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nivem dealbavit. And the primitive Koman- esque tower at Winterton, in Lincolnshire, has recently been found to be built against the west end of an earlier church, plastered and whitewashed outside. Specimens of the whitewashed plaster were exhibited by me at the Society of Antiquaries not long ago.

J. T. F. Winterton, Doncaster.

MILTON'S SONNET xn. (10 th S. ii. 67). The legend of Latona and the rustics turned into frogs is given in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses,' sixth book, lines 331-81. Haupt, in his note to line 317 of the same book, refers to Anto- ninus Liberalis, cap. 35, for the story. See other references in Wernicke's article iv. 1, 4 and 5. The allusion is explained also in Masson's note to this sonnet in the " Golden Treasury " edition of ' Milton's Poetical Works.' OHEM.
 * Apollon ' in * Pauly's Encyclopaedic ' (1895),

[Several other correspondents thanked for replies.]

ST. PATRICK AT ORVIETO (10 th S. j. 48, 131, 174). On the general question of pozzi di S. Patrizio (and a good many other interesting matters), see a paper by Prof. Giusto Grion in the Propugnatore of Bologna for 1870 (vol. iii. part i. pp. 67-149). Q. V.

PUBLISHERS' CATALOGUES (10 th S. ii. 50). Towards the end of "The Works of that Judicious and Learned Divine, Joseph Mede, B.D., &c. London, printed by M. F. for John Clark, and are to be sold at his Shop under S. Peters Church in Cornhill, 1648," is "A Catalogue of all the Books published by the Authour, and printed for John Clarke under Saint Peter's Church in Cornhill." This cata- logue is printed on a leaf between the title- page, dated 1650, and the text of the sages in The Revelation." Clark or Clarke enumerates ten works in this catalogue. Two other publishers in St. Paul's Churchyard (viz., Samuel Man at the " Swan," and Phile- mon Stephens at the " Gilded Lion") add two each. The dates of the works range from 1638 to 1650.
 * HapaXeiirofjitva. Remaines on Some Pas-

S. Man has no separate catalogue to the works he published, but near the end of those issued by Stephens is

"A Catalogue of the Books Written by Mr. Joseph Mede That have been printed ' Clavis Appcalytica' in Latine, the same in English, both reprinted this present year 1649. With the said Authours Con- jecture touching Gog and Magog. For Philemon Stephens at the gilded Lion in Pauls Churchyard."

Then follow Man's and Clark's lists. These two catalogues are somewhat earlier than

that of P. Stephens referred to by MB. JAGGARD. THOS. F. MANSON.

FAIR MAID OF KENT (10 th S. i. 289, 374 ;. ii. 59). I am unable to trace any mention of Joan, Duchess of Brittany, as having been a daughter of the Fair Maid of Kent, but the following notice of Maude, extracted from a * Companion and Key to the History of England,' by George Fisher (published 1832), gives some of the details asked for :

" Though not mentioned by any of our historians, it appears almost certain that Edward [the Black Prince] had also a daughter named Maud. She was married to Valeran de Luxembourg, Count of Ligny and St. Paul. This appears from a challenge sent by that count to Henry IV., King of England, in which are these words : ' Considerant I'affinit4 r amour, et confederation que j'avoye par devers tres haut et puissant prince Richard roy d'Angleterre, duquel j'ay eu la soeur en espouse' (Monstrelet). This Valeran was Constable of France, and one of the most celebrated partisans of the Duke of Burgundy in the faction which desolated France. He died in 1407, and had a daughter named Jane, who was first wife of Anthony, Duke of Burgundy, and had by him two sons, who died s.p.l."

RONALD DIXON. 46, Maryborough Avenue, Hull.

BLACK DOG ALLEY, WESTMINSTER (10 th S. ii. 5). Bowling Alley is described in ' The Stranger's Guide; or, Traveller's Directory,' by W. Stow, 1721, as " by Tufton Street, W."' And "Dog Alley" is described in the same- valuable little work as "by the Bowling. Alley, W." It may be inferred, therefore,, that at one time there were two alleys with two distinct names, and corroborative of this is MK. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY'S statement that what he assumes to have been one alley only was " shaped like the letter L, one end branching from Great College Street, and the- other portion leading into that part of Tufton Street which had been until 1869 known as- Bowling Street, but of which a still earlier name had been Bowling Alley," &c. It was. perhaps the lateral stroke of the L that corresponded to Bowling Alley, where, in a house at the south-west corner, died the notorious Col. Blood (24 Aug., 1680). The house, says Peter Cunningham, " is of course no longer the same, but drawings of it exist."' It is difficult to account for the close prox- imity of two distinct taverns with the sign of the " Black Dog," although the sign is fairly common. Yet there was a "Black Dog" in- King Street, Westminster, a house frequented' by Ben Jonson and his fellow - wits, and noticed by Taylor the Water Poet in his. from Black Dog Alley, off Great College Street, only by the Abbey. And Black Dog
 * Dogge of Warre ' ; and this was separated