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investigate matters, they entered the abode of the supposed deceased. Here they found a room laid out as if for a wake. A recumbent figure occupied a bed, at the head and foot of which candles were burning, while an old woman, named Rebecca Bodley, the occupier of the house, was reading a portion of Scripture. The apparent solemnity of the scene, however, was discounted by the dis- covery that the reader was going through the 109th Psalm backwards, while the supposed corpse, on close inspection, turned out to be an uncouth figure of straw, into which pins had been stuck. The constable questioned the woman as to the reason of this extraordinary conduct, and the reply was of an astounding nature. The old woman Had recently lost a sum of money amounting to not more than 3*. bW., and was engaged in the execution of an elaborate plan of vengeance against a person or persons who, she averred, had robbed her of the few coins. She was, in fact, 'waking' the straw .figure, which she intended to bury on Tuesday. Rebecca imagined that as the straws rotted away, so would the bodies of the alleged thieves decay from a mysterious wasting malady. The extra- ordinary story spread through the town, and a crowd of about two hundred persons collected with the express object of burning the straw image in the street. The police, however, intervened and dis- persed the mob. The would-be * witch ' continued the performances of the wakes on Monday night, but was interrupted by the indignant townspeople, who proceeded to break the windows, extinguish the candles, and generally to wreck everything in the house. The police came on the scene to quell the disturbance, which was assuming serious pro- portions, but the modern 'witch ' still retained pos- session of her dummy figure. She duly interred it on Tuesday, probably with all regard to the magical rites prescribed by tradition in such <jases."

EDWARD PEACOCK. Wickentree House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

NORTHBURGH FAMILY (10 th S. ii. 244). The reference to William de North burgh in the Patent Roll of 3 Edward I., which MR. UNDERDOWN is unable to trace, will be found in the Appendix to the Forty-Fourth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, p. 185. Many students of history are not aware that the Calendars of the Patent Rolls, prepared under the superintendence of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, do not contain the entries of ordinary commissions of gaol delivery, and appointments of justices to try assizes of novel disseisin, mort d' ancestor, darrein presentment, and the like, as notified in the Introduction to the ' Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward III., 1327-1330,' p. viii. This omission is disappointing to many users of these excellent calendars. W. FARRER.

In 1314 the Bishop of Durham (Kellawe) granted the church of Ford in Northumber- land in commendam for six months to Roger de North burgh, clerk, rector of " Bannes " in Carlisle diocese. Quoted by me in the Pro- ceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of New

castle, 3rd Series, i. p. 196, from Kellawe's 'Register,' i. 646. See also pp. 278, 563, 564, and vol. ii. pp. 705 and 1067. R. B R.

SAMUEL BRADFORD EDWARDS (10 th S. ii. 309). In 'Alumni Oxonienses,' ed. Joseph Foster, 1888, this entry appears :

ham, co. Gloucester, arm. Magdalen Coll. Matric. 2 Feb. 1818, aged 19. '
 * Edwards, Samuel Bedford, s. William of Newn-

It is possible that " Bedford " may be an error for Bradford. There is some probability that this Oxford student and the Westminster boy are the same person. He would have been twelve or thirteen years of age in 1812 on his admission to the school.

CHR. WATSON.

I cannot identify the above, but if G.F. R. B. cares to write to me I can send him one or two notes from my Bradford collection which may or may not be useful as clues.

J. G. BRADFORD.

1, Bradford Villas, Queen's Road, Buckhurst Hill.

MARKHAM'S SPELLING-BOOK (10 th S. ii. 327). The Editor of ' N. <fc Q./ in reply to a query which appeared in 4 th S. ii. 468, stated that the Archbishop of York (b. 1724, d. 1807) had but little claim to the title of author ; in- deed, his only publications were some single sermons preached on special occasions, some Supper,' 1787, and a 'Concio ad Clerum,' delivered 25 January, 1769.
 * Discourses on the Sacrament of the Lord's

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

LUDOVICO (10 th S. ii. 288). In the National Gallery there is a picture (No. 692) attributed to Lodovico (spelt with three o's) da Parma, who is described in the Catalogue as "a scholar of Francia ; was a painter of repute at Parma early in the sixteenth century." The picture in question is described in the Catalogue as " Head of a White Monk, with

a Nimbus and Crozier, inscribed s. VGO ,

on wood 16 in. h. by 12i in. w.," and a note is added to the effect "that "St. Hugh was Bishop of Grenoble in the twelfth century." It has, however, been suggested by the Rev. Herbert Thurston, S.J., in his 'Life of St. Hugh of Lincoln ' (1898, p. 624, where he gives his reasons for arriving at the conclu- sion), that this picture is intended to repre- sent St. Hugh, the twelfth-century Carthusian Bishop of Lincoln, and not St. Hugh, Bishop of Grenoble. H. W. UNDERDO wx.

THOMAS RAYNOLDS (10 th S. ii. 88). Ray - nold was a " phisitiqn " who in 1545 pub- lished 'Byrth Mankind,' a mothers' book which ran to several editions. MEDICULUS.