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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. i. FEB. 26, wie.

CLOCKMAKEBS : CAMPIGNE (12 S. i. 47, 97, 117). The "David Compigne " whose memorial tablet on the south wall of the church is a familiar object to the frequenters of " St. Michael's passage " at Winchester was not a clockmaker, if The Hampshire Chronicle, or Portsmouth, Winchester, and Southampton Gazette for Saturday, June 3, 1780, can be trusted. For one item of its Winchester news runs :

" Monday last died Mr. David Campigne [sic], late an eminent grocer in this city, but who had for sometime retired from business."

It would seem from this item and the tablet that the surname was written some- times " Campigne " and sometimes " Com- pigne."

One " Compigne " was a Quirister at the College in 1723 and 1724 (see the School ' Long Rolls '). At the " election " of 1724 he was placed 011 the Roll, but too low down to gain admission as a scholar. Unfortunately, the " Election Indenture," which should have stated his native parish and date of birth, merely describes him as " David Compigne." I cannot say whether he became the " emi- nent grocer " who died in 1780.

On Fob. 16, 1728/9, " Richard Mitchell and Susanna Compigne, both of Winchester," were married in the cathedral (see ' Hamp- shire Parish Registers,' iv. 61). He was a linendraper and she a spinster (see ' Hamp- shire Allegations for Marriage Licences,' ii. 39, Harleian Society Publication).

John Farnham. Is anything known of this clockmaker (c. 1429) ? "He is mentioned in the College Account-roll for 1428-9 (under ' Custus domorum cum necessariis ') thus :

In solutis Colvyle iuniori pro cariagio horelogii a london' reparati ibidem per Johannem Farnham, xiiic/."

Winchester College. Ht C '

" COLLY MY cow!" (12 S. i. 91.) Can Guido's exclamation be a reminiscence of the old sixteenth-century term of abuse applied to Huguenots in its original form " the cow of Colas," la vache a Colas ? A stray cow, belonging to a certain Colas Pannier, entered a Protestant place of worship at Bionne. The Huguenots, thinking the cow was driven in among them on purpose, seized and killed it. The sheriff (bailli], however, made them indemnify its owner. Songs were soon written and sung by the Catholics in memory of the incident. Vide note to M. Louis Batiffol's ' The Century of the Renaissance,' as translated in ' The National History of France ' just published, P- 245. A. R. BAYLEY.

STATUE OF MAXIMILIAN (12 S. i. 110). There does not appear to be any statue of Maximilian at Innsbruck with a crown of thorns on the helmet, but among the colossal figures surrounding his tomb in the Hof- kirche, that of Godfrey .de Bouillon has a crown of thorns. Godfrey de Bouillon was proclaimed King of Jerusalem, and is so represented in memory of his refusal to wear a crown of gold where his Saviour had worn one of thorns. It may be interesting to record that an Italian traveller, Antonio de Beatis (whose itinerary is summarized in an article in The Quarterly Review for July, 1908, entitled ' A Grand Tour of the Sixteenth Century '), was at Innsbruck in 1517 and visited the Imperial foundry at Miihlau, where these gigantic figures were then being cast. Eleven of the intended twenty-eight were complete, together with a number of smaller statues, some of which are still to be seen in the Silberne Capelle at Innsbruck. MALCOLM LETTS.

RUSHTON (12 S. i. 110). The poem on Chatterton will be found in " Poems and Other Writings, by the late Edward Rushton. To which is added a sketch of the life of the author, by the Rev. William Shepherd. London, 1824." An interesting letter on this book appeared in The Times Literary Supplement of Jan. 20, 1916. C. W. S.

Rushton' s verses on Chatterton will be found at pp. 45-53 of his ' Poems and Other Writings,' 1824. A copy is in the British Museum. They were published first under the title " Neglected Genius : or Tributary Stanzas to the Memory of the unfortunate Chatterton. By the Author of The Indian Eclogues," published London, 1787, 4to, but this I have not been able to see.

ROLAND AUSTIN.

I think your correspondent is mixing up the two Edward Rushtons so well known in Liverpool.

Edward Rushton the poet, 1756-1814, was the father of Edward Rushton the politician. The latter was born in Liverpool in 1795, and died at Parkside House, Smethom Lane, Liverpool, in 1851. He was called to the Bar in 1 831, and in 1839 was ap- pointed Stipendiary Magistrate of Liverpool.

The poem by the elder Rushton, respecting which your correspondent inquires, is in- cluded "in the first edition of his poems, published in London in 1806, and is also to be found in an edition of his poems and other writings, to which is added a sketch of the