12 s. vii. JULY 17, i92o.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 57 WILLOW - PLANTATIONS (12 S. vii. 29). As skilled trades, willow-planting, withe- -stripping, and basket-making, have been followed, on the banks of Shakespeare's Avon, for a long period. Extensive fruit orchards in the vicinity, and much market gardening, afford steady demand for baskets
- and hampers of all shapes and sizes. In the
immediate locality this interesting calling can be seen in practice two miles up stream at Alveston ; four miles down stream, at "Welford ; and elsewhere, further afield. One of the characteristic features of the Warwickshire Avon is the almost continuous .avenue of old pollarded willows through which it winds its course. These useful trees or their forbears doubtless date back to the poet's time, as he says in " Much ado ..." " Will you go with me ? " " Whither ? " " Even to the next willow " =and a dozen other references to wiliovs are -scattered through the plays. 1 ! W. JAGGARD, Gapt. Shakespeare Memorial Library, S tr atf ord-on- Avon. The Fen^country would seem a like J y 'locality in which to institute a search, but there must be plenty of other parts where this, one of our oldest industries, still sur- vives. I remember seeing the stripping process in effect at Burford, Oxon. The plant is pulled between two pieces of iron that shred the outer covering. F. GORDON ROE. STALKY & CO.'^IBY RUDYARD KIPLING (12 S. vi. 334). 'Slaves of the Lamp ' appeared in a periodical entitled Cosmopolis ; an International Review, for April and May, 1897. It was obviously an English publi- cation, for a footnote reads "Copyright 1897 by Mr. Rudyard Kipling in the United States of America." ~ The story called "Stalky," omitted from 'the book ' Stalky & Co,' appeared in The Windsor Magazine at some date in 1898. J. R. H. EMERSON'S 'ENGLISH TRAITS' (12 S. v. 327, (see ref.) ; vi. 9, 73, 228, 257, 276, 297 ; v ii . 1 9 , 3 1 }. Chaucer wrote a ' Treatise on the Astrolabe' for "litel Lowis my sone.... "ther-for have I geven Thee a suffisaunt Astrolabie as for oure orizonte, compouned after the latitude of Oxenford " ; and his 'Milleres Tale ' is concerned with Oxford -and some oi its inhabitants. The wife of Bath's fifth husband Sankin was sometime a clerk of Oxenford. 2. On June 16, 1660, it was ordered by the House of Commons that Milton's ' Defensio ' and John Goodwin's ' Obstructors of Justice ' should be burnt by the common hangman, and that the authors should be indicted by the attorney-general, and taken into custody by the sergeant-at-arms. A proclamation of Aug. 13 ordered the surrender of all copies of the books named. Anthony Wood, ' The Life and Times of A. W.,' ed. Andrew Clark, vol. i. p. 319, 1891, under date June 16, 1660, says : " Milton's and Goodwin's books called in and burnd (' News,' 1660, pp. 356-7, at a paper put in it). Taken out of those libraryes where they were, especially out of the Public Library." And the editor notes that " it seems to be a fact that Milton's and Goodwin's controversial writings were actually taken out of the Bodleian. Although many of them are now found in the Library, they are all with press- marks which show that they came in after this, date ; Dr. Thomas Barlow presented many ; he was librarian at this juncture and may have secured some of the ejected books." 3.^ For William Sewell .(1804-74) Whyte's Professor of Moral Philosophy and Founder, or one of the Founders, of St. Peter's College, Radley, see 'D.N.B.,' li. 290. He was brother of a former Premier of New Zealand, of Miss Sewell the novelist, and of the late Warden of New College. A. R. BAYLEY.
LOCAL LONDON MAGAZINES (12 S. vii. 4). KENSINGTON. The Court Suburb Maga- zine. Miss Fanny Aikin-Kortright says in her ' Recollections,' upon the above publi- cation : " The Court Suburb I edited over two years, and of which I wrote nearly all the contents myself under various signatures." R. AUSTEN CLOW. THE PREFIX " RIGHT HONBLE. " (12 S. vii. 30). This prefix is a courtesy title by no means confined to Peers of Parliament and Privy Councillors. The ceremonious address of a Duke is "His Grace," of a Marquess, "Most Honourable." All other hereditary peers : Earls, Viscounts and Barons are "Right Honourable," as also are their wives or widows. Others entitled to the prefix, are the Chief justices of the High Courts, the Lord Advocate, the Lord Justice General, the Lord Mayor of London, and all provincial Lord Mayors, viz. : York, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds,
