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be very grateful. The most meagre indica- tion will be acceptable, but of course the fuller it is the better for our purpose.

In ' N. & Q.' (2 S. iii. 291) there is a brief mention of a portrait of Galileo " in posses- sion of the family of DUNELMENSIS for more than a century." Can any reader of
 * N. & Q.' help me to trace this picture ?

On the facade of Burlington House, facing Savile Row, there is, in one of the upper niches, a statue of Galileo. The name of the sculptor, and the date and circum- stances of its erection, will be thankfully received. J. J. FAHIE

(Author of ' Galileo : his Life & Work ').

Green Croft, Chesham Bois Common, Bucks.

" SEEN THROUGH GLASS." I should be glad if any one could assist me with any reference to or light upon the idea current in some quarters that evidence as to things " seen through glass " is of no legal value. One may imagine the reasonable origin of such a belief, since observation will show that only an imperfect view can be obtained through a window, unless the room is other- wise lighted ; and the view would have been poorer still in the old days, when glass was both scarce and dim. Nevertheless, it seems strange that the idea should still survive. The expression in 1 Cor. xiii., "Now we see through a glass, darkly," may be noted ; and it has been suggested that the phrase " Seen with the naked eye " may have some bear- ing on the point. No book on folk-lore that I have been able to consult gives any assistance. HOWARD S. PEARSON.

BERNARD. James Brydges, Lord Chan- dos, Ambassador at Constantinople 1680, married about 1664 Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Bernard, a Turkey merchant, coheiress with Sir Francis Bernard.

I should much value information about Sir Henry. Was he connected with the family of Sir John Bernard, who in 1649 married the granddaughter of William Shakespeare ? VERITAS.

" MARQUIS OF ANTWERP." I should be grateful for information from any reader who knows the history of the nobility of the Spanish Netherlands as to the title of " Marquis of Antwerp." When was it created ? and when did it become extinct ? In the days of Charles V. it was borne by Jean Damant, brother of Petrus Damant, Bishop of Ghent, and descended from the ancient nobility, connected with the Court, and much trusted by his sovereign. His

daughter Anne Damant seems to have carried it to her husband, Henri de Varik, and it passed to their son. How did it end ? I also wish to know whether it was Jean Damant or Henri de Varik who was that Marquis of Antwerp who was blown across the river in the famous explosion during the siege of Antwerp. Henri de Varik also bore the title of Viscount of Brussels. How did it come to him ? Y. T.

HUGH, BISHOP OF DURHAM. Probably the best account of the ancestry of Hugh, Bishop of Durham 115395, is in Stubbs's ' Historical Introductions to the Rolls Series,' edited by Arthur Hassall, p. 211, where authorities are given in support of his descent from the " de Puisets," Viscounts of Chartres. In contemporary documents and on seals he and his sons are always called by some latinized form of that name. In recent times, however, he has commonly been known as Bishop Pudsey, some modern writers assuming that Pudsey is the correct English translation of Puteacus, which is not the case. (Cf. Riley's translation of Roger de Hovenden, Bohn, 1853, p. 253.) The earliest instance of his being so called that I have come across is in Holinshed, iii. 119 and 120, ed. 1586. Then Bishop Godwin in his Catalogue of Bishops, ed. 1615, refers to him as " Hugh Pusar, Pudsey, or de Puteaco, for thus diversly I find him called."

One John Davies, who married a grand- daughter of Stephen Pudsey of Arnforth, writing c. 1626, boldly claims that his wife was lawfully descended from the Bishop, though none of the authorities he quotes support that contention (Haii. MS. 2156).

Can any of your readers kindly refer me to an earlier mention of Bishop Hugh as Pudsey than Holinshed, or to any earlier evidence showing how he came to be so called ? R. P. LITTLEDALE, Col.

Lyndenhurst, Hertford.

SIR HENRY MOODY. " Henricus Moody, de Garesden, in com. Wilts, Miles et baro- nettus," was created a baronet in 1622, and died in 1628, being succeeded in the title by his son Henry, 2nd Baronet, who was born in 1606, emigrated to " the Planta- tions " about 1640, settled first in Long Island (then Dutch), and afterwards moved down to Virginia, where he died in 1661. A formal " Cathologus " of the curious collec- tion of books which, when he went to Vir- ginia, he left behind him in pawn in New Amsterdam (New York), and which, not