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as the print : brush it over nicely with Canada Balsom or Venes Turpintin, put the print side o the Print to the Glass, and lay it smooth and close on the Glass ; then let it lay a little while then rou of the paper gently with your Finger leaving only the scin of the Massantento print on the Glass, lei it lay till next day then paint it on the back, put all the light shades on first, and so finish paint ing it."

CHARLES DRURY.

12, Ranmoor Cliffe Road, Sheffield.

HISTORIC CUMBERLAND OAK. The follow- ing cutting may be worth preservation in
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"There has just been erected at Brampton, near Carlisle, a memorial stone to mark the site of an historic oak, known as the Capon Tree, ' upon whose branches,' so runs the inscription on the stone, 'were executed, 21st October, 1746, for adherence to the cause of the Royal line of Stuart, Colonel James Innes, Captain Patrick Lindsay, Ronald Macdonald, Peter Taylor, Michael Dellord, and Thomas Park.' The memorial is a column of red sandstone, standing about Hi ft. high, and designed by Mr. E. Stevens, a Newcastle artist. The stem of the cross is about 15 in. wide, and rises from the base, formed of two Gin. steps, up to the wheel head, which is 2 ft. in diameter. In the centre of the head is a worked cross, and in the corners Celtic knotwork patterns, the whole being encircled with a simple cable design. The tree used also to be a resting-place for the Judges of Assizes on their way from Newcastle to Carlisle."

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D. Baltimore House, Bradford.

THOMAS BEACH, THE PORTRAIT PAINTER. The placing of a mural brass in All Saints' Church, Dorchester, to the memory of this almost forgotten English portrait painter is a tardy recognition of one of our most cele- brated portrait painters in the eighteenth century. Beach was a pupil of Reynolds, and painted the portraits of many famous con temporaries, some of which, it was claimed, were equal to those of his great master him- self. He was born at Milton Abbey, Dorset, and buried in All Saints' Churchyard, Dorchester. No other memorial than this apparently exists to his memory.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

CALVIN'S 'INSTITUTES,' 1536. M. J. Bonnet in the Bulletin de la Soctitt Historique du Protestant isme Fran?ai$ for November, 1867, pointed out a significant omission in later editions of Calvin's famous masterpiece. In the first edition we read :

"Les excommunies, ainsi que les Turcs, les Sar- rasins et autres ennemis de la religion, ne devaient etre ramenes a I'linke" que par la persuasion, la clemence, la priere."

From later editions these words are excluded. I borrow this from Albert lleville, ' Histoire du Dogme de la Divinite de Jesus Christ,'

third edition (Paris, Felix Alcan, 1904), p. 130. The great Swiss Reformer followed the example of Augustine, whose recantation of the principles of tolerance long served to justify all the cruelties of the stake.

JOHN E. B. MAYOR. Cambridge.

FITZGERALD'S SONG IN TENNYSON'S 'ME- MOIR.' At pp. 220-21 of the second volume of this * Memoir ' there is a letter from Fitz- Gerald to Tennyson, dated December, 1877, which concludes with the tag of an old Suffolk folk-song :

O but then my Bil-ly listed,

Listed and cross'd the roaring main : For King George he fought brave-ly

In Po'tig'l, France, and Spain : Don't you see my Billy a-coming,

Coming in yonder cloud : Gridiron Angels ho-vering round him,

Don't you see him in yonder clouds ?

No one, I fancy, has yet traced the origin of these lines, but in turning over some letters addressed to me by the late Francis Hindes Groome, I have found one in which he states that they were contributed to Suffolk Notes and Queries, of which Groome was the editor, by " Paulinus," i.e., the Rev. 11. N. Sanderson, a master in Ipswich School. He got them from a parish clerk in the Waveney Valley, and FitzGerald, who was a contributor to Suffolk Notes and Queries, must have bor- rowed them from that periodical.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

JUNIUS. A notice of Richard, Earl Temple, n 'D.N.B.' throws unmistakable light on Junius's Letter to the King, and points as a finger-post to the author. For certain Lord Nugent, as Crito, would have been more circumspect if not assured that Junius would be unmasked in due time. Lady Gren- ville's instructions alone to her steward infer breach of faith somewhere and give rise to nquiry.

Why did Lord Grenville " closely " seal hi* Junius packet if any necessity remained for lira to reopen it ?

If concealment was his sole object, why did ho not destroy the packet himself 1 How could Lady Grenville know it related to- Junius unless he told her] Why did she Dreserve it while she lived unless verbally nstructed by him ?

Did a breach of faith lie at her door, or where 1 ?

In answering my inquiry, her steward allowed me to suppose the packet was opened when the family, on deliberation, decided to disclose nothing. Most probably he knew x)th the fate of the packet and (by the