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a shipwrecked mariner floating on a hencoo; off Cape Horn] At the end of his tal another man, who had wagered he will ca; his story, interposes : Now all that Captain has said, corroborate

can, And for the best of reasons because I was tha

man. And if you don't believe it, I can prove it, as yo

see, For here's the empty matchbox that the Captain

gave to me !

R. W. B.

SIR T. W. STUBBS. (See 2 nd S. xi. 156, 238 255.) In the memoirs of Field-Marshal th Duke de Saldanha by the Conde du Carnota (1880), General Sir Thomas Stubbs is fre quently referred to, as on p. 189 : " Genera Stubbs was at Oporto, commandant of the place " (28 June, 1828).

In 1833 Saldanha left Paris, and arrived in London on 4 January. On the 9th he started for Falmouth, in company with General Stubbs and his aide-de-camp.

Again, at p. 326 (23 Aug., 1833), Saldanha writes from Oporto :

"My duty calls me to the capital. The pleasing certainty that you do justice to my feelings renders it unnecessary for me to say how much I feel the separation. If anything can lessen my regret, it is the reflection that Lieutenant-General Stubbs, whom I leave in command, and his chief of the Staff, Col. Pacheco, take the same interest in your glory and welfare as I do."

SIR JOHN SCOTT LILLIE, writing to ' N. & Q.' (at the last reference) in 1861, states that Sir Thomas Stubbs, who married a Portu- guese lady, had been dead about twenty years.

I am desirous of ascertaining the name of the lady, if any issue, and the date when Sir Thomas died. RICHD. J. FYNMORE.

JSandgate, Kent.

JOANNES v. JOHANNES. Which is the correct way of spelling this Christian name? As it is my own, I feel some interest in the question. The Bishop of Norwich signs himself Joh. Nor vie. The Registrar of the University of Oxford tells me that it is Joannes, and not Johannes, and in the latter form it used to be printed in the 'Nomina Examinandorum ' of former years. Who can decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt like you and me ?

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

CAST-IRON CHIMNEY-BACK. Affixed to the front wall of a house in Farringdon Road is a cast-iron chimney-back, with what appear to be the arms of New borough, three fleurs- de-lis, two and one, supported by two lions, gorged and charged. The chimney-back has

every appearance of having been the product of one of the numerous founders formerly in the Weald of Sussex, and probably dates from the beginningof the seventeenth century. I am anxious to obtain some suggestion as to the original position of the chimney-back, the present owner having no information on the subject.

In the * Sussex Arch. Coll.,' ii. 188, is a drawing of a chimney-back at Riverhall, near Wadhurst, probably belonging to the early part of the sixteenth century. Beside the royal arms France and England quar- terly, with supporters and the Tudor badge of the rose ana crown, four times repeated, it exhibits a crowned shield, charged with the initials E. H., probably those of the original proprietor. JOHN HEBB.

JOHN (CASPAR?) RUTLAND. Among the entries on p. 606 of Migne's * Dictionnaire de Bibliographic,' vol. i., I find the following:

" Loci communes theologici qui hodie potissimum in controversia agitantur. Auctore J. C. Rutlando. Colonise, 1560, in-8."

il Loci communes theologici. Auctore Gasp. Rut- lando. Parisiis, 1573, in-8."

Dodd, in his 'Church History,' ii. 84, says that John Rutland was an English priest who went abroad at the accession of Eliza- beth, and became chaplain to the Emperor Ferdinand and pastor of St. John's at Worms. According to Dodd, Rutland's 'Loci Com- munes ' was published in 1560 at Antwerp (not Cologne), and he was also the author of a ' Tractatus de Septem Sacramentis.' Of this latter work Dodd gives neither the place nor date of publication. Any information about Rutland or his works would be welcome. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

ONE-ARMED CRUCIFIX. Can any one tell me what a one-armed crucifix is like ? Speak- ng of a trial in Lemberg, Dorothea Gerard jays in 4 The Million ' (pp. 285, 286) :

On the front of the judge's table a pair of sandlesticks had been placed and two brass cruci- ixes a one-armed one and a three-armed one (the orms used respectively by the Roman and by the jreek Catholic churches) in preparation for the ontingency of oaths to be taken by witnesses belonging to either creed."

?his reads as if the Roman Church used the >ne-armed crucifix ; but I think I have never een it either under Pope or Patriarch.

ST. SWITHIN.

"OCULAR DEMONSTRATION." This phrase >ccurs in * Roderick Random,' being used by i surgeon in the hero's historical examination n surgery. What earlier uses are known ?

MEDICULUS. [The ' N.E.D.' quotes it from Rouse in l&'tt.J