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NOTES AND QUERIES. no s. x. OCT. 10, 1908.

M. de Longuemar in his history of Saint- Hilaire-le-Grand says, on p. 29, that it was reconstructed by the orders of Adele of England, wife of William IV., by a Saxon architect named Gauthier or Walter Coor- land. Inkersley in his work on the architec- ture of France quotes, on p. 42, ex MS. Chron. Malliacense, " Istud monasterium magna ex parte construxerat Regina Anglorum per manus Gauterij Coolelandi." And Prof. Freeman, speaking of this building in his ' Sketches from French Travel,' says :

" We have some difficulty in believing that there is anything in the present Saint Hilary in which our Emma or Aelfgifu, wife of two kings, mother of two kings, could have had a hand." Who was Adele of England, and why is she described as Regina Anglorum ? Is it likely that Emma, whose active life was passed elsewhere, should have been concerned in the affairs of Poitiers ? Is anything else known of the " Saxon architect " Walter Coorland ? His name does not appear in the ' D.N.B.'

J. TAVENOR-PERRY. 5, Burlington Gardens, Chiswick.

INQUISITION AND JEWS. I have an auto- graph letter dated Madrid, 11 July, 1680, which contains a short account of an auto da fe : HoN d S r

The Auto general de la Inquisition w oh was

held here on ye 30 th past was a very solemne & great thing, the particulars too many for a letter, however if no relation of it come forth in print, I will send you the best description I can by ye next post. About 6 of ye clock that evening 19 Jewes were carryed to ye place of execution, being halfe a musket shot out of town, those w ch were reduced to ye xtian belief e being 12 in number were first strangled & then burnt, the other 7 vie 8 6 men & one woman were thrown into the fire a live, the execu- tion was not finished untill 3 of ye clock in ye

morning Hon d S r

Y r Hon" most faithfull &

most obed* Servant

S r Rich. Bulstrode. RICH. FITZ GERALD.

It is addressed " A Monsieur Mons r Le Cheu r Bulstrode Resident du Roy de la Grande Bretagne a Bruxelles."

To what books should I refer to ascertain the names of the martyrs ? I should also be glad of some account of Richard FitzGerald and Sir Richard Bulstrode.

ISRAEL SOLOMONS. 91, Portsdown Road, W.

[The Oxford University Press has just published a volume entitled 'Auto de Fe and Jew,' by Elkan JNathan Adler. The auto de fe" mentioned in the above letter is included in the table of autos in Spain (p. 114), but the number of Jews who suffered on this occasion is not stated. Fuller details will be found in Dr. H. C. Lea's four volumes, ' A His- tory of the Inquisition of Spain ' (Macmillan & Co.).

A life of Sir Richard Bulstrode is in the ' D.N.B.'j

JOHN EYRE COVENTRY. I am searching for the family of John Eyre Coventry, whose son James matriculated at Trin. Col., Oxford 13 Nov., 1771. I shall be grateful for any information. JOHN EYRE SPARROW.

Ashford House, Talybont-on-Usk, S. Wales.

MR. LAUDER, SCOTTISH VOCALIST. Does the following advertisement, which appeared in The Public Advertiser on Friday, 27 Jan.,. 1758, refer to a progenitor of the Harry Lauder of to-day ?

Benefit of Mr. Lauder.

At the new Theatre in the Haymarket

Will be performed the Scots Musical Pastoral,

Pa tie and Roger Or the Gentle Shepherd.

In which Mr. Lauder will introduce several Favourite Scots songs. Doors open at five, to begin at six o'clock. Boxes, 5s. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s.

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

" ANTONIO NATI, ROMANO." I shall be very glad if any of your readers can put me in the way of identifying this man, to whom the book copied in MS. Bodl. Add. C. 181 was dedicated in 1591.

R. J. WHITWELL. 70, Banbury Road, Oxford.

RED-TAIL KNIGHTS. What were these ? In ' The Epicure's Almanack,' 1815, is the

following :

Tavern and Chop-House in Clifford's Inn Passage,. Fleet Street] be a rendezvous for the red-tail Knights and their esquires, we cannot state."
 * < Whether or not this tavern ["The Crown''

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

CHURCH OF LLANTWIT MAJOR. Where could I find a good account of this interesting building ? It is briefly described in The Reliquary, N.S. iv. 278, but I should like- to hear of a fuller account. To what monas- tery was it attached ? and is the parochial part earlier or later than the monastic ?

S. O. ADDY.

KNIPHOFIA. The genus of plants the flowers of which make a showy appearance in our gardens in the late summer and early autumn is usually called by florists Tritoma. But it is remarked in ' The Century Dic- tionary ' that Kniphofia (a name given by Monch in 1794, after Prof. Kniphof of Erfurt) has the priority, and the other has given way to it. Perhaps that remark applies most to America ; I have not heard the name Kniphofia in England. Can any of your readers indicate the first use of Tritoma,. which does not seem a very appropriate designation ? The species usually found in