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ay to London. In Akerman's _Tradesmen's Tokens current in London_ I find one (numbered 1442) of the "Dogg's-Head-in-the-Potte" in Old Street, having the device of a dog eating out of a pot; and the token of Oliver Wallis, in Red Cross Street (No. 1610., A.D. 1667), has the device of a dog eating out of a three-legged pot. In April, 1850, Hayward Brothers (late R. Henly and Co.), wholesale and manufacturing builders ironmongers, 196. Blackfriars Road, and 117. and 118. Union Street, Borough, London (who state their business to have been established 1783), put forth an advertisement headed with a woodcut of a dog eating out of a three-legged pot. Can any of your readers elucidate this sign of the "Dog's-head-in-the Pot?" C. H. COOPER. Cambridge, May 24. 1850. _"Poor Allinda's growing old."_--Charles II., to vex the Duchess of Cleveland, caused Will Legge to sing to her-- "Poor Allinda's growing old, Those charms are now no more." (See Lord Dartmouth's note in _Burnet_, vol. i. p. 458. ed. 1823.) Let me ask, through "NOTES AND QUERIES," Dr. Rimbault, Mr. Chappell, or any readers, where are these verses to be found? P. CUNNINGHAM. * * * * * Minor Queries Answered. _Who was the Author of "The Modest Enquiry, &c."?_--There is an anonymous tract, entitled _A Modest Enquiry, &c._, (4to. London, 1687), on the question of St. Peter's ever having been at Rome: proving, in so far as a negative in the case can be proved, in the most logical, full, clear, and satisfactory manner, that--_He never was at Rome_; and _never was, either nominally or otherwise, Bishop_ _of the Church there_: and showing the grounds for the contrary assertion to be altogether baseless and untrue; being a tissue of self-contradicting forgeries and frauds, invented long subsequently to the time, evidently for the sole purpose of justifying the Papal pretensions of succession and derivation from the Apostle; as those, and all its other claims, are founded alone upon that fact, and must stand or fall with it. The inquiry is conducted throughout with evidence of great acquaintance with Scripture and much theological learning (though the writer states himself to be a layman), without the least undue pretension, and with the most perfect temperateness and impartiality. The work would seem now well worth reprinting in a cheap and popular form. Who was the author? M. [In Francis Peck's _Catalog
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