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NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. x. SEPT. 12, 1914.

to its western end, opened into Maiden Lane, opposite, or nearly opposite, to the Globe Theatre. On the other hand, the token books in St. Saviour's Vestry seem to strengthen the case for the south side ; and there is also the difficulty pointed out by Airs. Stopes, besides others, that on the north side there was hardly room enough for a park and two parcels of land with a lane between them. On Hollar's large- soale ' View of London ' (1647) the Globe is shown close to the river. Can anything more decisive be said about the matter ?

L. L. K.

[The Athenaeum of 9 Oct., 1909, contained a long letter from Dr. William Martin on the site of the Globe Theatre.]

' THE SALOGNE ' : A PROPHECY. In writing of the war a newspaper quotes a prophecy from ' The Salogne,' which it says was current in 1793 :

"When men fly like birds ten great kings will go to war against each other. The universe will be under arms. The women will bring in the harvest. They will begin the vintage, but the men will complete it."

Can any one kindly explain ' The Salogne ' ?

L

THE PATRON SAINT OF PILGRIMS. Who was the patron saint of travellers par- ticularly of pilgrims ? Was it St. Chris- topher or St. Julian ? H. C T.

EXTREMES IN STATURE OF BRITISH OFFICER'S. In 'With Kitchener to Khar- toum,' by G. W. Steevens, chap, xviii., 'The Battle of the Atbara,' it says :

" The fortune of Captain Findley, who was killed, was pathetic. He had been married but a month or two before, and the widowed bride was not 18."

Capt. Findley stood near 6 ft. 6 in. in height.

In ' Hard Lines,' a novel by Major Hawley Smart, chap. xxx. p. 317, in the account of " the taking of the quarries " in the Crimean War, is an instance of the opposite extreme in stature in an army officer. The author says :

"Poor Lempriere, although reputed the smallest officer in the British Army, had shown that pluck was no matter of inches, and had died gallantly at the head of his company, in the rush with which these pits were carried. His Colonel had picked him up in the first flush of their success, and carried the lifeless figure out of the turmoil.

Will readers kindly oblige with information as to the greatest extremes of stature known in the British Army amongst com missioned officers ? F. C. WHITE.

ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, WINDSOR, EAST WINDOW. What has become of the painted- slass window which was taken out about fifty years ago and replaced by the present one, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott ?

This latter was erected by the Dean and Chapter in memorv of the Prince Consort in, I think, 1863.

The earlier window, after designs bjr- Benjamin West, was erected, I believe, somewhere about 1805.

I saw it very often in my Eton days, and had the, I suppose, bad taste to admire it. It was like a huge oil painting, and threw a soft, pleasant light into the chapel. Edward Jesse, in ' A Summer's Day at Windsor, and a Visit to Eton,' 1841, writes (pp. 84-86) :

"At the time when so much was done to the Chapel under the direction of Mr. James Wyatt. the whole of the mullions and tracery were removed from the window over the altar, and from those at the terminations of the side aisles, and the dis- proportionate spaces filled by copies from West's designs, executed by Forrest and Jervas on large squares of glass. Allowing some merit to the designs as pictures, nothing can be worse than the

effect produced The whole effect is dingy anc*

disagreeable in the extreme We trust, therefor

that the Chapter of St. George's will remov

the stigma which will always attach to them long as the present miserable productions are suffered to disgrace their sacred edifice."

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

"FtJAKER." This word occurs in Harri- son's ' Survey of Sheffield,' made in the year 1637, and printed in 1908. On p. 154 is" the following :

"Item an Intacke Called the fuaker meadow lieing betweene the Lands of W ni Barber, North East, and a Highway South West and abutteth upon the Racker way* North West, Aud Cont(ain- ing)0a. 2r. 27Jp."

There is a foot-note stating that it is written " Quaker (meadow) " in the Duke of Norfolk's copy.

The introduction to Harrison s ' Survey was written by Mr. R. E. Leader, B.A., in which he says " the Duke of Norfolk's copy was probably made in the year 1668."

Now it appears self-evident that the word "quaker" was a miscopy of the word " fuaker," and that the latter has an entirely different origin, and nothing whatever to do with Quakers.

The survey was made in 1637, at which time a small plot of land was named " fuaker meadow.." In 1668 this was miscalled " quaker meadow."

on ' The Rackar Way,' by Mr. T. Walter Hall, in the Transactions of the Hunter Archjeological Society, published in August. [See also ante, p. 180.]
 * There is an interesting and exhaustive article