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a similar sum to Mr. Compton, who had been acting with her in America ; and the remainder to an old friend as residuary legatee, the " old friend " being, I believe, Mr. Clement Scott. But in a foot-note to E. L. 'Blanchard's ' Reminiscences,' edited by Clement Scott, and published in 1891, the writer says :

" It would be unjust to her memory not to mention that the fortune of several thousand pounds which she left behind her was to be devoted to succouring the unfortunate and afflicted in the profession which she loved so well.

" The Trust Fund has since been administered by three trustees : Henry Irving, J. L. Toole, and C. S."

Her body was brought to England and buried in Brompton Cemetery.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

Adelaide Neilson, otherwise Elizabeth Ann

Brown, was born at Leeds, Yorkshire, on

March 3, 1848. She died at Paris on

Aug. 15, 1880. Portraits of her will be

found in the following :

Hollingshead, 'Gaiety Chronicles' (1898), p. 95.

Illustrated London News (1880), vol. Ixxvii. p. 212.

Lamp (1904), vol. xxviii. p. 280 (as Viola).

Theatre (1879), New Series, vol. ii. p. 156, photograph.

Theatre (1880), Series 3, vol. ii. p. 255, photo- graph.

Whyte, 'Actors' (1898), p. 156 (four views). ARCHIBALD SPABKE.

SCOTTISH HERALDRY : WORKMAN'S ' BOOK OF ARMS ' (12 S. i. 311). The work referred to is an illuminated heraldic manuscript, forming a volume in quarto, preserved in the Lyon Office, Edinburgh. It appears, from internal evidence, to have been compiled about the years 1565-6 by an unknown hand. A note at the beginning states that it belonged to James Workman, herald painter, in 1623, to Joseph Stacie in 1654, and after- wards to Henry Frazer, Ross Herald and painter. It consists of two parts, the first containing the arms of foreign sovereigns, Scottish kings, queens, and peers, and a few Highland chiefs. The second and more important part contains 741 shields of arms of the minor barons and gentry of Scotland.

In 1881 the late R. R. Stodart, Lyon Clerk, published a sumptuous work in two volumes folio, entitled ' Scottish Arms, being a Collection of Armorial Bearings, A.D. 1370-1678, reproduced in Facsimile from Contemporary Manuscripts.' Therein

he gave a very full description and analysis of the Workman MS., and facsimile reproductions in colour of 214 shields of arms and 8 achievements. It may be of interest to MR. EWING to know that the arms of Ewing are given as : Argent, a chevron embattled azure, ensigned with a banner gules, charged with a canton of the second, thereon a saltire of the first, all between two stars of five points in chief and the sun in his splendour in base of the third, charged with a crescent of the first.

I should add that Mr. Stodart dealt in his work with a number of other heraldic MSS. besides Workman's.

Monreith. HERBERT MAXWEIX.

This MS. is in the custody of the Lyon King of Arms, Edinburgh, and has never been published as a whole. The late Mr. R. R. Stodart, however, in his large work on ' Scottish Arms,' has reproduced 222 of the 741 shields which are contained in it. The MS. fell into the possession of James Work- man, who was Marchmont Herald and Herald Painter to the Lyon Office in 1597, and he put his name on it ; but this was done more than thirty years after the execution of the book, with which Workman had nothing to do. As a matter of fact, it was probably prepared as a book of everyday reference for the Lyon Office by Sir Robert Forman, who was Lyon King of Arms from 1555 till 1567. For an account of this and other Scottish armorial MSS. see Sir James Balfour Paul's ' Heraldry in relation to Scottish History and Art ' (Edinburgh, 1900). J. B. P.

THE CULTUS OF KING HENRY VI. (12 S. i. 161, 235). At Caversham, in Berks, was venerated as a relic the dagger with which the king is said to have been killed in the Tower. Pilgrim signs represent the king crowned, with a ball surmounted by a cross in the left hand and a sceptre in the right hand (see Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries. Second Series, vol. xii. p. 227, and The Illustrated Archaeologist, vol. i. p. 245). He was venerated in the churches of Boughton Monchelsey, Burmarsh, and Smarden in East Kent ; in West Kent at Lewisham (' Testamenta Cantiana,' by Arthur Hussey, p. xiv).

If I remember rightly, Mr. N. J. Westlake, in his important work on ' The History of Design in Painted Glass,' alludes to certain glass with the image of St. Henry VI. have not the books at hand to make sure of itj PIERRE TURPIN.