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12 s. ix. DEC. 3, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 455 QUOTATIONS ON CHEESE (12 S. ix. 188, 235,255,335). I have noted the following sayings about cheese, and send them because such are being asked for. I have, however, no reference for them. (a) There is no cheese, be it good, be it bad, But praise it hath, and hath had. (6) Cheese, you know, is a peevish elf, Digests everything but itself. (c) Eat of the bread, but smell of the cheese. I cannot say whether the reason for (c) is expressed in the preceding saying, or whether it is on the same idea as " potatoes and point " in Ireland. QUILL. THOMAS LINWOOD STRONG (12 S. ix. 409). From Foster's l Alumni ' and other sources it appears that Thomas Linwood Strong was the elder son of Clement Samuel Strong, Esq., of Limpsfield, Surrey. He was educated at Harrow (1802-4) and Oriel College, Oxon ; first-class classics and maths. ;B.A. 1807; M.A. 1810; B.D. 1817 ; ordained deacon 1809; priest 1810; rector of Titsey, Surrey, 1811-22; rector of St. Michael. Queenhithe, 1822-44; rector of Sedgefield, 1844-65; hon. canon of Dur- ham, 1844. He married Anna Maria, eldest daughter of G. Tritton, Esq., by whom he had issue. He died Sept. 26, 1865. H. G. HARBISON. " South Cottage," Ruislip. NAMING OF PUBLIC ROOMS IN INNS (12 S. ix. 189, 231, 255, 274, 318, 377). The Engineers' Club, recently opened at Coventry Street London, has its rooms named after Stephenson, Watt, Trevithick, Faraday and Wren. A. S. E. ACKERMANN. HERALDIC : THE HELMET (12 S. ix. 371, 434). The following extracts will show the modernity of this matter : The present custom of using various types of helm facing different ways to denote grades of rank is comparatively recent . . . and utterly subversive of the proper method of displaying a crest which should invariably face the same way as the wearer. After the middle of the fourteenth century . . . the helm . . . found on seals or monu- ments or buildings is almost invariably shown in profile . . . the most convenient way of displaying the crest. (W. St. John Hope, 1913.) Modern heralds . . . have introduced fanciful and singularly unbecoming forms of helms and have adopted absurdly complicated rules for their disposition. Such rules were altogether unknown in the palmy days of early Heraldry. (Boutell, 1863.) WALTER E. GAWTHORP. 16, Long Acre, London. NOTTING BARN FARM (12 S. ix. 370, 414). Cunningham's ' London ' gives the derivation " from the manor of Knotting- bernes, Knutting-barnes, sometimes written Netting or Nutting-barnes." (Quoted from Lyson's 'Environs,' iii., p. 174.) WALTER E. GAWTHORP. 16, Long Acre, London. STILTON CHEESE (12 S. ix. 406). The account given at the reference is corroborated by the Rev. F. E. Gretton, D.D., head- master of Stamford Grammar School, 1834-72, who was born in 1803. In 'Memory's Harkback' (1889), p. 265, he wrote : All people that know what is good can appre- ciate Stilton cheese, but how many people can tell you off-hand why it is called Stilton, or whence was its origin ? In the village of Old Dalby, Leicestershire, these delectables were originally made by a farmer's wife whose brother was the landlord of the hotel at Stilton. To him the sister consigned her dainties, as, being on the Great Northern Road, and all the coaches and posting halting at the inn, it afforded the most likely market for them. You used to see a great pile of them in front of the house, and smart traffic was done with the travellers and coach passengers. W. B. H. AUTHORS WANTED (12 S. ix. 410). 3. Mrs. Sarah (Knowles) Bolton, born Knowles at Farmington, Connecticut, Sept. 15, 1841, died i Feb. 21, 1916, having married Charles E. Bolton, a philanthropical merchant, by whom she had issue. She was a somewhat voluminous writer, and was the author of lines (? a sonnet) called ' The Inevitable,' which begin " I like the man who faces what he must " ; but I am unable to say where these are to be found. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. 4. The quotation is from Washington Irving' s ' Sketch Book,' chapter on * Rural Funerals.' W. E. WILSON. Hawick. ENGLISH ARMY SLANG AS USED IN THE GREAT WAR. (12 S. ix. 341, 378, 383, 415, 423.) IMPRESSIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS. THE perusal of two books which have appeared within a few months of each other F. Dechelette's ' L' Argot des Poilus ' and A. Dauzat's ' L' Argot de la Guerre ' dealing with linguistic developments within the French Army during the war and giving some thousand words and expressions which are new, either in form or meaning, and so, though quite intelligible to the French soldier, yet need some explanation