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NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.i.MA R .i8,i9i6. ment to his Enemy and Successor Edward IV., by the Archbishop's Orders then in Being; but the Common People bore so high a Veneration, for the Memory of this sanctified King, that they began to pay Adoration to his Statue. The Cell remained empty till the Reign of King James I. at whose first coming to this City the Dean and Chapter thought fit to fill up the Vacancy with his Figure."—P. 41.

And there Jacobus primus, Rex Ang. stood in 1790. Henry VI. now enjoys his own again, thanks to a Minster sculptor of about 1810, when James was deported to Ripon.

, 1713-76 (12 S. i. 188).—That he was born not later than the summer of 1713 seems to be proved by a letter of Lady Mary to her husband, vol. i. p. 82 of W. Moy Thomas's edition of her Works (1898). The heading there given is "[Walling Wells. Indorsed '25 July,' 1713]."

In this she writes, "I heard from your little boy yesterday, who is in good health. I will return and keep him company." Moy Thomas's note says that Edward Wortley, their first child, was born in May or June, 1713, but no further evidence for the date is given. As, earlier in the same letter, Lady Mary has said, "If you persist in your silence I will return to Wharncliffe," it might be conjectured that Wharncliffe Lodge, near Sheffield, the seat of her father-in-law, was the place of the child's birth. Is there no clue in Nichols's 'Literary Anecdotes,' which seems the authority for many statements about his life?

If the son who afterwards bore his name was the same as the nearly black Fortunatus, who was being brought up as a Mohammedan, there might be some difficulty in ascertaining the mother's name. Probably the account that Winckelmann gave of Lady Mary's son was the reason why the latter's life in Meyer's 'Conversations-Lexicon,' vol. xxi. (1852), is considerably longer than the mother's.

JAMES BENTHAM, D. 1794 : PORTRAIT WANTED (12 S. i. 169). " Kerrick " in R. H.'s query should be Kerrich. The artist was the Rev. Thomas Kerrich (1748- 1828), Principal Librarian of the University of Cambridge. See John Nichols, ' Illus- trations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century,' vol. vi. 807 sqq. ; C. H. Cooper, ' Annals of Cambridge,' iv. .557 ; and the ' D.N.B.' Some further particulars about Thomas Kerrich may be seen in the late Mr. Albert Hartshorne's notes to "Memoirs of a Royal Chaplain, 1729-1763.

The Correspondence of Edmund Pyle, D.D., Chaplain in Ordinary to George II., with

Samuel Kerrich, 13 .D " (John Lane,

1905).

" Mr. Kerrich [says Cooper] also drew the following portraits of persons connected with Cambridge and its vicinity (all of which are engraved by Facius), Dr. Glynn, Rev. James Bentha.m the Historian of Ely, Rev. Robert Masters the Historian of Corpus Christi College, Rev. William Cole, Rev. Dr. Milner, President of Queen's [sic] College, and Mr. Wale."

Kerrich' s collections passed to the British Museum, the Society of Antiquaries, and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

EDWARD BENSLY.

There is a portrait of the Rev. James Bentham, engraved by T. Cook, in J. Peller Malcolm's 'Lives of Topographers and Antiquaries.' J. H. S.

[Several other correspondents thanked for this reference.]

CELTIC AND COPTIC MONASTICISM (US. xii. 319, 369). Unless I mistake, the book in- quired for by DR. J. WILLCOCK at the first reference has not been identified. The latest work known to me in which the proofs of the connexion between Celtic monasticism and Egypt are marshalled appeared after Whitley Stokes's death. It is entitled ' Les Chretientes Celtiques ' (Paris, 1911). It was written by Dom Louis Gougaud, to whose friendly consideration I am indebted for my copy. Dom Gougaud entitles his third chapter * L lilpanouissement du Chris- tianisme,' and the second section of that chapter is concerned with the ' Origines et developpement de la vie monastique en Grande-Bret agne,' pp. 63-8.

Dom Gougaud deals with the two channels by which Eastern monastic customs probably found their way into the British Isles : first, through Victricius, Bishop of Rouen from 383 to 415 ; secondly, by British pilgrims, who, according to Theodoret, were to be found even at the foot of the column of St. Simeon Stylites (|459). Theodoret wrote somewhat earlier than this date. Dom Gougaud tells us (p. 64) :

" Les longs voyages n'effrayaient pas les Bretons- Au temps de saint Jerdme, ils entreprenaient volontiers le pelerinage des lieux saints. Or tin pelerinage de cette nature comportait ordinaire- ment, soit a Taller, soit au retour, une excursion chez les solitaires d'lilgypte, dont la vie angelique emerveillait 1' Occident. D'ailleurs, la Palestine 6tait, elle-meme, riche en monasteres."

Dom Gougaud reminds us that St. Athana- sius was exiled to Treves in 336 ; that he made the acquaintance there of the monka