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queen on 17 November, one would expect to find some contemporary evidence; but, so far as my information goes, there is none.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

THE LOBISHOME (10 th S. i. 327). It does not seem right that a witch, or wizard, who is transformed to a horse, should be called a were-wolf. But a witch is supposed capable of changing herself, or her victims, to any animal ; and the way to undo the witchcraft is to draw blood. In ' Henry VI.' Talbotsays to Joan :

Blood will I draw on thee. Thou art a witch. Washington Irving mentions the Belludo, a supernatural horse of Spain, that gallops by night. But that is a ghost. Churchill, in 'The Ghost,' has written these lines :

Sad spirits, summoned from the tomb,

Glide, glaring ghastly through the gloom,

In all the usual pomp of storms,

In horrid customary forms,

A wolf, a bear, a horse, an ape.

E. YAEDLEY.

It is somewhat curious that no story or legend of the were-wolf (iohishomem, according to Valdez) is given in Braga's ^Portuguese Folk-lore.' In C. Sellers's ' Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes,' p. 17, a story is told of a wolf- child from the north of Portugal. There the enchanted Moors who live underground are credited with the power of placing this curse on a baby, branding it with the sign of the crescent. E. E. STREET.

BIRCH, BURCII, OR BYRCH FAMILIES (10 th S. i. 328). MR. HERBERT BIRCH may care to be referred to the following :

1. Walter de Gray Birch, long an assistant in the Printed Books Department of the British Museum, now retired, and residing at 1, Rutland Park, Willesden Green, N.W.

2. George Henry Birch, the curator of Sir John Soane's Museum. [Recently dead.]

3. Rev. W. M. Birch, long vicar of Ash- burton, Devon : present address, Bampton Aston, Oxford.

4. Henry John Birch, the oldest solicitor in Chester, of the firm of Birch, Cullimore & Douglas, and residing at Corville, Liver- pool Road.

5. Arthur Burch, Registrar to the Bishop of Exeter, formerly an Alderman of the City.

. Miss Margaret Birch (of Shropshire descent), 18, Upper Northgate Street, Chester.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A. Lancaster.

NELSON AND WOLSEY (10 th S. i. 308, 376). In my former reply I, with inexcusable

fatuity, turned for the history of the sar- cophagus wherein are the remains of Nelson to the late Dean Milman's 'Annals of St. Paul's Cathedral,' 1868, p. 485, and read that Torregiano was the sculptor of Wolsey's tomb. A wiser inquiry and repentance directed me to the 'Italian Sculpture' of C. E. Perkins, 1883, pp. 247-8, which states, following an account of the Cardinal's monu- ment : " Before Cardinal Wolsey gave Bene- detto [da Rovezzano] the commission for his monument, he had negotiated for it with one of his contemporaries, Piero Torrigiano." Something to this effect must have misled the Dean, often unlucky as he was when tombs were in question ; witness the lament- able history of his strenuous opposition to the placing on a fit site in St. Paul's of Alfred Stevens's noble monument of Welling- ton, which lie relegated to an uncomfortable corner. Witness, likewise, the dogged un- reasonableness which led him to veto the completion of Stevens's design for this monu- ment by placing the equestrian statue of the Duke as the crowning element of the whole composition. I suppose that the Dean, who had written a popular history of the Jews, fancied an analogy between the horse of Wellington and the Golden Calf of Moses. At any rate, Milman was actually found capable of declaring that, so far as he could prevent it, no figure of an animal at least of a quadruped should ever be placed in St. Paul's. Of course, this curious and, for the nonce, disastrous whim was opposed to the history of art under all nations and creeds, including that of St. Paul's itself. O.

ALEXANDER GARDEN, M.D. (10 th S. i. 328). In Hew Scott's ' Fasti Ecclesise Scoticanse ' it is stated that the Rev. Alexander Garden, A.M., translated from Kinnairney, was ap- pointed to the parish of Birse in 1726, and that he died in 1778, in his ninety-first year, and the fifty-eighth of his ministry ; also that he married in 1759, and had two sons Dr. Alexander, physician, Charlestown, South Carolina, known for his learning and courtesy, and John, a merchant in London. W. S.

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