in painted glass; if so, where?" This I am unable to answer; but your learned correspondent JARLTZBERG having sent you one version of the legend attached to this saint, may I venture to remind you of another? This is the one attached to the celebrated picture, "The Descent from the Cross," by Rubens, in the cathedral of Antwerp, in which the painter, adopting the Greek derivation of the name as given by JARLTZBERG, represents the saint supporting Christ on his removal from the crucifix. The picture was painted for the Arquebusiers of Antwerp, whose patron was St. Christopher; but they were dissatisfied with it, and refused Rubens his promised reward, a piece of land in their possession contiguous to his own, for which he had accomplished this, certainly one of his most beautiful paintings. T. W. P.

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Jacobus Secundus Dei gratí: Anglie, Scocie, ffrancie & hibnie Rex, fidei defensor, &c. Omnibus ad quos p'sentes he n're pveniu't saltem. Sciatis qđ Nos pietate moti, ac gr'a n'ra sp'iali ac ex certa scientia & mero motu n'ris Pardonavimus relaxavim et remisim ac p p'sentes p Nobis heredibus, & successoribus n'ris, Pardonams relaxam et remittims Johi Trenchard nup de medio Templo Londin' armigero seu quocunque alio nomine vel cognomine artis, misterii, loci vel locor' idem Joħies Trenchard sciat censeat vocet vel nuncupet' aut nup' sciebat', censebat, vocabat seu nuncupa bat omn' et omni'od' Prodic'ones crimina lese maiestatis, mispris'ones Prodic'onis, Conspirac'ones, Sedic'ones, Insurrecc'ones, Concelament' Bellor', gestiones Bellor', machinac'ones, Imaginac'ones, et attempt' Illicit', convinc'ones verbor', p'palac'ones ac om'ia & singula ffelon', et al' malefi'a crimina Transgressiones, contempt' et offens' quecunq: p ip'um Johem Trenchard p se solum sive cum aliqua alia p'sona, seu aliquib' aliis p'sonis qualicunq;, quandocunq:, seu ubicunq: antehac contra psonam n'ram Regal' vel Gub'nac'onem n'ram, vel contra Person' Dñi Caroli sedi nup Regis Anglie preclarissimi ffratris n'ri vel Regimen suu' vel leges & statut' regni n'ri Anglie fact' comiss' sive ppetrat'.- Necnon fugam & fugas supinde fact'. Et licet p'fat' Jobes Trenchard pinde arrestat', ind'cat', impetit', utlagat', rectat' appellat' condemnat' convict' attinct' seu adiudicat' existit vel non existit aut inde arrestari, adiudicari, impetiri, utlagari rectari, appellari, condemnari, convinci, attingi seu adiudicari contigerit in futuro. Ac om'ia & singula

Jud'camenta, convic'cones, judicia, condempnac'onas attinctur', execuciones imprisonamenta, Penas mortis, Penas corporales, fforisfutur', punic'ones & om'es al Penas ac penalitates quascunq: de, p, sive concernen❜ P'missa, vel aliqua p'missor' insup vel versus p'fat Johem Trenchard habit' fact' reddit' sive adiudicat' vel imposter' h'end' f'iend' reddend', sive adiudicand' aut que nos versus ip'um Jotiem Trenchard p p'missis vel aliquo p'missor' h'uimus h'emus seu imposter' h'ere poterimus, ac heredes seu successores n'ri ullo modo he're poterint in futuro. Necnon omnes et singul' utlagar' versus p'fat' Johem Trenchard rac'one seu occac'one pmissor' seu eor' alicuius pmulgat' seu imposter' p'mulgand' At om'es & om'iod' sect', Querel', fforisfutur' impetic'ones & Demand' quecunq: que nos versus p'fat' Joħiem Trenchard p p'missis vel aliquo p'missor' h'uim' h'emus seu infuturo h'ere poterimus. Sectamq; pacis n're que ad nos versus p'fat Johem Trenchard ptinet seu ptinere poterit, rac'one seu occac'one p'missor' seu eor' alicui. Et firmam pacem n'ram ei inde dam' et concedim' p p'sentes. Nalentes q'd ip'e idem Johes Trenchard p Justitiar' Vice Comites Mariscallos Escaetor', Coronator', Ballivos seu aliquos al' ministros n're heredum vel successor' n'ror' quoscunq: rac'onib' seu occac'onib' p'd'tis seu eor' aliqu' molestet p'turbet seu in aliquo gravet Uolentes q'd he l're n're patentes quoad om'ia singul' p'missa supind' menc'onat' bene, firme, valide, sufficien' et effectual' in lege erunt et existent licet Prodic'ones, crimina lese maiestatis, misprisiones Prodic'onis, conspirac'ones, sedic'ones, Insurrecc'ones, concelament' Bellor', Gestion' Bellor', machinac'ones, Imaginac❜ones, vel attempt' Illicit', convinc'ones verbor', Propalac'ones & ffelon' crimina, & offens' p'dict', minus certe specificat' existim't. Q'dq: hec Pardonaco' n'ra in om'ib' curiis n'ris et alibi interpretet et adiudicet in beneficentissimo sensu p firmiore exonerac'one relaxac'one & Pardonac'one p'fat' Joħis Trenchard ac etiam p'litet & allocet in om'ib: Curiis n'ris absq: aliquo Brevi de Allocac'one mea parte pr'm's obtent' sive obtinend'. Et non obstante aliqua def'tu vel aliquib' def'tibus in his l'ris n'ris patentib' content' aut aliquo statuto, acto, ordinac'one provisione seu Restricc'one aut aliqua al' re, causa, vel materia quacunq: in contrar' inde ullo modo non obstante.

