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common hunters, and take hares in Acley field. 1374, Hesylden, William de Marton, vicar there, is presented for a similar offence; and 1383, at Heworth, it is found that the master of Westspittel is a common hunter in the warren of the Lord Prior, and has taken hares there. NATHANIEL HONE.

1, Fielding Road, Bedford Park, W.

Sir Walter Scott, in a note to * Marmion,' canto i. stanza 21, quotes Holinshead's account of Welsh, vicar of St. Thomas's, Exeter, a leader of the Cornish insurgents in 1549. This man had many good things in him. He was of no great stature, but well set and mightily compact. He was a very good wrestler ; shot well, both with the long bow and also with the crossbow ; he handled his hand-gun and piece very well ; he was a very good woodman, and a hardy, and such a one as would not give his head for the polling, or his beard for the washing. This model of clerical talents had the misfortune to be hanged upon the steeple of his own church. M. N. G.

Was not Cardinal Beaufort a sportsman ? Halsway Manor, in the parish of Bicknoller, Somerset, tradition asserts was his hunting lodge ; and doubtless the cardinal enjoyed many a gallop over the Quantocks after the red deer. D. K. T.

JANE STUART (10 th S. ii. 208). According to the Athenaeum of 19 March (p. 366) the mother of Jane Stuart was Marie van der Stein. The statement occurs in the critique of Mrs. Bertram Tanqueray's novel * The Royal Quaker.' In this work Jane figures as heroine. I believe that she was born when her father, the Duke of York, was in his twenty-fourth year. GEORGE GILBERT.

'The History of Wisbech,' published in 1833, states at p. 240 that in the burial- ground attached to the Quakers' place of worship "there is a grave surrounded by the box shrub in the shape of a coffin, ex- hibiting the initials 'I. S.,' with the words and figures 'aged 88, 1742,'" and that it is supposed to record the sepulture of one of the descendants of the royal family of Stuarts. JOHN T. THORP, F.R.S.L.

Regent Road, Leicester.

Mr. Gardiner states that Jane Stuart died in 1742, aged eighty-eight. If she was born in 1654, James, Duke of York, would then have been about twenty-one years of age, and at that time serving under Marshal Turenne or with his brother Charles in Flanders. In the second edition of the 1 Peerage of England ' printed by G. F. for

Roper and Collins (1710), only five natural children of James II. are mentioned : the Duke of Berwick and his brother Henry Fitz-James, their sister Henrietta (Lady Waldgrave), and another daughter (no name given, but a nun in 1710), all children of Arabella Churchill ; and Catherine, sur- named Darnley, born 1681, daughter of Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester. Had there been a natural daughter a Pro- testant alive in 1710, some notice must have been written of her. HERBERT SOUTHAM.

ONE-ARMED CRUCIFIX (10 th S. ii. 189). Some years since I saw in Ghent a crucifix carved in the form of a tree with one branch, the figure being bound to the trunk and the two arms nailed through the hands to the branch. The body was nearly sideways, and an expression of great agony was on the features. I cannot recall exactly where in Ghent I saw it, but I think in the chapel of one of the religious houses there. Years afterwards I was shown a replica of this crucifix by a dealer in old curiosities in New York, and I am told it is not unusual to meet with this form of crucifix in parts of Spain. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

I think that what is meant by the term "one-armed crucifix" is nothing more than the usual cross bar or arm of the cross. In the Greek Church there is a shorter bar or arm placed over this, upon which is written the inscription in Greek letters ; and at the foot of the cross there is placed another representing the foot - rest, thus making three arms, in contrast to the Roman one. ANDREW OLIVER.

Some ladies make such mistakes in these matters that it is possible Dorothea Gerard has blundered. I know of no such thing as a one-armed crucifix, neither does my friend Father Adam Hamilton, O.S.B., the learned monk of Buckfast Abbey. In a copy I possess of that somewhat rare book (small 4to, calf) ' Trivmphvs lesv Christi Crvcifixi,' printed at the Plantin Press (1608), there are no fewer than sixty-nine distinctly different kinds of death by crucifixion illustrated ; but although the crosses therein assume many shapes, there is nothing to suggest a single-armed one. Further, in my 'De Cruce,' by Justus Lipsius, also printed by the Antwerp press (1599), there are a number of fine copperplates of other curious modes of execution by crucifixion ; but no one- armed crosses occur amongst them. It has been affirmed by some authorities that the original tree was a tau cross. If we accept this