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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. ix. FEB. u, 1914.

has been queried lately. It was generally adopted in the eighth century, and it was ordained by the Council of Chelsea that all bishops should date their acts from the year of the Incarnation. The expressions in Continental old documents were " anno incarnationis domini," " anno domini," " anno verbi incarnati," &c. L. L. K.

Earlier instances of "anno Domini" than those in the ' N.E.D.' are given by the of the work is from one of the ' Letters relating to the Suppression of Monasteries,' edited from the originals in the Brit. Mus. by Thomas Wright, Camden Soc., 1843, p. 249. The letter (MS. Cotton. Cleop. E. iv. fol. 48) is addressed to Thomas Cromwell "by Robert Silvester (or Pursglove) and Tristram Teshe, ending " At Whitbye, the viijth day of Octobre, anno Domini 1538." A still older example on p. 107 has been overlooked, where in a letter to Cromwell from John Shepey, alias Castelocke, the last Abbot of Faversham, we read : " Dated at oure poore monasterye aforeseid, the xvjth day of this present monethe of Marche, anno Domini 1535" (fol. 34 of the same MS.). Perhaps one ought to satisfy oneself that Wright has printed his MS. correctly. My own experience in collating a book of his with the original source gave me no high opinion of his accuracy.
 * Stanford Dictionary.' The first in the body

A hasty reader might easily miss the earliest example of all supplied by the ' Stanford Dictionary,' as it is in the ' Supple- ment,' from Latimer's ' Remains,' p. 309 (1845), dated 1530. The same dictionary quotes an example of A.D. from Bishop Bale's 'Select Works' (1849), p. 133, the date given being 1554. I have not been able to test these last two quotations.

EDWARD BENSLY.

THOMAS HUDSON, PORTRAIT PAINTER (11 S. viii. 489; ix. 36, 96). To the list of portraits painted by this artist may be added that of Frances, Viscountess Vane, a lady much discussed by her contemporaries.

A book printed in London in 1751, and written by " an Impartial Hand " (the author being in fact Lionel Vane, as I have reason to believe from a MS. note in my copy), bears the title ' The History of a Woman of Quality ; or, the Adventures of Lady Frail,' i.e., of the Viscountess Vane.

She was born about the year 1711, the daughter of Francis Hawes of Purley, a South-Sea director, and married first Lord William Hamilton, and secondly William,

Viscount Vane, of Fairlawn in Kent and Caverswall Castle, Staffordshire.

About fifty years or more ago a question was asked in *.N. & Q.' as to the fate of certain valuable portraits given away after the death of Lord Vane in 1789 to a steward or servant of the family. No answer was elicited, and none is likely to be now forth- coming, but Hudson's portrait of the Viscountess, holding a mask in one hand, is in the possession of H.

At the Royal College of Physicians there is a fine full-length portrait by Hudson of Sir William Browne, Knt., M.D. It repre- sents him dressed in the presidential gown, and with all the insignia of office, and was given to the College by Browne in 1767 during his presidency.

W. R. B. PRIDEAUX.

UNCOLLECTED KIPLING ITEMS (US. viii. 441, 464, 485, 515 ; ix. 34, 93). I offer the following additions to and corrections of the Kipling bibliography recently published by MR. YOUNG :

' The Female of the Species ' was also published in The Ladies' Home Journal (Philadelphia), Nov., 1911.

' The Last of the Light Brigade.' I have not yet traced the original place of publication of this poem, but it was published in England some time in 1890. It is reprinted in * Werner's Book of Reci- tations, No. 2,' New York, 1890 ; and another re- print of the poem, together with an article explain- ing the occasion of its composition, will be found iii the New York Times of Sunday, 2 Nov., 1913.

' The Legs of Sister Ursula ' was also in McClure's Magazine, March, 1894, vol. ii. p. 347. As there published the scene is laid in New York.

' The Potted Princess ' was published in St. Nicholas, Jan., 1893. vol. xx. p. 164. It is an Indian fairy tale, with the moral that common sense is worth more than magic.

' The Rowers ' originally appeared in the London Times, 22 Dec., 1902. It was reprinted as from the New York Times in The Literary Digest (N.Y.), 3 Jan., 1903.

The original place of publication of ' Things and the Man ' was not Current Literature, but Collier's Weekly, 9 Aug., 1904, from which Current Literature reprinted it.

'The Benefactors' was published also in The American Magazine (N.Y.), July, 1912. The single stanza which serves as motto to the American pub- lication is different from, and better than, those in The National Review.

The three following items MR. YOUNG has overlooked :

' Collar- Wallah and the Poison-Stick.' St. Nicho- las, Feb., 1893, vol. xx. p. 243. The first experiment in the vein of the ' Jungle Tales.' It deals with the Bandur-log, but is much inferior to the later work. It is told as a personal experience of the author's.