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communication with the late owners ? I shall be happy to "do this if he should so wish.

M. J. D. 0.

[Mu. JOHN HKBB also refers to Ingress Abbey.]

WOODEN FONTS (10 th S. iii. 169, 253). LINO is mistaken in assuming there is, or has been within recent memory, a wooden font in the parish church of St. Michael at Doddis- combleigh. I happened to be intimately connected with the renovation of that fabric in 1879, and have been closely in touch with it ever since. The church contained no wooden font then, nor has it possessed one since. The windows in the north aisle con- tain some of the most interesting fifteenth- century glass in England. Their subjects illustrate the Seven Sacraments.

HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

BACON OR USHER? (10 th S. ii. 407, 471 ; iii. 94, 155, 234). I have frequently seen the authorship of Bacon's epitaph at St. Michael's Church, St. Albans, ascribed to Sir Henry Wotton, but never to Sir Thomas Meautys, who simply erected the monument at his expense. In Ashdown's 'St. Albans : His- torical and Picturesque,' it is stated: "Be- neath is a Latin inscription written by the accomplished Sir Henry Wotton (Provost

of Eton College 1624-39) Sir Thomas

Meautys had been private secretary to Lord Verulam." I have no doubt Mr. Ashdown has good authority for his statement.

Since the above was written I find that Rawley, Bacon's chaplain, wrote that the monument was erected "by the care and gratitude of Sir Thomas Meautys," " with an Inscription composed by that Accomplisht Gentleman and Rare Wit Sir Henry Wotton" ('Resuscitatio,' 1657). GEORGE STRONACH.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES (10 th S. iii. 243). It is to be desired that the plea of MR. MoPiKE for the immediate preparation of a bibliography of bibliographies may not pass unheeded. In 1880 the Trustees of the British Museum published an exceedingly useful ' List of Bibliographical Works in the Heading-Room,' and this was revised and considerably en- larged in 1889 by the present Keeper of the Printed Books (Mr. G. K. Fortescue). I would now urge that a third edition of this valuable work be prepared, and I would also venture to suggest that the bibliographies named in the list be annotated, so that their value and scope may be the more justly estimated. . A. R. C.

t MR. McPiKE's article is of a nature to interest many readers, and it more particu-

larly interested myself by reason of a growing bundle or two of notes in my possession which were tending to fill the gap pointed to in our books of reference. However, as stated, the work should be internationally co opera- tive, and my object in writing now is to suggest that a straightforward author-list, such as M. Vallee has adopted, with a classified index, would be the most suitable form of publication, and probably the most useful. The book, in my opinion, should have a less cumbrous title than ' Bibliography of Biblio- graphies,' and would with advantage extend its scope to constitute in itself a bibliography of printing, literary clubs, and the ana of bibliophilism. Davis's 'Two Journeys' are not bibliographies, yet are bibliographical, and so with 'The Book-Hunter' and a speech of Mr. Morley's on literature. May I inquire how many volumes of 'N. & Q.' it is estimated will suffice for the publication ?

F. MARCHAM. Hornsey, N.

TURING: BANNERMAN (10^ S. iii. 167). Both these names occur in the Madras records in the eighteenth century. John Turing is mentioned in 1729 as a surgeon on the Greenwich in the Company's service. Robert Turing went to Fort St. George as a surgeon's mate in one of the Company's ships in 1729. He afterwards became surgeon of the garrison, and married in 1755 Mary, daughter of Capt. John De Morgan, who was the widow of Capt. Thomas Taylor, to whom she was married in 1750. But there is no mention of Janet Turing in the records. See Genealogist, vol. xx. pp. 105-6.

FRANK PENNY.

I venture to suggest that inquiry be made in Forglen parish, of which the Rev. David Bannerman was minister at the date of his marriage and for several years afterwards. His father, James, was appointed minister of Forglen in 1717, and died in 1749, in the eightieth year of his age, arid forty-fifth of his ministry. David had been appointed his assistant and successor in 1742. David's son, James Patrick, minister of Cargill, married, in 1793, a Mary Turing, and had a son James, who became minister of Ormiston. There should be some note of these marriages,, indicating the branch of the Turing family^ in the parish records of Forglen and Cargill,. or in historical accounts of these parishes.

Turing was not an uncommon name among the clergy of the Church of Scotland in the- eighteenth century. The minister of Rayne- in 1705 was Walter Turing, who died in 1743.. The minister of Drumblade in 1703 was John