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448 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s.vi. 0^.3,1900. ticket of admission to the ball at the Mansion House during the mayoralty of the Right Hon. John Wilkes in 1775, ia still in existence. The plate forms one of a, large collection brought together by the late Andrew W. Tuer, and is now in the possession of the Leadenhall Press, Limited. The beautiful though laborious hand engraving of which this plate is an example has almost entirely given place to the mechanical process of photogravure, and there are few living exponents of the art. A reproduction from this plate was used as an admission ticket for the Lord Mayor's banquet of the present year. THE LEADENHALL PHESS. WK must request correspondents desiring infor mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct. LIPPO LIPPI : FILIPPO LIPPI.—W. M. Ros- setti, in the ' Encyclopaedia Britannica,' s. v. ' Lippi,' states that Filippo Lippi, commonly called Lippo Lippi, studied the works of Massacio. Browning, in ' Fra Lippo Lippi,' says that Massacio (" Guidi," Hulking Tom"), as a youngster, studied the methods of Lippo Lippi, while the latter was at work. How shall we reconcile these contradictions 1 It would be an evasion to allege an in- difference to fact on the part of Browning If one may accept the testimony of Warnes ' Bijou Biography,' there were four Lippi Lippo, 1354-1415; Filippo, 1412-1469; Filip pino, 1460-1505; and Lorenzo, 1606-1664 Lippo and Filippo would then be distinc individuals, and as Massacio was born in 140 or 1402 he would be able to study from Lippo and Filippo in his turn might have studiec from Massacio. Does the article in the Nine teenth Century for October, 1896, throw anj light on the point ] ARTHUR MAY ALL. [Fra Filippo Lippi, the son of a butcher, was born in Florence about 1400, and studied painting fron the frescoes of Tommaso Guidi, commonly calle Masaccio, who was born about a year later. Th other painters of the name were of a subsequen date, and could scarcely have influenced Masaccio. PILLEAU ARMS. — Can any one give m information as to the above 1 The family i believed to be Norman, and to have settlec in England after the Revocation of the Edic of Nantes. My grandfather, Henry Pilleai of Kennington, possessed a silver tray wit the arms engraved on it, but this has dis appeared, and no record has been kept of th rms. I believe the crest used was a talbot itting on a tortoise. (Mrs.) ALICE CLAY. Ristrick House, Brighouse. M. CEALY TREVILLIAN, ARTIST.—Who was his artist? I have a small drawing in red halk of a girl's head, signed as above and ated 1781. W. H. PATTERSON. ^ [No person of the name is mentioned in Graves's Imost exhaustive ' Dictionary of Artists. ] TUNSTALL FAMILY. —Will any of your eaders give me any records of births, mar- iages, or deaths, from parish registers, news- oapers, gravestones, or memorial tablets, in ,he name of Tunstall or Tonstal, as well as any information about Thurlow Castle, the eat of Sir Brian Tunstall near Kirby Lons- dale in 15131 (Mrs.) E. F. BKHRENS. Newfield House, Forest Hill, Kent. "Go GAITERS."—Can any of your corre- .pondents give the derivation of the above sxpression, in use in Yorkshire in the sense ' to go gaiters," i.e., to go part of the way ? J. R. NUTTALL. Lancaster. "MAD AS A HATTER."—In what did this phrase originate ? THORNFIELD. [No satisfactory explanation has been given, the assertion that (h)oUer is a corruption of adiitr seeming preposterous. The ' H. E. D.' postpones the explanation until mad is reached.] " MUSHA."—This word no doubt is familiar to readers of novels in which the scene is laid in Ireland. It is of frequent occurrence as an exclamation of asseveration, or expres- sive of various emotions. The works of Carleton and Miss Barlow furnish many examples of its use. What is the Irish form of the word ? A. L. MAYHEW. Oxford. POEM ON THE ITALIAN WABS.—Can vou assist me to find a short poem published in the sixties during the Italian wars, depicting the devotion and patriotism of an Italian mother in sending all her sons to bo sacrificed in the struggle ? I heard it recited about ten years ago by a celebrated actress who has now passed away, but could never find any trace of it. Jos. FALLOWS. [It is doubtless Mrs. Browning's ' Mother and Poet, Turin, after News from Gaeta, 1861,' begin- ning :— Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east; And one of them shot in the west by the sea. ' Poetical Works,' 1866, vol. iv. p. 156.] KINO JAMES AND GEORGE HBRIOT.—I shall be glad to learn whether an engraving that has been in my family for upwards of fifty