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THE "HOULTE CUPPE." I shall be obliged if any one can tell me where the Houlte or Holte Gup 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 Willows, in Lancashire, it seems probable that the " Houlte Cuppe " was run at this Holt. In there any record as to who was the giver of this cup?

E. R, G. HOPWOOD, Col.

I. CABLETOX (ARTIST ?). Before me is an oil painting bearing the inscription : "I. Carleton ; pinxit 1636'! A /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- gais Christi Claris Cceli." I should be very glad, of any information about the artist - subject, and about the book, of which the above is presumably the title. I can find no reference whatever to I. Carleton in the recently published and exhaustive work by Mr. Collins Baker on ' Lely and the Stuart Portrait Painters/ JOHN LANE.

The IJodley Head, Vigo Street, W.

STAINED GLASS : WHITBY ABBEY. In Leland's ' Collectanea ' (ed. 1770), iii. 40, the following statement occurs :

" Pictura vitrea quae est in claustro de Strenes- halc monstrat Hcotos, qui prope fines Anglorum habitabant, fuisse vel ad Gulielmi Nothi tempora anthropppagos [sic], et hanc immanitatem fuisse (Tulielmianis gladio punt tarn." 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 and Whitby Abbey' (1779), records that some 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 the window ? And what is the ' Life of St. Hilda ' to which reference is made ?

WALTER JOHNSON.

5, Berber Road, Wandsworth Common, fcJ.W.

" ONCE is NEVER.'' I have seen some- where that this is a Jesuit maxim. Can any one refer me to its author and the context in which it may be found ?

PEREGRINUS,

PARISH REGISTERS PRINTED : NEIGH- BOURHOOD or STAMFORD. In vols. 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 any one kindly inform me whether the registers of any of the neighbouring villages have been similarly printed ?

BENJAMIN WHITEHEAD.

2, Brick Court, Temple, E.G.

" GENTLEMAN " AND " 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 Huston "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 late CANON J. C. ATKINSON discussed at 6 S. xii. 363 the position of the "husbandman" in early agriculture in England. For "gentleman" see 78. x. 383, 445 ; xi. 97, 173 ; 11 IS. vi. 268, 349.]

REPETITION OF PASSAGES. In * L'He des Pingouins,' by Anatole France, the following sentence occurs at the beginning of ' Livre VIII. : Les Temps Futurs ' :

" On ne trouvait jamais les maisons asse& hautes ; on les surelevait sans cesse, et Ton en construisait de trente a quarante Stages, ou se superposaient bureaux, magasins, comptoirs de banques, sieges de soci6t6s ; et Ton creusait dans le sol tou jours plus profondement des caves et 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