William Tooke James Murray (18) 2 ditto 3 ditto 4 ditto (1) Adjutant of Colonel Roger Elliott's Regiment of Foot, April 10, 1703. Captain in Orrery's Regiment of Foot, July 26, 1715. Lieutenant-Colonel and Captain of a Company in Lieut.-General Richard Gorges's Regiment of Foot, July 10, 1718. Served with the expedition to Cartagena, 1741. Appointed to the Colonelcy of the 17th Regiment of Foot, Aug. 31, 1742. Lieutenant-General in 1742. Died Feb. 20 1752. (2) Patrick Murray, 5th Baron Elibank. He served with this regiment in the Cartagena expedition of 1741 and left the army shortly afterwards. See D.N.B.' (3) Ensign in Colonel Stanwix's newly raised Regiment of Foot, April 12, 1706. Captain in the Loyal Forth British Fuziliers, June 26, 1718. Died when serving in the West Indies, 1741. (4) Lieutenant in Brigadier Grant's Regiment of Foot, 1715. Lieutenant in Colonel Henry Harrison's Regiment, May 12, 1721. He died during the Cartagena expedition, 1741. (5) Ensign in Gorges's Regiment, Dec. 17, 1717. Lieutenant in Colonel Charles Regiment, Mar. 9, 1722; in Royal Welsh Fuziliers, May 21, 1726. (6) St. Maurice. Ensign in Colonel James Otway's Regiment of Foot, Mar. 25, 1723. (7) Spelled "Bismond "in a MS. entry. Captain, Jan. 8, 1741. (8) Ensign in the Marquis de Montandre's Regiment of Foot, Feb. 16, 1716. (9) Captain, April 15, 1741. (10) George Weller. Captain, April 30, 1741. (11) Captain, May 2, 1741. (12) Captain, June 25, 1741. (13) Captain-Lieutenant, June 25, 1741. (14) First Lieutenant, Mar. 12, 1741. (15) Spelled Worden" in MS. entry. First Lieutenant, June 1, 1742. (16) Spelled" Barkett" in MS. entry. First Lieutenant, June 3, 1742. (17) First Lieutenant, April 4, 1741. Otway's The following additional names of officers are given on the interleaf in MS. : Of the officers whose names are given above, only three appear in the Army List of 1755 (p. 89) as then being on the half-pay list, viz.: Roberts, Richardson, and Werden. J. H. LESLIE, Lieut. Col., R.A. (Retired List). (To be continued.) INSCRIPTIONS AT CASSEL (NORD). ON the top of the hill at Cassel (Nord), in front of the hotel-casino which occupies the site of the former castle, is a monument commemorating the principal episodes in the history of the town. The monument, which is in the form of a pyramid on a square base stands on the site of the collegiate church of St. Pierre, destroyed in 1672, and was the gift to the town of Dr. De Smyttère, a local antiquary of some note, 'médecin en chef honoraire et officier de l'Instruction publique." It was inaugurated Sept. 21, 1873, and is constructed of large blocks of stone from Soignies, in Belgium. The angles indicate the four cardinal points. The inscriptions are as follows:(South-east side) 66 Ici fut l'emplacement de la Collégiale exempte de Saint-Pierre fondée et dotée en 1072-76 par le Comte de Flandre Robert le Frison. Il y eut longtemps sa sépulture. Deoopt.max-et patriæ dilectæ Dicavit Doct. P.J.F. de Smyttère Philippe, frère de Louis XIV, victorieux.. Cause de retour de cette contrée à la France. (Traité du 17 septembre 1678) The inscriptions are on the square base of the monument. On the sides of the pyramid above, are various arms and emblems: South-east Arms of the Collegiate Church of St. South-west Arms of Flanders gyronny of six, with sword and ring above. North-east: The Lion of Flanders, with crossed Le Dr. P. J. F. DE SMYTTÈRE, promoteu". These inscriptions were copied by me in April, 1918, at a time when a greater battle than any of those recorded above was raging in the plain a few miles to the south-east. Cassel was the headquarters of General Foch for eight months in 1914-15. A commemorative tablet affixed to the house where he lodged was inaugurated Oct. 19, 1919, in the presence of the Marshal. bears the inscription, "A la mémoire du maréchal Foch, 23 octobre, 1914-22 juin, 1915." F. H. CHEETHAM. It NOSTRIFICATION.-I came across this word in a recent issue of The Economic Review, which quoted it in inverted commas from a German paper. On turning to the 'N.E.D.' I find it duly registered therein and a quotation given (1885) from a U.S. Consular Report stating that “there are no definite rules for the nostrification of foreign diplomas" in Austria. "To nostrificate is explained to mean "to admit foreign degrees to the same status as the native ones in Austrian universities. In The Economic Review it is used in connexion with the proposed formation of a new com and steel works and other property of the Austro-Hungarian State Railways at Resicza in lower Hungary now annexed by Rumania. L. L. K. SIGN-PAINTING.-At the recent Royal Academy dinner Prince Albert suggested that artists might usefully take up this subject. In 1762 Bonnell Thornton opened in Bow Street, London, the exhibition by the Society of Sign-painters in ridicule of the Society of Arts, 1754. Some readers may like to know that in the appendix to The History of Sign-Boards,' published by Chatto & Windus there is an interesting account of this matter. STAPLETON MARTIN. The Firs, Norton, Worcester. DANTEIANA.