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" The common people used to call the Milky Way the Walsingham Way." Edward L. Cutts,
 * Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages,' p. 178.

" Finns and Lithuanians call the Milky Way the path of birds, i.e. of souls." Grimm, ' Teut. Myth.,' translation of Stallybrass, ii. 828.

" In Spain it was called the St. James's Way, because inclining to the shrine of that apostle at Compostella, and in the East it was known as the Hadjis' road, from its pointing in the direction of Mecca." ' Our Lady of Walsingham,' byDom H. Philibert Feasey, O.S.B., p. 18.

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WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

" SCHICKSAL TJND EIGENJP SCHTJLD." A

letter from Thomas Carlyle to Miss Baillie Welsh, dated 10 August, 1825, began thus : " My Dearest Little Ruth, I owe you many thanks for your kindness of heart, for your true unflinching love of me, unworthy as I am ' by destiny or by my own deserving' of such bounties."

In Carlyle's diary, 29 December, 1830, is this entry :

" One of the most worthless years I have spent for a long time. * Durch eigene und anderer Schuld.' "

Writing from Craigenputtock to his brother John, 18 November, 1833, he de- scribed the son of a thriving citizen of Annan as yellow, wrinkled, and forlorn : " Into such corner had ' Schicksal und eigene Schuld ' hunted the ill-starred Waugh."

' The French Revolution,' 1837, has this concerning Mirabeau :

" Alas, is not the life of every such man already a poetic Tragedy ; made up ' of Fate- and of one's own Deservings,' of ' Schicksal und eigene Schuld' ; full of the elements of Pity and Fear ? "

What is the source of this quotation so often used by Carlyle ? THOMAS FLINT. Brooklyn, N.Y.

SIB THOMAS MAKDOTJGALL BRISBANE. In the ' Reminiscences of General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane ' the com- piler, in speaking of his ancestry, says that Robert Brisbane, an ancestor of Sir Thomas, married, 29 August, 1562, Janette, daughter of James Stewart of Ardgowan and Blackball by his wife Janette, the daughter of George Maxwell of Newark. " Through this alliance the subsequent Brisbanes descend from Robert III., who was great-grandson of Robert the Bruce."

I shall be greatly obliged to any reader who can give me Janette Stewart's descent from Robert the Bruce.

EDUABDO HAVILAXD HILLMAN. Campo san Samuele 3227, Venice.

CROMWELLIAN PULPITS. Are there any Cromwellian pulpits in existence besides that of Chaldon, Surrey ?

(Rev.) S. SLADEN.

FIGURES RISING FROM THE DEAD. Are there any figures on ancient tombs repre- senting the attitude of rising from the dead, besides those at Iver, Bucks, and Wim- borne Minster ? (Rev.) S. SLADEN.

63, Ridgmount Gardens, W.C.

JAMES SHIPDEM, 1688. In a Prayer Book printed in 1684 appears the following in- scription :

Honoratissimus Dom

Dominus Gulielmus

Vicecomes Charlemont

Librum hunc pietatis

et amicitise indelebile

monumentum dono

mihi dedit mense Julie

et Anno Christi 1688. James Shipdem.

I am anxious to trace who this James Shipdem was, and where he came from. Did he come over with William of Orange ? In what way did he get connected with William Caulfeild, 2nd Viscount Charle- mont, the donor of the Prayer Book, who was a zealous supporter of William of Orange against James II. ? Does there exist a list of the names of those who came over with William of Orange ?

The name of Shipdem (or Shipden) occurs in the registers of St. Leonard's, Deal, and is also to be found as Shipdam or Shipden in Blomefield's * History of Xorfolk,' vol. viii. 102 and x. 243. L. BAZELY.

Granville House, Granville Plabe, Portman Square, W.

D. G. ROSSETTI ON ART. Dante G. Rossetti somewhere says that every work of art should be amusing. Can any reader give the reference and supply the right words ? " M. L. S.

THOMAS FLETCHER THE POET. Is any- thing known of the descendants of the Rev. Thomas Fletcher the poet, born 1666 ? His sons are said to have been Thomas, born 1705, Bishop of Dromore ; William, born 1711, Dean of Kildare ; and the Rev.. Philip Fletcher, born 1707. I am seeking the parentage of a William Fletcher who was of Lee Manor House, Romsey, between