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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. VIL JUNE 21, 1913,

" 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. GEBISH.

PBIVATE 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 Maclaren'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.']

MTJCHMOBE 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. HAVILAND HILLMAN, F.S.G.

13, Somers Place, Hyde Park, W.

MABTIN CAWSLEY OF CAMBBIDGE. 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. Gold well ; 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 Thoinas 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. FYNMOBE.

COLOUB-PBINTING : EABLIEST EXAMPLE OF STJPEB-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 ant 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'* bead with wings extended, surmounting a onventional 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 ABBAHAMS.

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 r 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 CABDINAL. 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 I In some letters written to a prelate who wa 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 ?

CATHOLICOS.

JETHBO TULL'S PEDIGBEE AND ARMS. Was the Jethro Tull of Shalbourne who i 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 DYEB.

207, Kingston Road, Teddington.