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 254 NOTES AND QUERIES, tio* s. iv. SEPT. 23.1905. •of London' (Camden Society, 1852), p. xvv says : "The corpse of the holy Maid of Kent was interred in their cemetery, as were several of the Northern rebels." But when reference is made to the text, we find (p. 37) that the holy maid was buried " at the Gray freeres,"no mention being made of the actual spot, while it was (p. 41) only the "quarters" of the Northern rebels (with the exception of Sir Thomas Percy) that were " burryd at the Gray Freeres in the clowster on the North syde in the pamet [pavement ]]." No mention in either case is made of a cemetery or grave- yard ; but the question arises whether the graveyard of the parish of Christ Church, Newgate, which was the Gray Friars' church under another name, may not have been identical with the graveyard of the Friary. The burial registers of Christ Church begin in 1540, so interments must have taken place before the foundation of the church in 1546. According to Mrs. Basil Holmes (' London Burial Grounds,' 1896, p. 316), this graveyard •was situated on the site of the western end of the church of the Gray Friars. ME. ABRAHAMS may be able to say how far this topographical indication agrees with his •observations. Another burial-place in the immediate vicinity was that belonging to the church of St. Nicholas Shambles. Stow ('Survey,' Thoms's edition, p. 118) records that this church was pulled down, and that "in place whereof, and of the churchyard, many fair houses are now built in a court •with a wall, in the midst whereof the church stood." But this was more to the south, near Newgate Street. On the whole, I am inclined to believe that the remains which have been recently discovered belonged to those persons who, like the Northern rebels, were buried in the cloisters of the Friary, which were situated close to the southern boundary •of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. W. F. PHIDEAUX. ME. ALECK ABRAHAMS might possibly re- ceive help in his investigations by the perusal of an article on Grey Friars which appeared in Tlie Builder of 10 October, 1885. Thence I extract the following paragraph :— "A faithful copy plan lies before us dated 1540. •Grey Friars Church Yard is marked thereon as without the City Wall and Ditch, being situated westwards of " The Walke,' leading through a gate- way in the London Wall to St. Bartholomew's/' JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. PHILIPPINA : PHILOP<ENA (10th S. iii. 406, 471).—In 1881, when journeying from San Francisco to New York vid Panama, we had on board a young lady who had spent the greater part of her eighteen years in Japan. She was American by birth, and had an Irish name. She played the game with great success, and invariably used three syllables- no doubt the Fillipeen of Bartlett. DUH AH Coo. Hongkew. ST. PAULINUS AND THE SWALE (10th S. iv. 168).—Northern historians appear to have no doubt that Pauliuus laved converts in the Yorkshire Swale. The Venerable Bede, than whom I suppose there can be no better authority, says that certain things happened in the province of the Deiri, where he was often with the king, and " baptized in the river Swale, which runs by the village of Cataract," a place identified with Catterick (bk. ii. ch. xiv.). The learned Edward Chnr- ton accepts this statement in his 'Early English Church' (p. 54); and Canon Kaiue, who I think never wrote uncritically, refers both to Bede and Churton in ' Fasti Ebora- censes' (p. 43), and states of Paulinus: "In the province of Deira, where a great portion of his time was passed, he would generally be baptizing at Catterick or Tanfield (Dona- field), in the Swale and Yore." In default of contemporary parish registers it is difficult to quote any trustworthy autho- rity for the number of the converts and for the year and the time of year of their ad- mission to the Church. ST. SWITHIX. There can be no question that it was the Yorkshire Swale in which Faulinus, " the Apostle of the North of England," baptized his converts, and he thus immersed them because, as Bede says, " as yet, oratories or fonts could not be made in the early infancy of the Church in those parts." It is recorded by Bede that " in the province of Deiri also " (the whole tract of country between the Tyne, the Ribble, and the Humber), " where he was wont often to be with the King (Edwyn), Paulinus baptized in the river Swale, which runs by the village Cataract." That Dews- bury was one of the places where multitudes flocked to him to receive baptism is attested by the inscription, formerly extant, to that effect on the Dewsbury Cross. As to the Kentish converts and St. Augus- tine, Dr. Whitaker, in his 'History of Whal- ley,' observes that Augustine seems to have been to the monks what the Theban Hercules was to the Greeks, an object of fond and thoughtless devotion, on whom they were anxious to accumulate the exploits, and to divert the honours, of his brethren. Thus, precisely in another instance nearly akin to the present, they have adorned him with.