Philip Winton in any of my old Army Lists, and he certainly was not in the 4th Foot in 1772. James Winton was made a lieutenant in the 17th Foot, Oct. 27, 1799, and at the Peace of 1802 he was (with many others) placed on half -pay, and drew it until his death in 1852.
W. R. W.
SNAKES AND Music (12 S. ii. 470, 533). In ' Chambers's Encyclopaedia,' vol. viii., it says :
" It seems probable that serpents do not possess the senses of taste or smell in great perfection. The ear has no external opening, and no tym- panum, nor is it certain that their hearing is acute, but they are remarkably sensible of the power of music, of which serpent-charmers avail themselves, both to bring them from their holes and to control them. A .European gentleman, residing in one of the mountainous parts of India, found that his flute attracted them in such numbers to his house that he was under the necessity of ceasing to play it."
When I was in Queensland, hiving bees by knocking an empty tin can, a snake's head appeared where a brick had fallen out of the wall of the laundry rocm, close by ; it disappeared when I approached the wall. It was suggested that I should try my tin-
