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dral having been begun and completed under one architect (Wren), one mason (Strong), and one bishop (Compton).

The cathedral, Macaulay states ('Hist, of England,' chap, xxii.), was first opened for public worship on 2 Dec., 1697, when the peace of Ryswick was celebrated :

" The Chapter of St. Paul's resolved that, on that day, their noble cathedral, which had been long rising on the ruins of a succession of pagan and Christian temples, should be opened for public worship."

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

ST. WiLGEFORTis (10 th S. v. 205). Dr. Sparrow Simpson, in his ' St. Paul's Cathe- dral and Old City Life,' pp. 247-52, has pro- bably said nearly all that is to be said about this saint, who seems to have been a survival of some old pagan tradition ; but the columns of 'N. & Q.' may still be consulted with ad- vantage. The following lis$ of references is rather fuller than that given by ST. SWITHIN in his valuable note at 10 th S. iv. 395, and corrects a misprint in one of them : l sfc S. ii. 286, 342, 381 ; ii. 404 ; 2 nd S. ix. 164, 274 ; 4 th S. vi. 559 ; 8 th S. x. 24, 78, 122, 166, 246.

Sou they, in his 'Omniana,' ii. 54, has printed the verses on St. Wilgefortis's beard, by the Jesuit Sautel, which are given by Dr. Sparrow Simpson at p. 251 of his book. The saint's beard, which may have had some connexion with the bearded oats that sprang up to conceal her path when she fled from her husband, was generally supposed to have been granted as a defence against the assaults of the male sex ; but it seems that this adornment may be produced by other influ- ences, and Southey records the case of a certain woman named Phatheusa, the wife of one Pytheus, who "thought so intensely during her husband's absence, that at his return she had a beard grown upon her chin." May this be a warning to ** suffragettes " and other high thinking ladies of the present day ! W. F. PRIDEAUX.

As the late Mgr. Clifford, Bishop of Clifton, in his letter to COL. BRAMBLE, refers to the Roman Martyrology, but does not quote it, it may be worth while to set out what it says under 20 July concerning this saint :

"In Lusitania sanctre Wilgefortis Virginia et Marty ris, <jiue pro Christiana fide ac pudieitia decertans, in Cruce meruit gloriosuni obtinere triuniphum.''

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

GEORGE FALL, ARTIST (10 th S. v. 230). It is highly probable that the water-colours here mentioned are the work of an artist who

either lives, or did live, in York. In an old directory occurs the entry, "Fall, George, artist and drawing - master, 10, Markham. Street." ST. SwiTHLK.

This artist exhibits at York Academy. He is also a teacher at the local School of Art. Further information can be obtained on application to the artist's niece.

POPPY ARCHER.

Onega, Dunbar Park, Teddington.

LlXDO OR LlNDOT, PORTRAIT PAINTER

(10 th S. v. 189) I have pleasure in stating that the following portraits are known, or are believed, to be by Lindo : (1) Elizabeth, first Duchess of Northumberland, after Sir Joshua Reynolds, in the possession of the Duke of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle ; (2) Hugh, second Duke of Northumberland (born 1742), as a young man, in the possession of the Duke of Northumberland at Syon- House : (3) Mr. Samuel Cook (born 1725, died 1796), (4) Elizabeth his wife (died 1794), and (5) Miss Cook, in the possession of Mr. S. F. Widd ring ton at Newton Hall ; (6) Mr. Henry Peareth (born 1713, died 1790), in th& possession of Mr. Francis Brumell atMorpeth. The portraits numbered (3) and (4) are signed F. Lindo, 1760.

In the obituary in The Gentleman s Maga- zine for 1767, p. 144, it is stated that " Francis- Lindo, Esq.," died at Isleworth, 8 March, 1767; and this date has been verified by the- Rev. J. H. Champion McGill, vicar of Isle- worth, who has furnished the corresponding: entry in the Isleworth Register of Burials : " 1767, March 10. Francis Lindo Cath[olic] : not [brought] into church."

J. C. HODGSON, F.S.A.

Alnwick, Northumberland. " THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE ""

(10 th S. iv. 447). MR. LATHAM speaks of an. intention to supplement the information* supplied at 9 th S. ii. 358, but expresses a doubt as to whether the ascription of author- ship there given is correct. Inferentially, he- may be understood to doubt whether any such writer of verse as William Ross Wallace- existed, and whether the narrated incident may not have been at least partly imaginary, tie may be reassured absolutely on the first point, and with practical certainty on the- second. Mr. Wallace was a lawyer in New York from 1841 to his death in May, 1881, and frequently wrote for the magazines of the day, besides publishing one or two- volumes of collected verse. He is given place- in compilations of American biography and literature.