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tween them they covered a period of 151 years.

What, however, is still more remarkable is that the last two served the same church over a period of nearly 120 years, viz. from Feb. 11, 1787, when Mr. Chanter first signec the Register, until Oct. 30, 1906, the date of Mr. Chope's death, though it must be ad- mitted that the former was non-resident from 1842 until his death, the duty being actualh performed during that period by a succession of assistant curates. With regard to the first, it does not appear that he was ever resident, though he visited the parish at Christmas, 1755, and baptized two children there. It is worth noting that Mr. Chanter's son, the Rev. John Mill Chanter, who married Charles Kingsley's sister, was Vicar of Ilfra- combe for fifty-one years, and died in 1893, at the age of 84. R. PEARSE CHOPE.

EAR TINGLING : CHARM TO " CUT THE SCANDAL" (12 S. ii. 310). There is an old Derbyshire couplet which runs : Left for love, and right for spite ; Either left or right is good at night.

A good many years ago an old lady wa_ heard to say on the occasion of her ear "burning " :'" I'll wet it.and then they will bite their tongue,"; arid, suiting the action to the word, she wet her finger and touched her ear with it. CHARLES DRURY.

12 Ranmoor Cliffe Road, Sheffield.

" Right for love, left for spite," is a saying that I have known all my life. To cut the spell the person whose left ear tingles should tie a loop in a piece of string or a leather lace. Some used to tear up a tuft of grass and throw it away, and this was common in parts of Derbyshire. To do something in a rough or violent manner was often considered a good way to stop the working of a spell. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Southfield, Worksop.

EDWARD HAYES, DUBLIN, AND HIS SITTERS (12 S. ii. 350). He was a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. I have a clever miniature by him, signed ; his son Michael Angelo was also a member, and was secretary to that Academy, 1856-70.

Of the fifteen " sitters " I find the follow- ing :

J. D. Brett was Capt. John Davey, of 1842, and retired as major in 1852.

Wm. R. A. Campbell was William Richard Newport, captain 1842.

Castlemaine was the 3rd Baron, then aged 58, dying in 1869.

Conyngham was th" 2nd Marquis then aged 53, dying in 1 876 as a major-general.

Lieut. Cast wn-* ensign and lieutenant Coldstream Guards, Horace William ; and having just joined was by adding rank to his name appreciative of the extra privilege- enjoyed by Guardsmen.

J. Farrer was Capt. John, of 1847.

Wm. Fitzgerald was William Henry r paymaster, ranking as lieutenant, of 1833, 2nd Battalion 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps, aged then about 35.

Matthew Fortescue was the Hon. George- Matthew, captain on half-pay, 25th Light Dragoons.

J. F. Wittel Lyon was Henry Dalton Wittit, lieutenant of 1847, 2nd Royal North British Dragoons.

J. B. Macdonald was the Hon. J. W. Bosville, a major on half-pay.

J. S. Mansergh was John S., a retired lieutenant, 1850.

Charlie B. Molyneux was Charles Berkeley, then a lieutenant, obtaining his troop in 1850.

George Paget was Lieut.-Col Lord George- Augustus Frederick, commanding the 4th Light Dragoon^, 1846.

Wm. St. (?) Sandes was Capt. W. Stephen,. 1847.

J. Goosey Williams was Samuel Toosey, a captain 2nd Royal North British Dragoons, 1847. HAROLD MALET, Col.

Two of the sitters can easily be identified as Lord George Paget, son of the 1st Marquis of Anglesey, and at the period in question commanding the 4th Light Dragoons, then quartered in Ireland.

C. B. Molyneux was an officer in the same- regiment, and the illegitimate son of a certain Hon. George Molyneux, brother or uncle of the Lord Sefton of that day.

Castlemaine and Conyngham are presum- ably the peers bearing those titles. H.

E. Hayes, who worked chiefly as a portrait painter in water colour and minia- ture, was born in the county of Tipperary in 1797. He studied drawing under J. S. Alpenny or Halfpenny and at the Dublin Society's School. Early in life he taught drawing at various schools, and also practised as a miniature painter in Clonmel, Waterford,. and Kilkenny. In 1830 he sent his first contribution to .the Royal Hibernian Acaderm, and in the following year he went to Dublin and practised as a miniature painter.

From this time until 1863 he was a con- stant exhibitor in the Royal Hibernian Academy. He was elected an Associate that Academy in March, 1856, and a Member