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A number of references to St. Thomas are given in the indices (see pp. 463 and 471) of M. R. James's ' Catalogue of the MSS. in the Fitzwilliam Museum ' (Camb. Univ. Press, 1895).

Cf. also Mrs. Jameson's 'Legends of the Monastic Orders ' (Longmans, 1900), pp. 101- 110.

A number of instances of his representation in pre-Reformation mural paintings will be found in 'A List of Buildings in Great Britain and Ireland having Mural and other Painted Decorations of Dates prior to the Latter Part of the Sixteenth Century, with Historical Introduction and Alphabetical Index of Subjects,' by C. E. Keyser, M.A., F.S.A., 3rd ed., enlarged, 1883, issued by the Education Department (Science and Art), South Kensington.

Since the above was written I have had an opportunity of seeing J. G. Nichols's * Pil- grimages to St. Mary of Walsingham and St. Thomas of Canterbury' (Westminster, 1849). In this edition the passage quoted above appears on p. 49, and trie relative note (No. 52) on p. 156. The note ends thus :

" So simple in the days of Becket was the episcopal crosier, which in later times was highly enriched with goldsmith's work and jewellery (like the crosier of William of Wykeham still preserved at New College Chapel). In illustration of this point, and of the archbishop's general attire, the seal of Archbishop Becket is here (for the first time) engraved.''

The engraving of the seal is on the opposite page.

Other references in this book to St. Thomas are : * Assumed Dedication of Canterbury Cathedral Church to S. Thomas of Canter- bury,' p. 110; 'The Names of the Assassins of Becket,' p. Ill (see also p. 113); St. Thomas's head (illustration), p. 118 ; portrait, pp. 160, 245 ; shrine, pp. 119, 165 (illustration), 211. In the appendix are 'The Martyrdom,' p. 213 ; The Four Murderers,' p. 219 ; ceedings against,' p. 231. At p. 240 is an illustration of a pilgrim's sign or token of 'Saint Thomas's head.'
 * Honours,' p. 221; 'Relics,' p. 224; 'Pro-

H. W. UNDERDO \vx.

I find I omitted to mention that at the Hospice at Lisieux (Normandy) are shown the vestments in which the saint is said to have officiated while saying Mass at Lisieux. These are in a shrine at the side of the chapel altar ; on the other side is a "napkin," or cloth, in another shrine, stained with his blood. This cloth was sent here from England. I believe both relics are duly authenticated.

It is stated that at St. Lo, when St. Thomas was passing through the town, having been requested to give a name to the church then building, he suggested it should be dedicated to the first martyr for the faith. It so happened that he himself was the victim, and the church (now the corn market) was accordingly dedicated to him.

JOHN A. RANDOLPH.

There used to be a church in Naples dedicated in this name. It is figured in 'Napoli Antica,' published by Cardone in 1889 ; but I think it has been clemolished. GEO. WILL. CAMPBELL.

Leamington.

There is a representation of the martyrdom on the counter seal of St. Edmund, Arch- bishop of Canterbury 1234-40.

A. R. MALDEN.

Murder of Thomas a Becket, drawn and coloured from a window in the north aisle of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford ; VVilliam Fowler, 20 Oct., 1808 (coloured engraving).

The scourging of Henry II. before the shrine of Thomas a Becket, from the old glass in the east window of the Bodleian Library, Oxford ; William Fowler, 2 Oct., 1809 (coloured engraving).

Murder of Thomas a Becket, apparently from an elliptical seal (1| by Jin. in size in the engraving) ; William Fowler, not published, date 1810. Original not named.

J. T. F.

Durham.

There is a sculptured representation of the martyrdom over the south door of Bayeux Cathedral which probably dates from about 1190, and an illumination of it, belonging to the beginning of the thirteenth century, in fol. 32, Harleian MS. 5102, in the British Museum.

St. Thomas's Hospital was in building within ten years of the saint's death.

The Abbey of Lesnes, in Kent, was founded by Richard de Luci about the same time.

The supposed connexion between St. Thomas and the English College, Rome, the church annexed to which is dedicated to him, is discussed in the April number of the Dublin Review, pp. 274 sqq.

A little book called ' Devotion to St. Thomas of Canterbury ' (London, W. Knott, 26, Brooke Street, Holborn, 1895) shows how wide-spread devotion to St. Thomas was. It contains (inter alia) English versions of a collect for his translation from the Rheims Breviary ; of nine prayers from French and Spanish Breviaries of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ; of sequences from the