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make a good pot until the Frenchman
taught them how, and got a flogging
in the Stone Jug for his wages." The
witness to this saying is the mutilated
vase in the Holburne Museum at Bath, of
which a photograph may be found in
Chaffers's ' Ceramic Gallery.' It bears date
1769, and is signed "I. Voyez," with Pal-
mer's stamp upon the material of the base,
and is thus witness to the mastership of the
designer and the incompetence of the manu-
facturer. 1769 is the year in which Voyez
was imprisoned for three months in Stone (?)
Gaol, after his flogging. The semi-nude
figure of a girl (for the making of which
during work hours, in the company of a
model and a stone jug of London stout, he
obtained wage of whip and imprisonment
upon Wedgwood's complaint) is utilized
in this design. A glance at the " pot which
failed in the baking " shows its superiority
to anything produced in Staffordshire at an
earlier date, and also that, in outline at any
rate, all Wedgwood's later productions suffer
beside it. A very fine bas-relief of Prometheus
carved in ivory by Voyez is shown in the
same case, and is reproduced upon the sides
of this master vase. Other work of even
greater interest, and by the same hand, is to
be seen at the v Holburne. I should be glad
of information as to the parentage and career
of Voyez, other than the partisan statements
of Wedgwood's biographers. Also I should
be glad to know where specimens of his
skill in ivory, wood, gem-engraving, and gold-
smith's work are to be seen outside the
Holburne Museum. J. A. GOODCHILD.
Bordighera.
AUTHOR OF SAYING. Who was it who said, in speaking of a herald, "The silly man did not know even his own silly business " 1 I need hardly say that it is not from any sympathy with the sentiment that I ask the question. C. S. H.
[Something resembling it is in ' Rob Roy,' where the elder Osbaldistone says to the younger, apropos of poetry, " Why, Frank, you do not even under- stand the beggarly trade you have chosen," vol. i. p. 21, "Border Edition."]
STRAWBERRY LEAVES. What is the deriva- tion of the strawberry leaves in the coronets of certain ranks of peers 1 The ordinary books of reference, as well as the ' Encyclo- paedia Britannica,' have been consulted in vain. A. N.
ATWELL AND MAIN FAMILIES. Many early colonists of the present state of Maine were Devonshire men, and some effort is now being made to trace their places of
birth. John Main came to Maine between
1630 and 1640, and with him came one John
Atwell, who married Main's daughter. They
settled at Falmouth and Nortn Yarmouth
(the present town of York, Maine), having
for neighbours Battens, Felts, Carrals, Prebles,
and Corbins. Associated with them were the
noted colonists Richard Cleaves, a Devonian ;
Richard Martin, son of a mayor of Plymouth ;
and one John Tucker, who named his home
Stpgumber, after his birthplace in Somerset-
shire. Richard Corbin and one of the Atwells
were killed by the Indians, 11 August, 1676.
John Atwell is perhaps the child aged one
year in the Visitation of Devonshire in 1620
(Harleian Society's Publications, p. 12), and
as such from Kenton and Mamhead. Can
any one place John Main, his wife Elizabeth,
or any of his children, as born in Devon-
shire *? Any information thankfully received
and acknowledged as of great value for a
contemplated genealogy.
STUART C. WADE. 308, West 33rd Street, New York.
CHAPLAINS. Information requested as to the earliest approximate mention of Speaker's, Lord Mayor's, Court, naval, military, domes- tic, and institutions' chaplains.
(Rev.) H. HAWKINS.
23, Parkhurst Road, Colney Hatch, N.
"EVE STOOD AT THE GARDEN GATE." Who
is the author of the following, or in what collection of poems may it be found ? Eve stood at the Garden gate In the hush of an Eastern spring.
The last word may read "morn."
M. JACOMB-HOOD. Broadwater House, Tunbridge Wells.
EPITAPH AT STRATFORD-UPON-AVON. On a tombstone bearing the date 1700, on the pavement of the parish church at Stratford- upon-Avon, there is an epitaph which reads thus :
Oft spreading trees malignant winds do blast And blustring stormes do rend, root out at last The earths turn'd up the shatterd branches by Thus throu deaths rage things in disorders ly. Have these lines been included in any pub- lished collection of epitaphs ? Are they a quotation from any printed book which was in vogue at their date ? By whom were they composed 1 The position of " by " is notable, and "disorder" in the plural.
E. S. DODGSON.
A SURVIVAL OF PAGANISM. There is a common belief amongst the country folk in Herefordshire that it is unlucky to kill a pig during the waning moon. It must always be
