quary he will find an extract from Joyce's 'Old Celtic Romances,' giving interesting glimpses into Irish social life in the days of Nuada of the Silver Hand. NOMAD.

FICTITIOUS IMPRINTS (7th S. iv. 88).-Why not make known the facts in each instance when ascertained? MR. WALFORD is probably familiar with an American book by Mr. Whitney, entitled 'A Modern Proteus,' which makes a wholesale exposure of one of the tricks of booksellers in publishing old books under new names. Fictitious imprints are entitled to like treatment. All our libraries, both in their manuscript and printed catalogues, give the correct imprint in brackets when it is known that the publisher's imprint is false. A most pernicious custom that has long prevailed is post-dating the imprint. So early as July and August I have seen books bearing the following year's date. When did this form of falsehood originate?

HENRY, LORD CLIFFORD (7th S. iv. 327).-MR. JOHNSON will find an account of Henry, Lord Clifford, the "shepherd" Earl of Cumberland, in Mr. Walford's 'Chapters from Family Chests,' vol. i. p. 144. MUS IN URBE.

ORRERIES (7th S. iv. 348).-It may interest MR. VYVYAN to know that one of these travelling entertainments, mentioned by the Editor, was perambulated about this city within the last three years. It consisted of a large square box mounted on wheels; there were little windows all round through which you might gaze at the wonders of the solar system, the inside being illuminated at night, which had a very pretty effect; "and all for one penny."

Glasgow.

ROBERT F. Gardiner.

Nile, and delivered at Naples by Kelim Effendi Dec. 21, 1798. Or it may have been a return present for the "rose set in diamonds," valued at 1,000l., presented to the admiral by the Grand Signior's mother. In either of these cases the portrait would doubtless have been painted during Nelson's long stay in the Mediterranean—either at Naples or Palermo. E. G. YOUNGER, M.D. Hanwell, W.

ALL HALLOWS, BREAD STREET: JOHN MILTON (7th S. iv. 309, 378).-The tablet for which NEMO inquires has been removed to Bow Church, Cheapside, where I have just seen it. It has been inserted into the western wall of the church, on the outside, near to the tower. Beneath the tablet is the following inscription:

"This Tablet was placed on the Church of All Hallows, Bread Street, early in the nineteenth century, as a memorial of the event therein recorded, and was removed in the year 1876, when that Church was pulled down, and the Parish united for Ecclesiastical purposes with the Parish of St. Mary-le-Bow."

W. SPARROW SIMPSON.

[MR. F. W. ABINGTON supplies the same information.]

"RARE" BEN JONSON (7th S. iv. 129, 235).—The writer of the notice of Ben Jonson in 'The Book of Days' says:—

"The curious inscription by which his grave was marked

O rare Ben Jonson ! formed the concluding words of the verses written and displayed in the celebrated club-room of Ben's clique." Are these included in the "commendatory verses" mentioned in DR. NICHOLSON's note ?

C. C. B.

"MUNERARI" OR "NUMERARI" IN TE DEUM (7th S. iv. 147, 352).-I ought to have known that munus was a gift; but I have been misled by the early versions of Te Deum, printed by Mr. Maskell in the second volume of his 'Monumenta Ritualia.' These all translate munerari by "rewarded." Even now I do not find that authorities are quite unanimous in excluding "reward" from the meaning of munerari. Daniel, speaking of munerari, says, "Procul dubio in hac voce tenes scripturam antiquissimam et genuinam. Numerari Primum occurrit in Brev. Italis v. c. in Franc. anni 1495"(Thesaurus Hymnologicus,' Lips., 1844, t. ii. p. 299). I have no doubt that munerari is the more ancient reading, but as a matter of taste I prefer numerari.

The aim of the few notes that were printed last August was to point out the length of time that munerari had survived, and was still surviving, not merely in out-of-the-way places like the Mozarabic Chapel at Toledo, but in the Vatican Basilica itself, in choir books that were published only two or three years ago. Under these circumstances it can hardly be asserted with truth that

be seen in Littré's 'Dictionary,' to the most varied sorts of " pipes," viz., to all sorts of instruments, weapons, pots, bones, ornaments, &c., in form of pipes. The canon, frequently alluded to by Molière, was worn on the leg, just under the knee. The ribbons had the general appearance of a tuyau (pipe), hence the designation of canon. The English cannon (curls in a cylindrical form) has certainly the same origin. JOSEPH REINACH. Paris,

[Other replies are acknowledged with thanks.]

