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meant. I was told that it denoted a shoe- maker, though I had no idea at that time
 * is to its original meaning. J. T. F.

Winterton, Doncaster.

DR. ALLEN, OB. 1579 (11 S. x. 109). Since I wrote my query at the above refer- ence it has been brought to my notice that in a report to Rome presented in the spring or early summer of 1580, a translation of which was published by Cardinal Moran in 1864, in his Introduction to his ' History of the Catholic Archbishops of Dublin,' at pp. 194 sqq., there is a description of the skirmish of Monasteranenagh, in which it is stated that the Dr. Allen who fell there wn s a Doctor of Medicine. To this statement the Cardinal appends the note (at p. 195) : " The English authorities falsely imagined that the Dr. Allen who was slain was an ecclesiastic, and the famous Jesuit of that name." This note would seem to imply that, in the Cardinal's opinion, there were two doctors of the name of Allen who were in the field with Sir John of Desmond on that day a " famous Jesuit " D.D., and a lay M.D., otherwise unknown.

There is really no reason why the M.D. should not have been an ecclesiastic. For example, Griffith Roberts, the Archdeacon of Anglesey, who was deprived in 1559, and was a canon of Milan in 1611, was a Doctor of Medicine of the University of Siena. It jseems pretty clear that the Dr. Allen who fell at Monasteranenagh was a priest who had taken the degree of M.D. Who was "the famous Jesuit " ?

THE PATRON SAINT OF PILGRIMS (11 S. x. 210, 254). Of course St. James the Greater, Sant' lago of Compostela, is the great universal patron of pilgrims. But English pilgrims to Rome were always especially nv'ndful of St. Thomas of Canterbury. Wh Tever they went they were "Canter- bury pilgrims," and they erected shrines in i on the Lake of Como, where the Spliigen, Maloja, and Stelvio passes have already met ! in one road, and .at Verona, where the Brenner route comes down.
 * honour of their national martyr at Corenno

The venerable English College in Rome

itself, which took the place of a much earlier

English hospice, was founded 23 Dec., 1580,

to the praise and glory of the Most Holy

Trinity, and of St. Thomas the Martyr."

It would be interesting to know if the

St. Bernard, Simplori, and St. Gothard

passes furnish any similar record of the

devotion of English pilgrims to St. Thomas.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

' THE DIARY OF LADY WILLOUGHBY ' (11 S. x. 241). MR. WM. H. PEET'S com- munication has a personal interest for me, as Hannah Mary Reynolds, who married her half -cousin Richard Rathbone of Wood- croft, was a second cousin of my grand- mother, who, several years her senior in age, was an intimate friend of her girlhood. Her beautiful character is reflected in the miniature by Hargreaves, of which a repro- duction will be found opposite p. 154 of the late Mrs. Eustace Greg's ' Reynolds-Rathbone Diaries and Letters,' p.p., 1905. A sketch of her charming home, Woodcroft, faces p. 10 of the same book.

The same volume (p. 193) also contains a copy of the following letter from Messrs. Longman, which accompanied a presenta- tion copy of Mrs. Rathbone's book ' The Diary of Lady Willoughby,' specially printed on vellum, and bound in crimson velvet with silver clasps :

London, April 21st, 1845.

DEAR MADAM, We beg your acceptance of a copy of the second edition of your delightful Diary, printed on vellum.

We hope you will regard it as a small token of our respect for your talents, and as a memento of the gratification we have derived from having been the publishers of your work.

We are, dear Madam, very faithfully yours, (Signed) LONGMAN "& Co.

To Mrs. Hicham jlathbone, Woodcroft, Liverpool.

It would appear from this letter that a second edition of the book was published in 1845, and I agree with MR. PEET in his scepticism with regard to there having been two previous ones. The so-called first edition may possibly have been a trial or experimental issue, and copies may have been destroyed when it was found not to be a success. Nor could Mrs. Rathbone have required much literary assistance from any one. In 1852 she published a memoir of her grandfather, Richard Reynolds, the " Bristol philanthropist," whose sister, Susanna, the wife of Joseph Ball of Bridgwater, was a direct ancestress of mine. Of this old gentleman I possess a most curious waxen bust, signed " S. Percy, 1810." It strongly resembles the portrait by Hobday, of which an engraving is prefixed to Mrs. Rathbone's ' Memoir.' W. F. PRIDEAUX.

ST. PANCRAS (11 S. ix. 191, 235, 312, 352 ; x. 249). The MS. history referred to is in the possession of a friend resident in North London. If SOMERS TOWN will communicate with me, I may be able to afford him an opportunity of examining it.

ALECK ABRAHAMS. ij