-Readers of the 'Divina Commedia will remember a passage at the end of the fifth canto of the Purgatorio,' where a spirit says to Dante :— Ricorditi di me che son la Pia! Siena mi fe'; disfecemi Maremma. Of Pia Stendhal writes: Son mari la conduisit dans la maremme de Siena, célèbre alors comme aujourd'hui par les effets de l'aria cattiva.... Il vivait seul avec elle, dans une tour abandonnée, dont je suis allé visiter les ruines sur le bord de la mer; là il ne rompit répondit aux questions de sa jeune épouse, jamais jamais son dédaigneux silence, jamais il ne il n'écouta ses prières....Les vapeurs de ces marais ne tardèrent pas à flètrir ses traits, les plus beaux, dit-on, qui, dans ce siècle, eussent paru sur la terre. En peu de mois elle mourut."'Promenades dans Rome,' vol. i., p. 261. The common account, to judge from the quotations in Scartazzini, is that the young wife was thrown out of a window by the order of her husband and in this way she met her death. Stendhal implies that it was due to the miasmatic gases of the locality, and it may be urged in his favour that he had visited the spot where the tragedy occurred, and had perhaps picked up his story there, as there may have been an oral tradition as to the cause of Pia's death. His Promenades dans Rome were written about 1829. T. PERCY ARMSTRONG. The Authors' Club, Whitehall Court, S.W. "CORIOLI " IN SHAKESPEARE'S 'CORIOLANUS.'-As there has been some discussion in The Times on the pronunciation of Corioli," it may be well to point out that Shakespeare never uses the word. To judge by the First Folio (our only authority), 'Love for Love,' Act II. (p. 225), Sir Sampson Legend banteringly dubs Foresight the astrologer "Old Fircu." As this is in juxtaposition to "old Ptolomee "; "old Nostrodamus "old Merlin ; Fircu is possibly the corrupted name of some astrological writer or legendary wizard, but I should be glad to have the exact reference. 'Love for Love,' Act III. (p. 244) Tattle says: "I have more vizor-masks to inquire for me than ever went to see the Hermaphrodite or the Naked Prince." Doubtless two frequented shows of the day. The Hermaphrodite has been traced, but I require some reference to the Naked Prince." The Way of the World,' Act V. (p. 407). Mincing says: "You swore us to secrecy upon Messalina's poems." It is more than probable that the allusion is to a real book. I suggest that it was a clandestinely printed collection of loose verse. It does not, however, seem to be recorded, and I have failed to find any further reference to "Messalina's poems." The Way of the World,' Act V. (p. 399) Mrs. Marwood says: "To have my young revellers of the Temple take notes, like 'prentices at a conventicle." It was the custom for "'prentices" to take notes of the sermon at church in order that they might retail the heads and substance of the discourse to their masters and mistresses. I had collected several references, but my notes on this point are unfortunately lost. Would any of your readers oblige me with pertinent passages? believe that Sir Walter Scott has somewhere an allusion to or a note on the custom. MONTAGUE SUMMERS, M.A., F.R.S.L. I ST. JOHN'S HEAD ALTAR-SLABS.—I believe these were portable. Can any one say why MOORFIELDS.-In the eighth (1713) edition of that not uncommon work "The Whigs unmask'd Being the Secret History of the Calf's-Head-Club," &c., there is at p. 99 an allusion of some interest : The Whiggish Managers Prosecution of Doctor Sacheverel, provoking the Good People of England to shew their Resentments in pulling down the Meeting-Houses, upon the First of March, in the same year, we have thought fit, in memory of their notable Exploits, to introduce the preceeding Cut, being a lively Representation of the General Attack, which the enrag'd Rabble so successfully made upon Doctor Burgesses Theatre in RogueLane, where the Gallows had the Honour to stand formerly, before Tyburn was erected." The "Cut is a full (demy 8vo) page plate representing a paved alley or lane opening into a large open space, divided by posts and rails. On the right a chapel and an adjoining house are being looted and wrecked by a mob. Some of the plunder is in the foreground and a figure having the initials A. P. on his back is bearing a wig and broad-brimed hat towards a bonfire being fed with boards in the open area. The trees behind a stone wall lined with spectators background is partly filled in with a line of and a belfry stands on the extreme left. There is no title, but the text "Dr. Burgisses Theater" and a new moon is engraved above the trees. There is, I suggest, presumptive evidence of this scene representing Moorfields, looking towards St. Giles's, Cripplegate-the belfry, trees, and wall-but I would like to have an authenticated identification. I have failed to identify Rogere's Alley, but am informed "Dr. Burgisses Theater" was in Ropemaker Street. If this is accurate the scene is one of the carliest illustrations available of Moorfields, therefore of special interest in the fragmentary bibliography and iconography of that famous locality. ALECK ABRAHAMS. DAVIDIANS: DAVID GEORGE'S SECT.