10 s. VIL JUNE i, loo:.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
429
11 Ed. III.) contain long lists of name
of " Stannator' in eod' Antique Dm'co."
The Tavistock records (ed. by R. N Worth) have, under 1588, "paid at th
muster in August last past xl s Paid
18 th Aug. last, to Rich. Drake towards th charge of the Tynners, vj u ."
In the Morebath accounts (pub. Commin Exeter, p. 218), among items concernin soldiers' pay, we find " To the Pyners, v 8 . Surely a misreading of P for T ?
ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.
P.S. I have just chanced upon the follow ing reference to tinners in the ' Calendar o Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic vol. iv. pt. i. p. 267 :
"Musters taken in the spring of 1539 Lifto
Hundred Lydford most part of this paris
be tinners, which do muster always before th warden of the Stannary."
CHAPEL ROYAL, SAVOY : CURIOUS Cus TOM. In the account of the Chapel Royal Savoy, in Timbs's ' Curiosities of London it is stated that
" on the Sunday following Christmas Day it ha been customary to place near the door a chair covered with a cloth, on the chair being an orange in a plate. This curious custom at the Savoy has not been explained."
Can your readers offer an explanation of this quaint custom, and also say whether it is still kept up ?
T. FRANCIS BUMPUS.
' BOOK OF LOUGHSCUR.' A book or manuscript bearing this title, on the Rey- nolds family (ancient name MacRannal or Magrannal), co. Leitrim, was heard of about three years ago in the neighbourhood Keshcarrigan, co. Leitrim, as having been seen in the library of a gentleman who had died a little while previously ; but his name was not ascertained. Materials are being collected for a history of the Reynolds family, and information regarding this book or the loan of it would be much appreciated.
HENRY F. REYNOLDS. 92, Denbigh Street, S.W.
JAMES BOSWELL AND ' THE SHRUBS OF
PARNASSUS.' A volume of verse entitled
' The Shrubs of Parnassus ' (London, printed
for the author, 1760) has been attributed to
James Boswell in F. W. Fairholt's ' Tobacco :
its History,' 1876, p. -278, one whole poem
on ' Snuff ' being quoted. Is there any
other authority for this statement ? It is
known that " Bozzy " perpetrated verses,
but none published so early as this date.
I have consulted the standard bibliographers,
together with Percy Fitzgerald's and Leask's
' Lives ' of Boswell, and Rogers's ' Boswel-
liana,' but can find no trace of his connexion
with this volume, which is said to be by
William Woty (1731-91). G. L. B.
ZOFFANY'S INDIAN PORTRAITS. Tom Taylor, in his handbook of the pictures of the 1862 Exhibition, says (p. 64) of Zoffany : "He went to India in 1782, painted there with great success for some years, and returned to London with a fortune in 1796." Is there any record of the names of the persons (they must have been numerous) whose portraits he painted ? and is anything known of the ultimate fate of the pictures them- selves ? J. TAVENOR- PERRY. 5, Burlington Gardens, Chiswick.
"SALUTATION TAVERN," BILLINGSGATE. Where was the site of this tavern ? It is recorded by Pepys in his diary, under date 1659, that he visited it and dined there. As it is called by this name in a will dated 1681, it existed after the Fire of London, [n the diary of the Rev. Rowland Davies bhe diarist states, circ. 1689, that he dined
- here upon fish in company with the Earl
of Orrery and others : the diary is pub- ished by the Camden Society. In Boyne's Traders' Tokens of the Seventeenth Century' s the following :
Obverse: The Salutation Tavern. Two men saluting. Reverse : At Billingsgate. R. S. M. ilere were headquarters of Freemasons in Anne's Reign." I. 531.
" Tokens were issued from Taverns where Lodges of Freemasonry were afterwards held, in the Reign of Queen Anne.
" The information is obtained from an extremely are plate of French origin, in which the signs of he headquarters of all the English lodges, 129 in umber, are engraved. No. 201, being the number f this tavern in the book, is the first of the 19 umbers given." Appendix, p. 803. Can any one give further information con- erning this tavern ? G. B. H.
PICTORIAL BLINDS. In the first half of
le last century were to be seen window-
linds of calico on which pictures were
rinted in colours. I remember one such
which showed, I think, a classical building
with detached columns, and a dark- blue
ty behind, something in the style of the
oloured windows now imported from
Germany. Where were these blinds made ?
nd when did they go out of use ?
W. C. B.
BURMESE GOD. I recently obtained at n auction a figure carved in white marble, nd described in the catalogue as a " carved
