io s. x. AUG. i, 1908.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
89
vol. iv. of ' The Political History of England,'
by Prof. Oman ? For instance, on p. 430
is : " The Commons, apparently with some
enthusiasm, voted the liberal grant of two
tenths and two fifteenths." MAY.
[Tenths and fifteenths were taxes of those amounts formerly imposed on personal property, and granted from time to time to the King by Parliament. Blackstone's ' Commentaries ' defines them as tem- porary aids.]
JOHNSON'S ' TROPICAL CLIMATES.' Will any one give me information about the author of a work referred to as " Johnson on ' The Influence of Tropical Climates on European Constitutions ' " ? I cannot find this Johnson in the ' D.N.B.'
CLEMENT SHORTER.
' PLEASURE DIGGING HIS OWN GRAVE.' I shall be much obliged for information as to the engraving referred to under this name in Mrs. Gaskell's ' Moorland Cottage,' and said to be by a German artist. Who was he ? and where is the picture to be found ? AGNES CUMMINS.
1, Melrose Terrace, Liscard, Cheshire.
SWIMMING BATH : SWIMMING STAYS. Is not the following a very early mention, if not the earliest, of a swimming bath ?
This Day is open'd At the Bagnio in Lemon-Street, Goodman's Fields.
The Pleasure or Swimming Bath, which is more than forty-three Feet in length, it will be kept warm and fresh every Day, and is Convenient to swim or learn to swim in. There are Waiters attend daily to teach or assist Gentlemen in the said Swimming Bath if requir'd. There is also a good Cold Bath.
Subscribers may have the Use of both for a Guinea. Daily Advertiser, 28 May, 1742.
And what description could be applied to " Swimming Stays," as in this advertise- ment ?
In the Great Exchange lately built in Rosemary Lane, near the Minories, there are now near a hundred Shops open'd, where all manner of Ap- parel, Table and Bed Linnen, new and second- hand, are sold cheaper than any other Place in London ; also ready Money given for all manner of cast-off Cloaths.
Note, Swimming-Stays are made by the above Exchange-Keeper to the utmost Perfection. Ibid., 18 May.
J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. Deene, Streatham.
JACOB PHILADELPHIA. Jacob Phila- delphia was born and baptized in Phila- delphia, and was probably of Hebrew parentage. He was a conjuror and ad- venturer. He gave performances in Eng-
land about 1757, and lived with Henry
Frederick, Duke of Cumberland. Are there
any references to him in contemporary
newspapers or books ?*
ISRAEL SOLOMONS. 91, Portsdown Eoad, Maida Vale.
" HOUSE OF WARANTYSE." The above, in 'The Macro Plays' (E.E.T.S.), 35/216, represents, from the context, " the house of Judas " in Acts ix. 11 of the A.V. What is the meaning of the expression, and whence was its idea drawn ? I fail to find a parallel in other Mystery plays. More fully, the words are :
In a certayn house of warantyse.
H. P. L.
TOWNLEY ESTATES. Would some one kindly give me information concerning these estates ? Is there not some tale of a missing heir ? Could you tell me the name of the latter ? B. WILMOT.
10, St. Lawrence Road, Ladbroke Grove, W.
LORD ROBERT GORDON or THE SCOTS GREYS. In 1741 an Army List (MS., Record Office) states that "Lord Robert Gordon " got a commission in the Scots Greys. Who was he ? No such lord appears in any Peerage.
J. M. BULLOCH. 118, Pall Mall, S.W.
CHRYSTAL MAGNA : MAYLOR GRANGE. Can any of your readers give me information as to the whereabouts of two residences, named respectively Chrystal Magna and Maylor Grange ? Chrystal Magna is be- lieved to be somewhere in the vicinity of Delamere Forest ; but I should like to know if this is correct.
JAS. ARROWSMITH.
BUDGEE, A KIND OF APE. A writer of the end of the seventeenth century, referring to Madagascar, describes " a sort of Jack- anape they call a Budgee, the handsomest I ever saw." I cannot find the word " budgee " in any account of the island accessible to me. What is the origin of the word ? EMERITUS.
" CIRE PERDUE PROCESS." Can any corre- spondent give me the date and title of a paper on this process which was written by Sir John Lumley, Ambassador to Italy ? He afterwards assumed the name of Savile, and was the first Baron Savile. I think it was published as a consular report.
J. F. R.
