12 s. ix. xov. 19, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 413 RUSPINI (12 S. ix. 371). James Bltiden Chapel, and mentions a legacy bequeathed Ruspini, the Pall Mall dentist (who was to her by the late Mr. Angier. As William styled " Chevalier " after the death of his Cudworth was the lessee not only of the father, the first Chevalier Ruspini, in 1813), i chapel aforementioned but also of the late lost his first wife on Sept. 28, 1818, but re- French Church in Black and' Grey Eagle married on June 13, 1819, at St. James's Street, Spitalfields, that in New Hermitage Church, Miss Martha Artherden Hughes Street, Wapping, and a third in Peter's Yard, of Weymouth. Leicester Fields, a Huguenot connexion There was a third son, W. Ruspini , who would not be improbable. predeceased his father on Jan. 2, 1812, and Sarah Cudworth's son, Benjamin, married whose wife, Lucy Jennings, survived until a Huguenot lady named Mary Marple, of Jan. 9, 1848. whose ancestry I am uncertain. A grandson of the first Chevalier Ruspini, MARGARET WHITEBROOK. the Rev. William Orde Ruspini, was a chaplain for 24 years in the service of the . A S T ft LE j' S ? SA GER * CIRCUSES (12 S. H.E.I. Company, and died at Calcutta, 1X 329373, 393).-Re g ardmg Philip Astley, Aug 1 1853 none of your correspondents mentions the I have a note on Chevalier Ruspini (at ; interesting fact that he was originally one 12S.ii. 65) under the title of 'Eighteenth f ih * tT V? m E1 1Ot ? Llght H f e Century Dentists ' ( now tlie 15th Hussars) who came under " I should recommend a search amongst the * r f inin g ?f Domenick Angelo the the registers of St. James's Church. f 10 ^ elegant rider in Europe (as eulopzed HORACE P>T^AnrTTrv byGeorge Il.),at Wilton, the seat of the then Commanding Officer of the regiment, Henry TOM MOSTYN (12 S. ix. 369). According Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke, c. 1750 to ' Who's Who ' this gifted artist was born (Ancestor, viii., pp. 10, 11). in Liverpool in 1864. CHARLES SWYNNERTON. HORACE BLEACKLEY. THE DANCE OF SALOME (12 S. ix. 150, PINCHBECK (12 S. ix. 370). Some adver- 197 235 273 ' 297). None of your corre- tisements issued by one of the Pinchbecks spondents, I believe, has noticed the early will be found in Daniel Lysons's Collectanea view that Salome's dancing was rather in the British Museum (1881, b. 6, vol. ii., tumbling. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 182). Unfortunately I have no note of Bk - m - ch - v - 3 , ref rs to the . Saxon the dates, and cannot be certain whether versions of St. Marks Gospel which say they refer to the younger Pinchbecks, but that she vaulted or tumbled, and gives 1 fancy they must have been issued after two cuts of the performance, the attitude the father's death, probably about the closely resembling that carved above the year 1740 or 1750. , west door of Rouen Cathedral. The abundant There is a curious reference to the elder (?) skirt is, in the interests of modesty, managed Pinchbeck in the Vertue MSS. (B.M. Add. with a surely impossible skill. Joyce, 23076, folio 10). The date of this note is ' Social History of Ancient Ireland,' 11., 1722. HILDA F. FINE ERG. 445 quotes a homily from the Liber 47, Holland Road, W.14. Brecc ' in the same sense. Scott, in a note on ' The Lady of the Lake,' seems to have John Taylor, in ' Records of My Life,' used Strutt. G. G. L. i., p. 182, says : In my time one of the Pinchbecks kept the toy MlLK, BUTTER AND CHEESE STREETS and rarity shop in Cockspur Street and was pat- (12 S. ix. 169, 214, 259). There is a Milk ronized by King George the Third, who was fond Street in Boston, U.S.A., but no Cheese or of ingenious curiosities; another was a pawn- Butter Street CHART FS F STRATTON broker in West Smithfield ; and a third was land- 5utt( et * CHARLES &. & lord of a coffee-house and tavern in Five Fields, QJ._ Q A ^ tr /io Q ; r QPO TU^. Chelsea, With him resided Coan, the dwarf, , X7 S 1 A ^ CE ^ ^ B ^ A ^ N ^A 8 ' 1X ',, 3 . 62 J'~ whose portrait M as the sign of the tavern. Welsh for English or Saxon," is Saesneg, HORACE BLEACKLEY. ' hence the " saracen. Vychan means the younger, and is not ANGIER FAMILY (12 S. ix. 334). The a surname until it becomes anglicized into will of Sarah Cudworth, 355 Dodwell, 1792, "Vahan" or "Vaughan." Mr. McGu-id describes her as the widow of William uses " Vychan " as if it was a surname. The Cudworth, a preacher of Margaret Street man's name vas Rhys. E. E. COPE.
