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NOTES AND QUERIES. [iis.x. NOV. 7,1914.

AVANZINO OB AVANZINI. In the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, we have a design in pencil and sanguine for an ' Enthronement of the Virgin ' (part of the Roscoe Collection), which is attributed in the catalogue to Pier Antonio Avanzino or del Avanzino " about 1580." This name does not occur in Bryan's ' Dictionary,' where, however, there is a short account of Nucci Avanzino (1551-1629). In Benezit's ' Dictionnaire,' Pier Antonio Avan- zini (1656-1733) is mentioned as well as Nucci Avanzino. It will be observed that the conjectural date 1580 would agree with the period of Nucci and not of Pier Antonio. Can any one assist me in revising the attri- bution of our drawing ?

EDW. RlMBAULT DlBDIN.

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.

" BROTHER JOHANNES." The Figaro re- cently gave part of an extraordinary pro- phecy made by Brother Johannes in the .year 1600, in which most clearly the present events in Europe were foreshadowed. France is represented by a cock, England by a leopard, Russia by a white eagle, Germany by a black eagle, Austria by the " other eagle " ; while the lamb indicates justice, mercy, and truth. Now who was this " Brother Johannes " ? Was there ever such a person ? If he did ever exist in the flesh, where can one hear more about his intensely interesting personality ? The whole narra- tive is almost too exactly realistic to be true:

" The Antichrist [Brother Johannes wrote in 1600] will lose his crown and will die in solitude and madness. His empire will be divided into twenty-two states, b^it none of them will any longer possess fortresses, armies, or vessels. The White Eagle, by order of St. Michael, will drive the Crescent from Europe and will instal himself at Constantinople."

I have searched all the Indexes ot 4 N. & Q.,' and there is no reference to this mysterious personage.

J. HARRIS STONE.

Oxford and Cambridge Club.

REV. THOMAS ROGERS. I am anxious to find out if there are any descendants living of the Rev. Thos. Rogers, Heac Master of Queen Mary's Grammar School Walsall, from 1 824 to 1 837. He was a nephew of Samuel Rogers the poet, who visited him on various occasions here.

Possibly among the numerous readers o ' N. & Q.' some one may be in a position to give me information.

E. N. MARSHALL, Head Master.

Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall.

DE BRUXELLES AND D'ANVERS. (See

1 S. viii. 230.) Now that Antwerp is in all

>ur thoughts, may I be permitted to repeat

my unanswered question as to the titles of

' Viscount of Bruxelles " and " Margrave

I'Anvers " ?

They were carried by Anne Damant to ler husband, Henri de Varick (see their jeautiful tomb and monument " a 1'Eglise St. Paul " at Antwerp), and they passed to
 * heir son and heir.

I should be grateful for information as sixteenth century. Y. T.
 * o the descent of these honours after the

CONSUMPTION IN IRELAND. In ' Primate Alexander " (p. 103) it is noted :

" The Primate used to say that when ' con- sumption ' appeared in Ireland, within his memory t was called ' the English cold ' at first."

Archbishop Alexander was born in 1824. Is it a fact that Ireland was free from tuber- culosis until some years later than that ? To attribute the origin of a disease to an alien nationality is not an uncommon form of patriotism. I observed many bow- legged children in Hanover, and found that the constitutional defect (rickets) to which it was due was known as " die englische Krankheit." Perhaps I have already men- tioned this in ' N. & Q.' ST. S WITHIN.

[DR. F. CHANCE noted at 6 S. i. 318 that" rickets ' is called in Germany " die euglische Krankheit."]

ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL, OXFORD, AND NEW COLLEGE : " HOLY THURSDAY." In ' Brand's Popular Antiquities ' (Bonn's " Antiquarian Library "), ii. 378, I find :

" According to Aubrey, writing about the year 1690, ' the fellows of New College, have time oat of mind, every Holy Thursday, betwixt the hours of eight and nine, gonne to the hospitall called Bart'lemews neer Oxford, when they retire into the chapell, and certaine prayers are read, and an antheme sung ; from thence they goe to the upper end of the grove adjoyning the chapell (the way being beforehand strewed with flowers by the poor people of the hospitall), they place themselves round the well there, when they warble forth melodiously a song of throe, four, or five parts ; which being performed, they refresh themselves with a morning's draught there, and retire to Oxford before sermon.' "

In Messrs. Rashdall and Rait's ' New College ' (" Oxford University College His- tories "), pp. 247-8, I find :

" The pensioners of St. Bartholomew's Hos- pital, near Oxford, had been accustomed to receive alms from the crowds who flocked to the hospital on St. Bartholomew's Day to receive the benefit of a forty days' indulgence which had been granted by the Bishop of Lincoln in 1336 to all who should worship and bring obla- tions."