-In Strype's Cranmer' at p. 291 Thomas Becon is quoted as alluding to the above in the reign of Edward VI. What is known of them or their founder? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. 66 HARRIS, A SPANISH JESUIT.-On May 3, 1788, Dr. James Beattie wrote to Sir William Forbes (Forbes's Life of Beattie,' Edinburgh, 1806), vol ii. p. 228, mentioning an extraordinary pamphlet " which had just appeared to prove the lawfulness of the slave-trade from the Scriptures, and writes: merchants of Liverpool, by whose means he hopes to obtain preferment in the church of England, to which he is willing to conform his pamphlet is dedicated to the Mayor, Aldermen, &c., of Liverpool." What was Harris's Christian name, and how did he come by his Spanish nationality? What was the title of his pamphlet ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.I shall be much obliged if you can let me know which are the best books on the following subjects (for advanced study) :— 1. General History of International Law with special reference to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 2. Foreign relations of the principal civilized States from 1848 to 1878. 3. Present rules of International Law, including the subjects of Nationality, Jurisdiction, and Domicile. 4. Problems, disputed points and proposed changes in International Law. 5. Political Philosophy, including the general theory of Law and Government and Political Economy, so far as it bears upon International Law. P. V. NARASU. Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. EMERSON'S ENGLISH TRAITS' (See 12 S. v. 234, 275; vi. 9, 73).—I should be grateful for elucidations or references explaining any of this third batch of puzzles from the above work. References given here to pages and lines follow the 'World's Classics "Edition. Phrases in brackets are my own : 1. P. 85, 1. 10. The decided sympathy of his compatriots is engaged to back up Mr. Crump's whim by statutes, and chancellors, and horseguards. [Who is Mr. Crump?] scholastic life, of 'the grave moral deterioration 66 66 Park, at Cadenham, on a precipice of incomparable 10. P. 105, 1. 26. Pepys tell us, in writing of an Earl of Oxford in 1666, that the honour had now remained in that name and blood six hundred years. [I cannot find any such passage in Pepys.] 11. P. 106, 1. 10. The English are those "barbarians of Jamblichus, who "are stable. the same words, which also are dear to the gods.' in their manners, and firmly continue to employ [Where is this passage in Jamblichus ?] 12. P. 106, 1. 20. The crags of Argyle, the kail of Cornwall, the downs of Devon, the iron of Wales, the clays of Stafford. [What is the meaning of " kail" in this passage? The context suggests that here it is a geological and not a horticultural term.] 13. P. 110, 1. 25. The economist of 1855 who asks, “Of what use are the lords?" may learn of Franklin to ask, Of what use is a baby?" [Did Franklin ever ask this second question? have heard it assigned to Faraday.] I 14. P. 111, 1. 20. Howard and Spenserian library? libraries. [What is, or was, the "Spenserian The context implies that it is the library of some noble family: is it a mis-spelt reference to the Spencers' library at Althorp ?] and its Christmas revels," where logs not burn,. 15. P. 112, 1. 24. Penshurst still shines for us, [Source of quotation wanted.] but men.' prostitutes taken from the theatres were made 2. P. 86, 1. 12. Mr. Coleridge is said to have given public thanks to God, at the close of a lecture, that he had defended him from being able to utter a single sentence in the French language. [Any evidence for this statement ?] 3. P. 86, 1. 33. Lord Chatham goes for liberty, and no taxation without representation-for that is British law; but not a hob-nail shall they dare make in America, but buy their nails in England-shifts to which the King was reduced, who could for that also is British law. [Did Chatham make any definite reference to hobnails in any of his speeches ?] 4. P. 88, 1. 7. It was said of Louis XIV, that his gait and air were becoming enough in so great a monarch, yet would have been ridiculous in another man. [Author wanted]. 5. P. 89, 1. 1. "Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the world" [etc. Emerson is here quoting the last sentence of Wm. Spence's "Tract on Corn," (1807); but can any one give the reference for the idea of Bishop Berkeley's to which Spence alludes?] 6. P. 91, 1. 7. One of their [English] recent not find paper at his council table. and the linen-draper and the stationer were out of pocket,. and refusing to trust him, and the baker will not bring bread any longer. [Where is the mention of these incidents to be found in Pepys ?] 18. P. 114, 1. 12. [To illustrate the financial straits of the English nobility, Emerson writes] of an old man wheeled in his chair from room to room, whilst his chambers are exhibited to the visitor for money. [What lord was this? The date must be before 1857.] 19. P. 115, 1. 21. Sir Philip Sidney in his letter to his brother, and Milton and Evelyn, gave plain and hearty counsel [concerning training for public affairs.] [The reference to Evelyn is presumably to his pamphlet, Public Employment |