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 488 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io<-s. iv. DEC. u, ' N. &. Q.! with a knowledge of Holland and Dutch affairs of the period, can supply as to Gilbert Stewart, merchant in Rotterdam 1698,1 should welcome. W. M. GRAHAM EASTON. DOGS IN WAR.—Can any of your readers inform me of the title of a magazine, periodical, or newspaper in which was printed an article upon ' DORS in War'? It has appeared during the past few months. C. C. C. DOG TRAINING.—I was at a children's party at which there was a performance of Punch and Judy. The part of Toby had to be omitted, as the animal by which it was usually enacted was otherwise employed, having a litter of pups to look after. When the performance was over I asked the show- man why he did not avoid such an incon- venience by having a dog for his Toby. He told me that only bitches could be trained to such work, and that dogs were found to be useless. Is this a fact' FRANK REDE FOWKE. 24, Netherton Grove, Chelsea, 8.W. ELIOT TORKE.—Is anything known of this water-colour painter, who flourished' about the middle of the century ? From the style of his work he appears to have been a pro- fessional artist, and yet none of the usual artists' biographical dictionaries mention him. FRANCIS KING. ROGER MATTHEW, VICAR OF BLOXHAM 1605-57.—Roger Matthew, described by Wood ('Fasti Oxon.,' i. 285) as "a Warwickshire man born," entered Queen's College, Oxford, in Vacation term 1593; matriculated 6 July, 1593, cet. eighteen : and graduated B.A. 1597, M.A. 1600. In 1605 he became vicar of Bloxhara, Oxon.; he compounded for first- fruits 25 November, the bondsmen being William Richardson, writer, alias stationer, of St. Andrew's, Holborn, and Thomas Wright, merchant tailor, of St. Sepulchre's, London. At the death in 1631 of the first Earl of Downe, Thomas Pope, his grandson and heir, was under the tuition of Roger Matthew. In 1634 Roger Matthew published two small theological volumes. One, entitled ' Peter's Net Let Downe,' is a treatise on the reciprocal duties of clergy and laity, read at a Synod at Chipping Norton. It is dedicated to Mr. William Murrey, Groom of the King's Bedchamber, the guardian of the young Lord Downe, who had made a new arrangement for the education of that " noble ympe." The other, entitled ' The Flight of Time.' is a lengthy funeral sermon, preached at Blox- ham. It i.s dedicated to the Hon. Mrs. James Fiennes. The inscription on Roger Matthew's tomb, now nearly obliterated, states that Anne his wife died 26 April, 1655, and that he, "being minister of this parish fiftie years," died 6 September, 1657. Two sons of Roger Matthew matriculated at Oxford: Stephen, commensalit tertii ordinis of Trinity College, matriculated 17 October, 1634, cet. seventeen, caution-money returned 1636; and John, entered Queen's College as batler iu Easter term 1639, matriculated 24 May, 1639, cet. sixteen. Probably both died before their father, as only daughters are mentioned in his will, dated 21 May, 1655, proved P.C.C. (472 Ruthin) 21 September, 1657. The will has the following memo- randum : " My great brasse pott was giren by my grandfather John Mathew to my father to pass to him and to the heirs of the house successively, which therefore I carnot dispose." Can any one supply any fur;her information about Roger Matthew and In- family and marriage ? His will rather fflg- gests that, though born in Warwickshire he belonged to an Oxfordshire family. OXONIEXSS. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED :— " Those only deserve a monument who dc not need one" (?Hazlitt). "To make his destiny his choice'1 (quote! by Charles Lamb as from Marvell). "The trappings of a monarchy would set uj tn ordinary commonwealth" (quoted by Johoaoa is from Milton). Love and sorrow twins were born On a shining showery morn. W. G. B. " Quid est quod nos alio tendentes alio trahit!' (Seneca?) J. WlLLCOCK. Lerwick. HATCHMENT. — Will any of your learned correspondents explain what connexion there was between the hatchment which used to be placed over the mansion where the head of the house died, and the church to which the hatchment was removed at the end of the year? What ecclesiastical significance was there in this apparently heraldic device? and why was it placed in a church 1 C. W. H. KENRICK. Holy Trinity Vicarage, Barnstaple, N. Devon. [See the numerous articles at 8th S. xi. 387, 451, 513 ; xii. 29, 112, 193, 474, 517 ; 9th S. i. 55.] ALBIGNA. — In his 'Words and Places' (chap, vi.) Canon Taylor cites many place- names to show the early settlement of Arabs in the Alps, and gives (p. 122) a list of villages in the neighbourhood of Pontresina (Ponte-