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and William III. of England), and father o Colley Gibber. There are fine engravings both of the exterior and interior, in the Guildhall Library (' Plans and Prints o Southwark, &c.,' Shadwell section). It i described as " a small, ordinary church ' in Palmer's ' Reminiscences ' ; but the engravings show it to have been a some what imposing building, sumptuous in its interior arrangements.

GEORGE TROBRIDGE. 2, Mount Pleasant, Belfast.

ST. ANDREW'S CROSS (10 S. viii. 507 ; ix 32, 114; x. 91, 135). The body of St Andrew is said to have reposed in the crypt of his cathedral at Amalfi, in Southern Italy, since the thirteenth century. The head, however, with those of SS. Peter anc Paul, lies under the high altar of St. Peter's in Rome. During the pontificate of Pius II. (^Eneas Sylvius Piccolomini), 1458-64, the head of St. Andrew was brought to Rome. It had been worshipped for centuries at Patras ; but when the Turks invaded the Morea, the Despot fled with the precious relic to Ancona. It was then conveyed for safety to the strong fortress of Narni ; and, when Piccinino's forces were dispersed, was brought in stately procession to the Eternal City. It was intended that the heads of SS. Peter and Paul should go forth to meet that of their brother Apostle ; but they could not be moved, owing to the vast mass of gold and iron which enshrined and protected them. The Pope, his Car- dinals, and the whole population of Rome thronged forth to the Meadows near the Milvian Bridge. The relic rested that day on the altar of S. Maria del Popolo, and was then conveyed through the rejoicing city to St. Peter's. Leaving Rome by the Porta del Popolo on the left, you see the round church of St. Andrew ; and a little further on the right the chapel in honour of St. Andrew's head, where Pius II. met the procession bearing the relic.

See Dean Milman's * History of Latin Christianity ' (1864), ix. 87.

A. R. BAYLEY.

STUFFED CHINE (10 S. x. 30, 78). This delicacy is always largely in vogue during Wake Week here. Our church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and Trinity Week and Wake Week are synonymous. In nearly every house one enters during the time specified a stuffed chine in cut is stand- ing on the sideboard, ready for the imme- diate use of any callers or visitors. It is usually accompanied by a currant pudding

made with thin layers of bread and fruit, with the usual accompaniment of eggs, milk, sugar, suet, peel, &c. This is known as Wake pudding. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

MAPS (10 S. x. 8, 77). We have no con- temporary maps illustrating Strabo and Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus), and they have only come down to us through copies made by Greek monks between 600 and 900 A.D., by Arabs in the Islamic Renascence, by Latin monks and pilgrims, by Venetian and Catalan sailors, and by Flemish or German geographers. Sir Harry Johnston in ' The Nile Quest,' 1903, gives a repro- duction of the course of the Nile according to Ptolemy, "from the oldest version of Ptolemy's map in existence, about 930 A.D., preserved in Mount Athos Monastery." I do not know whether a facsimile of the whole of this map has been published ; but information as to this, and on the sub- ject generally, might be obtained from the Librarian of the Royal Geographical Society, 1, Savile Row, W. A photographic repro- duction of a Greek MS. of Ptolemy's ' Geo- graphy ' of about 1200-1210 A.D. was published at Paris in 1867 (see Quaritch's Catalogue, May, 1899). Many editions of this work have been printed in Greek, Latin, Italian, and French ; but, curiously, it does not appear to have ever been trans- lated into English. These contain copies of the maps, with in some cases modifications due to later discoveries.

Reconstructed reproductions of the maps of Homer, Herodotus, Eratosthenes, and other classical geographers have been fre- quently published, as, for instance, in Keith Johnston's * Classical Atlas,' and I can give a number of references to these, if desired. [n the Imperial Library of Vienna is still preserved a fine specimen of a painted tinerary of 230 A.D., known as the Peutinger Table (see ' History of Maritime and Inland Discovery ' in " Lardner's Cabinet Cyclo- aaedia," i. 1830, p. 155). A facsimile of in interesting conception of the world by a Christian monk known as " Cosmas Indico- leustes," of about the year 530, is given in is * Topographia Christiana,' translated md edited by J. W. McCrindle, and pub- ished by the Hakluyt Society in 1897. As o early mediaeval maps, see C. Raymond Beazley's ' Dawn of Modern Geography,'

vols., 1897-1906, in which facsimiles of everal are given.

But for the earliest map of all, as for the eginnings of so much else, we must go to