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IZAAK WALTON AND TOMB-SCRATCHING (US. vii. 405, 492 ; viii. 52). In spite of MB. STEWART'S patriotic defence of his old school at the last reference, the truth must prevail, and I am afraid that there can be no doubt that MR. BAYLEY'S statement is perfectly correct. If MR. STEWART will look at Dean Stanley's paper on ' An Examination of the Tombs of Richard II. and Henry III. in Westminster Abbey,' in vol. xlv. of ArcJiceologia, pp. 309-25, he will find that Richard's lower jaw Was missing when the examination Was made in 1871. He will also find a very interesting letter from the Rev. Charles Gerrard Andrewes to the Dean. In it the writer, who was himself an Old West- minster, says that his grandfather Gerrard Andrewes, who was a King's Scholar 1764-9, and afterwards became Dean of Canterbury,

"saw a Westminster scholar poke his hand into he tomb of Richard II. in the year 1766 and fish out the lower jawbone of the King."

He adds that his grandfather received the jawbone from the boy, and that "it is now in my possession," with a card attached to the bone bearing the following inscription in his grandfather's writing :

" The jaw-bone of King Richard the Second, taken out of his coffin by a Westminster scholar, 1766."

G. F. R. B.

JANE CROMWELL (11 S. viii. 8). The following extract from the Register of St. Peter's Church, Tickeneote, may be of interest :

" 1553. Thomas L d Cromwell Bar: of Okeham Viscount Lecale .... Earle of Ardglass in Ireland was buried."

The word before " Earle " is now illegible, but undoubtedly was " 4th " or " fourth."

G. C.

Tickencote.

"OUR INCOMPARABLE LlTURGY " (11 S.

iv. 248). At the above reference I asked the help of your readers to enable me to trace the authorship of this phrase. I am now in a position to say that it occurs in chap. xxi. of Hannah More's ' Ccelebs in Search of a Wife,' in the description of X- 1 Tyrrel, who is said not heartily to like " any precomposed form of prayer not even our incomparable Liturgy."

FREDK. SHERLOCK. Caxton House, Westminster.

'THE MASK' (11 S. viii. 29). I can say with certainty that this clever publication ceased to appear after the eleventh number, as I obtained each part as it appeared,

and was informed of its discontinuance. n reply to inquiry made at the time. The parody on Wilkie Collins's ' Moonstone ' which appeared in The Mask has always Deemed to me one of the best things of its dnd ; but, generally speaking, the illus- trations of current people and topics Were perhaps more attractive and noticeable }han the letterpress. W. B. H.

[See also ante, p. 53, under ' The Tomahawk.' Our readers will be aware that this title has been revived n the dramatic quarterly published by Messrs. Simpkin & Marshall.]

QUERIES FROM GREEN'S ' SHORT HISTORY ( (US. vii. 487 ; viii. 15). In Green's ' Shor} History of the English People,' p. 184, we read :

' Livings and Dodings left their names to Livingstone and Duddingstone ; Elphinstone, Dolphinstone, and Edmundstone preserved the memory of English Elphins, Dolphins, and Edmunds."

Where are these places situated, and who are the Livings, Dodings, &c. ?

DR. MADERT.

Wenkerstr. 23, Dortmund.

[These places are in Scotland : Dolphinstone in Roxburghshire, near Sedburgh ; Livingstone in Linlithgowshire, on the river Almond ; Elphin- stone in Haddingtonshire ; Duddingstone and Edmonstone close to Edinburgh.]

" SARCISTECTIS " (11 S. viii. 28). " Sartis tectis " (ci and ti are perpetually confused by mediaeval scribes) means " repairs." " Sartus tectus," literally " patched (and) roofed," was originally a legal phrase for " in good repair." The neuter plural "sarta tecta " came to mean " repairs." Both these uses are found in classical Latin. Du Cange's ' Glossarium Mediae et Infimse Latinitatis ' (" middling or infamous Latin " was Henry Bradshaw's playful rendering) gives the compound sartatectum as well as sarta tecta. EDWARD BENSLY.

Univ. Coll., Aberystwyth.

ALEXANDRE DUMAS : ' MONTE CRISTO ' (11 S. vii. 369, 436). In 1892 there was published in New York a very disappointing if not spurious novel with' the following title-page :

" The Count of Monte Cristo ; or, The Revenge of Edmond Dantes. By Alexander Dumas, Author of ' The Three Musketeers,' ' Twenty Years After,' &c. A new Translation from the Latest French Edition, by Henry L. Williams. New York : The F. M. Lupton Publishing Com- pany, No. 65, Duane Street."

EDWARD DENHAM.

New Bedford, Mass.