POTTLE (7 S. iv. 365).-The "pottle" of Shakspeare and Ben Jonson will always live; but the "pottle" in connexion with strawberries will soon, says MR. WALFORD, "pass out of remembrance and become extinct." The word, however, will be found in the Rev. J. Wood's edition of Nuttall's 'Dictionary' (1886) as being "a small basket for holding fruit." The real thing, though pretty enough to look at, was always a swindle stale and smashed strawberries at the bottom, with a few fine fresh ones to crown the edifice of imposture. The word exists for us in "comic" literature, in the shape of a small shilling book, published by D. Bogue, Fleet Street, London, 1848, 'A Pottle of Strawberries, to beguile a Short Journey, or a Long Half-Hour,' by Albert Smith. It was got up in the style of his popular " Natural Histories" of The Gent, The Flirt,'The Ballet Girl,' &c., and was profusely illustrated by Henning and others, six of the illustrations being by Sir John Gilbert. The vignette on the title-page represents a simpering young lady holding a pottle of strawberries; and the cover is a very graceful design, printed in colours, of wreaths of strawberries and a pottle filled with the fruit. In the same year, 1848, Albert Smith issued-through Mr. Bentley, as publisher-another shilling book of oddments, entitled 'Comic Sketches from the Wassail Bowl,' with twelve admirable illustrations by John Leech. CUTHBERT BEDE.

MATTHEW PRIOR (7th S. iv. 228).-The birthplace of Prior has been amply considered in N. & Q.' already, without leading to any definite conclusion. See 6th S. i. 172; iv. 186; ix. 209, 278, 455; x. 357. J. MASKELL.

MENGES (7th S. iv. 348).-St. Menge, called also St. Memie, in Latin Memmius, is accounted to have been the first Bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne. St. Gregory of Tours styles him the patron of that city, and records several miracles that he is reported to have worked ('Liber de Gloria Confessorum,' cap. lxvi., “De Memmio Catalaunensi Episcopo "). He is not mentioned in the ancient martyrology, styled Martyrologium Vetustius Occidentalis Ecclesiæ D. Hieronymo a variis Scriptoribus tributum," but is included in those of Wandalbert, Usuard, and Adon; and in the

modern Roman he is called "a Roman citizen." It is uncertain when he lived. In his 'Life,' written by an historian of the seventh century, he is said to have been sent into France by the Apostle St. Peter, in company with St. Sixtus, the first Bishop of Rheims, and St. Denys, of Paris. But a later writer, in the ninth century, Alman, a monk of the Abbey of Hautvilliers, in the diocese of Rheims, says that he was sent by St. Clement of Rome. Alban Butler, however, in whose 'Lives of the Saints' A. H. has not searched with due diligence, probably from forgetfulness that St. Menge is commonly known as St. Memmius, claims Flodoard as his voucher that he was contemporary with St. Sixtus, Bishop of Rheims, in A.D. 290-that is, when Caius was Pope; and adds that the whole province of Champagne was the theatre of his apostolic labours.

A church was built in his honour in one of the faubourgs of Chalons, called Buxerie or Boissière ; and an abbey close by, which bears his name, existed in the seventh century, and was inhabited by monks. Later on the abbey church was served for some years by the Secular Canons of the Cathedral of Chalons; but about the year 1125 the abbey was given to the Canons Regular of the Order of St. Augustin, who held it up to the Suppression. The principal feast of St. Menge is celebrated on August 5; on December 16 is commemorated, in the martyrology of the French Church, the translation of his body from its original resting-place in 868, by order of Charles the Bald, to the new church; and on the 21st of the same month is commemorated his arrival at Chalons, that was attended by so many blessings. For further details, see 'Bibliothèque Sacrée,' par Richard et Giraud; Bosquet, Historia Ecclesiæ Galliæ,' p. 2, lib. v. p. 1; Gallia Christiana,' tom. ix. ; S. Gregorii 'Turonensis Opera,' ed. Ben.; Martyrologium Romanum Usuardi,' edidit J. Baptiste Sollerius; 'Mabilloni Analecta,' tom. ii. ; Tillemont, tom. iv. p. 498; 'Les Vies des Saints,' composées par Adrien Baillet, Paris, 1704.

WILLIAM COOKE, F.S.A.

Joanne gives St. Menges in the Ardennes, but St. Menge in the Vosges. Ménage, in 'Vocab. Hagiologique,' gives "Memmius, S. Menge, 1er Ev. de Chalons sur Marne, Natal. 5 Août, VIII. siècle." R. S. CHARNOCK.

