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appended to it, that only 80 copies were printed. 

 Mr. Spence (see p. 90.) died before the printing- 

 was completed, and the original manuscript, from 

 p. 80., was accidentally lost. Mr. Herschel, how- 

 ever, continued the development of the theory to 

 p. 90., and closed the investigation at this point. 

 Mr. J. Gait informs us (p. 90.), that he knows 

 Mr. Spence did not intend to carry it further in 

 the present publication. 



The work of Wronski on equations is not men- 

 tioned by Rogg, nor are Jerrard's ' Researches' 

 by Sohncke. James Cockle, M.A., &c. 



4. Pump Court, Temple. 



ftlinar rpntcS. 



Title of Marquis. — It is a curious fact no- 

 ticed, I think, by Wraxall, that from the time of 

 the death of the Marquis of Rockingham in July, 

 1782, the title of Marquis as a separate and inde- 

 pendent gradation in the English Peerage was in 

 abeyance until Nov. 1784, when Earl Temple and 

 the Earl of Shelburne were created, respectively, 

 Marquis of Buckingham and Marquis of Lans- 

 downe. E. H. A. 



Origin of the Buonaparte Family. — 

 " There is a curious story connected with Vitylo. 

 About a hundred and fifty years ago, say the people, 

 emigration from Maina into Corsica was frequent ; 

 amongst others the family of Kalomiris or Kalomeros 

 (both names are mentioned), went from Vitylo, who, soon 

 after their settlement in Corsica, translated their name 

 into Italian — Buonaparte. From this family came Napo- 

 leon, who was, therefore, of Mainote or ancient Spartan 

 blood. Pietro Mavromakhalis, it is said, when he visited 

 Napoleon at Trieste, claimed him as a fellow-countryman 

 on the faith of this story. The Mainotes implicitly be- 

 lieve it ; the emigration at the time mentioned is a 

 matter of history, and the fact that the name of Buona- 

 parte previously existed in Italy, is no proof that the 

 Corsican Buonapartes may not originally have been the 

 Kalmeros of Maina. The thing is possible enough ; and 

 somebody who is sufficiently interested in the present 

 race of Buonapartes to make researches, would probably 

 be able to settle the question." — Bayard Taylor's Travels 

 in Greece and Russia, p. 181. 



E. H. A. 

 "Erase" and "Cancel." — In the article on 

 the " Sliakspeare Forgeries," in the last Edinburgh 

 Review, the writer asks (p. 471. n.) : 



" Why has not our language two words — one to denote 

 actual obliteration by scratching or defacing; the other, 

 the sign (cross lines) denoting obliteration? " 



Our language has two such words : — 



" Krase " = " to expunge, to rub out." 

 "Cancel" = " cancellis nolare,""to mark with cross 

 line*, to cross a writing." {Johnson.) 



It is true these words are often misused; but 

 that is the fault of the writers, not the language. 

 The reviewer uses "erasure" for "cancel" or 

 " cancellation." S. C. 



Races by Running Footmen. — In a MS. 

 Diary of Sir Erasmus Philipps, 5th baronet of 

 Picton Castle (ob. 1743), I find a curious illustra- 

 tion of the amusements of the Oxford men a 

 hundred and forty years ago. Sir Erasmus had 

 just matriculated at Oxford, and was employing 

 his leisure in visiting places of note in its vicinity. 

 What he saw upon one occasion, his Diary shall 

 relate : — 



" 1720, Sept. 19th. Rode out to New Woodstock, 7 

 miles from Oxford. Dined at the Bear, 2s. 6d. ordinary. 

 In the Evening rode to Woodstock Park, where saw a 

 footrace between Groves (Duke Wharton's running foot- 

 man) and Phillips (Mr. Diston's). My namesake run 

 the 4 miles round the course in 18 minutes, and won the 

 race; and thereby his master 1000/., the sum Groves and 

 he (who were both stark naked) started for. On this oc- 

 casion there was a most prodigious concourse of people. 

 Returned to Woodstock, whence, after some refreshment, 

 galloped to Oxford." 



I fancy that the classical " Dons " of Oxford in 

 1860 would be greatly scandalised by such a re- 

 vival of the Olympic Games in their vicinity. 



John Pavin Phillips. 



Haverfordwest. 



fauzvizi, 



THE LIVERY COLLAR OF SCOTLAND. 



In the year 1850, when the correspondence on 

 the Collar of SS. was at its height in " N. & Q.," 

 I asked (in 1 st S. ii. 330.) whether any of the 

 antiquaries of Scotland could furnish me with 

 evidence in confirmation of the following state- 

 ment, made by Nicholas Upton : — " Rex etiam 

 Scotias dare solebat pro signo vel titulo suo ununi 

 collarium de gormettis fremalibus equorum de auro 

 vel argento." — Nic. Uptoni de Studio Mditari. 

 (Nicholas Upton is said to have written this work 

 about the year 1441 ; Moule, Bibliotheca He- 

 raldica, pp. 7. 141.) 



The only answer I received was the following 

 very strange one from a writer signing himself 

 Armiger (same vol. p. 363.) I was told that — 



" This passage neither indicates that a King of Scot- 

 land is referred to, nor does it establish that the collar 

 was given as a livery sign or title. It merely conveys 

 something to this purport, that the king was accustomed 

 to give to his companions, as a sign or title, a collar of 

 gold or silver shaped like the bit of a horse's bridle." 



This view of the matter is only intelligible upon 

 the presumption that Armiger so far misread the 

 passage as to take the word " scocie " (for so it is 

 printed in Upton, without a capital), as equivalent 

 to sociis. I did not, however, make any reply, be- 

 cause I was not inclined to continue the contro- 

 versy with such weapons as my opponent chose to 

 take up, particularly as I was writing under my real 

 name, whilst he remained concealed as Armiger. 

 Besides, I had some hope that my appeal to " the 

 antiquaries of Scotland" in particular might meet 



