they have never done so to less purpose than when they
ascribe the loss of that battle to a man who was in all probability not
born in 1691, and must in any case have been a mere boy at the time. No
peerage that I have met with gives the date of his birth, which would at
once settle the question. It seems most unlikely, if such were actually the
case, that the family, on attaining the peerage, should have revived the
title of the gallant Sarsfield (whose representatives they were), and thus
challenged public attention, always on the alert on such points in Ireland,
to their alleged dishonour and betrayal of the cause for which he fought
and fell.

J. S. WARDEN.

_Proclamation for making Mustard._--Did Queen Elizabeth issue a
proclamation for "the right of making mustard?" And if so, what was the
language of such proclamation?

AN ADMIRER.

_Judges practicing at the Bar._--A curious disquisition has run through "N.
& Q." on the relinquishment of their sees by bishops, but I do not see that
any of them are shown to have officiated as parish priests after quitting
the episcopate.

Not that this is the point I wish now to put before you and your readers,
but I want information on a somewhat kindred subject.

In Craik's _Romance of the Peerage_ there occurs:

"Percy's leading counsel upon this occasion was Mr. Sergeant
(afterwards Sir Francis) Pemberton, who subsequently rose to be first a
puisne judge, and then Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was thence
transferred to the Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas, and after all
ended his days a practitioner at the bar."--Vol. iv. p. 291. note.

Pemberton, it appears, was dismissed from the Common Pleas in 1683; he was
counsel for the seven bishops in 1688, as was also another displaced judge,
Sir Creswell Leving, or Levinge, who was superseded in 1686.

Are these the only two instances of judges, _qui olim fuere_, practising at
the bar? If not, are they the latest? And farther, if not the latest, does
not etiquette forbid such practice now?

W. T. M.

Hong Kong.

_Celebrated Wagers._--I should be glad if any correspondent will point out
any remarkable {451} instances of the above. The ordinary channels for
obtaining such information I am of course acquainted with.

C. CLIFTON BARRY.

"_Pay me tribute, or else_----."--In Mr. Bunn's late work, _Old England and
New England_, I find this note:

"We all remember the haughty message of th