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SIR CHARLES ASGILL (11 S. v. 229). <5. E. C. (' Complete Baronetage,' v. 120) ays that Sir Charles Asgill, first baronet, was " b. about 1713," "d. 15, and was bur. 21 Sept., 1788, at St. Bartholomew's- by-the-Exchange, London, aged 75."

The second baronet of the same name was " b. about 1760," and " d. s.p. 1823, when the Baronetcy became extinct."

JOHN R. MAGRATH.

'Queen's College, Oxford.

" QUID EST FIDES ? " (10 S. xi. 230, 296.) In the various replies to the query con- cerning the source of the riming questions and answers, beginning " Quid est fides ? " " Quod non vides," it was not pointed out by any correspondent that St. Augustine (' In Joannis Evangelium Tractatus XL.,' 8) has " Quid est enim fides, nisi credere quod non vides ? " EDWARD BENSLY.

LOSSES BY FIRE : LICENCES TO BEG ( 1 1 S. v. 248). As briefs had to be printed by the Queen's printer under the statute of Anne, will not MR. GERISH find copies at the Sta- tionery Office ? Will not Bowes's ' Church Briefs ' suffice ? YGREC.

ST. LALUWY (11 S. v. 71). Canon Hammond, Vicar of Menheniot, whose at- tention I had called to the query at the above reference, has written saying that, "being away from home, he cannot reply as fully as he might have done with the ma- terials at hand, and has given me, from memory, a few particulars, which I have his permission to impart to ' N. & Q.'

There is legal evidence, says Canon Ham- mond, that the church of Menheniot was built and dedicated in the name of St. Laluwy (so called in the pleadings of a suit t tempore Ed. I.) by William de Tregilla, lord of the chief manor (still called Tregryll) of Menheniot.

In an interesting old account-book of church- and gild-wardens of Menheniot, he finds one of the gilds, in Queen Mary's reign, dedicated to St. Lallo, alias Lalow, or Lalo, or Lalowe ; and as in olden times spelling of names mostly depended upon pronunciation, " Laluwy " no doubt is really the same as " Lalowe " (the final e being sounded). Among known dedications of churches in Great Britain, there does not appear any name resembling either of the above ; but another variant of Lalow in t;he account - book is " Ladislow " ; and in Canon Hammond's opinion, the patron saint of Menheniot may confidently be iden- tified with St. Ladislas I., King of Hungary

(called by the Hungarians St. Lalo, and in old FrencWLancelot), who was elected to lead the First Crusade (vide Butler, ' Lives of Saints ').

To the above I may add a reference that I came upon by chance at the Record Office a few days ago, among depositions concerning the value of certain gild properties in Corn- wall (Court of Augmentations, Miscell. Book, vol. cxxiv. fol. 52), tempore Hen. VIII. :

"John Swete, aged 40.... 'knows londs yn the borowghs of lostuthyell & penkneth, fc yn the p'ishes of lostuthiell & Lalyu'y, belongyng to Saynt Bartholomewe yn the p'istie churche of lostuthyell.' "

The appropriation of the church of Men- heniot to the Rector and Scholars of Exeter College, Oxford, was agreed to 4 May, 1478 (see Report of Commissioners on Hist. MSS., Various Collections, vol. iv. p. 87 : ' Muni- ments of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter ').

May there not be in |that College old deeds that would throw further Light on the early dedication ?

ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

THE HENRY MAYHEW CENTENARY (11 S. v. 145, 256). Henry Mayhew died 25 July, 1887, at Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury, and was buried at Kensal Green on the 30th probably in the family grave of the May hews, who were moderately rich people ; although " Gus," who died 25 Dec., 1875, was interred, on the 30th of that month, in Barnes Ceme- tery. Where Horace was laid to rest I do not know. The Athenaeum, 6 Aug., 1887, in a short notice of the death of Henry, says :

" His funeral last Saturday was attended by a large number of literary and artistic friends, while the wreaths and crosses in flowers con- tributed by loving hands to the last sad ceremony seemed to indicate that which actually existed a large amount of personal popularity and esteem."

Julius Mayhew, the youngest, next to Gus and also, I have been told, the handsomest of the seven, was, I think, educated for the medical profession, though, as he never seems to have made a name in the world of literature or science, it would now be difficult to say what was his ultimate success : perhaps he died young. After a short stay at one or more of the German universities, he returned to England in 1855, and was " lionized " by his brothers. Gus; in especial, was proud of him ; but then the " dear child " was proud of all his relations.

Henry Mayhew would, I feel sure, have been a greater success from a worldly stand- point had his disposition been that of an aggressive disputant ; more, may one say ?