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NOTES AND QUERIES, ui s. xn. AUG. u. 1915.

Certainly the bust has suffered many vicissitudes. Repaired and repainted by John Hall, " a limmer " of Stratford, in 1748, it so remained until 1793, when at Edmund Malone's request it was painted white, but
 * repainted in 1851 by Simon Collins of London.

So that, without entering upon the Dugdale controversy, we cannot be sure, I presume, as to the precise colour of the great drama- tist's eyes. The various repain tings may not have faithfully reproduced the original tinctures of the monument. John Aubrey merely says that Shakespeare was a hand- some and well-shaped man.

A. R. BAYLEY.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

WILHELM CONSTANT : DUTCH Swiss GUARDS. Wilhelm Constant was admitted to Eton on 5 June, 1760. A note in a MS. Jist says : " Dutch Swiss Guards ; married a daughter of Lord Francis Seymour, Dean of Wells." This is corroborated by an entry in Burke's ' Peerage,' which states that Cathe- Tine, second daughter of Lord Francis Seymour, married secondly M. Constant. Any further information about Wilhelm Constant would be welcome.

Also, What were the Dutch Swiss Guards ?

R. A. A.-L.

WALTER BAGNALL, son of Bagnall of Bage- nals Town, Carlow, was at Eton 1766-70. Any further information about this family would be welcome. R. A. A.-L.

HERALDIC QUERY. Could any reader suggest where I could find the following ^arms ?

1. Abbey of St. Hubert in Ardenne (Bene- dictine).

2. Town of St. Hubert in Ardenne.

3. Nicolas de Malaise, Abbot of St. Hubert in 1524.

4. Erard de la Marck, Bishop of Liege 1506.

5. Corneille de Berghes, Bishop of Liege 1538.

6. St. Hubert,

Rietstap gives under Malaise (de le ou de la), P. de Liege, "D'arg. a trois chaperons de gu." ; but I do not know if it is the same family, though the district makes this prob- able. MARQUIS DE TOURNAY.

MEANING OF STAMP : PETER PINDAR. On the title-page of the first edition of ' The Lousiad. an Heroi-Comic Poem,' there is an. oval stamp in red with the intertwined initials J. W. (John Wolcot), and at the foot of the page the written initials P. P. Would these indicate a method by which an author gathered what we should now call royalties on sales ? And has the same thing been observed on other copies of the satire ? XYLOGRAPHER.

JOHN LANDSEER. I should be pleased to learn the whereabouts of Sir Edwin Landseer's portrait of his father, John Landseer. It was exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1840, and 'D.N.B.' states that " it is now [1892] in the possession of Mrs. Mackenzie, his only surviving child, but will become the property of the nation at her death." A. R. C.

[The nineteenth edition of the Catalogue ot the National Gallery, British Art, issued in 1911, shows that the picture was then on view'at the Tate Gallery, Millbank, being "lent by Mr. Edwin L. Mackenzie."]

BURYING FACE DOWNWARDS. Mr. Philip Gibbs, writing in The Daily Chronicle, 30 July, tells of a British soldier from a rural district burying a dead German face downwards. His explanation was : " If the beggar begins to scratch, he will scratch his way to the devil. It is an old belief in our district, and it took our fancy." Is this a common belief in rural England ? J. M. BULLOCH.

EPITAPHS : WINTERTON, LINGS. The fol- lowing verses are on a headstone cut by William Teanby, schoolmaster, of Winter- ton, Lines, in memory of Alice his wife, of two daughters, a son, and a grandson, leaving the record of his own death ( 1 5 May, 1810, in his 92nd year) to be added by a friend. I am desirous to know whether the lines occur in the works of any known writer. If not, they are probably original. The first inscription begins, on the east side :

Prope. Infra the turf lies the sordid atoms of Alice, the Wife of William Teanby (d. in June, 1756, in her 31 st year).

Death uncontroll'd a summons sends to all,

Proclaims an universal funeral.

Spares not the tender babe because 'tis young,

Youth nor men of years, nor weak nor strong.

(Four more lines.) On the west side :

'Tis to the timorous death too harsh appears,

The ill we feel is only in our fears ;

To die is standing on some silent shore

Where billows never break nor tempests roar. (Eight more lines.)

J. T. F.