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" THE FIVE WOUNDS " : THE JANUS CROSS AT SHERBUBN. YORKS (11 S. viii. 107, 176). At the second reference ST. SWITHIN states that the Janus Cross at Sherburn, after having been sawn in two pieces, is at the church at present, and not joined. In Mr. Edward Bogg's ' The Old Kingdom of Elmet' (1902), p.^203, is a plate of the cross, the two portions fixed together, and placed in the south aisle. S. L. PETTY.

Under the altar in Royston Church, Herts, is a slab bearing a fifteenth -century brass cross on a stepped Calvary. At the inter- section of the cross is a wounded heart ; at each of the four extremities of the cross is representation of a wound from which blood flows, but neither hands nor feet are shown. A. W. ANDERSON.

On the grave -cover of. Roger Baynthorpe -at Bardney Abbey is a heart bleeding from five wounds, each with five lines of blood like flagella or ermine -spots. J. T. F.

RED HAND OF ULSTER : BURIAL-PLACE OF THE DISRAELIS (US. vii. 189, 275, 334, 373, 434 ; viii. 14, 95, 154). Benjamin Dis- raeli the elder, who died in November, 1816, was not buried in the old burial-ground behind the Beth Holim, but in the newer and larger cemetery belonging to the Seph- ardi Jews in the Mile End Road, close to the People's Palace.

The grave is No. 62 in the forty-ninth carreira, or row, and is easily found, and the inscription which is brief quite de- cipherable, the stone having been restored l>y Lord Beaconsfield.

The grave next was reserved for the -widow, Sarah ; but she was buried at Willesden Church, being, according to her grandson, " informally a Protestant."

T. COLYER-FERGUSSON. . Ightham Mote, near Sevenoaks.

I believe, pace MR. G. H. WHITE, and Mr. Barron whom MR. WHITE quotes, that the old heralds took particular care to blazon a hand as either dexter or sinister. Guillim was an old herald. In the third edition of his book, dated 1638, he assigns a chevron and three sinister hands to May- nard, and a fesse and four dexter hands to Quatermain. So also when hands or arms are in armour. Armstrong bears three dexter -arms vambraced ; Fane, three left-hand gauntlets. In the present day, three sinister gauntlets belong to Vane, and three dexter gauntlets to Fane ; but I refer only to the 1638 edition of Guillim. In one case, it is true, Guillim speaks simply of " a hand " ;

but it is "a hand extended and borne transverse the chief," pointing, of course, to the dexter side of the field, and necessarily a dexter hand. Perhaps I may add that this 1638 Guillim says nothing about baronets and their badge. B. B.

RINGS WITH A DEATH'S HEAD (11 S. viii. 170). In 1623 (< Archdeaconry of Stow Wills proved 1624-6,' 248) Katherine Gearinge of Winterton, singlewoman, sick, left to Kathe- rine, Mary, Jane, and Elizabeth, daughters of Peter Gearinge her brother, " to each of them 10s. to buy them rings with a death's head." J. T. F.

Winterton, Lines.

John Awdry, curate of Melksham, Wilts, left to his daughter Prosper Awdry by his will, proved 22 Sept :, 1637, " her * Mothers Wearing Apparell, her Mothers bearing cloth, my best Chest, her mothers trunke, her mother's wedding ringe, my halfe Sparrow- gall, and my death's head ringe/' Prosper Awdry married Thomas Dugdale of Seend, Wilts, and died 17 March, 1676/7. Her son Thomas Dugdale died in 1711, and in his will, proved 12 Nov., 1711 (P.C.C. 255 Young), he bequeaths to his son Thomas Dugdale, besides lands and plate, " one ancient ring with the Awdry Arms upon it and a death's head on the reverse, w^hich I desire my son to keep unto his death." E. H. D.

Teddington.

I can give one instance of such a bequest occurring in my own family. In the will of Rice Gwynn of Fakenham, Norfolk, Ser- jeant at Law, dated 17 Dec., 1629, appears the following :

" I also give to him [Thomas Gwynn, his brother] and to my brothers William, Owen, and Richard, to everie of them. . . .one ringe of twenty shillinges with deaths head ingraven thereon, and to my sister Jane, the wife of Richard Mericke, esquire, the like ringe, to be provided for them by my executors within half a yeare aft?r my de- cease."

CECIL GWYN.

THE ' ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS ' (11 S. viii. 21). As to Robert Samber, the first author to introduce Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood to the English, referred to in the interesting note con- tributed by COL. PRIDEAUX, I have the following privately printed folio of 32 pp., with two facsimiles :

" Robert Samber, by Brother Edward Armit- age, reprinted from ' Ars Quatuor Coronatorum.' Margate, printed at ' Keeble's Gazette ' Office, 1898."

RALPH THOMAS.