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 488 NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. vn. JUNE 21, im. " RAISING FEAST."—It appears to be an ancient custom in Hertfordshire, when a building is completed or any extensive additions have been made to an existing structure, for the owner to give a supper to all those employed upon the work, and this is known as a raising feast." Does the custom prevail elsewhere, and is its origin known ? W. B. GERISH. PRIVATE SCHOOLS.—Could any of your readers recommend to me a work of fiction describing a private school—preferably of the old Dominie" type—for the purpose of comparing it with the modern public school ? R. J. SHACKLE. [Ian Maolaren's 'Young Barbarians' is a school story of a Tayside village. The new edition of Dr. E. A. Baker's ' Guide to the Best Fiction' has many entries in the Index under ' School Life.' See also " Twopence for manners," 10 S. vii. 228, and the General Indexes under ' School.'] MUCHMOKE FAMILY.—Can any of your readers give me information concerning the Muchmore family, or tell me in what part of Great Britain I am likely to find some record of them, either recent or old ? E. HAVTLAND HZLLMAN, F.S.G. 13, Somers Place, Hyde Park, W. MARTIN CAWSLEY or CAMBRIDGE.—In ' The Sisters of Lady Jane Grey,' by Richard Davey, p. 262, there is mention made of the witnesses to the marriage of Thomas Keyes, the Sergeant Porter, to the Lady Mary Grey in 1565, namely, Mrs. Goldwell; the Ser- geant-Porter's brother, Mr. Edward Keyes ; Mr. Martin Cawsley, a Cambridge student; and " Mr. Cheyney's man." Again, at p. 268, in Keyes's examination, he said :— " The priest was one Thomas Withers; Edward Keyes, Mr. Cheyney's man, and Martin Cawsley, dwelling in Cambridge, did attend the wedding." Who was Martin Cawsley of Cambridge ? R, J. FYNMORE. COLOUR-PRINTING : EARLIEST EXAMPLE or SUPER-IMPOSING.—I have before me, in a copy of Thomas Bayly's ' Herba Parietis ; or, The Wall-Flower,' &c., 1650, what is, I believe, the earliest example of colour- printing by imposing one colour on another. The elaborate dedication leaf of Senfel's ' Liber Selectorum Canticorum,' printed at Augsburg, 1520, by Grimm & Worming, is one of the best examples of early multiple printing to obtain a polychromatic effect, but not any colour is overprinted. A friend informs me that the Globe design on the two-colour title-page of Dade's ' Alman- ack ' (1643) has received both colours, but they are so out of register as to suggest an accidental effect that is almost lost in some copies he has examined. In the 1650 example of polychromatic printing before me there occurs on the title-page, printed in red and black, an ornament of an angel's head with wings extended, surmounting a conventional double scroll and fleur-de-lis. The red overprint occurs on the wings in lines, in and under the eyes, on the long hair and curls, the lower lip, nostrils, and the pendent fleur-de-lis. The register is uneven —perfect, for example, on the right, but considerably out on the left wing, the artist who cut the woodblock for this super- imposed colour being therefore entirely responsible for any of its shortcomings. Perhaps Mr. R. M. Burch, whose ' Colour- Printing and Colour-Printers,' 1910, is, I am informed, the most exhaustive history of the art, knows this early example. His opinion on its importance and merit would be of great interest. ALECK ABRAHAMS. BOLTON OF LONDON, c. 1550. — "Mr. Bolton, citizen of London," purchased from Michael Throckmorton the manor of Ullen- hall, in the parish of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, and, after owning it for a short time, sold it about 1554. I am desir- ous, if possible, of identifying " Mr. Bolton," and shall be glad of any information likely to assist me in doing so. A. C. C. THE PAY OF A CARDINAL.—Is anything known with reference to the amount of money attached to the position of Cardinal t A cardinal is, of course, a Papal lord or peer, but where does the money come from which enables him to keep up his state and dignity T In some letters written to a prelate who was hesitating as to its acceptance he is specially urged to accept the position, not so much for the dignity of it as for the wealth attached to it. How do our English car- dinals, when there are any, live ? CATHOLIOOS. JETHRO TULL'S PEDIGREE AND ARMS.— Was the Jethro Tull of Shalbourne who is stated in the pedigree (see ' Visitation of Berks ') to have married Mary, daughter of Jeffrey Farmer, the father or grandfather of the writer on agriculture ? The mother of this last was Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Buckeridge of Basildon ; but Mary Farmer may have been a first wife. ; What arms did the family use ? None are given in the Visitation pedigree. A. STEPHENS DYER. 207, Kingston Road, Teddington.