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Acts of Parliament. I ask this because, though I believe this to be the recognized practice, the only book on the subject to which I have access, the 'Overseers' Manual,' assigns this duty to the overseers. And though many pages are devoted to the quali- fications, disqualifications, and manner of election of persons to the post of parish constable, there is not a single word about the duties pertaining to that office.

HOLCOMBE INGLEBY.

THEATRE-BUILDING (10 th S. ii. 328). There is a copy of Carini's book in the Biblio- teca Nazionale at Naples (catalogue number xxxv. E. 1). The title-page runs as follows :

44 Trattato sopra la Struttura de Theatri e Scene, che a nostri giorni si costumano, e delle Regole per far quelli con proportione secondo 1' Insegnamento della pratica Maestra Commune, di Fabricio Carini Motta archittetto del Serenissimo di Mantoua Consacrato al Merito Sublime dell' Altezza Sere- nissima Isabella Clara Archiduchessa d' Austria Duchessa di Mantova. In Guastalla, per Ales- sandro Giuazzi Stampator Ducale. Con licenza de' Superior!, 1676."

It is a folio volume of twenty-four pages of text, in twelve chapters, with eleven full- page plates of a severely mathematical character. On p. 1 is printed in large type what appears to be the scope of the book, "in che convenghino li theatri de nostri tempi con quelli degl' antichi." There is no copy of Scipio Chiaramonte's book in this library. JULIAN COTTON.

Palazzo Arlotta, Chiatamone, Naples.

MARTYRDOM OF ST. THOMAS : ST. THOMAS OF HEREFORD (10 th S. i. 388, 450 ; ii. 30, 195, 273, 352). St. Richard, Bishop of Chichester, who was buried in his cathedral church, was born in 1198, died in 1253, and was canonized by Urban IV. in 1262, according to Butler (' Lives of the Saints,' 3 April), but according to Migne's ' Dictionnaire Hagiographique,' in 1280 (vide * Richard [Saint], eveque de Chichester '). Thus it is manifestly impossible that St. Richard could have been a " son " of Wykeham, that is a " Wykehamist," seeing that William of Wykeham, the founder of the two St. Mary-Winton Colleges, who was born in 1324, lived more than half a century after St. Richard's death. I may note that Wykeham founded his college at Oxford in 1380, and that at Winchester in 1382. ( Vide ' Diet, of National Biography,' ' Wykeham.')

As regards the other item put forward by MR. DODGSON (ante, p. 352), I may add that St. Thomas of Hereford (i.e. Thomas de Cante- lupe) was canonized by Pope John XXII. in 1310 [13201], so that St. Richard of Chichester, at all events, cannot be con-

sidered " the last Englishman canonized

until of late years.''' B. W.

Fort Augustus.

St. Thomas of Hereford was not the last Englishman formally canonized. More than a century later Callixtus III. canonized St. Osmund of Salisbury, 1 January, 1456/7, and the same Pope is also stated in Platina's ' Lives ' to have canonized St. Edmund the King. MR. DODGSON'S communication at the last reference makes one rub one's eyes. St. Richard was canonized in 1261-2, sixty-two- years before William of Wykeham was born. Was he thinking of Robert Sherborne, Bishop of Chichester? But this worthy Wykehamist has not been raised to the altars of the Church.

I may take this opportunity of repeating a communication sent in some time ago, but not inserted, viz., an addition of the church of Corenno, a hamlet between Colico and Dervio, on the Lake of Corno, to the churches already noticed in ' N. & Q.' as dedicated to St. Thomas of Canterbury. Portsmouth parish church has the same dedication ; but perhaps this has been mentioned before.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

Did not MR. DODGSON fall into some temporary error when he wrote, at the last reference, of St. Richard as " one of Wyke- ham's ' sons ' " ? Richard de la Wyche (Beatus Richardus) died in 1253, and was canonized in 1262 (Godwin, * De Pnesulibus Anglise,* 505 ; * D.N.B.,' xlviii. 202). William of Wykeham founded New College, Oxford, by a deed of 1379, and Winchester College by a deed of 1382. Possibly MR. DODGSON moment- arily confused St. Richard with Robert Sherborne ('D.N.B.,' Hi. 69), Bishop of Chichester, who died in 1536. Sherborne was a Wykehamist, and his beautiful tomb ought certainly to attract the attention of visitors at Chichester Cathedral. H. C.

Richard de Wyche, Bishop of Chichester. and Saint, was born about 1197 (Booking, in 4 Acta SS.,' Ap. i. 307), and died 1253, 3 April (Matt. Paris, v. 369). From the moment of his death he received the honour of sanctity. Consequently he was not the last Englishman of the mediaeval Church (or, reckoning a later period, down to even pre- Victorian times)* to be canonized, since the canonization of Thomas of Hereford took place sixty-seven years later, in 1320. In July, 1256, a com- mission of Walter de Cantelupe, Bishop of Worcester, Adam Marsh, and the provincial prior of the Dominicans, was appointed by Alexander IV. to examine the life and miracles of Richard de Wyche (so called from.