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a spear butt downwards. Beneath the shield is the motto " Crucetn Ferre Dignum." To what families do the shield of pretence, the crest, and the motto belong? I may say that neither the crest nor the motto belongs to the Tynte family. This James Tynte was of the Irish branch of that family.

CROSS-CROSSLET.

MARTYRDOM OF ST. THOMAS.. (10 th 8. i. 388.)

THERE is an ancient painting of the martyrdom, on a board, hung on a column near the tomb of Henry IV. in Canterbury. Gervase states that two volumes of miracles performed by the relics of Becket were pre- served at Canterbury. These were doubtless destroyed by Henry VIII. 's order.

Some of the marvels performed by the saint are pictured on the painted windows of Trinity Chapel, Canterbury.

With regard to his relics Stanley says :

"A tooth of his is preserved in the church of San Thomaso Cantuariense at Verona, part of an arm in a convent at Florence, and another part in the church of S. Waldetrude at Mons ; in Fuller's time both arms were displayed in the English Convent at Lisbon ; while Bourbourg preserves his chalice,

Douay his hair shirt, and S. Omer his mitre

His story is pictured in the painted windows at Chartres, Sens, and S. Omer, and his figure is to be seen in the church of Monreale at Palermo."

Within seven years of the martyrdom the Abbey of Aberbrothock was raised by William the Lion to the memory of the saint.

I find in ' Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII.' (arranged by Jas. Gairdner), under date 1536, re visitation of the monasteries, these two notices :

"Nuns of S. Mary's, Chester Here they have

the girdle of S. Thomas of Canterbury."

" Carlisle Monastery Prior Christopher Slye.

'cTmu e c% have the swor d with which b. Inomas 01 Canterbury was murdered."

In the seventh volume of ' Materials for the History of Thomas Becket,' edited by Robert- son and Sheppard, notices of miracles will be found on pp. 524, 533, 565, 566, 578.

In ' Letters, &c., Hen. V11I.,' there is men- tion, under date 15 August, 1538, of the receipt by Sir Wm. Goryng from Wm. Humfre, one of the churchwardens of " Wys- borowe Green," of certain relics of St. Thomas, viz., vestments, the cloak in which St. Thomas was martyred, and blood ; also his "Chvmer."

in Chronica Monasterii de Melsa,' by Ihomas de Burton, edited by Edward Bond,

reference is made to a vision of St. Thomas which appeared during a storm to the sailors on some ships of Richard I. bound for the Crusades (date 1190). Two other saints appeared with him, St. Edmund the King and St. Nicholas. CHR. WATSON.

Cotton MSS. Titus E viii., a pen-and-ink sketch of the shrine at Canterbury.

Royal Coll. MS., in 'Queen Mary's Psalter' (fourteenth century) is a complete series of outline sketches illustrative of the martyr's life.

In Holy Cross Church, Stratford-pn-Avon, the prelate is represented as celebrating Mass.

At St. John's, Winchester, the martyrdom forms one of a series of wall paintings.

At Stoke d'Abernon the same scene is depicted, as also in a panel formerly hung over Henry Iv.'s tomb at Canterbury, and still preserved there.

At Stoke Charity, Hants, is a good figure of the saint.

In the ' Passio Martyris Thome Cantuarien- sis Archiepiscopi,' left by William de Wyke- ham to Winchester College, is an illumina- tion of the archbishop in full pontificals ; and there is a small but well-executed figure of the saint on a brass of Prior Nelond, Cow- fold, Sussex.

MR. EDWARD PEACOCK contributed a num- ber of notes on this subject to the Tablet, July 6, 1895. NATHANIEL HONE.

1, Fielding Road, Bedford Park, W.

MR. H. SNOWDEN WARD may find the following references regarding St. Thomas of Canterbury of service.

Arbroath Abbey, dedicated to. Dublin Revieiv, April, 1900, 283.

Bologna, picture of, at. Ibid., January, 1893, 66.

Cahors. church dedicated to, now destroyed. E. H. Barker, 'Wanderings by Southern Waters,' 132.

Chartres, picture. A. J. C. Hare, 'South- Eastern France,' 10.

Dedications, 'N. & Q.,' 8 th S. vii. 277. Cumberland, 1. Durham, 1. Essex, 2. Kent, 2. Lincolnshire, 7. Northumberland, 1. York, 2. Forfarshire, 1 (Archceological Review, ii. 279).

Amcotts, Lincolnshire. The chapel of ease at this place was dedicated to St. Thomas of Canterbury, but when it was rebuilt about the middle of the last century this was altered to St. Mark, in compliment to an important farmer who had for a Christian name that of the second Evangelist. I have heard that the earlier dedication has been restored, but am not sure of this.