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on the books of the Pentateuch, besides numerous treatises on doctrinal and Church questions from the Brethren point of view. Mr, Mackintosh was associated with J. N. Darby. His name is absent from the ' D.N.B.,' but inquiry at Mr. Morrish's, Paternoster Square, would no doubt elicit all the infor- mation E. R. desires concerning C. H. M.

J. GRIGOR.

The author of this and several other popular little commentaries on the Old Testament was the late C. H. Mackintosh, one of the best of the Plymouth Brethren writers. Some fifteen or twenty years ago I met him at Leamington, where he was sojourning for health, and found in him a charming personality allied to a profound knowledge and love of books.

WM. JAGGARD.

0. H. Mackintosh was a preacher among that sect of the Brethren which was governed by the late John Newton Darby. Originally an Irish schoolmaster, he developed, amidst the many opportunities for activity afforded by " Brethrenism," into what is known as a "teacher," and a writer of considerable fluency. His volumes on the books of the Pentateuch follow the lines of Dean Law's well-known series ' Christ is All,' and have Jiad a very wide circulation. But Mack- intosh wrote little beside that has survived. In his particular sect he was regarded as a useful man, but in no sense a leader. For a fair account of him see 'A History of the Plymouth Brethren,' published by Hodder & S tough ton, which, on the whole, is a mode- rate, though rather bare and bloodless, account of the sect of Brethren to which Mackintosh belonged. P. F. H.

[MR. F. (T. HALEY, MB. C. HICHAM, Q. V., and MK. J. B. WAIXEWRIGHT are also thanked for replies.]

MERCURY IN TOM QUAD (10 th S. ii. 467, 531 ; iii. 32). The following anecdote is extracted from 'Oxford and Cambridge Nuts to Crack ' (1835), now become a rather scarce book :

" At the time a late Dean issued an order, during a. hard frost, that no undergrad was to indulge in the exhilarating and customary sport of skating upon the ice that covered the reservoir in ' Tom Quad.' The order came upon the fraternity like a thunder-clap, at the very moment some scores were preparing for the sport ; amongst them \vas Reade of that ilk, a wag, and he resolved to pay the Dean off, even at the hazard of being paid off himself. He accordingly stuck up a notice on the margin of the ice to the ejfect that no one was to kate there as the Dean intended publicly to enjoy that sport at ten o'clock the next day. The College smelt a rat, and at the hour named a large number of spectators were collected, when Mr. Reade,

whose rooms faced the reservoir, dressed in a wiy and gown, a la Dean, which he had procured ad interim, approached, be-skated, with all the gravity of his superior, and, to the no small amuse- ment of those present, cut such capers in his skates that the whole were in a continuous roar of laughter." P. 261.

^ We have nob yet been told in what collec- tion the statue at Brasenose called Cain and Abel (see 10 th S. ii. 532) has found a home. It was, I believe, the gift of Dr. Clarke, who was one of the burgesses of the University in the eighteenth century, and whose monument may yet be seen in the chapel of All Souls' College. When we read of the destruction or migration of these relics of antiquity we are reminded of Lord Byron's lines :

I've stood upon Achilles' tomb, and heard Troy

doubted. Time will doubt of Rome.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

HUGH PERCY (10 th S. iii. 28). In all pro- bability the Hugh Percy mentioned by MR. J. ELIOT HODGKIN is a descendant of the Percys of Shaftesbury, co. Dorset. In Hutchins's ' History of Dorset,' vol. iv. p. 74, there is a pedigree of the Percy family, but it ends with Henry Percy (son and heir of Christopher), living 1565. It would be interesting to continue this to later times by an examination of wills and administrations, and extracts from parish registers at Shaftes- bury and neighbourhood. I would suggest that MR. HODGKIN repeat his inquiry in Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries (editor, Canon Mayo, Long Burton Vicarage, Sherborne), and he will perhaps get answers from local antiquaries.

I may mention that Bursys, where Mary Percy is stated to have died, is in the parish of Tarrant Gunville, Dorset; it is now a farm, but formerly was a manor, and members of my family lived there about 1650.

There have been already several inquiries in the above-mentioned Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries (vols. iv. 255 ; viii. 108) respecting the family of Percy, which would interest MR. HODGKIN. E. A. FRY.

Birmingham.

DlSBENCHED JUDGES (10 th S. iii. 43). It

may be useful to supplement MR. GORDON GOODWIN'S note on Sir Richard Hollo way with a reference to my note at 9 th S. vi. 466. A valued correspondent of 'N. & Q.' has privately informed me that Sir Richard Hollo way was baptized at St. Aldate's, Oxford, on 21 October, 1627, and was buried there on 21 December, 1699 (Parish Register). He married Alice, daughter of John Smith,