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DOMINUS ROGER CAPELLO. Staveley Westmorland, is a manor under the Barony of Kendal, and it was anciently a chapelry in the parish of Kendal, the minister up to 1724 being a Lector or Reader, but since that date a clergyman in full orders, while at the present time the living is accounted a vicarage. At what date the chapelry was formed and a chapel erected is not known. When the new church was built in 1864, the architect employed gave it as his opinion, judging from the mouldings of the windows, that the old church had been erected about 1485. There are reasons, however, for thinking that it was of earlier date.

In 1589 a witness, aged 65, in an ecclesi- astical suit at York testified that

" fit'tie years since the leades of the same chappelle, being farre decaiecl, were taken downe, and the chappelle covered again of this examinate's sight, being then a schollerin the same chappelle."

According to this, the recovering of the chapel with lead took place in 1539. and surely if it had been built in 1485, only fifty -four years before, the leads would not have needed renewing.

In 1375 a rental was made for the lord of the manor, and in that occurs the name of DfLs Roger Capello as a tenant, it being said of him " tenet unum cotagium v. acras terrae et dimidium acrse prati." Am I right in assuming that this Roger Capello was the Incumbent or Perpetual Curate of Staveley at that time ? If so, it will prove the chapel and chapelry of more ancient date than 1485. J. A. M.

INSCRIPTION AT WETHERAL. In a quarry on a cliff in the valley of the River Eden in Cumberland, near the village of Wetheral, is an inscription cut in the stone, thus : G RAT us.

SUM. MAXU.

Above is incised a rough figure which may be a fish. Could you inform me what the words signify ? and what would be the signification of a fish ? F. R. CAVE.

J. C. SWALLOW, R.A. : ROBERT DBAS. Can any of your readers kindly give me any information concerning the life and work of J. C. Swallow, R.A. ? He exhibited three pictures at the Royal Academy : ' Study of a Cactus,' in 1855 ; ' Marie Louise Pears from Jersey,' in 1869 ; and ' The Larder,' in 1876.

I am also desirous of obtaining informa- tion concerning the life and work of Robert Deas, a painter. WM. A. PEPLOW.

[Mr. ALGERNON GRAVES does not add " R.A." to Swallow's name in his ' Royal Academy Exhibitors.']

J. DAVY BREHOLT. I have a large painting by Joseph Highmore representing this person, who is shown three-quarter length, standing, to right, on a terrace by a table on which lies a letter addressed " Mr. J. Davy Breholt, merch fc in London." There is a high -masted vessel in the background. I should be glad, of any information con- cerning Breholt and his character. Are there any descendants of his alive at the present day ? It occurs to me that he may have been of Huguenot descent.

JOHN LANE.

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GORDON, ALIAS JEMMY URQUHART, CALAIS. M. Roger Boutet de Monvel, in his 1800-1850,' just issued by Mr. Nutt, gives an amusing description (p. 283) of a character named Gordon, but " better known by his assumed name of Jemmy Urquhart, an unparalleled eccentric," who lived and died in Calais (in the Rue des Marechaux). Who was he ? J. M. BULLOCH.
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PIGMENTS. Can any reader give me information as to the following points ?

1. Is it known what substance is to be understood as used for painting the ships of Odysseus, described in the well-known line,

T(j) 8' a/za vfjes fTTOvro o\xo8e/ca

2. Are there any notes extant concerning the pigments used by the Van Eycks for ' The Adoration of the Lamb ' at Ghent ? And, in particular, can those be identified which gave the blue of the robe of the Blessed Virgin, the red of the robe of Christ, and the green of that of St. John in the upper part of fche picture ? PEREGRINUS.

MUSGRAVE FAMILY. In 1673, 1679, and 1690 Richard Musgrave was Mayor of South Molton. He died in 1698. His wife Agnes died 1686. In 1673 (according to Blome's grave of Nettle Combe " appears in the list of Somerset " nobility and gentry, which are, or lately were, related unto the county, with their seats." Were these Richards identical? A. Q. C.
 * Britannia ' of that date) " Richard Mus-

WORKS OF RICHARD WHITE. About 300 years ago Richard White wrote devotional works, which were transcribed. Can any one tell me where a copy of ' Cordial Prayer ' is to be seen ? E. M. GREEN.

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