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will mentions that the windows are to be glazed with stories, images, arms, badges, and cognizances, according to the designs given by him to " the maistre of the Works, the Prior of St. Bartilmew's besid' Smyth- field.'' Cottingham goes on to say that he has no hesitation in assigning the office of " the maistre of the works, the Prior of St. Bartilmew's," to William Bolton, " the last prior but one of that establishment.' 1

Stow in his ' Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster,* 1754, i. 714, describes William Bolton as " the last Prior of this House [of St. Bartholomew's], and a great builder there."'

Prior Bolton almost certainly was the prior who made alterations to the crypt in the church in Smithfield, and his rebus, a " bolt " through a " tun," may still be seen there. An examination of the above authorities and of John Weever's ' Ancient Funerall Monuments,' 1631, p. 434 ; ' Bio- graphia Britannica,' 1780, ii. 573 ; G. Worley's ' Priory Church of St. Bartholo- mew the Great, Smithfield,' and other books, throws no new light on the question.

Although it appears certain that Bolton was not the architect of Henry VII. 's Chapel, but was in all probability the " maistre of the works," it would be inter- esting to know if any other documentary evidence exists on this point.

MAURICE W. BROCKWELL.

LANDOR ANECDOTES. In ' Some Un- published Letters of W. S. Landor,' con- tributed by the Rev. E. H. R. Tatham to the current Fortnightly, Landor writes from Florence under the date 23 May, 1823 :

"I have collected anecdotes of those who have been employed by Government on the Continent, and will publish them at some future time."

Did such publication ever take place ?

NEL MEZZO.

AMPHILLIS HYDE AND CHARLES II. : WILTSHIRE VISITATION. Can any one tell me the date of death of Mrs. Hyde (nee Amphillis Tichborne), who secreted Charles II. at Heale House, Wilts, after the battle of Worcester in 1651 ? Registers of Woodford, Wilsford, and Durnford have been searched.

Also, where can the Visitation of Wiltshire,' 1677, be seen ? It is not at the British Museum. R. T.

NEWBERRY AND GANNOCK FAMILIES. Henry Norris, Esq., of Hackney, Middlesex, married, 2 May, 1733, Elizabeth Handley, daughter of Gervase Handley, of Handley, Somerset. Her mother was Elizabeth New-

berry, and her grandmother was Elizabeth Gannock. I shall be obliged if any reader can tell me anything of the last two families,. Newberry and Gannock.

H. C. NORRIS, Col. Radnor Club, Folkestone.

MAJOR WILLIAM FARQUHAR, 15TH FOOT. I should be glad to obtain particulars as to the family to which this officer belonged y his services, and the date and place of his death. Was he author of any book ? His commission as Major was dated 12 March,. 1754. W. S.

McCONKEY OR MCCONDEY FAMILY.

Can any one in or out of Argyllshire give me a record of a McConkey (with or without the Me) or McCondey during the seventeenth century ? I have a record of a colony of Scots who entered Ulster from Argyll- shire in 1612. Was there a McConkey or McCondey among them ?

(Mrs.) CHAS. S. LANGDON. Hartford, Connecticut.

"MALLAS RIGG.'-' An eighteenth-century deed relating to property in this neighbour- hood states that a certain individual is entitled to " mallas rigg " in another's field. The persons, both lawyers and laymen, now concerned in the property are unable to explain the meaning of "mallas rigg," and no term of the kind appears in the glos- saries of Cumberland and Westmorland. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' throw light on the subject ? DANIEL SCOTT.

The Laburnums, Penrith.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

Their memory liveth on your hills,

It liveth on your shore ; Your everlasting rivers speak

Their dialects of yore.

A. RHODES.

1. Casting all doubt upon the darker side.

2. Fixing low motives unto noble deeds.

L. T. RENDELL.

KINGLAKE'S ' EOTHEN.' I shall be grate- ful if any of your readers can throw light on the following points in Kinglake's ' Eothen l :

1. What is the " cap of consular dignity in the East ?

2. Who was the " one man above all (now uprooted from society) " whom Lady Hester Stanhope " blasted with her wrath " ?

3. " Single-sin ."

4. " ' The own arm-chair l of our Lyrist's ' sweet Lady Anne.' ? V. H. C.