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He seems to have been canonized by Pope Boniface VIII. at Anagni about 1300. His body was hidden about 1345, and re- discovered 23 April, 1434. He seems to have had three festivals, viz., 23 April, 9 June, and 21 August. His cult was ap- proved by Pope Eugenius IV. soon after the rediscovery of his body.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. I should be greatly obliged by any informa- tion concerning the following Old West- minsters : (1) Charles Craig, admitted 1726, aged 9. (2) James Crane, admitted 1741, aged 10. (3) Alexander Craufurd, admitted 1782. (4) D. E. Craufurd, left 1805. (5) G. Craufurd, at school in 1795. (6) Frederick Cresswell, born 29 Sept., 1803, admitted 1816. (7) Henry W. Creswell, left 1810. (8) John Crewe, admitted 1781. (9) Wil- liam Croft, admitted 1774. (10) Daniel Crofts, admitted 1750, aged 9. (11) John Crofts, admitted 1743, aged 10. (12) John Crofts, admitted 1751, aged 10. (13) John Crofts, admitted 1784. (14) Bobert Croker, admitted 1719, aged 16. (15) Thomas Lake Crompton, born 20 Jan., 1827, admitted 1837. (16) Abraham Cromwell, at school c. 1660. (17) John Cropley, admitted 1743, aged 10. (18) Matthew Cropley, admitted 1747, aged 8. (19) Philip Crump, admitted 1715, aged 8. (20) James Cumberbatch, admitted 1715, aged 9. (21) Stephen Cup- page, admitted 1744, aged 11. (22) Henry Cuppincott, at school 1674. (23) James Cusack, admitted 1746, aged 11. (24) John Cutforthhay, admitted 1729, aged 13. (25) William Cuthbertson, admitted 1738, aged 11.

G. F. B. B.

WALTER SCOTT : SPURIOUS WAVERLEYS, PIRACIES, AND ATTACKS. Lockhart reports in his ' Life of Scott,' vi. 33, ed. 1, that while Sir Walter was hesitating about publishing ' The Betrothed,' which had not pleased James Ballantyne,

" the German newspapers announced ' a new romance by the author of " Waverley " as about to appear from the press of Leipsig. There was some ground for suspecting that a set of the sus- pended sheets might have been purloined and sold to a pirate, and this consideration put an end to his [Sir Walter's] scruples. And when the German did publish the fabrication entitled ' Walladmor,' it could no longer be doubtful that some reader of Scott's sheets had communicated at least the fact that he was breaking ground in Wales."

I saw once a copy of ' Walladmor ' in London, 3 vols., calf, but unfortunately de- layed the purchase of it, and lost it. Is it

now procurable ? and is it tolerably written ? What is its plot ? I should be glad also to hear of any other Waverley forgeries or piracies. I presume that when Balzac speaks of ' The Prisoner of Edinburgh ' he is merely forgetting the right title of ' The Heart of Midlothian.'

I know of two attacks by writers of repute on the influence of the " Waverley Novels " : that by Borrow in ' Lavengro, ; chap, xciv., in which the Man in Black stigmatizes Scott as stuffing his pages with people " who are Papists, or very High Church, which is nearly the same thing " ; and that by Mark Twain in ' Life on the Mississippi,' chap. Ixvi., ' Enchantments and Enchanters.' Here Scott is credited with promoting " decayed and swinish forms of religion," and checking the wave of progress. He is even accused of making " every gentleman in the South a Major or a Colonel, or a General or a Judge, before the war." Had Mark Twain read ' Lavengro ' ? or was there some critic earlier than both, strong in Protestantism and less strong in good sense, who formulated this charge ? I have not been able to get through many of the contemporary criticisms of Scott, as I find them infinitely tedious, nor do I know if in the United States he was severely handled by native opinion.

I shall be glad also to hear of any modern denunciations of the " Waverleys," on the principle Fas est et ab hoste doceri.

OLD GOWN.

CAPT. PETER FYERS, ROYAL ARTILLERY, 1769-1846. About 1800-10 he published views of Arnheim in Gelderland, of Copen- hagen, of Cronsburg Castle, and of the castle of Nimeguen on the Waal. In later years, when a Colonel, he published a book of lithographed reproductions of his ' Sketches in the Highlands.'

Information about any of these is asked for. Nothing is known of them in the British Museum. J. H. LESLIE.

31, Kenwood Park Road, Sheffield.

JOHN PIGOTT= JOHANNA WALSHE. After many years' research I have at last found the name of the wife of John Pigott, grantee of the Dj-sart lands, Queen's County, in 1562 (he died 27 April, 1570), ancestor of the present baronet.

This lady was Johanna Walshe. She married, secondly, John Barneis or Barnes, gent., also of Dysart. I am still in search of her parentage.

WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.

Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down.