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Master John of Gloucester (and two others), " our masons and wardens of our works at Westminster."

Riley's ' Memorials of the City of London,' xx : " We have mention in the City Records of workers in stone, [inter al.] in 1305 Alexander the Imagour."

Bateson's ' Records of the Borough of Leicester, 1103-1327': In 1314-15 the West Bridge and the High Cross were repaired by " Master John of Banbury."

W. B. H.

For Xos. 2, 3, and 4 see Prof. W. R. Lethaby's ' Westminster Abbey and the King's Craftsmen ' (1906).

A. R. BAYLEY.

EARLS OF DERWENTWATER : DESCEND- ANTS (11 S. x. 148, 218, 256, 271, 311). By way of supplement to the long and inter- esting communications of MR. WELFORD and MR. HUMPHREYS, it may be added that The Newcastle Monthly Chronicle for April, May, and June, 1888, contains contemporary accounts of " the Countess Amelia " and her occupation of the ruined Dilston Hall in 1863. At the last reference it is definitely stated that " the Countess " had purchased old furniture from curiosity shops, and then faked it in various ways to represent old furniture belonging to the Radcliffe family.

Charles Radcliffe (born 1693, beheaded 1746), brother of the second and last Earl of Derwentwater, besides legitimate issue, was the father of several illegitimate chil- dren. My informant also told me that he was himself a direct descendant of one of these, and it is just possible that "Amelia" had a similar connexion with the Earls of Derwentwater.

R. L. MORETON.

In the Parish Register of St. Thomas's, Winchester, is recorded the marriage of Derwentwater Radcliffe, of the parish of St. Marylebone, and Lela Anne Gray, by licence, 30 July, 1823.

THOS. M. BLAGG. 124, Chancery Lane, W.C.

Your Derwentwater correspondents may be interested to know, if they do not already, that in Hartford Church, Huntingdon, is an entry in the register relating to the execution of the last Earl. It is very faint, almost illegible, but if permission could be obtained to photograph it, it might come out clearer, or a very strong magnifying- glass might be sufficient.

I suppose every one knows of the monu- ment erected to his memory by the Countess in the grounds of her residence at Acton. It is now enclosed in the public park at Acton. MATILDA POLLARD.

Belle Vue, Bengeo.

VEGETABLE PARCHMENT : REGENT CIRCUS (11 S. x. 209, 313). It might be of use to COL. PRIDEAUX to know that when vegetable parchment bindings show signs of drying and cracking it is a good thing to place them for a day or two in a dampish or steamy atmo&phere, and then to sponge them over with pure white of egg, beaten up with a little spirit of camphor. I find this prevents cracking, and keeps away vermin.

If you would allow me to refer here to another of COL. PRIDEAUX'S notes, I would suggest that it was the Circus now officially known as Oxford Circus which was, until four or five years ago, officially Regent Circus, and was so labelled, although for many years shoppers had ignored this, and insisted on calling it " Oxford Circus." In fact, this is only one of many instances in which the authorities have had to give way to popular usage.

J. Y. W. MACALISTER-

1, Wimpole Street, W.

LANGBAINE : WHITFIELD : WHITEHEAD : ETYMOLOGY OF GAELIC NAMES (11 S. x. 190, 235). The earliest forms of the sur- name Whitehead which I can find are " Quithoud " and " Witheved," about the beginning of the thirteenth century. Can DR. MILNE kindly refer me to any earlier forms actually used ? On his theory they should be " Chuid-chuit " or " Cuid-cuit " between 1100 and 1200. B. WHITEHEAD.

G. W. M. REYNOLDS (11 S. x. 301, 316). Oddly enough, both MR. RALPH THOMAS and myself referred to this forgotten ro- mancer in 'N. & Q.' for 17 October. A writer of historical novels, like his famous contemporary Harrison Ainsworth, he rivalled that author in popularity, but was incomparably a much inferior artist, all his works ' Faust ' alone has any claim to distinction, and 'Pickwick Abroad,' m spite of the demerits of plagiarism, is not without humour. Unfortunately, the articlo in ' D.N.B.' on George William MacArthur Reynolds, written by Mr. J. R. Macdpnald, contains little information about his writ m.!_'<. being devoted mainly to an account of his strenuous political career. 'The Mysteries of the Court of London,' which I have calle despicable, is still, I believe, in a publisher a