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in all directions, and he apparently appealed especially to the leaders of the Evangelical movement. With the rise of the later Anglican party St. Barnabas has come into favour, but without any apparent reason, unless the prominence given to the church in Pimlico in the latter part of the last century can be put forward. L. G. R.

Bournemouth.

[See 5 S. x. 300 ; xii. 43 ; 6 S. vii. 427 ; 8 S. vii. 328, 389, 512; viii. 75.]

JAMES IT. OR WILLIAM III. ? There is a portrait by Kneller in the Council House at Bristol that is said to be of James II., and the story attached to it is that a portrait of Charles II., being dirty, was sent to be cleaned, with the result that another face was found underneath. The ' Official Guide ' (1913), in stating this face to be the face of James II., says that " his extreme unpopu- larity at the time of the Revolution prob- ably accounts for such treatment."

I am, however, strongly of the opinion that the portrait is that of William III., and not of James II. The big hooked nose and the deeply marked zygomatic arches are identical with those of a tiny miniature set in pearls and backed with enamel, in my own possession, that the prints at the British Museum prove to be unquestionably of William III., and I believe this miniature to have been given by the King to a Hooker ancestor of my own who came over with him in 1688. Moreover, it seems to me far more likely that a portrait of William III. would have been altered by some loyal Jacobite to that of Charles, than that Charles should have been substituted for James.

Can any correspondent throw light upon this curious alteration ?

MABGABET LAVINGTON. Chudleigh House, Bideford.

SIB ALEXANDEB PEBCY. How were the Percies, Earls of Northumberland, related to Sir Alexander Percy, Knt., of Kildale, Ormesby, and Sneton, co. York, whose sister Margaret married Sir John Mowbray, Knt., of Kirklington ? WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.

Manor House, Dundrura, co. Down.

JUDAS ISCABIOT. Will any one kindly direct me to the original source of the story of Judas Iscariot's one day of respite an- nually from hell, or to any literary allusions to it other than those of Matthew Arnold in ' St. Brandan ' and of Kipling in ' The Last Chantey' ?

H. K. ST. J. SANDEBSON. Ashfield, Bedford.

COLERIDGE'S POEM ' THE NIGHTINGALE.' May I inquire if the grove and " castle huge " mentioned by Coleridge in his poem ' The Nightingale,' written in April, 1798, have been located, and, if so, where the precise spot may be ? I have heard a castle in West Somerset suggested as the venue, but as it had been erected only some forty years when the poem was written, and moreover at that time was inhabited by " the great lord," it is quite out of the question. The nightingale, too, was an unknown or rare bird indeed at that date in the aforesaid locality, as it is only within quite recent years that it has penetrated into that part of the county. This, there- fore, could not have been the castle. I append the quotation from the poem to which I allude :

And I know a grove

Of large extent, hard by a castle huge, ,

Which the great lord inhabits not ; and so This grove is wild with tangling underwood, And the trim walks are broken up, and grass, Thin grass and king-cups grow within the paths. But never elsewhere in one place I knew So many nightingales ; and far and near, In wood and thicket, over the wide grove, They answer and provoke each other's song, With skirmish and capricious passagings, And murmurs musical and swift jug jug, And one low piping sound more sweet than all Stirring the air with such a harmony, ' That should you close your eyes, you might almost Forget it was not day !

D. K. T.

[The late James Dykes Campbell in kis edition of Coleridge's ' Poetical Works,' 1893, concludes his notes on the poem with the following words (p. 612) :

" It seems hardly necessary to say that the scenery of the poem is that of the foot of the Quantocks about Stowey and Alfoxden ; that 'My Friend, and thou, our Sister!' are William and Dorothy Wordsworth ; that, though not ' hard by ' Alfoxden, the ' castle huge ' is probably the ruined castle over- hanging N. Stowey ; and that the ' most gentle maid ' is Dorothy Wordsworth."]

HAMPSHIRE. Wanted any references to this county from MS. sources. Please reply direct. J. H. COPE.

(Editor, Hants Field Club.)

Finchamstead, Berks.

' VISIONS OF THE W T ESTEBN RAILWAYS.'

I have a book of poems thus entitled, which contains also ' Thoughts on the British Association at Liverpool,' and a collection of other verses. It was printed in 1838 for private circulation, but has no author's name. It was dedicated to Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., M.P. for the western division of Cornwall.

Can any of your readers give me the name of the poet ? H. J. GODBOLD.

35, Waddon Park Avenue, Croydon.