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being reqiiired for the purposes of the Imperial Library in 1903, the bust was removed to the entrance of the gardens of the Agri-Horticultural Society at Alipore, a suburb of Calcutta, where, I believe, it still remains. Carey was a founder of the Society in 1820. If I remember rightly, when I last saw it it stood in the open, and was easily seen from the public road.

WILMOT CORFIELD.

SIB PHILIP HOWARD (11 S. x. 129). ' Cumberland and Westmorland M.P.'s,' by Robert Ferguson (London, 1871), gives a lengthy account (pp. 379-80) of " Colonel Sir Philip Howard, Knight, M.P. for Carlisle 1661-81."

He may have been a Knight of the Bath, but, I feel pretty confident, not of the Garter, though my books at hand do not enable me to verify the fact. H.

He was knighted at Canterbury 26 May, 1660, and was not a K.G. M.P. for Malton in 1659 and 1660 (then esquire), for Carlisle 1661 to 1681 (three Parliaments) as Knight. Died 2 Feb., 1685/6 ; buried at Westminster Abbey. W. D. PINK.

[MR. R. C. BOSTOCK and MR. S. A. GRUNDY- NEWMAN also thanked for replies.]

SAINTS' DAY CUSTOMS (11 S. x. 129).

" In Overbury's ' Characters,' describing a foot- man, he says : ' "Tis impossible to draw hi picture to the life, cause a man must take it as he 's run- ning ; only this, horses arc usually let bloud on St. Steven's Day : on St. Patrick's he takes rest, and is drencht for all the year after.' " Brand's ' Popular Antiquities,' ' St. Patrick's Day * (Chatto & "VVindus, 1900, p. 55).

In Brand's book, under ' St. Stephen's Day,' will be found several quotations dealing with the bleeding of horses on that day. I will only give one from Tusser's ' Husbandry ' (1580) :

Yer Christmas be passed, let Horsse be let blood, For manie a purpose it dooth them much good : The Day of S. Steeven, old fathers did use, If that do mislike thee, some other day chuse.

WM. H. PEET.

"CORVICER" (11 S. ix. 308, 395, 477; x. 15). " Corversarius, corvisarius : a cord- wainer ; a cobbler," is given in Martin's ' Record Interpreter.' BROWNMOOR.

DWIGHT, ANCIENTLY DYOTT (11 S. X. 87).

An old friend of this family writes me : " The Dwights gave me to understand that

the name is Dutch, and is a contraction of De

Witt."

CECIL CLARKE. Mappleton, Derbyshire.

HAND OF ULSTER (11 S. vii. 189, 275, 334, 373, 434; viii. 14, 95, 154, 217, 273; ix. 195, 238, 257). Further as to the Oriental end of this question, the finger-prints of Murad I. are said to have been worked into the Imperial Osmanli seal. Thurston's ' Omens arid Superstitions of Southern India ' says in part on p. 119 :

" The sacrificer dips his hand in the blood of the animal, and impresses the blood on his palms on the wall near the door .... At Kadur, in the Mysore Province, I once saw impressions of the hand on the walls of Brahman houses. Impres- sions in red paint of a hand with outspread fingers may be seen on the walls of mosques and other Muhammadan buildings." Citing Journal Anthrop. Insl., 1890, xix. 56.

Impressions of a hand on the wall of a house are depicted on the page opposite p. 119.

'' When cholera, or other epidemic disease, breaks out, Muhammadans leave the imprint of the hand dipped in sandal paste on the door " (pp. 119-20),

thus leaving the requisite red mark.

ROCKINGHAM. Boston, Mass.

SCOTT: 'THE ANTIQUARY' (11 S. x. 90, 155). 6. " Its parent lake " (chap. xvii.). This is probably a reference to Smollett's ' Ode to Leven Water,' 1. 17 :

Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make.

THOMAS BAYNE.

REV. FERDINANDO WARNER (11 S. ix. 369). He was created LL.D. by the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, 5 March, 1754 (Patent Roll). DANIEL HIPWELL

Memorials of an Ancient Hou$e : a History of the Family of Lister or Lyster. By the Rev. Henry Lyttelton Lyster Denny. (Ballantync.) THIS sumptuous volume does not disappoint the expectations it excites. The family of Lister or Lyster furnishes, perhaps, as good an example as. any in Great Britain or Ireland of a stock, not, indeed, distinguished by any name belonging un- questionably to the first rank among the leaders of mankind in any particular sort of activity, but proved capable of bearing generation after generation of sound gentlemen and gentlewomen. those brave enough and able enough to make some mark among their compeers, and these for the most part supplied with the beauty and ele- gance and accomplishments requisite to make- them the fitting repositories and handers-on of the gentler part of the traditions of a good family.

The first of the name to make any distinct appearance was one John Lyster de Derby, living in 1312, brother of Geoffrey Lyster, in