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 H8 NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. vil fkb. 22, wis. The "Houlte Cuppe."— I .shall be obliged if any one can tell me where the Houlte or Holte Cujj was run for in 1624 or earlier. I have a record in a letter that Sir Peter Legh won this cup twice or three times about that date. There was a Holt (hamlet) at that date at Woolton, near Liverpool. Was there a racecourse there ? There are several Holts, but Sir Peter Legh having extensive property at Newton le WilIow», in Lancashire, it seems probable that the " Houlte Cuppe " was run at this Holt. Is there any record as to who was the giver of this cup? E. R. G. Hopwood, Col. I. Carlktox (Artist ?). ■— Before me is an oil painting bearing the inscription : "I. (.'iirleton ! pinxit 1636 ! A'J ;Etatis sua [sic] 60," which seems to imply a self portrait. The sitter holds an open book towards the spectator, on which are the words, " San- guis Christi Claris Ccoli." I should be very glad of uny information about the artist- subject, nud ubout the book, of which the above is presumably the title. I can find no reference whatever to J. C'arleton in the recently published and exhaustive work by Mr. Collins Baker on ' Lely and the Stuart I'ortruit Painters.' John Lank. The Hodley Henri. Vigo Street, V. Stained Glass : Whitby Abbey.—In I/eland's 'Collectanea' (ed. 1770), iii. 40, the following statement occurs :— " Pictura vilrcn qua; est in clatistro de Strenes- hiilc iiiMiisii.ii NeotuH. qui prone fines Anglorum lialiitnbiint, fuisse vel nri Oulielmi Xolhi tempora n nthropopngos [iir], et ham- immanitnteni fuisse (■iilieliriiiiiiis gladio punitain." The authority is given as " Carta ex Vita St. Hilda?." The statement is repeated, with slight verbal differences, by Dugdale and later writers. Lionel Charlton, in his ' History of Whitby unci Whitby Abbey ' (1779), records that sonic fragments "of painted glass from the Abbey then existed in a private house in the town, while old inhabitants could remember seeing portions of painted glass in position. Is anything further known as to the fate of tho window 1 And what is the ' Life of St. Hilda ' to which reference is made ? Walter Johnsox. 5, Berber Road, Wandsworth Common, 8.W. " Once is never."—I have seen some- where, that this is a Jesuit maxim. Can any ono refer me to its author and the context in which it may be found ? Peregrinus. Parish Registers Printed : Neigh- bourhood of Stamford.—In rob. ix.-xxiv. of The Reliquary copious extracts, made by Mr. Justin Simpson, are printed from the registers of the Stamford churches. They include many entries relating to the Cecil family. St. Martin's is in vol. xii. (see ante, p. 84). Can anyone kindly inform me whether the registers of any of the neighbouring villages have been similarly printed ? BeXJAMIX WHTTEHHAD. -', Brick Court, Temple, E.C. " Gextlemax " axd " Husbandman."— Is anything known as to the principle, if any. on which these terms were applied, as descriptions, in documents of the first half of the fifteenth century ? " Husbandman " appears to have meant " householder " ; but it is difficult to see any distinction between the social status and landed property of persons described respec- tively by the one term and by the other. For instance, in vol. iii. of ' Inquisitions and Assessments relating to Feudal Aids ' William Thorpe of Thorpe by Wainfleet, co. Lincoln, is described on p. 346 as " hus- bandman," though he held the fourth part of a knight's fee, precisely the same holding as that of Simon Ruston of Stepyng Magna, who is described on the same page as " gentle- man." Again, on p. 254, Robert Grenake of Torkesey is named as the first Royal Commissioner for the assessment of the subsidy on knights' fees for the Parts of Lindsey in 1428. But in 1431 he is described (p. 359) as " husbandman," though his holding was worth twice that of Thomas Scarburgh, also of Torkesey, who is described just below as " gentleman." Both these were non-military holdings. L. W. H. [The lute Canon J. C. Atkinson discussed at 0 >S. xii. 363 the position of the " husbandman " in early agriculture in England. For "gentleman" see 7 S. x. 383, 445 ; xi. 97, 173; 11 S. vi. 268, 349.J Repetition of Passages. — In ' L'He des Pingouins,' by Anatole France, the following sentence occurs at the beginning of ' Livre VIII. : Les Temps Future ' :— " On ne trouvait jamais les maisons assez hautes ; on les surt-lcvait sans cease, et Ton en construisait de trento a. quarante stages, oil so superposaient bureaux, magasins, comptoira de hanques, sieges do sociAtce ; et Ton creusait dans lo sol toujours plus profond6mcnt des caves ct des tunnels." This sentence is repeated, word for word, twenty-five pages further on, at the end of the book. The only other instance of the)