sed one of the arms of the ash to be lopped off, and a hole to be
bored into the body, and then was the sound or hollow voice heard more
audibly than before; but in a kind of speech which they could not
comprehend nor understand."

K. P. D. E.

_Barker, the original Panorama Painter._--Mr. Cunningham, at p. 376. of his
admirable _Handbook of London,_ says that Robert Barker, who originated the
Panorama in Leicester Square, died in 1806. Now, Barker, who preceded
Burford, and eventually, I think, entered into partnership with him,
married a friend of my family, a daughter of the Admiral Bligh against whom
had been the mutiny in the _Bounty_. I remember Mr. Barker, and his house
in Surrey Square, or some small square on the Surrey side of London Bridge;
also its wooden rotunda for painting in; and this, too, at the time when
the picture of Spitzbergen was in progress {407} and you felt almost a
chill as the transparent icebergs were splashed on.

If there have not been two Messrs. Barker connected with the Panorama, Mr.
Cunningham must be incorrect in his date, for I was not in existence in
1806.

A. G.

Ecclesfield.

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MINOR QUERIES.

_Vegetable Sympathy._--I have been told that Sir Humphrey Davy asserted
that the shoots of trees, if transplanted, will only live as long as the
parent stock--supposing that to die naturally. How is this to be accounted
for, if true?

A. A. D.

_Court Dress_--When was the present court dress first established as the
recognised costume for state ceremonials? and if there are extant any
orders of the Earl Marshal upon the subject, where are they printed?

HENCO.

_Dieu et mon Droit._--When was this first adopted as the motto of our
sovereigns? I have heard widely different dates assigned to it.

LEICESTRENSIS.

_Cachecope Bell._--In the ancient accounts of the churchwardens of the
parish of St. Mary-de-Castro, Leicester, and also in those of St. Martin in
the same town, the term "cachecope," "kachecope," "catche coppe," or
"catch-corpe-bell," is not of unfrequent occurrence: _e. g._, in the
account for St. Mary's for the year 1490, we have:

"For castynge ye cachecope bell, js.

"It. To Thos. Raban for me'dyng ye kachecope bell whole, iiijd."

I have endeavoured in vain to ascertain the meaning and derivation of the
word, which is not to be found in Mr. Halliwell's excellent _Dictionary of
Archaic Words_. Can