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[No. 162. 



incur the charge of photographing the portraits of per- 

 sons breaking the laws by mendicancy in cantons where 

 they have no settlement. It has been found that the 

 verbal descriptions hitherto relied on are insufficient to 

 the identification of the offenders." 



What a curious picture-gallery the police will 

 ultimately form, if this system is carried out ! 



W. Spaerovt Simpson, B.A. 



The Chemical Foci of Achromatic Lenses 

 (Vol. vi., p. 515.). — In answer to E. S. I may in- 

 form him I have now in my possession two double 

 combination (portrait) and three single (land- 

 scape) lenses, made by a London optician. 



I have tested the visual and chemical foci of 

 each of these, as well as several others by the 

 same maker, in all of which I found them per- 

 fectly coincident. Some of these I have submitted 

 to a very severe test. 



I have now by me four copies of one sheet of 

 tlie Illustrated London News, taken at various dis- 

 tances, and in no case have I made any alteration 

 from the visual focus : they are nevertheless very 

 clear and well-defined. The smallest is about the 

 1800th part of the original, which, under a mag- 

 nifying power of sixty times linear, is readable : 

 the height of each letter is about the 1000th part 

 of an inch. 



Last week I was paying a visit to a friend who 

 possessed a three and a half inch double combin- 

 ation achromatic lens by the same maker, which 

 during my stay I used for several days, and pro- 

 duced very first-rate definition. My friend was 

 so pleased, that he told me that if I met with the 

 maker I might inform him that he was perfectly 

 satisfied with the lens, although he had previously 

 felt rather disappointed with it, arising from some 

 error in manipulation. This induces me to think 

 that there may be some other cause than defect 

 in the lens which prevents E. S. from producing 

 satisfactory pictures. A. B, — G. 



The Terrace, Camberwell. 



3RcpItj;S ta j^tttor ^utxiti. 



Judge Jeffreys (Vol.vi., p. 149.). — This judge 

 dated from his residence at Bulstrode, 5th April, 

 1685, a very characteristic letter to Lord Sunder- 

 land about the celebrated Buckinghamshire elec- 

 tion, published for the first time in the current 

 number of the Law Magazine. 



W. DUBBANT CoOPBB. 



Clapper (Vol. v., p. 560.). — Clapper is used in 

 Devon and Sussex for a single plank raised on 

 piles as a foot-bridge over a running stream. 

 They are common in both counties : one of the 

 longest in Sussex is by the side of the turnpike 

 road at Robertsbridge, and the gate at the end is 

 named clappers. W. Dubrant Coopeb. 



Twitten (Vol. v., p. 560.). — Twitten means an 

 alley or narrow passage : in the time of Ray it 

 was in general use in Sussex ; it is now confined 

 to Brighton. Whence derived, I know not. Hal- 

 liwell gives Twit as an acute angle. 



W. DUBEANT COOPEE. 



KyrWs Tankard at Balliol (Vol. v., p. 537.). — 

 In answer to your correspondent J. B. Whitboene, 

 I beg to say that this tankard is not only in exist- 

 ence, but frequently used at dinner at the scholar's 

 table. I am not aware that it has ever been 

 engraved, although, upon inquiry, I find that a 

 descendant of John Kyrle inspected it about a 

 twelvemonth ago, with the intention of engraving 

 it in a book that he was about to publish : nor can 

 I discover that there is any record in the College 

 books about it. The date assigned to " the Man," 

 as it is commonly called, is about 1654 ; John 

 Kyrle having taken his degrees about that time. 

 The tankard holds five pints. There is a smaller 

 one commonly called " the Woman," which holds 

 about two quarts, and I subjoin a copy of the 

 inscription on it : 



" Johannes Hanbury de Feckenham in Comitatu 

 Wigorn Armiger, D' Thomas de Marcle. Parva in 

 agro Hereford., Eques Auratus, Fratres, hujiis Coll. 

 Socio Communariq circa Ann. Dom. 1650, Duo 

 Minora Vascula Argentea D. D., ex quibus detritis et 

 Usui vix servientibus Novo Sumptu D°' Thomae Han- 

 bury prasdicti hoc Poculum conflatum est a.d. 1676." 



R. J. Allen. V 



Ball. Coll. 



Ancient Watch (Vol. vi., p. 412.). — In the 

 " N. & Q." of October 30th, inquiry is made by 

 Me. Joseph Knight respecting the age of an 

 ancient watch in his possession. Will you be so 

 good as to inform him that I consider the date of 

 the watch to be the end of the sixteenth or begin- 

 ning of the seventeenth century. The engraving 

 of the dial-plate is In the style of the designs of 

 Theodore de Bry, who engraved and furnished to 

 goldsmiths and watchmakers many designs for 

 their works at the latter part of the sixteenth 

 century. Octavius Morgan. 



9. Pall Mall. 



" In Nomine DominV^ (Vol. vi., p. 487.). — The 

 passage apparently contains an allusion to the 

 ancient and reverential, and still common form of 

 beginning a will, viz. " In the name of God, amen." 

 Hooker's will begins, " In the name of God, amen. 

 This sixe and twentieth of October, in the yeare 

 of our Lord one thousand and sixe hundred, I, 

 Richard Hooker," &c. — Works, vol. i. p. 112.: 

 Oxford, 1836. E. M. ■ 



[We have just had occasion to refer to the will of 

 Wulfric, in Mr. Kemble's Codex Diplomaticus jEvi 

 Saxonici, vol.vi. p. 147. The document, which is of 



