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NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. VIIL NOV. i, 1913.

'THE TEIUMPHS OF FAITH.' In 1766 there was published a small 12mo book of 364 pp. entitled ' The Triumphs of Faith.' I believe it was published anonymously, but know it was written by John Bonar, then a student in the Edinburgh University. He describes it as an account of the power of religion upon the mind in sickness and at death, exemplified in the experience of the most eminent Christians from Stephen the Martyr down to Leland and Pearsal and Jones in 1766. It was recommended by Whitefield, Romaine, and Madan.

Apparently there was an edition published in Edinburgh and one in London. The publishers of this latter edition were " Dilly & Keith." I do not know the publisher of the former. I cannot find a copy in the British Museum, or the Advocates' Library, or the Edinburgh University Library. I am anxious to see a copy, and if possible to possess one. HORATIUS BONAR.

3, St. Margaret's Road, Edinburgh.

" CASTILL JORDEYN." In Cooke's ' Visi- tation of Herefordshire,' 1569, p. 26, is a reference to the marriage of " Frauncis Downes of Lyttil hyde " to " Elizabethe, doughter of William Duke of Castill Jordeyn (' Castill in Jordan,' Harl. 1545)."

Can any of your readers, say where " Castill Jordeyn " was, and what is known of it ? The name seems to suggest that it may have been situated on or within the Welsh border. Cf. Castell Collen, the Roman fortress in Mid-Wales near Llandrindod Wells, the present subject of interesting excavations described in The Times of 1 Oct. last. D.

MENTELLI, THE HUNGARIAN DIOGENES. During the latter part of his life this eccentric lived in the Paris Arsenal, and was accidentally drowned in the river about Christmas, 1836. An obituary of him was published in the Temps by Charles Nodier, the librarian of the Arsenal; and " an English traveller " published some particulars about him in The New Monthly Magazine in or before 1827. Could any reader kindly supply the reference to the tetter ? L. L. K.

MAIDS OF HONOUR UNDER THE STUARTS. Can any reader give the name of any maids of honour at the English Court when Sarah Jennings, afterwards Duchess of Marlborough, was in attendance on Princess Anne ? What was the Christian name of Miss Price, a maid of honour during the reign of Charles II. ? N. L. P

BOWLES AND WATTS. Shortly after the death of William Lisle Bowles in 1850, Alaric Watts and Dr. J. Bowles began a biography of him. Apparently they gathered considerable data ; the volume, however, was never published. Can any one inform me of the address of any living descendants of either Watts or Dr. J. Bowles, or state where the biographical material they gathered is now to be found ?

GARLAND GREEVER.

49, Wendell Street, Cambridge, Mass.

KERRIE ARMS. Can any of your corre- spondents tell me what arms were borne by the Rev. John Kerrie, Rector of Tredington, co. Worcester ? He married, after 1672, Elizabeth Peny stone, subsequently heiress to her brother Sir Fairmeadow Penystone, who died in 1705 without issue, when the baronetcy became extinct. The Kerries assumed the name of Penystone, but I cannot find what arms were granted to them, and I want to know what arms were borne by them both as Kerries and as Peny stones. G. J. A.

Kirklees Park, Brighouse.

" SS." On the capital of a late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century pillar at the west end of the nave of Trinity Church, Coventry, is a small shield bearing the letters " SS." Is this a merchant's shield bearing the initials of the donor ? Below the initials is a device I could only see imperfectly, but which may be a merchant's mark. Have the letters " SS " any significance in addi- tion to the monogram badge of Henry IV. ? MARY DORMER HARRIS.

HAMLETT, PROFILE ARTIST, BATH (THE END OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY). Are any lists extant of portraits executed by hjm ? I want to identify some in my family.

E. E. COPE. Finchamstead Place, Berks.

" PATIENCE " AS A SURNAME. In the fishing village of Avoch, Ross-shire, Patience is a common surname. Can any of your readers say if this surname is known in any other part of the country ?

WILLIAM GRANT.

" LIBRO PERGAMENI." In ' Baronia de Kemeys, 3 by George Owen, the Pembroke- shire historian, reference is made on p. 26 to a deed between John Cole, Lord of Eweston, and Thomas de la Roch ; and again, on p. 27, to an indenture between Robert de Valle and Thos. Warlagh. Both