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of the subject. There is one that is especi- ally beautiful, and it marks the fact that the wounds are known as " wells " to eccle- siologists. That in the right hand is the Well of Mercy, that in the left the Well of Grace. The right foot is the source of Pity, and Comfort is in the left. The heart is the Well of Love. Members of the Roman Communion make good devotional use of this attribution.

The badge adopted by those who took part in the Pilgrimage of Grace set forth the sacred Wounds, and was a very striking device as borne by the chief personages in the enterprise, if we may judge from existing specimens. One, which had been used as a burse at Kingerby Hall, Lincolnshire, was exhibited at the Tudor Exhibition in 1890, and may be seen in a woodcut in the East Riding Antiquarian Society's Transactions for 1898, at p. 47. A good photographic illustration of a badge owned by the Duchess of Norfolk occurs in the Yorkshire Archaeo- logical Society's Journal, pt. Ixxxi., 1910. I am sure that F. R. F. would refer to these items with interest, but I am sorry I cannot clve him further help. ST. SWITHIN.

This device is to be seen inscribed on a stone at the entrance to Woodspring Priory, near Weston-super-Mare. Reference is made thereto in my ' History of W T oodspring Priory ' (published in 1908). Tradition says this (and another) shield was brought from the east end of the north aisle of the priory church, and it is also suggested that it formed some portion of the religious house which existed in this neighbourhood before the foundation of Woodspring Priory by William de Courtenay in 1210.

Collinson mentions the Five Wounds as occurring on a stone tomb in the chantry chapel at Cheddar to the memory of Edmund Roe, who died 1595. It is also emblazoned on an escutcheon on the roof of the aisle in ('!)< \v Magna Church, thought to have been built by Sir John St. Loe, who died in 1443. W. G. WILLIS WATSON.

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Facing p. 88 of ' Forgotten Shrines,' by Dom Bede Camm (publishers, Macdonald & Evans), \vill be found a reproduction, of a photograph of ' Shield of the Five Wounds, from the Chantry of

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Blessed Margaret of J. H.

Your correspondent is evidently thinking of the shield charged with a cross and the liv wounds of Christ. An illustration of siu-h a " Pa-ssionswappen " (coat of amis of

the Passion) may be seen on p. 732 of vol. ii. of Mueller and Mothes's well-known German illustrated archaeological dictionary. Be- sides the five wounds and cross, the shield is charged, in this case, with three chalices, into which the blood is gushing from the wounds. The example is copied from an old MS. L. L. K.

The hands, feet, and heart, all pierced, were the arms of Jesus College, Cambridge, until 1575.

The College was founded by Alcock, Bishop of Ely, who was born and educated at Beverley in Yorkshire. The original name was "The College of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, St. John the Evangelist, and the Glorious Virgin St. Radegund," but it was later re -dedicated to the name of Jesus, and its present arms were granted.

G. A. WOODKOFFE PHILLIPS.

In the vestry window of Sidmouth Church, Devon, is a small shield of fifteenth-century glass bearing " the Five Wounds." In the Proc. Soc. Ant. for 1911, p. 340, other examples are noticed, especially on mediaeval finger-rings. A. J. V. R.

BANG OR : CONWAY : LLEYN : ST. ASAPH (11 S. viii. 130). In Archdeacon Thomas's ' History of the Diocese of St. Asaph,' i. 317, is seen a list of the Deans of St. Asaph ; but the name of Blethyn ap Eignon does not appear among them. On p. 327 of the same volume, however, the name does appear among the Canons of St. Asaph in 1311. It is quite possible that your querist has brought to light a defect in Archdeacon Thomas's list of deans, and that Blethyn ap Eignon should be put between Dean Anian (1307-39) and Dean Llewelyn ap Madoc (1339-57). It is very improbable that Anian occupied the Deanery for the long period attributed to him. In fact, it is all but certain that he became Bishop of Bangor in 1309, and if so, he died in 1328. (See Hughes's ' Bangor ' in S.P.C.K. " Diocesan Histories," p. 163.) This would allow at least from 1328 to 1339, if Anian kept the Deanery of St. Asaph along with the Bishop- ric of Bangor, for Blethyn ap Eignon to be Dean. This also would almost fit in with your querist's surmise that the handwriting of his list seems "to belong to the lat-r years of Edward II." In fact, it would be the former years of Edward III.

I hope some one else can throw some light on the other names. They are very interesting to every Church historian of North Walrs. as well as to your querist.