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softened guttural, has survived in the old French Jehan, the German Johann, and the English John. In the Italian Giovanni and the Roumanian Jovan, it has been still further softened into a v. The * Diet. Nat. Biog.' employs the form Johannes : cf. sub nominibus ' Johannes ./Egidius' and 'Johannes de Sacro Bosco.' W. F. PRIDEAUX.

ST. THOMAS WOHOPE (10 th S. ii. 209). Ac- cording to Lord Lyttelton's life of Henry II., that monarch assigned a revenue of forty pounds a year to keep lights always burning about the tomb of St. Thomas a Becket, and I have no doubt whatever that this is the St. Thomas Wohope alluded to by MR. HUSSEY.

Both editions of Hasted's ' History of Kent ' are far from perfect, notwithstanding the fact that the last one extended to twelve volumes. Indeed, so far back as 1808 E. W. Brayley said of this work (second edition, 1797-1801), "There is yet sufficient room for a new 'History of Kent,' and numerous are the stores that may still be opened in an industrious research."

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.

Baltimore House, Bradford.

JOWETT AND WHEWKLL (10 th S. i. 386).

The lines on Jowebt, as I remember them

being quoted later, are :

I come first, my name is Jowett, There 's no knowledge but I know it ; I 'm the Master of this College, What I don't know isn't knowledge.

J. DE BERNIERE SMITH.

I also quote from memory ; but is not this the more correct version ?

I am the Reverend Benjamin Jowett, What there is to know 1 know it ; I am the Head of Balliol College, And what I don't know isn't knowledge.

MATILDA POLLARD.

Belle Vue, Bengeo.

The Jowett epigram reached me, possibly by some process of attrition, in the form of the following distich :

I 'm the Master of this College ;

What I don't know isn't knowledge.

A. R. BAYLEY.

DE KELESEYE OR KELSEY FAMILY (10 th S. ii 188). 'Curious Old Wills : St. Dionis, Back- church, London,' was the title of an article in 3 rd S. vi. 104. By it the will of Giles de Kelseye (or by the 'Table of Benefactors' Giles de Celsey) was dated 18 February, 1377. He bequeathed certain property in Lime Street (Nos. 9, 10, 11) to the rector for the time being, and parishioners. Now the churches

of St. Mary Magdalene, Milk Street, and St. Laurence, Jewry, were both destroyed at the Fire of London (1666). The latter only was re-erected, and the two parishes were united. No record of the transfer of the two windows has come under my notice.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

For this name Dr. G. W. Marshall, Rouge Croix, refers the reader to the 'Visitations of Essex ' in vol. xiv. p. 588 of the Harleian Society publications. A. R. BAYLEY.

WESTMINSTER SCHOOL BOARDING - HOUSES (10 th S. ii. 127). Scott's was formerly known as Singleton's. It stood close to the arch- way which now forms the entrance to Great Dean's Yard, and was pulled down in 1861 or 1862. Its site is occupied by Nos. 1 and 2, Great Dean's Yard. Rigaud's was pulled down in the autumn of 1896, and the new house designed, I believe, by Mr. Jackson was occupied after the summer holidays of the following year. Mrs. Mary Clough, who died in Dean's Yard 21 May, 1798, according to the Gent. Mag., " long kept a respectable boarding-house there for the Westminster scholars." G. F. R. B.

BATTLEFIELD SAYINGS (10 th S. i. 268, 375, 437). The following episode is related in 'The Story of a Soldier's Life,' by Field- Marshal Viscount Wolseley (Constable <fc Co., 1903), pp. 275-6:

Timothy O'Brian, of the Northumberland Fusiliers, had been severely hurt. When he heard that his detachment was under orders to march and attack the rebels he crept from the hospital and secreted himself in one of the dhoolies told off for the inarch. In this manner he contrived to get to the front. When the first shot was fired he was seen staggering to his place in his companv, his legs still bound in Ibandages. When asked, * What the devil he was doing there ? ' his answer was, ' As long as Tim O'Brian can put one leg before the other his comrades shall never go into action without him.' "
 * ' In an explosion at Cawnpore an Irish soldier,

HENRY GERALD HOPE. 119, Elms Road, Clapham, S.W.

" BEARDED LIKE THE PARD " (10 th S. ii. 166). If it be allowable to "cap" DR. APPLE- TON'S note, mention should be made of the eminent artist and engineer Jan Cornelis Vermeijen, often called " Hans May " or "Jan May," "Barbato" or " Barbalonga" (born c. 1500, died 1559). Bryan's ' Biogra- phical Dictionary ' has a satisfactory article on him, from which these sentences may be quoted :

" He was also remarkable for the length of his beard ! This, though the wearer was a tall man. used to trail on the ground, and the Emperor