In Cuius rei testimoniu' has l'ras n'ras fier' fecimus Patentes.

Teste me ip'o apud West' decimo sept'o die Decembris anno regni n'ri tertio. Per Breve de p'rato Sigillo BARKER."

This was in the year 1688, just seven days after, according to Macaulay, that he had fled secretly from the kingdom, having previously thrown the great seal into the Thames, whence it was dredged up some months after by a fisherman. Being driven back by stress of weather, he returned to London, and on the 17th Pepys states,

"That night was a council; his Maty refuses to assent to all the proposals, goes away again to Rochester."

and on that very night was this pardon granted, James probably endeavouring to prop up his tot

nument, and whether there be any inscription legible upon it, or whether it be generally known to whom it belongs, I cannot inform you. URSULA.

There is a very good instance of an "altar tomb," bearing on it an ordinary effigy, and containing within it a skeleton_figure, visible through pierced panel work, in Fyfield Church, Berks. It is the monument of Sir John Golafre, temp. Hen. V. Another fine instance I remember to have seen (I believe) in the parish church of Ewelme, Oxon. HENRY G. TOMKINS.

Weston-super-Mare.

Bee Park (Vol. v., p. 322.). —In this neighbourhood is an ancient farm-house called Bee Hall, where I doubt not that bees were kept in great quantities in bygone ages; and am the more led to believe this because they always flourish best upon thyme, which grows here as freely and luxuriantly as I ever elsewhere observed it. About four miles from said Bee Hall, the other day, I was looking over a genteel residence, and noticing a shady enclosure, asked the gardener what it was for. He told me, to protect the bees from the sun it was upon a much larger scale than we generally now see, indicating that the soil, &c. suit apiaries. Looking to the frequent mention of honey, and its vast consumption formerly, as you instance in royal inventories, to which may be added documents in cathedral archives, &c., is it not remarkable that we should witness so few memorials of the ancient management of this interesting insect? I certainly remember one well-built "bee-house," at the edge of Lord Portsmouth's park, Hurstbourne, Hants, large enough for a good cottage, now deserted. While on the subject I will solicit information on a custom well known to those resident in the country, viz. of making a great noise with a house key, or other small knocker, against a metal dish or kettle while bees are swarming? Of course farmers' wives, peasants, &c., who do not reason, adopt this because their fathers before them did So. It is urged by intelligent naturalists that it is utterly useless, as bees have no sense of hearing. What does the clamour mean, whence derived? B. B.

Pembroke.

Sally Lunn (Vol. v., p. 371.). — In reply to the Query, "Is anything known of Sally Lunn? is she a personage or a myth ?" I refer your inquirer to Hone's Every-day Book, vol. ii. p. 1561.: "The bun so fashionable, called the Sally Lunn, originated with a young woman of that name at Bath, about thirty years ago." [This was written in 1826.] "She first cried them in a basket, with a white cloth over it, morning and evening. Dalmer, a respectable baker and musician, noticed her, bought her business, and made a song and set it to music in behalf of Sally

British Ambassadors (Vol. iv., pp. 442. 477.).Some time ago a correspondent asked where he could obtain a list or lists of the ambassadors sent from this court. I do not recollect that an answer has appeared in your columns, nor do I know how far the following may suit his purpose:

"12. An Alphabetical Index of the Names and Dates of Employment of English Ambassadors and Diplomatic Agents resident in Foreign Courts, from the Reign of King Henry VIII. to that of Queen Anne inclusive. One volume, folio."

