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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



ginally appeared in Ackermann's Repository, and 

 were published in a collected form in 1815 ? 



In a catalogue of Jno. Miller's (April, 1853), I 

 see them attributed to Combe. Q. 



Philadelphia. 



" The Land of Green Ginger" — the name of a 

 street in Hull. Can any of your correspondents 

 inform me why so called ? R. H. B. 



"^ Mtigger. — \V~hy are the gipsies in the North of 

 England called Muggers ? Is it because they sell 

 mugs, and other articles of crockery, that in fact 

 being their general vocation ? or may not the word 

 be a corruption of Maghrdbee, which is, I think, a 

 foreign name given to this wandering race ? 



H. T. RiLET. 



Snail-eating. — Can any of your correspondents 

 inform me in what part of Surrey a breed of large 

 white snails is still to be found, the first of which 

 were brought to this country from Italy, by a 

 member, I think, of the Arundel family, to gratify 

 the palate of his wife, an Italian lady ? I have 

 searched Britton and Brayley's History in vain. 



H. T. Riley. 



Mysterious Personage. — Who is the mysterious 

 personage, what is kis real or assumed lineage, 

 who has, not unfrequently, been alluded to in 

 recent newspaper articles as a legitimate Roman 

 Catholic claimant of the English throne ? Of 

 course I do not allude to those psez/^o-Stuarts, the 

 brothers Hay Allan. W. Pinkeeton. 



George Wood of Chester. — Of what family was 

 George Wood, Esq., Justice of Chester in the first 

 year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1558 ? 



Cestriensis. 



A Scale of Vowel Sounds. — Can any correspon- 

 dent tell me if such scale has anywhere been 

 agreed on for scientific purposes ? Researches into 

 the philosophy of philology are rendered exces- 

 sively complex by the want of such a scale, every 

 diiFerent inquirer adopting a peculiar notation, 

 which is a study in itself, and which, after all, is 

 unsatisfactory. I should feel obliged by any re- 

 ference to what has been done in this matter. 



E. C. 



Seven Oaks and Nine Elms. — Can any reader 

 of "N. & Q." inform me whether thei'e is any old 

 custom or superstition connected with Seven Oaks 

 and Nine Elms, even to be traced as far back as 

 the time of the Druids ? 



In some old grounds in Warwickshire there is a 

 Circle of nine old elm-trees ; and, besides the well- 

 known Nine Elms at Vauxhall, and Seven Oaks 

 in Kent, there are several other places of the same 

 names in England. J. S. A, 



Old Broad Street 



Murder of Monaldeschi. — I will thank any of 

 your correspondents who can give me an account 

 of the murder of Monaldeschi, equerry to Chris- 

 tina, Queen of Sweden. 



In the 2nd volume of Miss Pardoe's Louis XIV. 

 ("p. 177.), Christina is stated to have visited the 

 Court of France, and housed at Fontainebleau, 

 where she had not long been an inmate ere the 

 tragedy of Monaldeschi took place; and in a letter 

 to Mazarin she says, " Those who acquainted you 

 with the details regarding Monaldeschi were very 

 ill-informed." " T. C. T. 



Governor Dameram. — I should be glad of any 

 particulars respecting the above, who was Go- 

 vernor of Canada (I think) about the commence- 

 ment of the present century. He had previously 

 been the head of the commissariat department in 

 the continental expeditions. Tee Bee. 



Ancient Arms of the See of Yorh. — Can any cor- 

 respondent enlighten me as to the period, and 

 why, the present arms were substituted for the 

 ancient bearings of York ? The modern coat is, 

 Gu. two keys in saltire arg., in chief an imperial 

 crown proper. The ancient coat was blazoned, 

 Az. an episcopal staff in pale or, and ensigned 

 with a cross patee arg., surmounted by a pall of 

 the last, edged and fringed of the second, charged 

 with six crosses formee fitchee sa., and differed 

 only from that of Canterbury in the number of 

 crosses formee fitchee with which the pall was 

 charged. Tee Bee. 



Hupfeld. — Can any correspondent of "N. & Q." 

 tell me where I can see Hupfeld, Von der Natur 

 und den Arten der Sprachlaute, which is quoted by 

 several German authors ? It appeared in Jahn's 

 Jahrb. der Philol. und Pad., 1829. If no corre- 

 spondent can refer me to any place where the 

 paper can be seen in London, perhaps they can 

 direct me to some account of its substance in some 

 English publication. E. C. 



Inscription on a Tomb in Finland. — Can any 

 reader of " N. & Q." explain the meaning of the 

 following inscription ? 



" lETATXS IN SUBDITOS 



MARTYR! 



.'iet:s CONIUGALIS 



It appears on an old monument of considerable 

 size in a Finnish burial-ground at Martishkin near 

 PeterhofTon the Gulf of Finland. The letters are 

 in brass on a stone slab. The dots before the iv., 

 and in the other word, are holes in the stone where- 

 in the missing characters had been fixed. 



J. S. A. 



Old Broad Street. 



Sir Isaac Newton and Voltaire on Pailioay Tra- 

 velling. — Having been forcibly impressed by a 



