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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL JUNE s, 1907.

built 1255, and enlarged in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

ROBERT B. DOUGLAS. 64, Rue des Martyrs, Paris.

So far as I am aware, no St. Seine occurs in " the Romish calendar," and what Miss Costello mistook for " the saint who presides over the spot " is the figure of the river deity Sequana, part of the monument erected in 1867 by Jouffroy.

JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.

That valuable little handbook Sir Harris Nicolas's ' Chronology of History ' has " Seine, Sequanus, Segonus, or Sigo, abbot, died Sept. 19," in its ' Alphabetical Calendar of Saints' Days.' ST. SWITHIN.

[MR. J. C. MARRIOTT also thanked for reply.]

'THE WRONG MAN' (10 S. vii. 407). The Life of Charles James Mathews, 3 edited by Charles Dickens, 2 vols., 1879, contains ^a ' List of Plays performed during Mathews' s Managements of Covent Garden and the Lyceum,' drawn up by himself, and found among his papers. This states that the farce ' The Wrong Man ' was played only ten times at Covent Garden (season 1841-2), and not eleven, as mentioned by MR. WALTERS in his query.

ALFRED SYDNEY LEWIS. Library, Constitutional Club.

1 A SHORT EXPLICATION ' OF MUSICAL TERMS (10 S. vii. 409). If the great public libraries between them possess no example, would it not be well to ask some music specialist like Mr. Reeves, of Charing Cross Road ?

There is another edition, undated and apparently earlier, which is engraved throughout. Its title is ' Short Explication of such Words or Terms as are made use of in Vocal and Instrumental Music.' It is 8yo, on 18 leaves. The author may be Richard Leveridge, who published about that period a collection of songs similarly engraved throughout.

WILLIAM JAGGARD.

SIR THOMAS BLOODWORTH, LORD MAYOR 1665-6 (10 S. vii. 409). He died 12 May, 1682, and was buried on the 24th at Leather- head, Surrey, " where he had a pretty seat " apparently the Manor House, of which he was lessee from Merton College. His claim to notoriety consists in the coarse remark which he made (2 Sept., 1666) at the com- mencement of the Great Fire of London, which occurred during his mayoralty. This will be found in (the uncastrated copies of)

Le Neve's ' Knights ' (vol. viii. of the pub- lications of the Harleian Society, 1873), where his pedigree is given. G. E. C.

ORDINARIES OF NEWGATE (10 S. vii. 408). It is very possible that there was a per- manent minister appointed to Newgate before 1698, the earliest date given by MR. BLEACKLEY. Precisely a century and a half earlier (viz., in 1549), Latimer advocated the appointment of goal chaplains in the following words, which occur in a sermon preached before Edward VI. (quoted at 1 S. ii. 22) :

"Oh, I would ye would resort to prisons! A commendable thing in a Christian realm : I would wish there were curates of prisons, that we might say, the ' curate of Newgate,' the ' curate of the Fleet,' and I would have them waged for their labour. It is a holiday work to visit the prisoners, for they be kept from sermons."

Two hundred and thirty years later we find Howard the philanthropist describing the minister as then " waged " as follows :

" The chaplain, or ordinary, besides his salary, has a house in Newgate Street, clear of land-tax ; Lady Barnardiston's legacy, 61. a year ; an old legacy paid by the Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 107. a year ; and lately had two freedoms yearly, which commonly sold for 2ol. each ; and the City generally presented him, once in six months, with another freedom. Now he has not the free- doms, but his salary is augmented to ISO/., and the sheriffs pay him 3/. 12*'. He engages, when chosen, to hold no other living." ' Old and New London,' ii. 442.

The last name in MR. BLEACKLEY' s list is traceable at a later date than 1824. Elmes's ' Topographical Dictionary,' published in 1831, contains, at the end of the account of the prison, the name of " the Rev. Horace S. Cotton, D.D., Ordinary."

WILLIAM McMuRRAY.

TENIERS AND MINIATURES (10 S. vii. 409). So many pictures by Teniers are on such a small scale that they may be reasonably classed as miniatures. MR. HEWITT will find exhaustive lists in John Smith's ' Cata- logue Raisonne,' pt. iii. 256-444, and in the Supplement to that work, 405-72. Some of the pictures there described are smaller even than that referred to by MR. HEWITT. Many of Teniers' s pictures are doubtless portraits, but the names of scarcely any have been preserved ; there were doctors, boors, fishermen, and the rest. A portrait of a gentleman in black robe with fur, 6| in. by 4 in., was in the Blenheim Sale in 1886, and was again sold in Mr. H. P. Cunliffe's collection on 9 May, 1903, and this seems to be one of the very few examples in existence