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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. i. MAY 20, we. "Phossy-jaw" and match-making have an illustrated sketch, probably sufficient for inquirer, at pp. 344-56 of No. 6 as above. Match-making is treated at pp. 415-33, and elsewhere as indexed, in No. 1. Phosphorus by countries is in No. 4, 1912, iii. pp. 47-50; 1913, iv. pp. 49-51. Illnesses and hypotheses therefor are in No. 2, pp. 225-38, 744-5. "The use of white phosphorus is now wholly abandoned in France," v. No. 3 at p. 79.

Chimney-sweeps' cancer is in No. 1, at pp. 808-13 and elsewhere; it is noted also in No. 5, p. 212, and is reviewed at length in No. 4, 1912, ii. pp. 63-81, which gives the "literature" at pp. 77-9, 64-6; its history during the last 160 years is sketched in No. 2, pp. 779-80, and is treated at pp. 456, 462; see also No. 7, at pp. 7-8, 92-3; No. 6, at p. 59. "At present the disease is rarely or never seen" (p. 28 in 'Cancer: its Study and Prevention,' H. C. Taylor, 1915).

The periodicals devoted exclusively to cancer are many, the most recent being The Journal of Cancer Research, which can be had from the Cambridge University Press. The inquirer maybe interested in ' A Review of the Advances in our Knowledge and Treatment of Cancer in the Past Thirty Years ' in The Medical Record, New York, 1915, Ixxxviii. pp. 1-4. Two famous novels treating on cancer are ' Lena Wies ' and ' Ein Bekennt- nis ' by Theodor Storm.

ROCKINGHAM.

Boston, Mass.

THE COLOUR OF MEDIAEVAL WAX SEALS (12 S. i. 248). In an old recipe for the manufacture of Spanish wax or sealing-wax, which was used in London as early as the middle of the sixteenth century, and ulti- mately took the place of the ancient and more durable beeswax, we find : for black wax, add lampblack ; for blue, smalt ; for white, whitelead ; for yellow, orpiment (see Rev. J. Harvey Bloom's ' English Seals,' 1906, p. 9). A. R, BAYLEY.

VILLAGE POUNDS (12 S. i. 29, 79, 117, 193, 275). A pound still exists at King's Langley, Herts. It is situated about 80 yards off the main street, on the road leading to Bovingdon, just opposite a draw- well. It is square in shape, measuring 220 inches each side ; is enclosed by wooden railings, and has a wooden gate on the east side, which is kept locked. The person who keeps the key lives in a cottage close at hand, and he informed me that the pound had not been used for a number of years. Two holly bushes of considerable size have grown

up inside the railings, whilst the railings themselves have a somewhat neglected appearance.

At Handborough, Oxon, a pound used to stand almost opposite the church and close to the roadside. It was pulled down about fifteen years ago, the property sold, and a house built on its site, which is at present occupied by Mr. W. Hollis. I was informed that the pound was built of stone, and had a wooden gate on the road side.

Another formerly existed at Banipton r Oxon, up New Inn Lane, almost opposite the house now occupied by Major Lushington.. It was pulled down from twelve to fifteen years ago, and a garden now covers the place where it stood.

At Windover, Bucks, on the road past the railway station leading to the Chiltsrn Hills, and on the right-hand side, is a chalky road called Smith's Lane. A few yards up this; lane a refuse heap will be noticed, and there the pound used to stand. I have not been. able to ascertain any further particulars regarding it.

At Swanbourne, Bucks, one formerly stcod up a lane leading into the road to Winslow ;: and I hope to give further particulars of this- leter. L. H. CHAMBERS.

Stansfield House, Bedford.

ALLEN AND FERRERS : SHELDON FAMILY (12 S. i. 84, 156). MR. DE COLEPEPER, in. his notes on the Sheldon family, makes what is a very common mistake. Beoley, Wor- cestershire, is not to be identified with Bewdley, which is in another part of the- same county. In Beoley Church there are some very fine monuments to the Sheldon family, including one to Ralph, who died in 1613 ; it was he who built the Manor House at Weston, to which the family subsequently removed. Another Ralph, a great-grandson of the last-mentioned, was born at Beoley v Aug. 4, 1623 (see Chambers's ' Biographical Illustrations of Worcestershire,' pp. 208-10)_ He was a great genealogist, and left many valuable MSS. (which he had acquired from a son of Augustus Vincent, Windsor Herald), to the College of Heralds. He died in 1684.

In the Sheldon Chapel of Beoley Church is a beautiful early eighteenth-century stone altar, said to have been presented by one of the Popes to the Sheldon family, who were Roman Catholics. The late Mr. J. A.- Chatwin of Birmingham remembered the time when the Roman Catholics conducted services in the Sheldon Chapel. As it is an integral part of the parish church, there were constant quarrels between the owners of the- chapel and the rector. But I am not sure