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the sinister argent. Such keys are repre sented in Woodward's ' Treatise ' as above' Plate XIX., as external ornaments of the arms of Pius IX. and Leo XIII., but being behind the shield in the one case, and behind the tiara in the other, they are partly hidden. Compare the modern arms of the Archbishop of York (Plate XX.), in which both keys are argent ; and those of the Bishop of Gloucester (Plate XXII.), in which both keys are or ; addorsed, in saltire in each case.

As to the tiara, the following is the de- scription given in ' A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign,' by John Woodward and George Burnett, 1892, p. 705 :

" A white cap of oval shape, rising from an open crown ; encircled by two other coronets, and sur- fnounted by a small orb with its cross. The tiara has infulce, or pendants, embroidered with gold, and fringed."

A portrait of Nicolas V. might well have both coats of arms, as given above, fixed on its frame. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

AUTHOR WANTED : ' OTHO DE GRANDISON ' (12 S. ii. 108). In Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Third Series, vol. iii., 1909, pp. 125-95, there may be found a paper by Mr. C. L. Kingsford entitled ' Sir Otho de Grandison, 1238 ?-1328.' A. A.

If you can trust a soldier's memory, kindly inform Miss GREENWOOD that I believe she refers to an article on ' Oton de Granson,' by A. Piaget, published in the excellent French periodical Romania about 1895. Unfortunately, this volume is un- obtainable in our Y.M.C.A. huts.

SEYMOUR DE RICCI.

Somewhere in Belgium.

ST. GEORGE'S, BLOOMSBURY (12 S. ii. 29, 93). MR. PENNY at the latter reference is, I think, confusing St. George's, Bloomsbury, with St. George's, Queen's Square.

Concerning this latter church, Chamberlain, in his ' History and Survey of London,' at p. 602, writes :

" This church likewise took its rise from the great increase of buildings. Several gentlemen at the extremity of the parish of St. Andrew, Hoi- bourn, having proposed the erection of a chapel for religious worship, Sir Streynsham Master, and fourteen of the other neighbouring gentlemen, were appointed trustees for the management of this affair. These gentlemen, in the year 1705, agreed with Mr. Tooley to give him 3,5001. for erecting a chapel and two houses, intending to reimburse themselves by the sale of the pews; and this edifice being finished the next year, they settled annual stipends for the maintenance of a chaplain, an afternoon preacher who was also reader, and a clerk, giving to the first and second a salary of

10W. each, and to the last 50/. But the commis- sioners for erecting fifty new churches, resolving to make this one of them, purchased it, caused a certain district to be appointed for its parish, and had it consecrated in the year 1723, when it was dedicated to St. George, in compliment to Sir Streynsham Master, who had been governor of Fort St. George in the East Indies."

Speaking of St. George' s, Bloomsbury, the author just quoted, at p. 602, mentions " the statue of King George I. at the top of its spire," and says that it was consecrated in January, 1731.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

MR. PENNY and W. R. W., in their inter- esting replies at the latter reference, have confused this church with that of St. George the Martyr, Queen Square :

" Consecrated on the twenty-sixth of September 1723, by E. Gibson, Bishop of London, who dedi- cated the same to St. George, in compliment to Sir Streynsham Master, who had been Governor of the fort of that name in India. It was called St. George the Martyr, to distinguish it from St. George's Church, in Hart Street, which was built shortly afterwards (1731), and named in honour of George!., whose statue is at the top of the steeple." 'The History, &c., of St. George- the- Martyr, Holborn,' by J.' Lewis Miller, 1881, p. 5.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

THE FIRST ENGLISH PROVINCIAL NEWS- PAPER (12 S. ii. 81). The apparent discovery of an earlier series of Jos. Bliss's Exeter Post-Boy is interesting, but it does not justify the aspersion cast upon a painstaking and accurate antiquary. Dr. Brushfield, in his valuable paper on ' Andrew Brice and the Early Exeter Newspaper Press ' (Trans. Devon Assoc., xx. 163-214), proves con- clusively, by means of facsimiles of the titles of early numbers, that Dr. Oliver's assertion is correct. The first number of The Exeter Mercury, which was apparently established by Samuel Farley, but was printed by Philip Bishop at his printing office in St. Peter's Churchyard, was issued on Friday, Sept. 24, 1714; and Bliss's paper, The Protestant Mercury : or, The Exeter Post-Boy, was probably issued on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 1715. The title of No. 4 (the earliest obtainable) is as follows :

"Numb. IV. The Protestant Mercury: or, the Exeter Post-Boy with News Foreign and Domes- tick : Being The most Remarkable Occurrences, impartially collected, as Occasion offers, from the Evening- Post, Gazette, Vottx, Flying- Post, We<>My- Pacquet, Dormer's Letter. Potcipt [fc] to the Pout- Man, &o. So that no other can pretend to have a better Collection. Publish'd every Tuesday and Friday. Price, seal'd for the Country, 10*. ptr Annum [trie]. And for the Convenience of those that will take the same but once a Week, it is so order'd, that every Friday's Paper will contain