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ranian dog appears, and also tell me any- thing that is known about that dog 1

(Mrs.) HAUTENVILLE COPE. Sulhamstead Park, Berkshire.

ANDREWS OF WALTON-ON-THAMES. Le Neve's 'Pedigrees of Knights,' Harl. Soc. viii., p. 298, has : "Sr Mathew Andrews of Walton vpon Thames Knighted on board an East India Ship 10 Aprill 1675"; but on p. 262 there is a memorandum: "Andrews Sr Mathew at Parlt house."

Any information about him or his relations would be welcomed. Why was he knighted 1 The only other reference I have to him is an allegation for marriage licence, Faculty Office :

T <k 1687, July 13, Thomas Lewes, of Stanford, co Notts, Esq, Bachr., 30, & Anne Andrewes, of Ashley Hall, Walton, co. Surrey, Spr., 18, dau. of Sir Matthew Andrewes, of same, Knight, who consents ; at Walton or Lambeth, co. Surrey." Harl. Soc. xxiv. p. 186.

Their marriage is not 'recorded in the registers of Walton-on-Thames.

A Charles Lewis of Stamford Hall, Notts, died 14 March, 1763 (see Gent. Mag.).

CHAS. A. BERNAU.

"COME ALL YOU JOLLY BLADES." I am connected with an old social and political club which is traditionally supposed to have had a Jacobite origin ; but after 1745 the members evidently desired to be regarded as loyal to the house of Hanover, and so politics were for a time eschewed, and in 1747 it is recorded that two of the members were fined for singing "a party song," the'name of which was "Come, all you jolly blades." Can any reader of * N. & Q.' give the words of that song ? W. S. H.

LUPPINOS OF HERTFORD AND WARE. Is anything known of a person named Luppino, who was a scene-painter at Co vent Garden about 1790? Another Luppino, said to be a son of the above, was organist at Ware Church, and arranged ' Psalms and Hymns with Tunes' for use in that church in 1803. Any information respecting either of these will be welcomed. W. B. GERISH.

Bishop's Stortford.

BANKES OF CORFE CASTLE. Burke's


 * Landed Gentry,' ed. 1894, vol. i., under


 * Bankes of Corfe Castle,' gives the following :

" Bankes, Walter Raph, Esq., of Corfe Castle

Lord High Admiral of Pnrbeck, by Royal Charter, Mayor of Corfe Castle, Lord Lieut, of Purbeck, Lay Bishop of Wimborne," &c.

Can any one inform me about these unique dignities? B. W.

Fort Augustus, N.B.

THE CRUCIFIXION: EARLIEST REPRE- SENTATION IN ART.

(10 th S. v. 248.)

MARUCCHI (who cites Grisar, 'Analecta Romana,' 1. 1. x ; Kondakoff, ' Les Sculptures de la Porte de Ste.-Sabine,' in the Rtvue Archeoloijique, 1877; and Berthier, ' La Porte de Ste.-Sabine a Home,' Fribourg, 1892) writes of the great door of Santa Sabina in his ' Basiliques et Eglises de Rome' (Paris et Rome, Desclee, Lefebvre & C io, 1902) pp. 188 sqq., as follows :

"On la considerait autrefois comme nn ouvrage du XLl e on du XI IP sit-cle. Un archeologue russe, M. Kondakoff, a demontre qu'elle remorite au V c qu'elle est d'un style qui rappelle beaucoup celui des nombreux sarcophages chretiensde cette epoque r qu'elle n'a an contraire aucune analogic avec les sculptures du moyen-age. Elle doit done etre con-

temporaine de Celestin I cr ou de Sixte III II y

a particulierement a remarquer la scene du Cruci- fiement, dans laquelle on avait cm voir autrefois les trois enfants dans la fournaise. II est certain que les premiers Chretiens avaient line grande repugnance a representer les soufFrances du Sauveur. Une seule peinture connue, celle du cimetiere de

Pretextat, rappelle une scene de la Passion

C'est settlement au V siecle qu'on donne la croix sous sa vraie forme, encore est elle ornee de fleurs et de pierreries, 'crux gemmata, florida.triumphalis.* Dans la mosaique de St.-Etienne-le-Rond, qui est du VII C siecle, la buste du Sauveur domine la croix, il n'y est pas attache. Cependant, au VI e siecle on rencontre quelques rares exemples du crucifix, par exemple, dans une miniature d'un manuscrit de la bibliotheque Laurentienne a Florence. Plus ancien est celui de Ste.-Sabine. Et il est moins voile que sur les fioles de Monza ; si le Christ et les deux larrons ont un peu 1'attitude d'orantes, on voit nettement trois des extremites de chaque croix. Le Sauveur, comme autrefois dans le celebre cruci- fix de Narbonne, est sans tunique, avec une cein- ture seulement."

This is true of the figures of the two thieves also. I cannot understand how it is that Hare, in his ' Walks in Rome,' i. 249, states that this representation of the Cruci- fixion " has the figures on the crosses fully draped." The miniature at Florence referred to above is by Rabbula (A.D. 586), a monk of the convent of Zagba, in Mesopotamia. The crucifix at Narbonne is one mentioned by Gregory of Tours ; and the crucifix at Monza is "a phylactery" sent by St. Gregory the Great to Queen Theodolinda. still preserved in the Cathedral Church of St. John at Monza (see Farrar, * Christ in Art,' 1901, at pp. 353-4 400-1). Marucchi goes on :

"Au VI C siecle la coutume, pent etre venue d'Orient, s'introduit de le revetir du 'colobium/ ou longue tunique: elle s'affirme dans les fresques du cimetiere de St. -Valentin et de Sta. Maria