[Footnote 3: [Probably some of our correspondents may know the _origin_ of
this phrase; and as many of them, perhaps, are not acquainted with its
meaning among the slang literati, we may as well enlighten them with a
quotation from the _Lexicon Balatronicum et Macaronicum_ of Master Jon Bee:
"_Peckham_, going to dinner. 'All holiday at _Peckham_,' no appetite.
_Peckish_, hungry."--ED.]]
_Arthur de Vere._--What was the after history of Arthur (Philipson) de
Vere, son of John, Earl of Oxford, and hero of Sir Walter Scott's novel
{36} _Anne of Geierstein?_ Was Sir Walter Scott justified in saying, "the
manners and beauty of Anne of Geierstein attracted as much admiration at
the English Court as formerly in the Swiss Chalet?"
[Sigma].
_Master of the Nails._--It appears from the _Historical Register_, January,
1717, "Mr. Hill was appointed Master of all the Nails at Chatham Dock." Can
any of your readers favour me by stating the nature of the above office?