ST. SOPHIA (7th S. iv. 328, 371).—This query might, one would think, have suggested to some accurate and well-informed person a note on the Christian relics lately discovered in the cathedral of St. Sophia. No such person having appeared, I beg to say that a closet or small vestry has been found in the interior of the church, and within it a crucifix and certain other sacred ornaments and vessels, all which it is supposed were hurriedly placed there during the siege of

1453, and they have remained there ever since. Nor have they even now been disturbed. "The Turks have not dared to interfere with them," says a friend of mine, who was at Constantinople last year, and who then saw the vestry and its contents. My friend is an able and competent witness; and as I make this statement on his authority it will not (thank Goodness!) be open to any contributor to charge me with error. A. J. M. BEEHIVE HOUSES (7th S. iv. 203, 369).-Such huts I have just seen on the borders of the Shiel river, in Argyllshire. One was in course of construction. I saw this finished in the six days that I remained in the neighbourhood-walls and roof all of thick turf and "shaped like an elongated beehive."

HAROLD MALET, Colonel.

CHINA PLATES (7th S. iv. 227, 334).-The communication from R. N. reminds me that I have a china bowl of the same kind as he describes, which was given to me some years ago by my uncle's widow. She died about seven years ago, at the age of ninety, and she told me it was the only piece she had of a tea-set which was made for her uncle (who was in the navy) when he was in China. The bowl is of plain white china, with a coat of arms and crest painted on it.

HENRY DRAKE.

there was a learned controversy on this curious topic. Some one at last took it into his head to examine the child and the tooth, and then it was made out that the tooth had been artificially covered over with a thin leaf of gold. Even then it was not sure that the child had been born with any tooth at all. Fontenelle concluded, so far as I remember, "On écrivit les dissertations; et puis, on consulta l'orfèvre." This story was called to my mind by Amiens he saw above one of the entrances to the MR. VYVYAN's question. He says that at Law Courts buildings "Salle des orores. "" He inword orores, and he did get explanations. I do quired in these columns about the meaning of the not know the word orores-no Frenchman would understand it; and I wonder that a word could be placed over an entrance to law courts buildings of any country that should not be intelligible to the people. Such inscriptions are generally devised to have a meaning, and a very plain one, and not to be puzzles. MR. VYVYAN says he asked many French friends. Why did he not ask the porter of the building? I never was at Amiens, and I have seen neither the Palais de Justice nor the inscription; but I strongly suspect that where MR. VYVYAN "there must be "Salle has read "Salle des orores des ordres," and that it probably refers to the "procédure des ordres et contributions," to use a legal term. See 'Code de Procédure Civile,' part i. the general index to 'Les Codes Français,' s.v. liv. v. titre quatorzième, "Del' Ordre." See also H. GAIDOZ.

Stagbury, Surrey.

ORORES (7th S. iv. 247, 358).—I am obliged to MR. H. DRAKE and A. H. for their replies. They have given some elucidation to the meaning of the word, but I am still at a loss to know why no French dictionary, and no Frenchman with whom I am acquainted, has given or has heard of the word. A. H. says "Cicero has the word oror, whence the plural orores." I wish he would kindly tell me where in Cicero this is found. I have hunted in every Latin Dictionary, but have failed to find the word.

EDWARD R. VYVYAN.

Fontenelle has told somewhere a nice and suggestive story. Towards the end of the sixteenth or in the beginning of the seventeenth century a report was heard of a child born with a gold tooth. Physicians and students engaged in natural philosophy took the matter into consideration, and immediately undertook to explain the phenomenon. Of course they did not agree, and

22, Rue Servandoni, Paris.

Is it possible that if your correspondent had put a pair of spectacles on his nose he would have read K. Salle des ordres"?

Will your correspondent A. H. kindly state in which of Cicero's works he has met with "the form oror, whence the plural orores"? No such form is given in any Latin dictionary that I have been able to consult. Oreur, herald, is given in Roquefort's 'Glossaire de la Langue Romane.' Is this of any use to your querist at the first reference?

F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. STRONNAY (7th S. iv. 327).—Is not this Stornoway? The transposition of the r presents no difficulty, I think. JULIAN MARSHALL.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (7th S. iv. 269).

In 'Sermons Preached in a Religious House,' 1869, vol. i. p. 316, the quotation in inverted commas is :Our homes are here too narrow, Our work lies far apart, We scarce share joy or sorrow With the dearest of our heart: There will be room above, In our great Father's Hall, To live with those we love, Through the best time of all.

ED. MARSHALL.