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Huband, 3rd Bart., daughter of Sir John Huband, 2nd Bart., of Ipsley, co. Warwick, 1)\- lllioda, daughter of Sir Thomas Brough- ton, Bart. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

STEEL IN MEDICINE (12 S. ii. 69). The use of iron as a medicine was known long before Boyle wrote his work upon ' Natural Philosophy,' the first edition of which ap- peared in 1663. Dr. J. Frampton published in London, in the year 1580, a book entitled ' Jojfull News out of the New-found World,' &c.,* a translation from the Spanish of "Or. Monardes, and treating, among other things, of the properties of " Yron and Steele in Medicine." Other early works upon the subject were published by J. Bourges, Paris, 1649; C. Drelincurtius, Montpelier, 1654; and J. Michaelis, Leipzig, 1658.

S D. CLTPPINGDALE, M.D.

BRASS PLATE IN NEWLAND CHURCH, GLOUCESTERSHIRE (12 S. ii. 90). MR. ANEURIN WILLIAMS is vague, but he probably refers to the well-known fifteenth- century brass in the Clearwell Chapel of the church of Newland. On that brass, which forms a heraldic crest, is shown a Free-miner of the Forest of Dean. There is an ex- cellent picture of this brass in Nicholas's ' History of the Forest of Dean ' (Murray, 1858). Nicholls says that the brass repre- sents the iron-min^r

" wearing a cap, holding a candlestick between his teeth, handling a small mattock, with which to loosen, as occasion required, the fine mineral earth, lodged in the cavity within which he worked, or else to detach the metallic incrustations lining its sides, bearing a light wooden mine-hod on his back, suspended by a shoulderstrap, and clothed in a thick flannel jacket, and short leathern breeches, tied with thongs below the knee."

H. K. H.

THE LION RAMPANT OF SCOTLAND (12 S. ii. 71). It may interest MR. A. S. E. ACKERMANN to know that a few years past I had some correspondence with that gallant officer Capt. Heaton-Armstrong, then Private Secretary to the erstwhile Mpret of Albania (Prince William of Wied), who had had a new coat of arms made in Germany for his kingdom : "A double-headed eagle displayed, charged on the breast with the arms of Runkel."

I called Capt. Heaton-Armstrong' s atten- tion to the fact that the ancient arms of Albania, as quartered by the Emperor of Austria (see Woodward), were " Or, a lion rampant gules " ; and received an official reply, courteously informing me that I was correct, and that the Albanians, curiously

enough, possessed similar traits to the inhabitants of our Alban : they have the clan system, and are a kilted race, and still keep their peel towers or f ortalices of refuge- ALFRED RODWAY.

GORGES BRASS (12 S. i. 488; ii. 13). The brass of Henry, son of Lord Gorges, of which I sent a description which appears r at the former reference, has been purchased, I understand, for erection in the Old Church, Chelsea, where there are other Gorges brasses. (Rev.) H. L. L. DENNY.

3 Lincoln Street, S.W.

HOUSE AND GARDEN SUPERSTITIONS (12 S. ii. 89). 2. People who hold a variety of superstitions about clocks say that two pen- dulum clocks stop one another if set side by side. If a clock stops soon after a death in. a house, only a little child must set the pen- dulum swinging again.

5. The belief about the " turned " prim- rose is common. It is often tried, but by the next spring is quite forgotten. But it is said that a turned primula will come up a better colour. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

RICHARD RELHAN, JUN. (12 S. i. 449). It has been found that John Henry Relhan, brother of the above, died in Cambridge, Jan. 2, 1838, and Charlotte Relhan, a sister, in 1852, and that a brother, Charles Relhan, a teacher of music, was then living at Manor Street, Cambridge. Perhaps these particulars may discover what we desire to know, viz., where and when Richard Relhan, jun., died. R. HEFFER.

RICHARD SWIFT (12 S. ii. 9, 58, 73, 112). There are several pleasant references to this gentleman in Sir Charles Gavan Duffy's ' My Life in Two Hemispheres,' 2 vols. (Fisher Unwin), 1898.

EDITOR ' IRISH BOOK LOVER.'

COL. CHARLES LENNOX (12 S. ii. 28, 89). This gentleman died as 4th Duke of Rich- mond in 1819, not, as stated by W. R. W., from the bite of a dog, but from the bite of a tame fox which went mad.

Monreith. HERBERT MAXWELL.

" A STEER OF WOOD " (12 S. ii. 79). This expression is said at the above reference to remain unaccounted for in the ' N.E.D.' As a stire, a cubic metre, is the acknowledged measurement for wood in France, the word " steer " in Victorian days in that connexions does not seem to need much explanation.

Blenheim Crescent, W.

W. DEL COURT.