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on gln-s which the College accounts show to | have been procured during the reigns of those sovereigns.

Of the above representations, the pictures of Robert Eglesfield, Queen Philippa, King Edward III, King Edward TV., King (.'h.irles T., Queen Mary his wife, Sir Joseph Williamson, and Provost Lancaster have been placed in the heads of the new windows ; the rest and the heraldries have been placed in the lunettes in the southernmost windows on either side of the upper library.

The library also has in its northern window representations of King Henry V. and Cardinal Beaufort, under whose tutelage the king is said to have studied in the College. These pictures formerly were in the room over the gate of the old College which is said to have been Henry's place of residence when in the College.

Wood says that in the old library, removed when the College was reconstructed, there was a representation in one of the win- dows of Robert, Six, a beneiactor of the library ; but of this picture no trace has been found. JOHN R. MAGBATH.

Queen's College, Oxford.

There are portraits of Bishop King and others in the windows of the narthex of All Saints', Clifton, Bristol; and in the Roman Catholic church of Kenilworth is a window containing several portraits of the Amherst family.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

54 Chapel Field Road, Norwich.

I see that your correspondents have not mentioned the fact that there is an interesting collection of family portraits in the east window of the Fit z Alan Chapel of Arundel Castle. I cannot give the particulars off- hand, and therefore merely send you a note of the fact, but some one else will probably supply the details. WILLIAM BULL.

Archdeacon Wat kins of Durham has a portrait of the late Bishop Lightfoot in enamel glass placed in one of the windows of his study in the College there. J. T. F.

Winterton, Lines.

" COURT " IN FRENCH PLACE-NAMES (12 S. ii. 249). The deuterotheme court in the connexion indicated represents an Old French curt, cort, and that is the Latin cort-em, the abbreviated form of cohort-em, the accusative of cohors. Cohors has a heap of meanings inter alia, a court, enclosure, cattle-yard, crowd, multitude, company (of soldiers), train, retinue, bodyguard. In popular Latin curtem was synonymous with aulam (Gr. avAij, any court or hall). The

literary word aula did not maintain itself irt Frankish speech, and in Northern France it was displaced by curt-em at least as early as the time of Charlemagne (c. 800). It is found in Asser, who makes several references to the "court" of King Alfred; cp. Mr. W. H. Stevenson's Introd., ' Asser,' 1904, and capp. 22, 75, 81, 100. The Frankish form also appears in the ' Saxon Chronicle ' ;. see ann. 1154, where we are told that Henri of Angsou (Anjou) " held micel curt in Lundene."

When we get an ancient personal name preceding -court the inferences may justly be drawn that the bearer of the name was a landowner to whom his prince had conceded the right to hold what we should call a manorial court, at his manerium, or manor house. ALFRED ANSCOMBE.

The suffix " coxirt " in French place-names is the exact equivalent of the suffix " ton " in English ones. In both syllables the root meaning is an enclosure. Just as there are- hundreds of places in Great Britain with names ending in " -ton " which have never grown into towns, so there are as many in France ending in " -court " without any connexion with a chateau. In modern French place-names the suffix is usually -vitte, for the Latin villa was the term for a farmhouse. In Matt. xxii. 5 we read in English : " They went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise." The word our translators rendered " farm " stands in the original Greek apyov ; in the Latin vulgate it is rendered viltam, and in the Anglo-Saxon version tun. In Scotland we not only preserve the Anglo-Saxon sound by pronouncing it " toon," but in some districts the farmyard with its buildings i> still spoken of as " the farm-toon."

HERBERT MAXWELL.

Monreith.

APOTHECARY M.P.s (12 S. ii. 267). Some years ago, when collecting material for a ' Court Medical Roll,' I obtained from the State Papers and from Barrett's ' History of the Society of Apothecaries ' the following details of the family of one of the apothe- caries mentioned by MR. WILLIAMS, to whom they may perhaps be interesting and possibly useful.

The Chace family. Mr. Stephen Chace,. who had been Apothecary to Charles I., was reappointed at the Restoration. He seems to have died in 1665, for in that year his three daughters applied for relief. In their- petition, the daughters proclaim the loyalty of the family, refer to their father as having: