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elates from 1763. Owing to the use of French only by the Court, this volume was printed in that language. My volume for 1808 is, of course, the Napoleonic sub- stitute, and, as above stated, is printed in German. FRANCIS H. BELTON.

8, Lansdowne Road, East Croydon.

ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, WINDSOR, EAST WINDOW (11 S. x. 210). From Monday, 28 July, to Saturday, 2 Aug., 1862, St. George's was closed for the erection of a wooden screen at the east end. The altar was placed in front of this screen, and the work went on behind it of removing the old window, putting in the new one, and erecting the central portion of the new reredos. The bare walls at the two sides of the reredos were covered with velvet cur- tains until the reredos was completed a few years later. The central portion and the new window were first exposed at the mar- riage of the Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra of Denmark, on 10 March, 1863, at which I had the privilege of singing as a chorister of St. George's.

The oil painting of ' The Last Supper,' which used to hang over the altar, was removed to the passage behind, and I have some recollection of being informed that West's window was taken to South Kensing- ton Museum. W. A. FROST.

St. Paul's Cathedral.

Knight's 'Windsor Guide' (1800) con- tains the following description of the earlier window mentioned by MR. PIERPOINT :

" This masterly performance was designed by B. West, Esq., in 1785, and executed by Mr. Jarvis, assisted by Mr. Forest [sic}, between that period and the year 1788. In viewing this most splendid window, the spec- tator is at a loss which most to admire, the genius of Mr. West in the design, or the exquisite skill of Messrs. Jarvis and Forrest in the execution of it. The painting this window, we are told, cost 4,OOOZ."

A foot-note adds that the idea of the insertion of this window " was first conceived by his present Majesty " some time prior to 1782, and that it was carried out by Dr. Lockman, who collected the necessary subscriptions. Considering the date of the book, "present Majesty" equals George III.

In his article on St. George's, Windsor (' Cathedrals, Abbeys, and Churches,' 1891, ii. 560), Prof. T. G. Bonney alludes to the great east window as follows :

" This, which -was formerly occupied by very ugly stained glass and debased tracery of the Georgian era, has recently been restored and

filled with admirable modern glass, the work ol Messrs. Clayton & Bell, as a memorial to the late Prince Consort."

JOHN T. PAGE.

JOHANNES BENADJEUS [BENODJEUS] (US. x. 150,218). The ' Dispensatorium Mli- cum ' of Jean de Benou of Coutances has been translated into English, and was pub- lished in London in 1657, " by that Prince of verbose and pedantick coxcombs, Bichard Tomlinson, apothecary," as Steevens, the Shakespeare commentator, calls him. L. L. K.

Benodaeus, to give the correct form, is the latinized name of Jeande Benou, " conseiller et medecin du roi a Paris, vers le commence- ment du XVII e siecle." There is an article on him in Bayle's ' Dictionnaire,' where he- is said to have been a Norman. Benodaeus is frequently mentioned in ' The Anatomy of Melancholy.' EDWARD BENSLY.

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED (11 S. x. 148, 197). Sir Philip Burne- Jones ha* kindly informed me that the lines " The heart desires," &c., beneath the Pygmalion pictures, were written by Mr. William Morri* at the request of his father, Sir Edward.

PHCENIX.

SIR STEPHEN E VANCE (US. ix. 230, 272 r 298, 373, 453, 494; x. 17). This knight had a grand - daughter Hester, who married Sir Cfesar Child, second baronet.

J. C. W^HITEBROOK.

EARLS OF DERWENTWATER : DESCEND- ANTS (11 S. x. 148, 218). The following par- ticulars may be of interest to MR. HARVARD- and MRS. MATILDA POLLARD.

The last descendant, and that in the female line, of Charles Badcliffe, brother of James, third Earl of Derwentwater, was Mary Dorothea Eyre (d. 22 Nov., 1853), the wife of Col. Charles Leslie, twenty-sixth Baron of Balquhain. There still exist, how- ever, descendants of Anthony Badcliffe, who was a younger son of Sir Cuth- bert Badcliffe, ancestor of the Earls of Derwentwater. Briefly, their descent is as follows :

Anthony Badcliffe of Cartington Tower (d. 1595), by his second wife, Jane Carr, had issue William Badcliffe of Brierley, who married Ann Harrington, by whom he had issue :

1. William, married Anne Vesey, and had an only daughter.

2. Edward, ancestor of the Badcliffes of Thryberglvand Darley Hall, Yorks.