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the companion picture to the one men- tioned by me. It has the same background, and represents the Postman's Wife, who is wearing a red coat and black bonnet, and carries a basket containing some ducks, as if she were going to market. This picture is also in cloth and velvet, and has the same label on the back as the one to which I have already referred.

R. VAUGHAN GOWEK. Ferndale Lodge, Tunbridge Wells.

CHURCHYABD INSCRIPTIONS : LIST OF TRANSCRIPTIONS (11 S. vi. 206, 255, 278). Some years ago I copied and published in The East End News all the principal inscrip- tions in the churches and churchyards of Stepney, Middlesex, and Leigh, Essex.

I have lately copied all the inscriptions in the churches and churchyards of West Haddon, Northamptonshire, and Long Itch- ington, Warwickshire. These, with plans, have been bound into volumes, and are retained in my possession.

I have also indexed the earlier registers of both these villages. JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

The following are advertised in Cata- logue 94 (October, 1912) of Bailey Brothers:

" 4807 Cowper (J. M.) The Memorial Inscrip- tions in the Church and Churchyard of Holy Cross, Westgate, Canterbury. Canterbury, 1888. Fcap. 4to, cloth, only 50 printed, 6/."

" 4823 The Monumental Inscriptions in the Church and Churchyard of S. Mary, Lewisham : edited by H. C. Kirby and L. L. Duncan. Lee, 1889. Impl. 8vo, cloth [200 copies privately printed for the Lewisham Antiquarian Society], 12/."

Mr. Duncan also copied inscriptions in the churchyard of the parish church of Folkestone, published in Misc. Gen. et Heraldica about 1892. R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

To add to the list of inscriptions mentioned in previous issues I have transcribed all those in the churches and churchyards of Amersham, Chesham Bois, and Little Mis- senden, and am at work on those at Chenies, Chesham, and St. Mary Magdalene's, Stony Stratford. I hope in the near future to add St. Giles's, Stony Stratford, Latimer, Stoke Mandeville (old and new churchyards), and Weston Turville to the list, as also the Baptist burial-grounds at Amersham and Chenies.

I have almost completed those inside the chancel of the old parish church of Swindon, which is the sole part of that edifice stil]

eft intact ; of the nave a few pillars only are still standing, much overgrown with ivy. The wording on one tablet on the north wall

[ could not read, and, being unable to obtain a ladder near, had to come away without securing it, much to my regret. Perhaps some one living in that locality will kindly oblige us with the inscription. The old, disused churchyard needs attention in the near future from some one willing to under- take the onerous yet useful work, as the wording on many of the memorial stones is now partly obliterated.

L. H. CHAMBERS.

As a further contribution to the biblio' graphy of churchyard inscriptions I may say that the Birmingham Reference Library possesses a large number collected in War- wickshire by the Rev. J. Harvey Bloom, M.A.

The Shakespeare Memorial Library at Stratford-on-Avon has a similar collection ; and very many have also recently been published in the ' Notes and Queries ' columns of The Evesham Journal.

'HOWARD S. PEARSON.

JUDGES WHO HAVE DIED ON THE BENCH (US. vi. 248). The subject of ' Deaths on the Bench ' is dealt with by the writer of notes ' From the Temple ' in The Daily Telegraph of 4 April, 1912. The case of Sir Robert Hyde would appear to have escaped bis notice, as he states that the only cases of judges dying while actually sitting in the judgment seat are those of Mr. Justice Talfourd (instanced by MR. WHITE in his query) and Sir Wm. Henry Watson, Baron of the Exchequer. The latter, who started life as a soldier, and spent some fifteen years as a special pleader before being called to the Bar, was struck down by apoplexy while charging the grand jury at Welshpool on 12 March, 1860. He had been a judge less than four years, having succeeded Mr. Baron Platt in November, 1856. The writer above mentioned introduces the subject by stating that " a gloomy newspaper contro- versy has arisen on the subject of deaths on the Bench," but does not say in what paper it occurs.

Mr. Justice Wight man, although he did not actually die on the Bench, had tried a long criminal case only the day before he died in his lodgings at York in December, 1863. LEONARD J. HODSON.

ItobiTtsbridge, Sussex.