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commission for which Moore obtained through the architect for the restoration of the church, the late Mr. William Lightly, my fellow-pupil. The design never went beyond the stage of a beautiful study in water colour, owing to some doctrinal objec- tions to its execution. This study, which is photographed in Mr. Baldry's life of Moore, is now in the possession of Mr. E. B. I'Anson. The decoration of the chancel of the church of St. Nicholas, Rochdale, illustrating the miracle of the five barley loaves an ambitious scheme for so young a man was carried out by Moore, but, owing to the medium in which it is executed, is now going to decay. I have a photograph of a portion of the design, representing Hunger and Lassitude ; but the church is so dark that this is all I have been able to obtain of this fine composition.

The peacock frieze was executed for Mr. Lehmann's house in Berkeley Square. This fact should be stated to avoid confusion with Whistler's peacock room in Queen's Gate, which was also done for Mr. Lehmann. It may be mentioned that the studio in Spenser Street, Westminster, where Moore died, was built by the late F. Sandys for himself, and is now in the occupation of Mr. Alfred East, A.R.A.

It is my belief that Moore was never a candidate for admission to the Royal Academy. JOHN HEBB.

" HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE." In an

interesting old book, ' Nouveau Siecle de Louis XIV., ou Poesies- Anecdotes du Regne et de la Cour de ce Prince,' 1793, I have come upon a curious variant of the above phrase, which seems to deserve a corner here. It is in a chanson attributed to the notorious Ninon de 1'Enclos :

Tous les blondins chez moi vont h 1'ecole

Pour faire leur salut ; Je veux sauver Duras, Dangeau, Briolle,

Et c'est 1A mon seul but. Honni soit-il celui qui mal y pense ! Je fais penitence,

Moi. Je fais penitence.

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

SPELLING REFOBM. (See 10 S. vi. 266.) Thomas Bennet, rector of St. James's, Colchester (for whom see ' D.N.B.,' iv. 238), seems to have adopted a method of reform on a small scale. In his sermon ' Charity- Schools Recommended,' 26 March, 1710, he is careful to print determin, examin, imagin, endevor, honor, labor, neighbor, savior, cou'd, fixt, imploy, sutdble, thorow, villany. W. C. B.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

EURIPIDES : ' ELECTBA.' Milton's refer- ence in his eighth sonnet to the alleged preservation of the walls of Athens, owing to the effect produced on the Peloponnesian generals by a recitation of a portion of the ' Electra ' of Euripides, is based on a state- ment to the same effect in Plutarch's life of Lysander. I am anxious to put together a list of the other references, direct or in- direct, to this play of Euripides (whatever their tenor) that are to be found in Greek or Latin authors. There certainly are not many, but they appear to be uncatalogued. I should be very grateful if any of your readers, who may happen to know of any such, would communicate with me privately at Little Holland House, Kensington, W. (Rev.) R. JOHNSON WALKER.

" RESTBAYNTE " OF " THE TOWNES." " The names of those w h followe were buried after the townes were restraynte." The foregoing words occur in the middle of a long list of burials in the register of a North Lincolnshire parish from January, 1592/3, to the following April. A large number of other parish registers in the same district show, by the number of the burials they record, that a pestilence devastated that part of the county in the earlier months of the year 1592 (old style). The mortality seems to have been so great that the population of some of the villages was permanently reduced. I should be greatly obliged if any of your readers could furnish me with particulars of " the restraynte " which was put upon " the townes."

C. W. FOSTER.

Timberland Vicarage, Lincoln.

STEBBING SHAW STAFFORDSHIRE MSS. I should be much obliged if any of your readers would inform me as to where the above MSS. are at present.

ANDREW OLIVEB. 5, Queen's Gardens, W.

MONKS OF ST. EBBALD AT ETON. Accord- ing to Dr. Lipscomb (' History of Bucks,' iv. 460), in 1238 a grant of a fair was made to the monks of the Fountain of Ebrald at Eton. It would appear from this that there was an alien cell in the thirteenth century at Eton, dependent on the Abbey of Fonte-