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 356 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. OCT. «, MOB. MB. WAINEWBIGHT desires information. I refer to him, however, because the Banisters and Banisters of the sixteenth century have been sometimes confused; whether by their contemporaries or only by modern tran- scribers I am not prepared to say. This has been the case with John Danaster, of Lin- coln's Inn and Cobham, Surrey, a baron of the Exchequer (1538-40), whose will, dated 27 Feb., 1539/40, was proved on 27 April, 1540, by his widow Anne (P.C.C. 5 Alenger). In ' Letters and Papers, temp. Henry VIII.,' where further information about him is to be found, he is occasionally styled "Banester"; and he is similarly styled in ' Harl. Soc. Pub- lication,' xliii. 179, where the marriage of his daughter and heiress Anne with Owen Bray of Cobham is recorded. See also Foss, ' Lives of the Judges.' It may, therefore, possibly be worth ME. WAINEWRIGHT'S while to search for his man among Banisters as well as Banisters. On the other hand, as "Banister" may have been an alias, I venture to make the following suggestion. Of known Wyke- hamists John ten or Fenne ('B.N.B.,' xviii. 313) had a career which bears a considerable resemblance to that assigned by Nicholas Sander to his "John Banister." He went to Winchester in 1547, and thence to New College, where he was Sander's contemporary, in 1550 (Boase,' University Register,' Oxford Hist. Soc., i. 319). He studied civil law at Oxford ('Athense Oxon.,'Bliss, ii. Ill), and his classical attainments sufficed to secure him the post of master of Bury St. Edmund's grammar school in Mary's reign. Upon Eliza- beth s accession he lost this post, and had to betake himself to the Low Countries (ibid.). Theologize operam dedit in academia Lovan- °™ Claruit Lovanii A. MDLXVIII." (Tanner, 4 Bibliotheca Brit.-Hib.,' 277). Upon the estab- lishment of the convent of St. Monica at Louyam m 1609, he acted as confessor there until his death on 27 Bee., 1615 (Archaeoloaia xxxyi. 74-77). Bid John Fen ever pass as "John Banister"? Banista (Samo-™) has the same meaning as /Aerator. See For- celhnis 'Lexicon,' i. 569 (edition of 1858-60). H. C. ETON SCHOOL LISTS (10th S. iv. 187, 314).— In Stapylton's 'Eton School Lists from 17&J to 1850,' second edition, London, 1864, p. 19, are the following :— d^°T» WaldeRrave.-5th Karl. Drowned in bathing above the Brocas, in 1794. There is a monument to him in the Chapel at Eton." 'According to Toone's 'Chronological Historian' Ou - J uly. "Mr. Waldegrave.—John James. Became 6th Earl of [sic] Waldegrave, after his brother ww drowned; d. 1835." These two were in 1793 in the " First Form." Mr. (i.e. the Hon. John James) Waldegrave appears as Lord Waldegrave in " Sense" in the list of 1796, and in " Fifth Form—Lower Bivision " in that of 1799. Another Mr. Waldegrave, the Hon. Edward William, appears in "Second Form—Lower Remove" in the list of 1796, in "Fourth Form " in that of 1799, and in " Fifth Form- Upper Bivision" in that of 1802. He was lost in a transport coming home from Corunna in 1809 along with his schoolfellow Major George Cavendish, second son of the first Earl of Burlington; see pp. 27, 28. William, who succeeded as eighth Earl Walde- grave, was in " Lower Greek " in 1799. ROBERT PIERPOINT. In the Eton Ante-Chapel is a white marble slab 60J by 37J in., with this inscription :— GEORGE Fifth Earl of WALDEGKAVE Born 13th June 1784 Died 29th June 1794 See The Eton College Chronicle, No. 1088, p. 649. R. A. AUSTEN LEIGH. THE PIGMIES AND THE CRANES (10th S. iv. 266).—ME. H. T. BARKER would probably get what he requires by applying to an Italian photographer—say Alinari, of Florence, or Anderson, of Rome. E. RIMBACTLT BIBDIN. No one is more likely to procure this sub- ject, printed, engraved, or photographed, than G. Sommer & Figlio, photographers, Naples. MATTHEW H. PEACOCK. Wakefield. ME. BARKER might do worse than write to my old friend F. Marion Crawford, the well- known novelist. His address is : Villa Craw- ford, Sant' Agnello di Sorrento, Italy. That is quite near to Pompeii. HARRY HEMS. BETECTIVES IN FICTION (10th S. iv. 307).— There is certainly an earlier instance of methods of detection than that in 'Zadig,' which is itself a copy. A precisely similar triumph of observation is recorded in an Arabian tale in Scott's 'Arabian Nights.' I cannot at present say whether this is in the main body of the work or in the notes to it. There appears to be also a like Indian story. The Eastern tale had been copied into European literature before Voltaire, who has therefore taken it second hand. Although I am sure about these facts, so long a time has passed since I ascertained them that I cannot give further particulars. E. YABDLSY.