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contains the following monumental inscrip- tion, said to have been in 1872 in St. Aloysius's Chapel, Somers Town :

Jean Frar^ois de la Marche,

Eveque et Comte de Leon, n en Basse

Bretagne, Comte de Cornouaille,

Debarque en Angleterre le xxviii.

Fevrier MDCCXCI, et decede a Londres le xxv. Novembre MDCCCVI, Dans sa soixante-dixhuitieme annee.

Ce juste, que la fureur de ses freres, | A banni de sa patrie, la sagesse 1'a | Conduit par de voies droites, et I Fixant ses regards sur le royaume | De Dieu, elle a perfectionne sa vertu, | Dans les travaux et les a consommes. Sag. x. 9.

Requiescat in Pace.

No. 9, Joseph Fra^ois de Malide, was born in Paris, 12 July, 1730, the second of the three sons of the Comte de Malide, a territorial magnate in the Isle of France allied to the noblest families in that country. He was educated in Paris in one of the seminaries maintained for the education of the French clergy, and soon after his ordina- tion to the priesthood obtained the benefice of Abbot of Belval. He was consecrated on 30 August, 1766, when only thirty-six years of age, Bishop of Avranches ; and on 20 Jan., 1774, was passed on to the Bishopric of Montpellier. Espousing the popular cause, he was elected as the depute for the clergy of Montpellier to the States-General in 1789, and acted with the majority in that Assembly until September, 1791, when he left France, having been one of the signatories to the protests made on 12 and 15 Sept., 1791, by the more moderate of the reform party, against the acts of the States- General.

He migrated to London, and, being a connexion by marriage of my grandmother's family, took up his residence for a time at Ashtead, in Surrey, with my grandfather, John Larpent. He subsequently resided in London, died there 2 June, 1812, and was buried in Old St. Pancras Churchyard. An account of the funeral ceremonies is recorded in my grandmother's journal. In 1866 I saw his tomb, but very shortly after- wards his remains were removed to Mont- pellier, where they were reburied in the cathedral there. F. DE H. L.

" POT-GALLERY " (10 S. vii. 388, 431). My inquiry as to this in ' N. & Q.' called forth several answers, besides others that were sent to me directly. After considering all the facts given and conjectures offered, I am inclined to think that the real explana- tion is that offered by MB. R. OLIVER HESLOP,

from facts known to him as to the banks of the Tyne at Newcastle, viz., that a pot- gallery was the outside " gallery " or balcony of a pot-house, where customers sat over their pots, in view of the river and its traffic, as the wives of members of Parlia- ment sit over their teacups on " the Terrace." The same suggestion was independently made by MB. STANLEY B. ATKINSON, who pointed out that along the river-side there are still public-houses having rooms and balconies built out over the river, a notable example being " The Prospect of Whitby " public-house, Wapping Wall, Stepney ; and that many such were to be seen in the olden days. From the Secretary of the Thames Conservancy I have further learned that

" in the part of the river between Battersea and Barking Creek there are still overhanging galleries or balconies at about eight public-houses, but that none of these obstruct the navigation in any way."

In the seventeenth century, however, and on the Tyne much later, they sometimes did cause obstruction and give rise to litigation ; hence the regulation cited by Stow (1754), I. I. xi. 49 :

"No person shall make or continue anywharf,

building, or pot-gallery so as to prejudice the passage of the said river or the banks thereof."

But it has to be borne in mind that the name " pot-gallery " is not now known in connexion with any of the existing galleries, and that therefore the identity of the seven- teenth- and eighteenth-century term is at present an inference from congruity, liable to be confirmed or set aside by the discovery of any old passage in which the " pot- gallery " is described by a contemporary. J. A. H. MTTBBAY. Oxford.

BEDE'S TBANSLATION OF THE FOUBTH GOSPEL (10 S. viii. 130). Bede's translation of St. John has never been heard of since it was first mentioned. It must have perished long ago in the raids of the Danes, which King Alfred so feelingly laments.

My edition of the Gospels contains an Anglo-Saxon version, with all the readings of all six MSS. the earliest and latest copies beng printed at length ; also, a Mercian translation and a Northumbrian translation of St. Matthew ; and two Northumbrian translations (both of rather late date) of the other three Gospels ; being all that is known. The Gospelswere at first published separately, but can now be had bound together. The volume also contains the Latin text, as given in the Lindisfarne MS.

WALTER W. SKEAT.