This is extracted from the letter of the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse, Keeper of His Majesty's State Papers, in reply to the Secretary of the Commissioners of Public Records, dated "State Paper Office, Sept. 19, 1832." (See the Appendix to the Commissioners' Report, 1837, p. 78.)

TEE BEE.

Knollys Family (Vol. v., p. 397.).— Lt.-General William Knollys, eighth Earl of Banbury, married Charlotte Martha, second daughter of the Ebenezer Blackwell, Esq., banker, of Lombard Street, and Lewisham, Kent.

The present Col. Knollys, of the Fusileer Guards, is his representative.

A. Blackwell, sister or daughter of John Black

well, the father of Ebenezer, married an Etheridge. W. BLACKWELL, Curate of Mells.

'Prentice Pillars-'Prentice Windows (Vol. v., p. 395.).—I am reminded of a similar story connected with the two rose windows in the transept of the beautiful cathedral of Rouen. They were described to me by the old Swiss in charge, as the work of two artists, master and pupil; and he also pointed out the spot where the master killed the pupil, from jealousy of the splendid production of the north window by the latter: and, as the Guide

Book truly says, "La rose du nord est plus belle que celle du midi❞—the master's work. BENBOW. Birmingham.

St. Bartholomew (Vol. v., p. 129.).—Thanking you for the information given, may I further inquire if any of your correspondents are aware of the existence of any copy or print from the picture in the Church of Notre Dame, at Paris, of St. Bartholomew healing the Princess of Armenia (see Jameson's Sacred and Legendary Art); and where such may be seen? REGEDONUM.

Sun-dial Inscription (Vol. v., p. 79.). The following inscription is painted in huge letters over the sun-dial in front of an old farm-house near Farnworth in Lancashire:

"Horas non numero nisi serenas.' Where are these words to be found?

Y.

History of Faction (Vol. v., p. 225.). In my copy of this work, published in 1705, 8vo., formerly Isaac Reed's, he attributes it to Colonel Sackville Tufton. I observe also that Wilson (Life of De Foe, vol. ii. p. 335.) states, that in his copy it is ascribed, in an old handwriting, to the same author. JAS. CROSSLEY. Barnacles (Vol. v., p. 13.).—May not the use of this word in the sense of spectacles be a corruption of binoculis; and has not binnacle (part of a ship) a similar origin ? J. S. WARDEN.

Family Likenesses (Vol. v., p. 7.).—Any one who mixed in the society of the Scottish metropolis a few years ago must have met with two very handsome and accomplished brothers, who generally wore the Highland dress, and were known by the name of "The Princes." I do not mean to enter into the question as to whether or not they were the true representatives of "Bonnie Prince Charlie," which most persons consider to have been conclusively settled in the negative by an article which appeared in the Quarterly Review: but most assuredly a very strong point of evidence in favour of their having the royal blood of Scotland in their veins, was the remarkable resemblance which they bore - especially the younger brother to various portraits of the Stuart family, and, among the rest, to those of the " Monarch," as well as of his father Charles I.

Merry

logical activity of England during the last two hundred years. It arose in consequence of the imputed Arianism of some Presbyterian ministers James Peirce and Joseph Hallet. of Exeter, the most conspicuous of whom were It began in

1717, and terminated in 1719, when these two

ministers were ejected from their pulpits. Your correspondent who put the question will find some of the Presbyterian Churches in the West of account of this controversy in Murch's History -a work well worth the attention of England, those who take interest in the antiquities of Nonconformity. T. H. GILL.

Corrupted Names of Places (Vol. v., p. 375.).— When my father was at one time engaged in collecting the numbers drawn for the Sussex militia, he began by calling out for those men who belonged to the hundred of Mayfield; and though he three times repeated his call, not a single man came forward. A person standing by suggested that he should say "the hundred of Mearvel," and give it as broad a twang as possible. He did so; when nineteen out of twenty-three present answered to the summons. Hurstmonceaux is commonly pronounced Harsmouncy; and I have heard G. BLINK. Sompting called Summut.

Johnson seem all to agree that our word poison Poison (Vol. v., p. 394.). - Junius, Bailey, and comes from the French poison. I am inclined to think, with the two first-mentioned lexicographers, that the etymon is móσis, or potio. Junius adds, that "Ita Belgis venenum dicitur gift, donum;" and it is curious that in Icelandic eitr means both poison and gift. In the Antiquitates Celto-Scandice (p. 13.), I find the following expressions:"Sva er sagt, at Froda væri gefinn banadryckr." "Mixta portioni veneno sublatum e vivis tradunt Frotonem." Should it not be potioni, inasmuch as "bana," in Icelandic, signifies to kill, if I do not err, and "dryckr" is drink? Certainly, in AngloSaxon, "bana" (whence our bane) and "drycian have similar significations. Č. I. R.

potion? Menage quotes Suetonius, that Caligula Is there any possible doubt that poison is was potionatus by his wife. It is a French word undoubtedly. C. B.

