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Dam(illegible text), a freedman, remarks: "Tamen calda potio vestiarius est."="Still a warm drink is the best clothier." Seleucus takes him up with objections to bathing, and adds, "Sed cum mulsi pultarium obduxi, frigori laecasin dico," i.e., "But when I have drunk a good pot of mead, I bid the cold go and be hanged."
Thus Rome in Nero's day supplies a precedent for a twentieth-century advertisement. Nel Mezzo.
The Aske Family.—Some time ago a correspondant asked me for information about this family which I was unable to give. I have found a passage which may be useful, but I have lost my correspondent's name and address. If 'N. & Q.' will kindly print the following, it may meet the right eyes:—
John Aske, Esq., d. 1605. His son Richard Aske, of London, sergeant-at-law, Counsel to the Regicides and Master of the Crown Office, d. 1656, leaving by Joan his wife, daughter of Thomas Heber, of Marton, Yorks, and widow of Thomas Lister, of Arnoldsbiggin:
1. Richard, a barrister, whose son Conan was living in 1714.
2. Thomas.
3. Rev. Nathaniel Aske, rector at Somerford Magna, Wilts, d. 1674, leaving a son, Richard, a minor.
4. Mary.
5. Elizabeth, m. —Shaw.
Trans. of the East Riding Antiquarian Society, vol. vi. (1898), p. 51n. M. H. Dodds.
London Clubs: Bibliography (12 S. x. 41).—There are two other modern works which W. Alack Abrahams might well have included in his list, viz: 'Clubs and Clubmen,' by Major Arthur Griffiths (Hutchinson and Co., 1907), and 'London Clubs, their History and Treasures.' by Ralph Nevill (Chatto and Windus, 1911). Willoughby Maycock.
80, St. George's Square, S.W.
Readers of ' N. & Q.' generally will share
Mr. Aleck Abr.ihams's opinion that the
future complete Bibliography of London
must include fts one of its sub-headings
' Clubs and Coteries,' for, among other
reasons, that these are a distinctive feature
of London history and topography, and
will be grateful to him for the interesting
preliminary list he has given us at the above
reference. I feel that all who can do so
will help him to make the list as exhaustive
as possible so that it may be of real assist-
ance to the compilers of the much-needed
Bibliography. At the present moment I
can offer but two additions to Mr. Abrahams's
list.
' The Kennel Club. A History and
Record of Its Work,' 1873-1905; 4to,
pp. 429 ; and " The Political Economy
Club.' Founded in 1821. Centenary
volume. Vol. vi., Macmillaji, 1921, 21s.
net. P. A. RUSSELL.
116, Arran Road, S.E.6.
IT may interest Mr. Aleck Abrahams to
know that * Notes and Jottings on Hanover
Square and the St. George's Club ' was
written by J. B. Payen-Payne, about 1886.
DE V. PAYEN-PAYNE.
WE must request correspondents 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.
WHYTE -MELVILLE AND ADAM LINDSAY
GORDON. In Miss Humphris and Mr.
Douglas Sladen's ' Adam Lindsay Gordon '
(1912) someone, unnamed, is stated (p. 203)
to have said that Why te -Melville praised
Adam Lindsay Gordon's well-known poem
' How we beat the favourite.' When did
Whyfce-Melville appraise Gordon's work ?
Mr. Sladen tells me he does not know.
Further, in what English paper was
Gordon's verse first noticed ? In Baily's
Magazine of Mar., 1870, H. A. Leveson,
" the old shekarry," eulogized it.
J. M. BULLOCH.
37, Bedford Square, W.C.
APPOINTMENT OF THE MAYOR BY AN
ABBOT. -The Abbot of Reading enjoyed
the privilege of appointing the Warden of
the Guild Merchant, afterwards the Mayor,
out of three burghers submitted to him
by the Guild. What other abbots possessed
a similar privilege, and what formalities
were observed on the occasion of the
appointment ?
JAMIESON B. HURRY, M. D.
Westfield. Reading.
