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in the Vestibule at Windsor Castle. The figure of a boy seated above all appears to be in facsimile. ST. S WITHIN.

" INNISKILLING " : " ENNISKILLING." In the official Army List dated March, 1817, " Enniskilling " is the spelling of the name of the 6th Dragoons and 27th Foot ; but in all other Army Lists I possess, which are of dates at intervals from 1756 to the present year, the spelling is " Inniskilling." Will some reader kindly say for how long the spelling " Enniskilling " was sanctioned officially as the name of these regiments ?

W. S.

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED.

They say that war is hell, a thing accurst,

The sin impossible to be forgiven, And yet I look beyond it at its worst,

And still find blue in heaven ; And when I note how nobly nations form,

I deem it true

That He who made the earthquake and the storm Perchance made battles too.

CONSTANT READER.

' THE HEBREW MAIDEN'S ANSWER TO THE CRUSADER.' I possess an incomplete copy of this poem, and shall be glad to be supplied with the words of the whole. The opening lines are :

Christian soldier, must we sever ?

Does thy creed our fates decide ? Must we part, and part for ever ? Shall another be thy bride ?

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

STEP-DANCES. What were the village step-dances of the earlier half of the nine- teenth century like ? A Nottinghamshire woman of fifty, when lamenting to me the disappearance of various forms of village merry-making described to her by her elders, said she had known a few people who were excellent step-dancers, and could make the time of the dance " come out of the floor like with the beating of their feet." The women " would draw up their skirts short, and pull the back of the skirt forward between their legs, to show their feet and ankles. Then you could see the steps well."

It is assumed by those who disapprove of John Wesley that early Wesleyanism killed the hereditary amusements of English village life ; but is not this rather unjust ? There were still, excellent fiddlers among the elderly men in the early sixties, and these fiddlers and their cronies were acquainted with old songs, dance-tunes, and games, which the younger people might have picked up too, had not changed social conditions

given them tastes and ideals foreign to the traditional sports of country life. G. W.

" MATCHES " IN CONGREVE. In * Love for Love,' Act II. sc. iii., Congreve writes : " What a world of fire and candle, matches and tinder-boxes did you purchase ! "

Haydn's ' Diet, of Dates ' says that lucifer matches came into use about 1834. What are the matches to which Congreve refers ? The play was first acted in 1695.

T. M. W.

[Presumably in the sense either of a match to fire a gun, or the wick of a candle.]

ARMS IN CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL AT CHERTSEY. The following arms in stained glass are in one of the windows of an old disused Congregational chapel here, which was built in 1710, viz., France and England quarterly, impaling a coat of six quarters : 1, Or, on a pile gules between six fleurs-de-lis azure, three lions passant guardant of the first (the augmentation granted to the Sey- mour family by Henry VIII. on his marriage with Jane Seymour) ; 2, Gules, two wings conjoined in lure or (Seymour) ; 3, Vair, argent and azure (Beauchamp) ; 4, Argent, two bars wavy gules ; 5, Party per bend argent and gules, three roses in bend counter- changed, seeded or ; 6, Argent, a bend gules charged with three bezants or. There has evidently been a centre crest or crown ; this has gone, but on each side is a horse's head sable, in armour azure, bridled or, on the head a plume of three feathers, or, argent, and azure. Under the one on the sinister side are the letters " T. H." On the dexter side is cut horizontally with a dia- mond " Robert Burroye [or Burage] 1725." Locally the arms are ascribed to a Marquis of Hertford ; but they are undoubtedly those of Henry VIII. and Jane Sey- mour, though the crest puzzles me. Did Henry VIII. ever use such a crest ? and what do the initials " T. H." stand for ? Can any of your correspondents help, or suggest how they came to be in a Noncon- formist chapel ?

(Marquis de) RUVIGNY.

Chertsey.

THOMAS THURSBY (OR THORESBY), a son of Christopher Thursby, of Castor, Northants, was baptized at Castor, 2 May, 1639, and was a merchant in London in 1682. Ad- ministration was granted on 30 Dec., 1684, to his brothers Downhall Thursby and John Thursby, patrinis et curatoribus of Thomas and Mary Thursby, minors, the natural and only children of Thomas Thursby, widower,