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 ii s. in. JAN. 21, mi.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1911.

CONTENTS.-No. 56.

NOTES : Stained Glass in Essex Churches, 41 The " Bow- Wow" Style, 42 Prince of Monaco's Memoir, 43 Edward Chaplin Anna Seward's Baptism Sybil, Queen of Scotland, 44- Geoffrey Pole " Carpet-bagger," 45 " Musice mentis medicina maestse " Benjamin Bathurst Second Earl Spencer's Death Wedgewood Ware and Water-Carriage, 46 Alnwick : Walking through a Bog, 47.

QUERIES : Bismarck, Miss Russel, and Miss Loraine Prior's Birthplace Thackeray's Last Words Bowles's 'Hundred of Penwith'- Songs of the Peasantry, 47-' A Voice from the Bush 'American Words and Phrases 'The Flying Dutchman' Authors Wanted Hartley Wintney, Hants, 48 Andrew Lang on the Odyssey Phips Family London Gunsmiths, 49.

REPLIES : Speaker's Chair Gamnecourt : Barbara de Bierle, 50" Love me, love my dog," 51 Dr. Johnson in the Hunting Field, 52 Wet Hay Sir Lyonell Guest- Archbishop Cleaver W. Fitzgerald Rogerson Cotter- John Coston Nottingham Monastery not in Dugdale, 53 Defoe Methodist Chapel, Tooting Rev. F. W. Faber Napoleon and the Little Red Man Count of the Holy Roman Empire, 54 Eminent Librarians Pauper's Badge C. F. Henningsen and Kossuth " Keep within Com- pass," 55" Old Cock o' Wax " Leake Family' Tit for Tat '" Winchester Quart "Moving Pictures to Cine- matographs, 56 Corn and Dishonesty R's of Sailors Authors Wanted Inscriptions in Churchyards, 57" God moves in a mysterious way " ' Pilgrim's Progress ' Imitated Isola Family" Caeqehouias," 58.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Walks about Jerusalem.' Booksellers' Catalogues. OBITUARY : Nicolas Mory. Notices to Correspondents.

STAINED AND PAINTED GLASS IN ESSEX CHURCHES. (See 11 S. ii. 361, 462.) I NOW propose to deal with

THE LIBERTY OF HAVERING.

Havering - atte - Bower (St. John Evan- gelist). None.

Hornchurch (St. Andrew). The E. window of the N. aisle is filled with fragmentary old glass. In the centre is a Crucifixion, much mutilated. The upper part of the cross, and the arms, shoulders, and chest of the figure, are intact, but the head and neck and legs have gone. Where the head and neck were has been leaded a head of 'St. Mary Magdalen, taken, no doubt, from the lower part of the cross ; while fragments of different kinds have been put in to fill the place of the legs. The effect is grotesque. Portions of the figure are distinguishable Among fragments of tabernacle work leaded together, in hopeless confusion, in different parts of the window, and it seems possible

that a careful study of the fragments might enable one to reconstruct partially the cross and figure.

On either side of the Crucifixion is a coat of arms in a circular border, both sadly mutilated ; while in the tracery is a half- length figure of St. Edward, King and Con- fessor, in grissille, with the left hand raised, probably (but the hand is much faded) holding up the ring which he gave to St. John when the Evangelist, in beggar's guise, asked of him alms as he was assisting at the dedication of St. John's Church at Havering.

XL. St. Edward, K. and C.

XLL, XLIL, XLIII. Fragments in tracery.

XLIV. Side fillings of tracery lights.

XLV. Arms in dexter main light : Arg., a fesse dancettee between 8 billets sa.

XL VI. Crucifixion in central main light.

XL VII. Arms in sinister main light : Parted per pale. Dexter, probably as in XLV., but, as the shield now stands, its dexter half consists of fragments of a fesse dancettee and two billets sa., some old pieces of tabernacle work, and a fragment, apparently, from another lost shield, chequee or and sa. Sinister, also much mutilated, but it clearly was originally Sa., a chevron or between 3 garbs arg.

Romford (St. Edward, C.). None.

A correspondent has kindly called my attention to an error at 1 1 S. ii. 361. Happily, Little Ilford Church is not without some remains of old glass ; for the eastern of two small circular eighteenth-century windows in the Lethieullier Chapel is filled with fragments of considerable interest (No. I* in my collection of drawings).

When I visited the church, the Lethieullier Chapel, which is used as a vestry, was locked, and I was unfortunately content with a sight of its windows from the outside. The leadwork being modern, I, incautiously, con- cluded that the glass, too, was of a similar character.

In the centre of the window to which I have referred is a shield showing the arms of England (ancient), viz., Quarterly, 1st and 4th, France (ancient) ; 2nd and 3rd, Eng- land. Above the shield are remains of a small 16th-century painting, in brown enamel heightened with yellow stain, on a single sheet of glass, of the taking down of Our Lord from the cross. The drawing of this little picture is remarkably delicate, and it bears, in style and treatment, a strik-