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gold (or yellow), and the saltire and the martlets are red. CROSS-CROSSLET.

The arms of the families of More and Moy of France, Or, a saltire between four mart- lets gu., are given correctly.

The field (shield) Or, a saltire gules be- tween four martlets of the last, will perhaps explain what is required.

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

ROYAL ARMS IN CHURCHES (10 th S. v. 188, 230, 294). It may be well to record a strange blunder that was made in the early years of the last century as to the royal arms in the church of Northorpe, a little village near here. Over the chancel arch was a rudely painted shield with supporters, the armorial bearings of Charles II., which probably re- placed something of the kind of earlier date that had been swept away during the Commonwealth. Cinder the shield had been painted the date 1666, but the upper part of the first 6 had been effaced, either purposely or by accident, causing it to read 1066. Such it was supposed to be till one day an artist who was staying at Gainsborough came over to see the church. He proved to such people as had minds open to conviction that they were the arms not of William the Con- queror, but of his remote descendant the Merry Monarch. When the church was re- paired some time early in the last century, the arms were destroyed. My father could well remember noticing them when he was a child, but I did not learn from him whether they were painted on canvas, wood, or plaster. EDWARD PEACOCK.

Wickentree House, Kirton-in-Lindsev.

JOHN PENHALLOW (10 th S. iv. 507 ; v. 15, 37, 76). In consequence of the appearance of my note I have received from Mr. Charles S. Penhallow, of Boston, Mass., a quarto pamphlet entitled on the 'cover 'The Pen- hallow Panels.' It is of eight pages, with three half-tone reproductions: one of the fireplace, the others of two of the four doors. The pamphlet is anonymous, but is addressed from "Jamaica Plain, Mass., October, 1905." Mr. Penhallow has compiled it chiefly from information supplied him by the Director (Mr. A. B. Skinner) of the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington.

Mr. Penhallow gives an account of the room, with some information I have not seen elsewhere. It seems that the Director of the V. and A. M. found the Penhallow family to be extinct in England, but eventually got into correspondence with Mr. C. S. Pen- hallow. I am glad the room has found a

permanent home in its own country, instead of journeying to a new one.

As so much interest is taken in this room, I may mention that it is of "oak with carvings in cedar." I have visited the room at the V. and A. M. numbers of times, and never without observing one or more students making the most elaborate and careful draw* ings of these carvings.

Mr. Penhallow acknowledges information supplied to him by the " Sergeant " of the Inn, but there was never a person so named in the service of the Inn : it should be the secretary. On p. 1 of the pamphlet for "Inn in Chancery" read "of Chancery": "in Chancery " is a very different thing.

Looking over some papers since my first note, I find that the price paid for the wood- work was nearly three times the amount fixed for the reserve, and four times what the Inn was offered for it privately before the sale. There were, however, bids up to within a few pounds of the price it fetched, which shows the high appreciation of this rare bit of old English work, one of th& greatest prizes among the marvellous collec- tions in the Museum. The V. and A. M. objects are the more valuable in that they are all there for an educational purpose, which is well served by the prices and date of purchase being given. The prices often open the eyes of the ignorant to the educa- tional value of the objects displayed.

A copy of the " particulars of sale " issued by the auctioneers is preserved in the Art Library in the V. and A. M. They consist of eight pages folio and cover, with four good reproductions : one of a pencil or chalk drawing, and three half-tones from photographs, showing the actual condition of the room previous to the sale in 1905. None of these is reproduced in Mr. Pen- hallow's pamphlet.

The Director took great trouble to get all possible particulars, not only about the woodwork, but about the Penhallows ; and though he found the family extinct in England, he eventually, as I have men- tioned, got into correspondence with Mr. C. S. Penhallow at Boston, Mass. I feel greatly obliged to my cousin of Cornish descent for giving the information he has in a printed form, and to * N. & Q/ for being the medium of my obtaining a copy.

RALPH THOMAS.

WHITCHURCH, MIDDLESEX (10 th S. v. 249). The name of Whitchurch is probably pre- ferred colloquially because it is more easily said than Stanmore Parva ; but originally it was doubtless known as Whitchurch because