Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 | Page 9

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.
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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 Catalogue of Discourses in the Time of King James
II., No. 226., the name of HENRY CARE is given as the author. A list
of his other works may be found in Watt's Bibliotheca.]
William Penn's Family.--Can any of your correspondents inform me to
whom his eldest surviving son (William) was married, and also to
whom the children of the said son were married, as well as those of his
daughter Letitia (Mrs. Aubrey), if she had any? This son and daughter
were William Penn's children by his first marriage with Miss Springett.
A. U. C.
[William Penn, eldest son (of William Penn by Miss Springett), had
two children, Gulielma Maria, married to Charles Fell, and William
Penn of the Rocks in Sussex, who by his first wife, Christian Forbes,
had a daughter and heir, married to Peter Gaskell. Mrs. Aubrey was
living in 1718. Our correspondent may also be referred to Mr.
Hepworth Dixon's recently published William Penn, an Historical
Biography.]

Deal, Dover, and Harwich.--Where do the following lines come from?
"Deal, Dover, and Harwich, The devil gave with his daughter in
marriage; And, by a codicil to his will, He added Helvoet and the
Brill."
J. H. L.
[Francis Grose, in his Collection of Proverbs, speaks of them as "A
satirical squib thrown at the innkeepers of those places, in return for the
many impositions practised on travellers, as well natives as strangers.
Equally applicable to most other sea-ports."]
Author of Broad Stone of Honour.--Who is the author of the Broad
Stone of Honour, of which mention is made in the Guesses at Truth, 1st
series, p. 230., &c., and in the Ages of Faith, p. 236., works of some
interest in reference to the Papal discussions which are raging at
present?
NEMO.
[Kenelm M. Digby is the author of the Broad Stone of Honour.]
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Pope Joan.--Can any information be procured as to the origin of the
game called Pope Joan, and (what is of more importance) of the above
title, whether any such personage ever held the keys of St Peter and
wore the tiara? If so, at what period and for what time, and what is
known of her personal history?
NEMO.
[That Papissa Joanna is merely a fictitious character, is now
universally acknowledged by the best authorities. "Clearer
confirmations must be drawn for the history of Pope Joan, who
succeeded Leo IV. and preceded Benedict III., than many we yet
discover, and he wants not grounds that doubts it." So thought Sir

Thomas Browne, in his Vulgar Errors, B. vii. Ch. 17. Gibbon, too,
rejects it as fabulous. "Till the Reformation," he says, "the tale was
repeated and believed without offence, and Joan's female statue long
occupied her place among the Popes in