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wears a greave and shoe on his left leg and foot, which are thrust forward, the right foot being uncovered. His opponent, while wearing greaves on both legs, has his right shoe or boot cut away so as to give the toes free play. There must surely be modern instances. EDWARD BENSLY.

Ab erystwyth.

BLIND INSTITUTIONS IN ENGLAND (10 S. xi. 348). Liverpool has the lead of Bristol by a few years, and indeed her annalists claim that this is one of the frequent instances in which she pointed out the way to the whole of England. Accounts will be found in Aikin's ' Thirty Miles around Manchester,' 1795, pp. 34850 ; Troughton's History of Liverpool,' 1810, pp. 155-7 ; and Picton's ' Liverpool,' 2nd ed., 1875, pp. 191-4. The last named is the fullest account. The public project was mooted in 1790, and was in action in 1791. But Troughton (I.e.) quotes an essayist of Liverpool of July, 1775, pleading for public funds for the assistance of the blind, and therein is this remarkable sentence :

" It is astonishing that the voluntary subscriptions of the benevolent should never yet have been extended to the assistance and support of the blind ! The Rev. Mr. Hetherington's nobfe charity must be excepted ; which is the first, and only plan, that "has been pursued for the benefit of poor blind persons."

I am unable to give any information as to the Rev. Mr. Hetherington. No person of that name appears in the Liverpool directories in the eighteenth century.

J. H. K. Liverpool.

The Quaker asylum in Bristol is not the oldest institution in England for the blind. The benevolent Rev. W. Hetherington's Charity to the aged blind in connexion with Christ's Hospital was founded in 1774 for the payment of annuities of 10Z. each to fifty persons, natives of England, aged sixty-one or upwards, and totally blind for three years, who have never received parish relief, and have no regular income to the amount of 201. a year. Probably older charities, as distinct from institutions, exist in association with the City Companies. The Goldsmiths have several charities for the blind ; and the Painters' Company have the trusts of charities to the blind under the wills of John Stock and others. But the dates of these are not stated.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

[MR. A. H. ARKLE also refers to the Liverpool institution.]

BISHOPS OF ST. ASAPH (10 S. xi 147). I regret having caused unnecessary trouble with regard to Bishop Barlow, for which no valid reason can be given.

With respect to the questions raised by MB. COLES, my investigation shows that Godwin places the bishops in this order : Edmund Birkhead, consecrated 29 May, 1513, died April, 1518; Henry Standish, consecrated 11 July, 1519, sat about fifteen years ; William Barlow, consecrated 22 Feb., 1535. Dr. Heylyn's 'Help to English History' (London, 1773) follows the same order, numbering them as 34th, 35th, and 36th Bishops of St. Asaph. The history of the Church of Great Britain ('Historia Vitse nostrse Magistra,' Bodin) follows the same order, but the numbering is different.

Bishop Rugge or Repps appears in Godwin under Norwich as having been consecrated in June, 1536 ; he sat fourteen years, and died 1550. This agrees with the two other authorities above named.

Respecting Parfew or Wharton, Godwin has " Robert Parfew, alias Warbnigton, or rather Warton." Heylyn writes " Robertus Warton, vel Parfew abbas de Bermondsey, translat. ad Heref. Definit Whartoni Cata- logus." The history before named haa simply Robert Warton.

ALFRED CHS. JONAS.

Thornton Heath.

Prof. T. F. Tout in ' D.N.B.,' iii. 230, says that William Barlow, while on an embassy to Scotland,

'' was elected Bishop of St. Asaph (16 Jan., 1535/6). But before he left Scotland he was translated to St. David's, certainly without having exercised any episcopal functions,^ and probably without having been consecrated.'

For Robert Warton (d. 1557), Bishop of St. Asaph and Hereford respectively, see 'D.N.B.' lix. 431. He is known either as Parfew, Purefoy, and Parfey ; or as Warton, Wharton, and Warblington. He was con- secrated to St. Asaph's as Wartton, but used the arms of the Parfews or Purefoys ; whence Archdeacon Thomas concludes that the family name was Parfey or Parfew, and that the local name of Warton in various forms was adopted. A. R. BAYLEY.

JONATHAN WILD BIBLIOGRAPHY (10 S. xi. 347). A ' Criminal Bibliography,' embracing a hundred of the most famous malefactors of the Georgian era the golden age of the gallows would prove a most useful hand- book to students of the eighteenth century. A few years since I had thoughts of compiling one myself, but was deterred, as doubtless