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without the mitre, and the blood trickles from a wound in his head, or he has a battle-axe or sword stuck into his head. He is, in every instance 1 can remember, beardless."

Unfortunately, none of the pictures to which Mrs. Jameson refers, representing him in a chasuble over a black Benedictine habit, is reproduced in her work.

There seems to be no evidence that he was -ever a Benedictine monk, though he appears to have become a Cistercian Confrater of the Abbey of Pontigny.

I feel that some apology is due for thus amplifying my own original query, which was penned when I was unable to consult the books of reference I have now cited. JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

In a window in the chapel of St. Thomas in the Catholic Church, Cambridge, the -;iiiit is represented in the white Cistercian habit, but, of course, this is modern. Also, in the ' Breviarium Monasticum,' " O.N." is placed after his name in the Calendar.

MARQUIS DE TOURNAY.

My attention has just been called to MR. WAINE WRIGHT'S querj^. I had the privilege of knowing Sir Henry Irving very well. It was as a Black Canon that the great actor made up for Becket. He discussed the matter I was present with Prof. York Powell. On the Professor's advice he dressed the part as he did.

PERCY ADDLESHAW.

ROSES AS CAUSE OF COLDS AND SNEEZING (11 S. xi. 280, 369, 461). This is so far from being accepted as a scientific fact that I am informed by an authority that the reverse is true. The symptoms are those of the disease commonly called hay fever in England, and known as rose, or summer, cold in America. Notwithstanding this American name, an extract of rose pollen the experi- ment has been made with many varieties of roses, both cultivated and wild has never been shown to produce the symptoms.

English patients accuse many flowers, such as pinks, roses, daisies and other com- posites. s\\vrt ] >oas, syringa, privet, poppies, buttercups the list is not exhaustive and, with the possible exception of pinks and privet, none of them is poisonous. These flowers are only accused of causing catarrh whrn grass is flowering; no one "has been known to accuse autumnal roses of causing \\-.\y fever. The simple explanation is that grass ] toller i is omnipresent during June and tln> petals of roses and other flowers will be found on examination to have grass

on them. The patient naturally attributes the result to some flower whose odour he notices.

It is true that in some parts of the world a lisease like hay fever is produced by flowers, i.g., the American autumn fever, from the pollen of solidago and ambrosiae, but no such disease is caused by the pollen of roses.

J. J. FREEMAN.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED (11 S. xii. 69). (2) James Taswell. See Hearne's ' Collections,' Oxf. Hist. Soc., vol. vii. pp. 334, 335, under 2 March, 1721-2 : One Taswell, Scholar of University College, having been denied his Degree of Bach, of Arts three times. Yesterday the reasons were read & approv'd of in Congregation. It seems, he hath been guilty of strange Robberies, & indeed, of all Manner of Wickedness, and yet that lewd Fellow, Bowles of Oriel Coll., was a mighty Stickler for him to have his Degree, but to no purpose. He is put by a Year by Statute. He had a Brother, a few years since, Stud 1 of X* Ch., but expell'd thence for strange Crimes. Their Father is Dr. W m Taswell, who was Tutor to Dr. Smalridge, & is a Man of a good, fair Character. "

EDWARD BENSLY.

(3) Taswell. There has been no vicar of that name in Tenterden during the last 300 years. (5) On a board in Clewer Parish Church with a list of the rectors the Rev. Jeremiah [? Jerameel] Terrent is dated Rector from 1661 to 1677.

The above information is sent me by the incumbent of each church.

M.A. OXON.

(11 S. xii. 101.)

6. John Walter. I believe the Walters were a Surrey family. See ' Hist. Roy. Berks. Militia,' by E. E. Thoyts. E. E. 'COPE.

JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN(!! S. xi. 357 ; xii. 13). It may be interesting to note that John Camden Hotten's ' Slang Dictionary ' is reviewed at considerable length in the Revue des Deux Mondes for September, 1854 (vol. liii. p. 462). The title of the article is ' La Langue du monde excentrique en Angleterre.' R. B. P.

ST. THOMAS CANTILUPE (US. xii. 101). Richard Strange (1611-82), Jesuit, wrote

"The Life and Gests of S.Thomas Cantilvpe, Bishop of Hereford, and some time before L. Chan- cellor of England. Extracted out of the au then tique Records of his Canonization as to the maine part, Anonymous, Matt. Paris, Capgrave, Harpsfeld, and others. Collected by R. S. S. I. Ghent, 1674, 8vo, pp. 333."

A reprint forms vol. xxx. of the " Quarterly Series," London, 1879, 8vo.