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the brass, as is also the field of the second and third quarters, while here and there on the lead are traces of hammered-in brass wire in such irregular lines that it does not seem likely that they were intended to indicate tinctures in the heraldic manner.

Any light on the subject would be very acceptable. LLEWELYN LLOYD.

Blake House, Winelow, Bucks.

SHAKESPEARE'S WIFE. In his * Life of Shakespeare ' Mr. Sidney Lee says :

"Anne and Agnes were in the sixteenth century alternative spellings of the same Christian name ; and there is little doubt that the daughter ' Agnes' of Richard Hathaway's will became, within a few months of Richard Hathaway's death, Shakespeare's

I have not little, but great doubt of it. I would ask any of your readers if Mr. Lee's statement can be corroborated that Agnes and Anne were the same in the days of Shakespere. I have gone over many docu- ments, and find as the alternative for Agnes, often in the same deed, Annas, but never for Ann or Anne.

If I am correct in my contention, the Agnes, daughter of Richard Hathaway, is ruled out, and the cottage at Shottery is at once demolished. GEORGE STRONACH.

[In the Barnstaple Parish Registers Agnes is frequently spelt Angnis. See ante, p. 239, col. 1, 1.2.]

JOHN KERNE, DEAN OF WORCESTER. On 15 May, 1539, George Wishart preached in St. Nicholas's Church, Bristol, a sermon which was counted heretical, whereupon he " was accused by M. John Kerne, Deane of this Diocese of Worcestre " (Ricart's * Kalen- dar,' Camden Soc., p. 55). This statement is repeated, on Ricart's authority, in the 'D.N.B.' Ixii. 248 b, where Kerne is called "dean of Worcester." Who was John Kerne? There was no Dean of Worcester until 1541 ; Henry Holbech (alias Rands), the last prior, so appointed in 1535, became the first dean in 1541, and was followed by John Barlow in 1544. Ricart says that Kerne was " dean of the diocese," for Bristol was then in the diocese of Worcester. It cannot be a mistake for John Bell, bishop, for Latimer did not resign until July, 1539. Probably Kerne \yas the (rural) dean of the deanery in which St. Nicholas's Church was situated.

W. C. B.

INDEX SOCIETY. I note the editorial refer- ence (ante, p. 258) to "our index societies." Information had reached me that when the Index Society was incorporated with the British Record Society, Limited, the latter

took over only the publications and not the work of the former. I am told that there does not exist to-day any society having the object and scope of the old Index Society. I should be glad to be informed of the addresses of the secretaries of any general index societies in England. EUGENE F. McPiKE. Chicago, U.S.

FULLING DAYS. I should be glad of an explanation of the term "fulling days," as used in the following extract from what professes to be a copy of Kirby's Quest, of 24 Ed. I., in Exch. T. of R., Misc. B'k, 72 (Record Office) :

" Declarators Cur' Milit' de Okehampton de trilz septimanis in tres septima'." Fol. 192.

"Decenn' Hundr' de Plympton ; Tuthing de Wodford ven. v. man' ad tres xv dies et ad tres fulling days" Fol. 195.

Were these, perhaps, days on which fulling mills other than the lords' were allowed to work? I have met with cases relating to monopolies of manorial corn-mills and con- cessions to those of tenants, but not with any similar ones concerning cloth-mills, and never before with the term " fulling days."

ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

EMERNENSI AGRO. What locality is this? It occurs on a tablet in a Shropshire church to a gentleman named MacGilray. The neighbourhood of the Mourne Mountains, in Ireland, has been suggested. I do not find the word in Trice Martin's 'Record Inter- preter ' or any similar book in my possession.

W. G. D. F.

LOUTHERBOURGH. I have a pair of old prints of Hampstead Heath, winter and summer views, after J. P. de Loutherbourgh. Can any one tell me where the original paintings are ? JNO. R. BEVERIDGE.

SANDERSON FAMILY. Any particulars of persons of this name living at Sawtry and Folkesworth, Hunts ; Pilton, Northants ; or Bitteswell, Leicestershire, would be very thankfully received by the undersigned. Members of the family were living at the above places in the seventeenth and eigh- teenth centuries. CHAS. H. CROUCH.

5, Grove Villas, Wanstead.

BLOOD USED IN BUILDING. In an article on this subject in the Interme'diaire for 30 April it is said that in 1421, while the inhabitants of Lanciano were constructing their port, the people of Ortona, a rival city, tried to hinder the work. The men of Lanciano resisted, and at length beat the enemy completely. The conquerors cut off the noses and ears of the prisoners, and then