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NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s.vi. SEPT. 7, 1912.

WE must request correspcndents 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.

"AD SUBSIDIUM TERRE SANCTE." Was it at all a usual thing to impose, by way of penalty for breach of covenant, a payment in aid of the Crusades ? Apparently it was the custom in Coventry, as shown by two early deeds, one undated, and the other belonging to the year 1301, which are the property of the Vestry of Holy Trinity Church. In the first of these, Kic. Hakim grants to Will, le Parkere and Matilda his wife his chief dwelling and certain strips in the fields of Stoke for their lives and 60 years after their death, promising for himself and his heirs to pay 6 marks of silver for any infringement of the covenant, adding :

" Et nichilominus dabimus de bonis nostris Custodi Crucesignatorum Novi Templi, Londonie, in subsidium Terre Sancte quadraginta solidos argenti, ad quam solucionem plenarie faciendam, si necesse fuerit, volo, et pro me et heredibus meis concede, quod compellamur per censuram eccle- siasticam, scilicet per suspencionem et excom- municacionem de die in diem."

In the second deed Walter de Newerk and Isabella his wife agree to pay their debt of 44s. to Tho. de Grantham at certain dates, the bailiffs of the Prior of Coventry to distrain upon their goods in case of their failure to comply with the terms of the bond, while they bind themselves in 40s. " ad subsidium Terre Sancte " for breach of covenant. MARY DORMER HARRIS.

STAINED GLASS FROM MALVERN. With the object of making an account of the fifteenth-century glass in Great Malvern Priory Church, which I am compiling, as complete as possible, I am anxious to trace any portions of this glass which may have found a home in other churches. In the earlier part of the last century much of it was moved from its original place, with the idea of concentrating the fragments in the principal windows. In those days (things are different now) no account seems to have been taken of any pieces not wanted for this purpose ; and if any of them have survived, it is probably due to the apprecia- tion of strangers who provided them with a home. I have heard a tradition in the place that some of the ejected Malvern glass was to be found in other churches; and recently I have come across a more

definite reference, in some notes made by Albert Way about 1844, to the report of a church in a distant county containing two windows of Malvern glass, and an. account of them in a periodical, neither of which statements had he been able to substantiate. If any readers of ' N. & Q. r can throw light upon the subject, I shall be grateful.

G. McN. RUSHFORTH, F.S.A. Riddlesden, Malvern Wells.

GERMAN PROVERB. Can any one point me to an earlier form of the German proverb, of which the salient parts figure in Goethe's ' Sp ruche in Reimen Zahme Xenien,' IV. r thus ?

Gut verloren etwas verloren !

Ehre verloren viel verloren !

Muth verloren alles verloren !

Is it to be found in Luther's writings ? A. FORBES SIEVEKING.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE : GILLIES'S ' ANCIENT GREECE.' In ' Vulgar Errors,' bk. i. chap, iv., there is a reference to the Athenians doubling the altar at " Delphos." Wilkin explains this by quoting the direction of " the Delian oracle to double his cubical altar," and refers to Gillies's 'Ancient Greece,' vol. ii. p. 130. I have not been able to trace this reference in Gillies's ' Hist, of Ancient Greece,' 1786, nor in his ' Hist, of the World from Alexander,' 1807; and I should be glad to be referred to the passage, and also to any other authorities dealing with the direction of the oracle. M. LETTS.

[A brief account of the story here referred to may be found in the 'Ency. Brit.' s. ' Cube 'Erato- sthenes, c. 200, being the authority for it.]

BEDFORD BOUNDS, BLOOMSBTJRY. At the present time (August) there are two old tenements, numbered respectively 116 and 118, Theobalds Road, W.C., which a large advertisement board informs us are the " Site for Bloomsbury Cinema Picture Theatre." The house numbered 118 has two tablets affixed at the western end of its front, facing the south : the lower tablet bears the inscription,

Bedford Bounds

1694

while the upper one, apparently of cast iron,, reads,

Bedford Charity

Bounds

1838

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Have these buildings anything to do with Sir William Harpur's Charity at Bedford ?