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 11 s. vu. JUNE 28, l9l3.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 515 FILES: Toons IN THE MIDDLE AGES (11 S. vii. 448).--It may interest your inquirer to know that a “ Filehewer ” is recorded in 1410 among the City’s records (‘Ca1. Letter-Book I.,’ p. 87), and that “ ffilyng ” and “hacking” occur among the ordinances of the Founders’ Guild in 1389 (Riley’s ‘ Memorials of Lon- don,’ p. 513). I have also a note of having met with a “ file-hacker ” (but, alas! without date or reference) and an Arnulf “ Vilhackere ” as being recorded in a cartu- lary of the Mercers’ Company (fo. 180 b). A “ Melmakere ” (which Riley suggests may mean a maker of mallets or hammers) occurs in 1311 ; but I think that this inter- pretation is wrong, as I show in a note to my ‘ Calendar of Letter-Book D,’ p. 74. ' REGINALD R. SHARPE. Guildhall, E.C. See ‘ Durham Account Rolls ’ (Surtees Soc.), list of implements, &c., p. 876. The Index directs to the places where the different things are mentioned. J. T. F. Durham. Some information on early tools will be found, I think, in Sir 'E. B. Tylor’s ‘ Anthro- pology ’ (Macmillan), also in O. T. Mason’s Origins of Inventions among Primitive Peoples’ (Walter Scott). WM. H. PEET. ME. A. H. FRANKLIN will find some information, with references, to tools used by mediaeval builders in England in the valuable series of papers recently con- tributed to The Building News by Mr. C. F. I.nnocent, A.R.I.B.A., from 9 Aug., 1912, intermittently, to 6 June, 1913, especially in the issues of 4 Oct. and 15 Nov., 1912, for general tools, and that of 24 Jan., 1913, for thatchers’ tools. A. W. A. THE WRECK or THE ROYAL GEORGE (11 S. vi. 110, 176, 374, 436, 496; vii. 36, 77, 113, 158, 195, 276, 297, 353).-It may be of interest to note that I have a copy of the little book mentioned by MR. STEVENS at the third reference. Mine is undated, but is the ninth edition, and contains the author’s address to the eighth edition, dated 1 Sept., 1847, signed ‘ J. S.,” Marl. borough Row, Portsea. It is also bound in the wood of the wreck. CHAS. HALL Cnouon. 62, Nelson Road, Stroud Green, N. Engraving of monuments at Portsea, erected to the memory of the 900 persons drowned, folio, 1872. J. ARDAGH. Ponmnm or MARY, QUEEN or _ Scotrs (11 S. vii. 428).-I suggest that th1s is a portrait of the “ Sheflield type,” of which the portrait in the National Portrait Gallery is another example. They were founded on the painting made by P. Oudry while Mary was in captivity at Sheffield Castle, with varying details as to the pose of the hands, ornaments, &c. See Mr. Lionel Cust’s ‘ Authentic Portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots,’ p. 70 et seq. As to its being by Zucchero, I may quote_ from the ‘ Catalogue of the Stuart Exhibition, 1889, 19 po :""’ “ Several portraits ascribed to F. Zucchero and said to represent Mary, Queen of Scots. fire in existence. t was long the custom to &S0rlb0 to Zucchero pictures for which no better name could be found, while they show more _or less of Italian characteristics than could possibly have been painted at or near the unquestlonab e date of his visit." _ For the identification of another portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, see _the April and June niunbers of The Connozsseur. W. R. B. PRJDEAUX. A portrait of this unhaPPY Queen, Slmllar to that described by LADY DORCHESTER; appears in Charles Knight’s ‘_ Old Eflgland, with the explanation that it is ‘ from a painting by Zucchero.” T. H. BARBOW. ‘ THE Tomnmwx ’ : Marr :MORGAN (11 _S. vii. 369, 413, 454).-As_we have been dis- cussing the history of this short-lived paper, I should like to jot down a few stray notes about Matt Morgan the artist. It seems strange that so talented a draughtsmanj- one who, apart from his proved _abilities in many branches of Art, ranked 1I1_h13 dey as one of the prominent caricaturists-has been almost entirely forgotten. I do not know whether a biographical sketch (013 Bt least, one of any consequence) has been pub- lished either here or m America; I “Ve never met with one myself. The Year 01' lace of his birth I do not know. I fP~I1°Y he was a son of Morgan, 8 byg0I10 9-1‘Ch1f»60t, who, in partnership With Augustus Chfirlcs Pugin, designed, among other b	ld1l1g3» the Regent’s Park Diorama (now _a 0h6P91) and the interior of the Cosmorama in Regent Street. _ Anyway, Matt Morgan began 1}f@ _ 33 assistant to Grieve & Telbm, at their painting- room in Little Wild Street, Dr1u'y L8110- Here in 1849-50 he was engaged, Undef the direction of John Absolon (a member Of the firm), on the ‘ Route of the Overland