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Strassburg gehalten,' as well as his " Zwei Vortrage iiber das allgemeine Priestertum und die Protestantische Erziehung, aus dem Franzosischen nach der 2 Aufl. iibersetzt von Aug. Vicfc. Richard," Dresden, 1858.

H. KREBS.

See L. B. Phillips's 'Dictionary of Bio- graphical Reference.' EDWARD BENSLY.

HENRY OF NAVARRE AND THE THREE- HANDLED CUP (US. ii. 408, 457). In the Suermondt Museum in Aachen are two specimens of Raeren pottery made before the birth of the Emperor Charles V. in 1500, or at any rate during his childhood. As both of these are three-handled, and as the Raeren usage of making cups, or rather jugs (Kriige), with three handles, is certainly older than the existing specimens of Steinzeug, it would seem that the story about Charles V. and the three-handled cup quoted by MR. HOWARD PEARSON from Mr. Solon's ' Art Stoneware ' is a popular attempt at explaining the origin of this peculiarity of the " Raerener Steinzeug." Steinzeug, for which there is no English word, is a kind of stoneware, but made of a much harder clay which cannot be melted. The two objects made of Steinzeug older than Charles V. are :

1. A three-handled jug with bearded faces between each of the three handles. This Raeren jug is certainly not later than 1500. Its great age may be seen by its rough make and its awkward form. Besides the speci- men in the Aachen Museum, there is one exactly like it in the Cologne Museum, which may be seen in Otto von Falke's excellent book on * Das rheinische Steinzeug,' vol. ii. p. 4.

2. A funnel-shaped brown cup with three small handles. There is another specimen of the same pattern in the Hetjens Collec- tion described in Falke's work, vol. ii. p. 5.

In the Suermondt Museum are three other three-handled jugs, good specimens of Raeren pottery, but of later date than the two mentioned above. These jugs made of Steinzeug are : 1. Three-handled jug of the first half of the sixteenth century. 2. Three - handled jug of the second half of the six- teenth century. 3. Three-handled jug dated 1596, with grey glazing. On it are the arms of Wilhelm von Nesselrode and of his wife Wilhelmine von Stadthagen. The family of Nesselrode is one of the oldest Rhenish families, and still exists. From the middle of the seventeenth century till the eighties

of the nineteenth the Raeren potters pro- duced nothing of any value.

Raeren (pronounced Raren, older form Roren) Was formerly in the Duchy of Lim- burg, and is now a village with about 4,000 inhabitants in Rhenish Prussia. It consists of a lower and upper village, and lies between Aachen and Eupen, with both of which towns it is connected by an electric tramway. Here a peculiar kind of Low German is spoken, called " Raerener Platt," which is quite different from " Aachener Platt " or from " Eupener Platt." Although Raeren was formerly in the Duchy of Limburg, the " Raerener " have, partly for linguistic reasons, always looked upon themselves as Germans. The Raeren potters in order to make their wares more acceptable in the Low Countries, their chief customers, some- times used to put on their jugs Flemish in- scriptions, with which language they were not unacquainted. This fact led some writers to assume without warrant that the remaining inscriptions, which were in " Raerener Platt," were also Flemish. For this reason, and also because the first speci- mens of " Raerener Steinzeug " were sold in. the Low Countries, some writers have exaggerated the certainly very small Flemish influence in Raeren pottery and in Rhenish pottery as a whole, which also includes that of Cologne-Frechen, Siegburg, and Westerwald. H. G. WARD.

Aachen.

GORDONS AT WESTMINSTER SCHOOL (US. ii. 389, 437). ' The Clerical Guide ' for 1829, printed for C. J. G. and F. Rivington, mentions four William Gordons, one of whom is in all probability the person G. F. R. B. is inquiring about.

William Gordon, M.A. (No. 1), was the Prebendary of Offley's vicar in Lichfield Cathedral.

No. 2 was appointed Rector of Spaxton, Somerset, in 1820, the patron of the living at that time being the Rev. Wm. Gordon.

No. 3 was in 1789 appointed perpetual curate of Darlington by the Marquis of Cleveland.

No. 4 became Rector of Speldhurst, Kent,, in 1816, the patron of the living being Robert Burgess, Esq.

John Gordon was in 1825, according to The Clerical Guide ' for 1829, appointed to the Vicarage of Bierton, with Buckland Curacy and Stoke Mandeville Curacy, Bucks, by the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln ; and in 1827 to the Rectory of St. Antholin and