Vikingr Skotar (Vol. v., p. 394.).-In the Antiquitates Celto-Scandice it is stated (p. 5.), that after the death of Guthormr, and subsequently to the departure of Harald (Harfagr) from the Hebrides, "Sidan settug i löndin vikingar margir Danir oc Nordmenn. Posthac sedes ibi occupant piratæ plurimi, Dani æqua ac Normanni." The word vikingar, the true Icelandic word for pirate, often occurs in the same saga, but not combined with shotar, though this latter term is repeated, signifying "the Scotch," and also in composition with honungr, &c.

C. I. R.

"Cornwall swab-pie, and Devon white-pot brings, And Leicester beans, and bacon fit for kings."

Dr. King's Art of Cookery. See Spectator.

In Belgium I am perhaps beyond bounds, but may cite in conclusion:

"Nobilibus Bruxella viris, Antverpia nummis, Gandavum laqueis, formosis Burga puellis, Lovanium doctis, gaudet Mechlinia stultis." WILLIAM BATES.

You may perhaps think the accompanying "Rhymes on Places" worthy of insertion, on the districts of the county of Ayr, viz. :

"Carrick for a man,

Kyle for a cou,

Cunninghame for butter and cheese,

And Galloway for woo."

F. J. H.

"We three" (Vol. v., p. 338.).—It may interest your correspondent to learn that a public-house exists in London with the sign he mentions. It is situate in Virginia Row, Bethnal Green, is styled "The Three Loggerheads," and has a signboard ornamented with a couple of busts: one of somewhat Cæsarian aspect, laureated; the other a formidable-looking personage with something on his head, probably intended for the dog-skin helmet of the ancient Greeks, but as the style of art strongly reminds one of that adopted for the figure-heads of ships, I confess my doubts on the subject. Under each bust appears the distich: "WE THREE

LOGGERHEADS BE."

The sign appears a "notability" in the neighbourhood, as I have more than once in passing seen some apparent new comer set to guess its

meaning; and when he confessed his inability, informed, in language more forcible than elegant, that he made the third Loggerhead. W. È. F.

Burning Fern brings Rain (Vol. v., p. 242.). — In some parts of America, but more particularly in the New England States, there was a popular belief, in former times, that immediately after a large fire in a town, or of wood in a forest, there would be a "fall of rain." Whether this opinion exists among the people at present, or whether it was entertained by John Winthrop, the first governor of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, and the Pilgrim Fathers, on their landing at Plymouth, as they most unfortunately did, their superstitious belief in witchcraft, and some other "strange notions," may be a subject of future inquiry.

La Valetta, Malta.

W.W.

Plague Stones (Vol. v., pp. 226. 374.).—I have often seen the stone which G. J. R. G. mentions as "to be seen close to Gresford, in Denbighshire, about a quarter of a mile from the town, on the road to Wrexham, under a wide-spreading tree, on an open space, where three roads meet." It is, I conjecture, the base of a cross. This stone may be the remnant of the last of a succession of crosses, the first of which may have given its Welsh name, Croes ffordd, the way of the cross, to the village. There is no tradition of any visitation of the plague at Gresford; but there is reason to suppose that it once prevailed at Wrexham, which is about three miles distant. Near that town, and on the side of vechan to Marchwiel Hall, there is a field called a hill near the footpath leading from Wrexham Bryn y cabanau, the brow of the cabins; the tradition respecting which is, that, during the preva lence of the plague in Wrexham, the inhabitants constructed wooden huts in this place for their temporary residences.

A QUONDAM Gresfordite.

I do not think the "Plague Stone" a mile or two out of Hereford has been mentioned in the Notes on that subject. If my memory is correct, there is a good deal of ornament, and it is surrounded by a short flight of stone steps. F. J. H.

Sneezing (Vol. v., p. 364.).— Having occasion to look at the first edition of the Golden Legend, printed by Caxton, I met with the following pas sage, which may perhaps prove interesting to your correspondent, as showing that the custom of blessing persons when they sneeze" endured" in the fifteenth century. The institution of the "Litany the more and the lasse," we are told, was justified,

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"For a right grete and grevous maladye: for as the Romayns had in the lenton lyued sobrely and in con

tynence, and after at Ester had receyud theyr Sauyour; after they disordered them in etyng, in drynkyng, in playes, and in lecherye. And therfore our Lord was