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ST. GEORGE'S (HART STREET), BLOOMSBURY '(12 S. ii. 29, 93, 155). It is worth noting that this church, though it stands east and west, is so seated that the congregation look north- ward. The reason of this is that, when Bedford House, Bloomsbury, was destroyed icirca 1800), the Duke of Bedford presented the wooden baldachino, which had stood in his private chapel, to the church. This baldachino was too large to stand in the small recess where the altar had been, and there- fore was placed in the north transept ; the altar was placed under it, and the church re- seated. G. W. E. R.

THOMAS CONGREVE, M.D. (12 S. ii. 69). A somewhat similar question was asked many years ago in ' N. & Q.' by C. H. and THOMPSON COOPER. I do not think it was answered. Thomas Congreve was entered at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1687. He set up as a doctor in Wolverhampton in 1709. He is stated to have been a relative of Congreve the dramatist. The fact that Thomas Congreve issued his book through Curll, the pub Usher, makes this probable. The dramatist was associated with the same publisher. A. L. HUMPHREYS.

HERALDIC QUERY : SILVER CUP (12 S. ii. 129). Without supplying a complete answer to the above inquiry it may be helpful to point out that the arms of Banning-Cocq, a Dutch family, are : 1 and 4, Azure, two lance-pennons in saltire argent ; 2, Azure, a swan argent ; 3, Azure, on a chief quarterly two lions. Crest : a demi-swan rising. LEO C.

HEBREW INSCRIPTION, SHEEPSHED, LEI- CESTERSHIRE (12 S. ii. 109). I have been Tioping to see some reply to this query ; but none having appeared, I venture to ask MR. ISRAEL SOLOMONS if the inscription as printed in ' N. & Q.' is complete. The last letter appears to be the definite article which precedes the object to the verb " we wor- ship," which object is not given. Was it really wanting in the original inscription, or is it omitted from motives of religious awe ? N. POWLETT, Col.

BAYNES PARK, WIMBLEDON, SURREY (12 S. ii. 148). I remember reading, many months ago, in The Wimbledon Boro' News a letter from a local resident objecting to the name of Raynes Park Station, and suggest- ing that the L. & S.W.R. Co. should be memorialized to change it to " West Wimble- don."

Another correspondent wrote that the Company had, not the power to change the

name of the station. Their original inten- tion, as was well known to old residents, was to call it " Cottenham Park" ; but "Farmer Raynes " (Rayne ?) would not sell them the site except on the condition that they named the station after him. DARSANANI.

CALDECOTT (12 S. ii. 107). Some partkm- lars will be found in the ' D.X.B.,' vol. viii. (by Mr. Austin Dobson), of Randolph Caldecott the artist, who belonged to a Cheshire stem of Caldecotts.

His father, Thomas Caldecott, was a well- known Chester accountant, and author of a manual of ' Book-keeping,' a copy of which I possess. WM. JAGGARD, Lieut.

Your correspondent O. A. E. may like to know that the coat of arms he describes, " a fesse, frety, between three cinquefoils," occurs at pp. 47, 97, and 123 of Washington living's ' Old Christmas,' illustrated by Randolph Caldecott, London, 1875. I know nothing of the famous artist's family beyond the fact that he was the son of an accountant of Chester, and born there in 1846. I had at one time a small block of boxwood with the same arms cut by Caldecott himself.

G. H. R.

BOY-ED AS SURNAME (12 S. ii. 148). It is certainly not Hungarian. L. L. K.

HARE AND LEFEVRE FAMILIES (12 S. ii. 128). OLD FORD should look at ' Memorials of a Quiet Life,' p. 84. Here it says :

"Only two miles from the Vatche was the beautiful estate of Chalfont St. Peter's, belonging to a Mr. Lister Selman, who had no son, but two lovely daughters. Of these one, Helena, married John Lefevre, of Heckfield, and was the grand- mother of the present Lord Eversley ; the other, Sarah, married Robert Hare, in 1752, and died in

1763, of a chill leaving to the Hares a diamond

necklace valued at SO.CKXV. and three children, Francis, Robert, and Anna Maria."

OLD FORD'S supposition that Mrs. Hare was dead at the time of her father's will is thus proved to be correct, as Lister Selman died in 1779.

There is a tomb inside high railings in the churchyard at West Ham, just east of the east window of the chancel, with an inscrip- tion to John Lefevre, his father-in-law (Lister Selman), and his widow, Helena. His first wife is also commemorated.

I see that the eleventh chapter of the same book ('Memorials') opens with a description of a visit to Heckfield Place, and a laudatory critique of Lady Elizabeth Whitbread.

A MEMBER OF TRINITY COLLEGE.